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

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner

Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. — Conrad Hilton

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way...and will. - Denis Waitley

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 Dream. Dream big. Make them crystal clear in your mind. If you're having trouble staying focused on them...they're probably not big enough to motivate you and help pull you through. Believe in yourself and in your dreams.  Believe you can and will achieve them. Believe you deserve to achieve them. Now DO something about it! Small achievable wins can catapult you on your way. Start today! Make it great!

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today.  Have you used one to say "Thank You"  - William A. Ward In all things, let us always remember to give thanks.  There is so much for us to all be thankful for: I'm thankful first and foremost for a wonderful family and for great friendships! I'm thankful for the gift of life. I'm thankful for opportunities that reveal themselves everyday if I take the time to look for them.  I'm thankful every day for all that I have and all that I am! Carry forward an attitude of gratitude in all we do.  For gratitude enables us to move on, grow and develop; with it comes peace, joy, laughter, good times and memories, these things come not only to you and your life, but to all you associate with!  Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities. - William Arthur Ward Renew an old friendship, enhance an existing or make a new friend!  Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life.

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!

The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things. - Jim Rohn Do what you love and love what you do! It truly makes a difference...so you can make a difference! Make it a great day!

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.  - Ralph Marston

Each person adds one more source of willing energy until there’s enough to actually transform the world. - Carmen Harra To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love. To have love you must GIVE love!

Make a gift of your life and lift all mankind by being kind, considerate, forgiving, and compassionate at all times, in all places, and under all conditions, with everyone as well as yourself. This is the greatest gift anyone can give.—  Dr. David Hawkins We live every day from what we can get, but create a life by what we can give. Do your part to make a positive difference daily.  You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself, for it is in giving that we actually receive! Make it a great day!

The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to him positive results - Norman Vincent Peale

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

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. - Dale Carnegie

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

Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations. - Federico Fellini We tend to get more of what we expect. We become what we think about. We attract more of what we focus on. Expect to win. Think about success. Focus on the positive. Make today great!

Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming. - John Wooden

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

How would your life be different if…You stopped worrying about things you can’t control and started focusing on the things you can? Let today be the day…You free yourself from fruitless worry, seize the day and take effective action on things you can change. - Steve Maraboli

The main reason that most people do not achieve their goals is not because they can't or they are not smart, good or deserving enough. They don't because their plan and system for taking action and staying on track is flawed. Take time to plan properly and then create a process for taking daily action towards your goals. - John Assaraf

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.  Change the only corner of the world you can be certain of improving, your own self.  We must continuously improve to grow, progress and have success.  Start now.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful. - Mark Victor Hansen

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 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!

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year - Ralph Waldo Emerson 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!

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you. - Zig Ziglar

Guts are a combination of confidence, courage, conviction, strength of character, stick-to-itiveness, pugnaciousness, backbone, and intestinal fortitude. They are mandatory for anyone who wants to get to and stay at the top. - D. A. Benton There is great pleasure in achieving and succeeding when others say you cannot. The goal is not to never fail, but to be able to pick yourself up after a failure, learn from it...and move on.  With enough patience and perseverance...soon your difficulties and obstacles will disappear.

Winning is not a sometime thing, it's an all the 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 The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better. Make it great!

Start by focusing in on your dreams and goals. Then, take action everyday toward your dreams and goals. Soon the impossible will be possible and the invisible will be visible. With every new day comes a new beginning. A fresh start. Focus in and enjoy each new moment life brings you. Be careful not to let opportunities pass you by while you sit idle thinking about the chances you may have lost. Learn from the past - do not live in it. Don't wonder about the future - create it. Utilize the power of NOW to make a difference in your life! We all have the power, and the power to choose...choose to MAKE today a great day!

This is your life...do what you love, and do it often. If you don't like something...change it. If you don't like your job, quit. If you don't have enough time, stop wasting it on things that have no meaning. If you're looking for the love of your life, stop. They will be there waiting for you when you start doing things you love. Stop over analyzing. Life is simple. All emotions are beautiful when you eat, appreciate every last bite. Travel often. Getting lost will help you find yourself. Some opportunities only come once, seize them. Life is about the people you meet and the things you create with them. Go out and start creating. Life is short. Live your dream. Share your passion.

