Finding A Mentor

"There is a wonderful way to cut twenty years off the learning curve in your career. It is to hang out with people who are where you want to be, or people who have done what you want to do. The key is to create a win-win realtionship. A mentor is one of many ways to accomplish this objective."-- Tim Conner"It's your ability to inspire and uplift other people that matters, not your ability to

What Determination Means To You

"Determination means you trust yourself to take the right actions and make right decisions or you don't. You believe in greatness, abundance, happiness and success or you don't. You never settle for less, second best or losing or you don't." -- Tim Conner"A curious person who asks questions may be a fool for five minutes; he who never asks questions remains a fool forever."-- Vern

Having Conviction

"No one can determine another person's limits of endurance or course. No one can judge what another person is willing or not willing to do. Never let anyone talk you out of your dream, no matter how well-meaning they might appear."-- Tim Conner"No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement."-- Florida Scott-Maxwell"The ultimate measure of a person

Choosing Wisely

"Every moment of our lives we make decisions. The choices we are given present us with the opportunity to move steadily in the direction of a better way of life as we move towards our destiny. If we choose wisely, we move smoothly toward this destination. If we choose poorly, we are guided back to the correct path."-- Tim Conner"You can take from every experience what it has to offer you.And

Even Do Nothing Is A Goal

"Even a goal to do nothing is a goal. Everyone has goals, they just define them and move toward or away from them with a variety of perspectives or rationales. Do something every day to move a little closer to your objective."-- Tim Conner"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."--

What You Focus On

"You tend to bring into your life that which is consistent with your focus. You can either focus on what is not working or what is, what you don't have or do, what you want or don't, what you believe in or don't."-- Tim Conner"Spend eighty percent of your time focusing on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the problems of yesterday."-- Brian Tracy"The world has the habit of making room

Critical Skills For Ongoing Success

"One of the critical skills for ongoing success is the ability to bounce back from adversity. Sooner or later in life everyone experiences failure, disappointment, setbacks, or the desire to keep on keeping on."-- Tim Conner

Keeping Your Passion Alive

"Keep your passion alive. Passion is the great equalizer. It can make up for a lack of experience and knowledge. Passion is not an act. It is a way of believing. It is woven into your cellular structure just as much as your DNA."-- Tim Conner"I've learned to become adaptable to the coming of each season for every leaf that changes color, changes for a reason."-- Linda Ellis"View change as

What Is Happening Inside You

"Life is not meant to be easy, but living it is. The key to remember is that what is happening isn't really that important. There will always be negative stuff in your business, career, relationships and life in general.The secret is to understand that it isn't about what is happening out there in the world, but what is happening inside in your inner world of thought, feelings and consciousness

One Step At A Time

"Your future can change in a heartbeat and the vision you held of your ideal life can be like the fading color of a summer sunset or the exploding brightness of a wonderous sunrise. It is not the pace, the direction or the destination that should fill your consciousness but only that you continue your journey with confidence and peace one step at a time."-- Tim Conner"Real life isn't always

Most Common Causes of Failures

"One of the most common causes of failures is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeault. Every person is guilty of this mistake at one time or another."-- Napoleon Hill"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."-- Niels Bohr"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change

Adopt and Stand By That Purpose

"What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a definite purpose and stand by that purpose until it had time to beocme an all consuming obsession."-- Napoleon Hill"Our aspirations are our possibilities."-- Robert Browning "A leader is not an administrator who loves to run others, but someone who carries water for his people so they can get on with their jobs."-- Robert

Fail But Know What To Do Next Time

"In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time."-- Anthony J. D'Angelo"We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts."-- Madeleine L'Engle"You don't have to get it right, you just have to get it going."-- Arthur Wang"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by

Single Factor of Success

"Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them everyday, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor."-- Brian Tracy"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." -- Jim Rohn"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the

Uncapped Potential of Student

"When the uncapped potential of a student meets the liberating art of a teacher...a miracle unfolds."-- Mary Hatwood Futrell"Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them." -- Lady Bird Johnson"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."-- Albert Einstein "Not what we say about our blessing, but how we use them is the true measure of our thanksgiving."-- W.T. Purkiser

Just A Little More Effort

"How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success."-- Elbert Hubbard"Perseverance is not a long race: it is many short races one after another." -- Walter Elliot"Gratitude is the best attitude."-- Arthur

Acquiring A Particular Quality

"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."-- Aristotle"The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." -- Anne Frank"There is only one way to succeed at anything and that is to give everything."-- Vince Lombardi "When

Walk Boldly

"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."-- Orison Swett Marden "All my life I've watched people waiting for someone else to make them happy. The way I got it figured, the only one who can make you happy is you."-- Aaron Martinson"People need to decide to be happy." -- Aaron Martinson"Life is a great big

Life is a Series of Experiences

"Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward."-- Henry Ford"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." -- Albert Einstein"The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning

Do Something Imperfectly Than Do Nothing

"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly."-- Robert H. Schuller "Sometimes the greatest respect is earned by the way you respond when your opponent has outplayed you."-- Dan Green"We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it." -- Thomas Jefferson"Happiness is not an accident, nor is it something you wish for. Happines

How Winners and Losers Face Challenges

"We all face challenges every day. Winners deal with these challenges in a positive way. Losers see them as problems."-- Barry Gottlieb"The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live." -- Elbert Hubbard"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience."-- Robert Fulghum "Nothing will work unless you do."--

Make Most of Yourself

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson"Don't get discouraged; it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock."-- Arthur Wang"I found that the men and women who got to the top were those that did the jobs they had in hand with everything they had of energy, enthusiasm and hard work."-- Harry Truman"No man is an island entire of itself; every

Human Can Choose Own Thoughts

"A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances."-- Napoleon Hill"Blessed are those that can give without remembering and receive without forgetting."-- Arthur Wang "You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution."-- Bob Proctor"The most important thing about goals is having one."--

Never Underestimated Your Own Belief

"Never underestimate the power of belief when it comes to fulfilling your dreams. I can say with no hesitation that every person I've ever met who has achieved any degree of success has one thing in common: they believed with all their heart they could do it."-- Mac Anderson"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire

The Most Important Keys To Success

"Loving what you do is one of the most important keys to maintaining a positive attitude. You can't fake passion. It is the fuel that drives any dream and makes you happy to be alive."-- Mac Anderson"Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow." -- Norman Vincent Peale"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable."-- Theodore N. Vail "The

Bring The Sun Rays To Focus

"Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to focus." -- Alexander Graham Bell"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
"-- Robert Schuller"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."-- Thornton Wilder "Only about 2 percent of people can work entirely without supervision. We call those

Treat Each Day As Precious

"We should treat each day as a precious ball of life. Take your time, take a breath and make a practice swing. Make each shot count and most of all finish strong!"-- Dan Green"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enrich the world."-- Woodrow Wilson "It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." -- Epictetus"No one rises above who he or she has been

Overcome How You About Yourself

"The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as heck we should never teach."-- Maya Angelou"We don't know who we are until we see what we can do." -- Martha Grimes"We are not creatures of circumstance; we are creators of circumstance."-- Benjamin Disraeli "Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot."-- The