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

Lives change. People change. How and why are less important than the fact that they change. Being thankful is not simply something we say, it’s something we do. You help one person, and pretty soon they’re helping someone else. You never know how many people you’ve touched just by reaching out to one. Practice random acts of kindness, daily. Approach everything you do and everything you have with an attitude of gratitude. Start now. Make today great!

In one minute you can change your attitude and in that minute you can change your entire day.  - Spencer Johnson Positive thoughts can energize your day and the perfect way to start each morning!  Our attitude is the environment we carry with us during the day.  It proclaims to the world what we think of ourselves and indicates the sort of person we have made up our minds to be. It is the person we will become. How's your attitude today?

This is your life. Live it. It is valuable. Make the most of it. If you desire more. Do something about it. Live the life you deserve! Taking action is the part...most people don't do. Then we wonder why things don't change for the better. Don't stop believing. Don't fear. Don't wait. Don't give up. Don't give in. Don't settle for less! 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. Things don't necessarily get easier, we just change the impact or meaning by how we choose to deal with them...and through this we get stronger and wiser. Make today a great day!

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. - Tony Robbins Believe in yourself, believe in your dreams. Believe you deserve to achieve them. Believe you can...and you will. Set a plan and take action. Start now. Make today great!

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself. - Robert F. Bennett

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved. - Samuel Smiles Don’t give up, don’t give in. Believe in your dreams. Take action today! Make today great!

You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great. - Les Brown

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come.  We have only today. Let us begin -  Mother Teresa Wise words...live for today! Learn and cherish all from your past, dream and believe in all that the future can bring. Make the most of today! Make it great!

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. -  Albert Schweitzer Encourage someone who needs it. Whether it’s a friend, sibling, parent, child or coworker, a little recognition could make a world of difference in their lives. Let them know that you are thankful for them and that you appreciate having them in your life. You can encourage someone with words, a hug, a gift or even an email or phone call. It is so simple to do; act now and go encourage someone! Make today great!

Accept the notion that you deserve all the happiness you can honestly attain through the application of your talents and abilities. The more you like and respect yourself, the more deserving you will feel of the good things in life. And the more deserving you feel, the more likely you will attain and hold on to the happiness you are working toward. - Brian Tracy

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. -  Joanne Kathleen Rowling

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices. - Deepak Chopra Choosing the right responses to things can truly make the difference in your attitude and outcomes you experience. Choose wisely and create the outcomes that benefit you. Make today a great day!

Taking action is the part...most people don't do. Then we wonder why things don't change for the better. Don't stop believing. Don't fear. Don't wait. Don't give up. Don't give in. Don't settle for less! If we could all just focus in on "what we have" as opposed to "what we do not" and realize who we have become along the way, through all of life's lessons - we would all be happier, more confident people!  Live the miracle: Live and enjoy your life to the fullest. Remember how extraordinary even what you think of as ordinary, truly is! Carry forth an attitude of gratitude in all you do, always. For every miracle must not be taken for granted! This is your life. Live it. It is valuable. Make the most of it. If you desire more. Do something about it. Don't just be all that you can be. Become more than you ever thought you could be!  Live the life you deserve! Start NOW for life is too short! Begin by making TODAY a great...

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln Someone once said, There comes a time in your life when you walk away from all the drama and the people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living. Learn from the past, live in the now. Being alive is a gift, being happy is by choice! Life is what you make it. Choose to make it great!

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. - Alice Walker

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. - Jim Rohn

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles - Christopher Reeve

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.  - Norman Vincent Peale

The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are. -Thomas Dreier Life is what we make it.  We tend to get more of what we give and what we expect. Positive thoughts bring positive results.  Start now, make today great!

