S.U.M.M.I.T. Leadership

Happy New Year's Eve, friends and family! As the closing of one year comes to an end and the excitement and anticipation of a new one approaches - I am reminded to reflect back on 2011 and create a plan forward for 2012 to ensure greater outcomes. How was this year for you? Did you accomplish things you set out to do from the beginning? Were you able to kick off 2011 and sustain action on the resolutions you set? If you are like most people...I would venture to guess that you have not. I'm not criticizing...we've all been there! But ok, a new year is coming. Time for many of us to set annual New Year's Resolutions. For me, this always puzzled me. One time a year that we could focus in and make drastic changes in our lives and start anew? Why put all this pressure on one time a year? How many of you have, once a year, set New Year's resolutions only to let them fall short only a couple of months into the year? Statistics show that 85% of all New Year resolutions fai

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live - Leo Buscaglia Sent from my BlackBerry

You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own. - Mark Victor Hansen Sent from my BlackBerry

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us. - Jim Rohn Sent from my BlackBerry

Most people will focus on why they can't do something. Others focus on the prize. I focus on the path and process I must take - Robert Kiyosaki Sent from my BlackBerry

If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.  ~Bob Hope Sent from my BlackBerry

May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope; The spirit of Christmas which is peace; The heart of Christmas which is love. - Ada V. Hendricks Sent from my BlackBerry

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas time. - Laura Ingalls Wilder Sent from my BlackBerry

Humble people don't think less of themselves ... they just think of themselves less. -Norman Vincent Peale Sent from my BlackBerry

A good character is the best tombstone.  Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered.  Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.  ~Charles H. Spurgeon Sent from my BlackBerry

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. - Stephen A. Brennan Sent from my BlackBerry

It's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. - Anthony Robbins Sent from my BlackBerry

Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination. - William Arthur Ward Sent from my BlackBerry

The reality of life is that your perceptions - right or wrong - influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place. - Roger Birkman Sent from my BlackBerry

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. - Abraham Maslow Sent from my BlackBerry

There is always something to celebrate, so long as life is being lived. - Neale Donald Walsch Sent from my BlackBerry

Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have anything you want. - Brian Tracy Sent from my BlackBerry

We all hope to find others who believe in us when we fail to believe in ourselves and who will inspire us to become more than what we know we could be Tis the season of believing. Believe in your goals and dreams...and you have found your path. Believe in yourself and your abilities and you will achieve them. Seeing isn't believing...Believing is seeing. Sent from my BlackBerry

You are created and fashioned by the Master. He made you just the way you are, and He has a specific and amazing plan for you, a destiny for your life. - Joel Osteen Sent from my BlackBerry

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude. Be kind, but not weak. Be bold, but not a bully. Be thoughtful, but not arrogant. Have humor, but without folly. - Jim Rohn Sent from my BlackBerry

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. - Henry Boye Sent from my BlackBerry

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. - Marianne Williamson Sent from my BlackBerry

Lifestyle is not an amount; it's a practice. - Jim Rohn Sent from my BlackBerry

As for worrying about what other people might think - forget it. They aren't concerned about you. They're too busy worrying about what you and other people think of them. - Michael le Boeuf Sent from my BlackBerry

Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits. - William James Sent from my BlackBerry

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sent from my BlackBerry

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. -Ralph Waldo Emerson Sent from my BlackBerry

If you can't, you must. If you must, you can. - Anthony Robbins Sent from my BlackBerry

The real opportunity for SUCCESS! lies within the person and not in the job. - Zig Ziglar Sent from my BlackBerry

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. - Andre Malraux Sent from my BlackBerry

A person who truly does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them. Make things count! Make today great! Sent from my BlackBerry

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. - John Wooden Sent from my BlackBerry

Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds. - Theodore Roosevelt Sent from my BlackBerry

