Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from September, 2011

Act Like a Success, Think Like a Success

When you look at yourself, what do you see? What are the potential advantages and disadvantages of your skills or talents? These questions are essential to your growth because they help you set challenges. When you examine yourself and see failure, you will find it difficult to make it in life. However, look closer and see that limitations won’t define you; you’re on the right path to success. Once you believe in yourself, maximizing your talent or gift becomes easy. Growth requires total commitment and dedication to achieving your goal. You must remove self-doubt from your mind and banish that negative energy. Winners don’t quit when things are tough. They study the situation, ride the wave, and become stronger. What differentiates a successful person from an unsuccessful person is a positive mindset. A positive attitude teaches you to be honest, reliable, and time conscious. Without all of these values, you will struggle to achieve anything. The people you surround yourself with are ...

The Energy Bus by Jon Gordon

In essence, have fun and enjoy the ride. It’s not enough to know your final destination; you need to ensure you enjoy the ride until you get there. Many people act like they are going to live forever. They spend their lives amassing wealth, possessions, and power only to leave it all when their bus rides are over. Instead of enjoying their rides, they prefer to focus on meaningless things. They worry about deadlines, emails, promotions, and argue with co-workers and family members about unnecessary things forgetting that most things in life are temporary. Their bus is going through life, but they are blind to the beauty around them. For instance, if anything happens to you today, you will still have many emails in your inbox that will be unanswered. You’ll never get it all done, so you might as well relax, take a deep breath, and enjoy the ride. Don’t go through life with regrets. Don’t be someone who looks back and says I should have done this or that. Live and work like someone who ha...