Earned

It´s hard to detect good luck, it looks so much like something you´ve earned.
- Fred A. Clark

Failure

"Remove failure as an option."
-- Joan Lunden

My Life Turned Around.

"Every achiever I have ever met says,
"My life turned around
when I began to believe in me."
-- Robert Schuller

Helping Others.

"You can have everything in life you want if you´ll just help enough other people to get what they want!"
-- Zig Ziglar

Brainstorm

Write anything that comes to mind on a piece of paper. Make a list. Maybe you will get motivated just by the thoughts.

To Succeed

"To succeed...You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you."
-- Tony Dorsett

Marble

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
- Michelangelo

Goals

The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment. A true decision is one that you act upon, and one that you act upon now.
Anthony Robbins

Success

"The difference between a successful person and
others is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge,
but rather in a lack of will."

Love Rather Than Self

There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.

-Federico Fellini

Challenges

When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
-- Arland Gilbert

Be anything you want.

You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
-- Abraham Lincoln

Earn What You Are Worth.

We have a mental block inside us that stops us from earning more than we think we are worth.
If we want to earn more in reality, we
have to upgrade our self-concept."
-- Brian Tracy

Paid

When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do.

- Zig Ziglar

The Results Will Come

I´ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don´t do things halfheartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect halfhearted results.

Invisible Labor

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
- Victor Hugo

Sacrifice

"Sweat plus sacrifice equals success."
-- Charlie Finley

Set Your Goals.

Don´t set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you.

Peace of Mind

"Success is peace of mind that can be
obtained only from the self-satisfaction of
knowing that you have made the effort to do
the very best of which you are capable."
-- John Wooden

Dreaming with the Stars.

I always dream up there with the stars. If I don´t dream I will make it, I won´t even come close.
-- Henry Kaiser

Yesterday

Yesterday is not ours to recover,
but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.
-- LYNDON B. JOHNSON (1908-1973)
36th U.S. President

Worth Doing

Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing -- and does it well.
-- E. Merrill Root

Fake It Till You Make It.

"Success gravitates toward those who are perceived
to be successful. Regardless of how you feel within,
you must emanate success if you want to attract people to your cause."
-- Jeff Herman

The Will to Win

"If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don´t, you have achieved half your failure."
-- David Ambrose

Do what you love

Let the beauty you love, be what you do."
-- Rumi

Responsibility

The price of greatness is responsibilty.
- Winston Churchill

Absurd aspirations.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
--Vauvenargues

Outcomes

Traditionally, goals were established around measurable outcomes. This works well when the outcomes are measurable. Don't tie yourself to setting only measurable goals, however; you may find yourself concentrating on the trivial, because it is measurable, rather than on your most important outcomes. Sometimes the most important goals, the non-urgent, critical goals, are hard to measure. “Explore alternatives for a business in the World Wide Web,” is tough to measure, whereas the steps, once you make a decision, are easy to measure. “Learn about new options and thinking around performance management,” is tough to measure in any significant way. The next step, “design a new appraisal system,” is easier to define and measure.

You´ll Win

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you´re a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you´ll win - if you don´t you won´t.
- Bruce Jenner

Road Blocks.

To every failure, there´s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a road block take a detour.
-- Mary Kay Ash

Bad Enough

"I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it."
-- Gale Sayers

Significance

" Many people chase after success.
Other pursue money.
But I think the happiest people on earth
Are the one´s who have found significance.
The real question of life must be
What has significance for you?"

Leadership

Leadership is all about change...First you...Then others...Then the world.

Unlock the Door

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."
-- Eddie Robinson

Helping Yourself.

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations
of this life that no man can sincerely
try to help another without helping himself."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stand Aside

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
-- David Starr Jordan

Don´t Make Failure A Priority

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is that they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Moving Mountains

The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
-- Chinese proverb

Trouble

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
-- Henry J. Kaiser

Formula for Success

An executive was asked what her formula for success was.
"It´s very simple," she said. "Just ten simple two letter words :
´If it is to be, it is up to me´ ."

Conceive and Believe

"What the mind of man can conceive and believe,
it can achieve."
-- Napoleon Hill

Even in the Dictionary

"Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary."
--Sarah Ban Breathnach

Make a schedule

Most men come home from a long day, and work into the wee hours on the house. Schedule house work time to allow for some free time.

Success

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.