When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited. - Brian Tracy Life is what you make it. Make the most of it every day. It's your life...live it. Enjoy it to the fullest. Carry forth that attitude of gratitude in all you do, always. Don't take it for granted for it is valuable. Believe in your dreams and dream big. 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 GREAT!

The problem with most people is that they get so caught up with what they 'think" is or isn't happening to them, that they fail to see the things that actually are.  It is important for us all to live our lives one day at a time, and realize that RIGHT NOW this is enough. Reflect on the past for what you have learned from it...but do not grieve over it for it is gone. Be careful not to let new opportunities pass you by while you sit idle thinking about the chances you may have lost.  Look forward to what lies ahead of us in the future, but do not worry about it, for it has not yet arrived. Stop wondering about the future - create it.  Life starts NOW, Live in the present, and make it so great it will be worth thinking about later. Instead of just making the best of everyday,  make the decision to make everyday the BEST - it's your choice! Utilize the power of NOW to make a difference in your life. We all have the power and the power to choose to MAKE today a...

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. 

A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, need less, smile often, dream big, understand the gift of laughter and laugh a lot, believe in yourself, and realize how blessed you are. When you go to bed with a dream and wake up with a purpose. Being with people who know your worth and who appreciate you for who you are. Live a li f e of Sharing & Caring, Giving & Living, Attitude & Gratitude. Live the life you deserve. Start now! Make today great!

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.  - Brian Tracy

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.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. - Dr. David M. Burns

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

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. - Tao Te Ching

For all who have served and to those who are serving...we show great appreciation.  And to those who have died, we also show remembrance.  Men and women giving their best to defend what they love.  They defend our country, they fight and sacrifice so that we may know freedom.  Unknown and faceless to everyone except those who knew them personally or served with them.  Some call them soldiers, others call them heroes.  Because of them, we continue to live in freedom. For this we give our thanks!

As soon as you start to feel differently about what you already have, you will start to attract more of the good things, more of the things you can be grateful for. - Joe Vitale 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!

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibility: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak - Thomas Carlyle There is great pleasure in achieving and succeeding when others say you cannot. The goal is not to never fail, but to be able to pick yourself up after a failure, learn from it...and move on.  With enough patience and perseverance...soon your difficulties and obstacles will disappear.

As you begin to take action toward the fulfillment of your goals and dreams, you must realize that not every action will be perfect. Not every action will produce the desired result. Not every action will work. Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right. - Jack Canfield 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. It always seems impossible until it is done. How long should you try? Until you succeed!

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.  - Richard M. DeVos

Happy 'Feel Good' Friday! Time to refocus in on the important things in life! Approach each day with an Attitude of Gratitude and practice Random Acts of Kindness.  Be thankful for all that you have. Work on making a positive impact on those around you. Smile. Laugh. Live the life you deserve! Make today great!

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.

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined. Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning and focused effort - Paul J. Meyer

Changing your mind about anything is work. The realization that you CAN change your mind, and therefore your life, is the start. - Terri Cole Choosing the right responses to things can truly make the difference in your attitude and outcomes you experience. You have the power...the power to choose.  Choose wisely and create the outcomes that benefit you. Make today great!

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. - Norman Vincent Peale

If we did all the things we are  capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison Embrace the unexpexted. The things we never saw coming often take us to places we never thought we'd go. Start living the live you always imagined. Create different results. Start now! Make today great!

Make a positive impact on those around you. 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!

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

You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal. - Chuck Carlson I'd rather attempt to do something and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning. - Denis Waitley If you think you're a winner you'll win, if you dare to step out you'll succeed. Believe in your heart, have purpose to start. Aim to help fellow man in his need. Thoughts of faith must replace every doubt. Use words of courage and you cannot fail. If you stumble and fall, rise and stand ten feet tall, you determine the course that you sail.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.  And leadership truly develops from the inside out.  If you can become who you ought to be on the inside, you will be able to become the leader you want to be on the outside. - John Maxwell If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more...you are a leader.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. - Og Mandino Dream big enough that it will engulf all you do. Find a purpose to achieve that will pull you through. Believe and stay focused, take action each day.  For where you have will...you'll find a way!

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!