PREPARATION

PREPARATION

"It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared." -- Whitney Young, JR.

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." -- Benjamin Disraeli

"You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have. And you cannot give that which you do not possess. To give it and to share it, and for it to be effective, you first need to have it. Good communication starts with good preparation." -- Jim Rohn

"Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance." -- Brian Tracy

ONE MOMENT

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

-Chinese epigram

A DARING ADVENTURE

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all.

-Helen Keller

YOUR POTENTIAL

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"Refrain from asking what is going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain." -- Horace

"There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less." -- Kurt Hahn

"Life can be lived more fully if people simply quit pretending to be who they were told to be, and be who they really are…" -- Doug Firebaugh

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream. Not only plan but also believe." -- Anatole France

PLAN YOUR LIFE

"I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change." -- Jim Rohn

"Every evening, write down the six most important things that you must do the next day. Then while you sleep your subconscious will work on the best ways for you to accomplish them. Your next day will go much more smoothly." -- Tom Hopkins

"Planning is a real waste of time....for those who waste time." -- Doug Firebaugh

"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." -- Susan Ertz

PERSONAL GROWTH

"Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars - they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours." -- Mark Victor Hansen

"Make education a continuing, never-ending process." -- Nido Qubein

"Continuous personal and professional development is your key to the future." -- Brian Tracy

"Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting, and in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously and continuously a plan for self-development and growth." -- David J. Schwartz

WHEN YOU DIE

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

-Indian Proverb

JUST DO IT!

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

-Beverly Sills

PERSISTANCE

"The force of the waves is in their persistence." -- Denis Waitley

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish" -- John Quincy Adams

"I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult... I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking." -- Og Mandino

"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it." -- Alexander Graham Bell

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PASSION

"A passion for life is one of the most attractive qualities in a human being. If you want a teammate or a life mate who loves to be around you, all you need to do is love to be around." -- Denis Waitley

"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions." -- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it." -- William James

"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around." -- Katharine Hepburn

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SADDLE UP!

Courage is being scared to death--and saddling up anyway.

-John Wayne

YOUR INNER MAKE-OVER - STEP THREE

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AND THE WINNER IS...CRASH!

I was so glad to see that CRASH won BEST PICTURE during the Academy Awards tonight. What a great thing for the movie I loved the most in 2005. If you haven't seen it - I wrote a review of the film for INFUZE Magazine last year. Here is a link...

MY REVIEW OF... CRASH - BEST PICTURE 2005

Here is a list of my top films for 2005

1. Crash
2. Good Night, and Good Luck
3. The Family Stone
4. In Good Company
5. Pride & Prejudice
6. Four Brothers
7. Batman Begins
8. Capote
9. Walk The Line
10. Wedding Crashers/The 40 Year Old Virgin
11. Syriana

King Kong, In Her Shoes, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Kicking & Screaming, A History Of Violence, The Constant Gardener, An Unfinished Life, are other good ones. Along with, Sin City, just for the technical achievement and stunning visual effects.

Thanks Hollywood. I'm looking forward to another great year!

KEEP RUNNING

The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running.

-Anonymous

YOUR INNER MAKE-OVER - STEP TWO

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