Developing a true sense of gratitude involves taking absolutely nothing for granted. Rather, we always look for friendly intention behind the deed and learn to appreciate it. - Albert Schweitzer How do you turn your life around? Begin by developing an attitude of gratitude! As soon as you start to feel differently about the things in your life that you already have, you begin to realize and open the door for even greater things to come. Learn to not take things for granted.  Life is too short to not count your blessings on a daily basis! Gratitude opens the doors to receiving greater things! Start now! Make today great!

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. — Eckhart Tolle Be thankful for all the things that are in your life.  Learning to be happy while you are pursuing what you want...is key.  Know that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.  Having gratitude opens the doors to receiving. Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.  We all have a lot to be grateful for...Start today. MAKE today a GREAT day!

Winning is not a sometime thing, it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.  -  Vince Lombardi

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. - Zig Ziglar Winners have the ability to look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work...or make it better! Make today a great day!

Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.  - Norman Vincent Peale

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. - St. Francis of Assisi

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James Our attitude is the environment we carry with us during the day. It proclaims to the world what we think of ourselves and indicates the sort of person we have made up our minds to be. It is the person we will become. How's your attitude today? Discipline yourself to find something positive in every situation every day. You attract positivity when you are positive within. You are in control. Make it great!

How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively. - Norman Vincent Peale Unexpected circumstances can be thrown at you, but what is the thing that counts most in these situations? What counts most is how you react to what happens to you, especially when you have unexpected problems of any kind.  A Positive Mental Attitude is indispensable to your success. You can be as positive as you want to be if you will simply think about the future, focus on the solution and look for the good. If you do what other successful people do, if you use your mind to exert mental control over the situation, you will be positive and cheerful most of the time. And you will reap the benefits enjoyed by all successful people.

Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle. - Abraham Lincoln

What happened even as recently as yesterday is no longer of any consequence, unless we choose to allow it to be. What is of great importance is who and what it is that leaves its mark today, and each day thereafter. What we have been is an established and unchangeable fact. What we can yet become is an unlimited, boundless opportunity. - Jim Rohn

Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be - George Sheeha

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. - Mitch Albom These are two of the greatest moments in a person's life: The first is when you are born. The second is when you discover why you were born.  Live a life of Purpose. Live it with Passion. Create a solid Plan to achieve your dreams and goals. Pursue and Persist with constant action and stick-to-it-iveness. Start now! Make today great!

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 

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. - Joseph Campbel

Circumstances do not make the man. They merely reveal him to himself. - Epictetus

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself. - Robert F. Bennett

We can't afford to waste tears on might-have -beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be. — Denis Waitley Instill optimism and creativity in all you do. Make the impossible...possible. Turn ordinary into extraordinary! Start now! Make today great!

There are no limits...only beliefs about what is possible! Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. - Norm Chomsky

Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count, voices that are going to add too little worth to your future. Don't waste time on the shallow and the silly. Tune those voices out and tune in voices that are going to add something to your life. - Jim Rohn

You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you. If you don't have that kind of feeling for what it is you are doing, you'll stop at the first giant hurdle. - George Lucas If you find a path without obstacles...it probably won't lead you anywhere.  We are built to conquer environment, solve problems and achieve goals. 

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 How do you turn your life around? Begin by developing an attitude of gratitude! As soon as you start to feel differently about the things in your life that you already have, you begin to realize and open the door for even greater things to come. Learn to not take things for granted.  Life is too short to not count your blessings on a daily basis! Start now! Make today great!

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. - Voltaire

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

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself. - Robert F. Bennett

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle...victorious. - Vince Lombardi

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved. - Samuel Smiles

It always seems impossible until it ’ s done.-Nelson Mandela Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. - Denis Waitley

People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence. - Jack Canfield

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  We tend to get more of what we expect. As soon as we start to feel differently about what we already have and how we perceive things to be...we start to realize more good things to be grateful for.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon. - Denis Waitley You become what you think about. Visualize what you want. See it & feel it. Believe it.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude - Dale Carnegie

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. - Mary Engelbreit

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. - Jim Rohn You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing. Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you. - Jim Rohn