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