In all things, let us remember to give thanks. Carry forward an attitude of gratitude in all we do. Gratitude enables us to move on, grow and develop; with it comes peace, joy, laughter, good times and memories-in-the-making, to your life and to everyone around you! Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Sent from my BlackBerry

Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ~Edward Sandford Martin God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" Be filled with thankfulness and gratitude in all you do! Sent from my BlackBerry

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. - Norman Vincent Peale Sent from my BlackBerry

When a negative thought enters your mind, immediately replace it with something you are grateful for (roof over your head, love in your life, food on the table, etc..). Just as with learning anything new, it will require watchfulness and practice until a new behavior pattern is learned. Being mindful of changing your thoughts will eventually create an automatic response process with little effort, thus allowing more room for joy in your life Sent from my BlackBerry

The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.  ~William Wordsworth Sent from my BlackBerry

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope."-Stephen Ambrose Life is what we make of it! Learn from your past and create the future you desire! Sent from my BlackBerry

Four things for success: Work and pray, think and believe. - Norman Vincent Peale Sent from my BlackBerry

Thoughts are like seeds. If you want different results in life, you have to figure out which thoughts are capable of growing those results and which aren't. ~ Steve Pavlina Sent from my BlackBerry

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts - Marcus Aurelius Sent from my BlackBerry

God wants to do amazing things in your life. Today, declare that every ounce of lack, defeat, mediocrity and sickness is gone. See yourself as the person God created you to be, as the head and not the tail, above and not beneath, a victor and not a victim. - Joel Osteen Sent from my BlackBerry

May you live everyday of your life. -Jonathan Swift To live, to truly live everyday is to go for your dreams, to enjoy the journey, to strive to improve everyday! Don't just exist...LIVE! Sent from my BlackBerry

For those who have died, we show great appreciation and remembrance. Men and women giving their best to defend what they love. They defend our country, they fight for our freedom. Unknown and faceless to everyone except those who knew them personally. Some call them soldiers, others call them heroes. Because of them, we continue to live in freedom. For this we give our thanks, and we honor you! Sent from my BlackBerry

Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realize your vision. - Bob Proctor Sent from my BlackBerry

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. - Mother Teresa Sent from my BlackBerry

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; it's what we do with them that's important. - Jim Rohn Sent from my BlackBerry

Everyone has the power to impact the outcome of their life. The way to do it is to focus on today..Today is the only time you have. It's too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow. - John C. Maxwell Sent from my BlackBerry

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives. - Vince Lombardi Sent from my BlackBerry

Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith. Having faith in yourself, in the process of change, and in the new direction that change sets will reveal your own inner core of steel. - Georgette Mosbacher Sent from my BlackBerry

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. Dale Carnegie Sent from my BlackBerry

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. - Maya Angelou Sent from my BlackBerry

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse. - Carlos Castaneda Sent from my BlackBerry

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. - Nicholas Murray Butler Sent from my BlackBerry

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. - Marie Curie Sent from my BlackBerry

Stress in life comes from making things more important than they really are. Failure comes from making things less important than they are - Anthony Robbins Sent from my BlackBerry

Developing excellent communication skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can't get a message across clearly and motivate people to act on it, then having a message doesn't even matter. - Gilbert Amelio Sent from my BlackBerry

We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly. -Benjamin Franklin Sent from my BlackBerry

Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role. - Paramahansa Yogananda Sent from my BlackBerry

The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself. - C. JoyBell C Sent from my BlackBerry

When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools. -Michael Leboeuf Sent from my BlackBerry

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. ~ Winston Churchill Sent from my BlackBerry

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." - Napoleon Hill Sent from my BlackBerry

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary. - Lou Holtz Sent from my BlackBerry

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going. - Napoleon Hill Sent from my BlackBerry

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde Sent from my BlackBerry

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. -Robert Louis Stevenson Sent from my BlackBerry

