Your real courage shows best in the hour of adversity.

Some setbacks are so severe that to give in to them means losing the whole ball game. When he assumed command of the Korean War, Gen. Matthew Ridgeway found his forces pushed far to the south, hard pressed by the invaders. Only a determined decision to hold the lines allowed the American forces to keep from being swept…

“The meaning of any experience in life depends upon the FRAME we put around it.

One of the most effective tools for personal growth is learning how to put the best frames on ANY experience. There are ways to see our biggest problems as our greatest opportunities — if only we can step out of our trained patterns of perception. Nothing in the world has any inherent meaning. We say this happened,…

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.”

“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.” “The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.” “Emotion can be the…

If there’s a single belief that seems almost inseparable from success, it’s that THERE IS NO GREAT SUCCESS WITHOUT GREAT COMMITMENT.

We see this in any field, even those where natural ability would seem to have the strongest hold. If you look at individuals with proven, LASTING success, you’ll find they’re not necessarily the brightest, or the fastest, or the biggest. You’ll find they’re the ones who are UNSHAKEABLE in their COMMITMENT. The…

When you eventually win…..

All the people who watch you win, (And don’t EVER put in the work) will tell everyone how LUCKY you are. BS All the late nights, all the early mornings, all the setbacks, all the haters, all the stress, all the excruciatingly difficult days, all for things you sacrificed They will never understand what you went…

Clarence Saunders made millions by borrowing the self-help cafeteria idea for the grocery business and naming it Piggly Wiggly. Imagination pays!

The founder of the Piggly Wiggly grocery chain was a low-level employee in a corner grocery when he visited a cafeteria and got the idea that the same techniques could be applied to the grocery business. He was ridiculed by experts, but he was convinced that the idea was a good one. Saunders persevered, and his…

If life hands you a lemon, don’t complain, but instead make lemonade to sell to those who are thirsty from complaining.

Wally Amos, the man whom many consider to be the father of the gourmet cookie industry, has turned lemons into lemonade so often in his life that in his official portrait he holds a pitcher in one hand and a glass of lemonade in the other. A perennial optimist, Amos refuses to acknowledge that obstacles are anything…

Failure is not a disgrace if you have sincerely done your best.

We live in a competitive world that measures success by winners and losers, and insists that every victory creates a loss of equal dimension. If one person wins, it seems logical that someone else must lose. In reality, the only competition that matters is the one in which you compete with yourself. When your standard…

People with a positive attitude focus their time and attention on solutions, not problems. Just about anybody can see problems.”

Unlimited power may be available when two or more people coordinate their thoughts and actions in a spirit of perfect harmony for the attainment of a definite purpose. A Master Mind alliance involves two or more people working together in perfect harmony toward the attainment of a common purpose. Such a partnership…

Excuses will never get you what you want.

Obsessively chase what matters to you. Do that, and I promise you won’t be disappointed. Any decision is better than no decision -it’s the ‘no-decision’ that will drain you. As long as you think of work as “just a job,” you will be stuck where you are. Busy people rarely have time to…