Jim Rohn says you become an average of the five people you associate with most. The people we spend our time with determine what conversations dominate our attention, and what observations, attitudes and opinions we repetitively are introduced to. Spend your time with a team of high-achievers and you'll be inspired to stretch for your next accomplishment, be it in your business, finances or personal agenda. On the converse, hang out with people who are "less than inspired" and you could quickly find yourself stagnant. Evaluate and shift your associations into 3 categories: 1. Disassociation: There are some people you might need to break away from completely-these are negative, toxic people who infect you with their bad attitude. It's difficult to ignore someone and their negative influences but doing so will put YOU in control of deciding the quality of life you want to have. Then surround yourself with the people who represent and support that vision. 2. Limited Asso

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain -- he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem -- he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills. - William Arthur Ward Sent from my BlackBerry

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. - Tom Bodett Sent from my BlackBerry

To make no mistake is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. - Plutarch Sent from my BlackBerry

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. - Golda Meir Sent from my BlackBerry

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve." - Wilfred Peterson Sent from my BlackBerry

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. - Zig Ziglar Sent from my BlackBerry

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.- Alexander Graham Bell  Sent from my BlackBerry

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry...SHOW life a thousand reasons to smile! Make it a great day! It's your choice! Sent from my BlackBerry

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration their life will be. - Horace Bushnell Sent from my BlackBerry

To be grateful can be difficult when things seem not worth giving thanks for. Try it anyway. Allow yourself to be in the difficult situation and be grateful inside yourself, in the background. Grateful for what? Grateful for the lessons. Grateful for the growth and expansion you are in the middle of. Grateful for all you have. Grateful for your ability to turn things around. ~ Lisbeth Mahnkopf Sent from my BlackBerry

Make A Decision! Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocal decision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something. Significant change starts when you decide to either get in or get out. Sent from my BlackBerry

Realize how good you really are. - Og Mandino Sent from my BlackBerry

Happy and unhappy people tend to have very similar life experiences. The difference is what they focus on. It's your choice. Approach everything with an Attitude of Gratitude and focus on what you have instead of what you do not. Sent from my BlackBerry

If you believe in faith and keep speaking victory, favor, health and wholeness, you will see positive changes begin to happen in your life. You will reap a good harvest from the seeds you are sowing. - Joel Osteen Sent from my BlackBerry

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate. - Jack Canfield Sent from my BlackBerry

Fear of failure and fear of the unknown are always defeated by faith. Having faith in yourself, in the process of change, and in the new direction that change sets will reveal your own inner core of steel. - Georgette Mosbacher Sent from my BlackBerry

Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency, become the calmest person in the room and you'll be able to figure your way out of it. - Rudolph Giuliani Sent from my BlackBerry

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. Wayne Dyer Sent from my BlackBerry

Hold fast to your dreams for without them life is a broken winged bird who cannot fly. -Langston Hughes Sent from my BlackBerry

God sells us all things at the price of labor. - Leonardo Da Vinci Sent from my BlackBerry

Take action every day - some small dose at a time. - Jeffrey Gitomer Sent from my BlackBerry

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams." - Ashley Smith Sent from my BlackBerry

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. - Wayne Dyer Sent from my BlackBerry

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make. - Les Brown Sent from my BlackBerry

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. - Joseph Campbell Sent from my BlackBerry

Decide the friends, mentors & leaders you want in your life, in your inner circle, and court them with emotional generosity. Make it matter. - Gary W. Goldstein Sent from my BlackBerry

Develop an attitude of gratitude and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation - Brian Tracy Sent from my BlackBerry

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. - Michael Jordan Sent from my BlackBerry

The past ought to be a milestone to help us measure the distance we have come; it ought never to be a millstone holding back the adventures that are yet to be. - Dr. Gardner Taylor Sent from my BlackBerry

Change is usually not a question of capability; it's almost always a question of motivation - Tony Robbins Sent from my BlackBerry

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Sent from my BlackBerry

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson Sent from my BlackBerry

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill. - Aristotle Sent from my BlackBerry