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

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.- Bill Bradley

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. - Lucille Ball

Success is not the key to happiness, Happiness is the key to success! If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Herman Cain If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hope .

Discipline yourself to find something positive in every situation every day. You attract positivity when you are positive within. - Brian Tracy 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? Discipline yourself to find something positive in every situation every day. You attract positivity when you are positive within. You are in control. Feeling motivated today...are YOU? Make it great!

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage. -  Ralph Waldo Emerson If you have the courage to begin, to take action, to stick with it...you have the courage to succeed.

A warrior…feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul. - David Gemmell

It has long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. - Leonardo Da Vinci Actions truly speak louder than words. Lack of action also speaks volumes. Take action steps today toward achieving your goals and dreams. You don't have to see the entire staircase to take the first step. Live the life you deserve! Make today great!

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 If there is no solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it.

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.  Instill optimism and creativity in all you do. Make the impossible...possible. Turn ordinary into extraordinary! Live the life you deserve.  Start NOW for life is too short.  Begin by making today GREAT!

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age. - Sophia Loren Develop a childlike fascination with life and people.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've everything to do, and you've done it. - Margaret Thatcher Great day to start off a productive week! Set goals, take action! Make it great!

The loudest and most influential voice you hear is your own inner voice, your "self critic". It can work for you or against you, depending on the messages you allow. It can be pessimistic or optimistic. It can wear you down or cheer you on. You control the sender and the receiver, but only if you consciously take responsibility and control of your inner conversation. - Keith Harrell The most important words we'll utter are those words we say to ourselves, about ourselves, when we're by ourselves.

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!

Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier. - Mother Teresa The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little soon-to-be-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.  Remember...it's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.  Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are making them feel good about you. A person who truly does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them. Make things count! Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.  Life’s like a boom-a-rang. The more good you throw out, the more you receive in return. Start now! Make today great!

Reminder of the day is to take ACTION! 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!  Let's make this month a month of ACTION! Decide NOW! Decide what you want. Decide what you need to change or sacrifice to get it. Set your plan. Put your plan in motion! Start NOW! Instill optimism and creativity in all you do. Make the impossible...possible. Turn ordinary into extraordinary! 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! Make it great!

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. - Eleanor Roosevelt 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!

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 more mindful I am about happiness, the happier I become. -Gretchen Rubin The happiest people don't always have the best of everything...they just make the best out of everything. Make today great!

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.  - Thomas Edison 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. Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you. It always seems impossible until it is done. How long should you try? Until you succeed! Greatness is the ability to accomplish things even when others say you cannot!

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. - Winston Churchill

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 Don't let fear hold you back from achieving your goals and dreams! Take control and take action, and soon you will realize there was never anything to be afraid of!

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.  Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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!

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

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

You have the power to free yourself from the mental prison that fear creates. Anything worth having is worth working for, and you deserve to live fearless and free. - Terri Cole Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage and the confidence in doing. Don't let fear hold you back from achieving your goals and dreams! Take control and take action, and soon you will realize there was never anything to be afraid of! Make it a great day!

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage. -  Ralph Waldo Emerson If you have the courage to begin, to take action, to stick with it...you have the courage to succeed.

Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time. It must be a goal that is so appealing, so much in line with your spiritual core, that you can't get it out of your mind. If you do not get chills when you set a goal, you're not setting big enough goals. - Bob Proctor The future holds limitless possibilities...you decide what the future holds for you.

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit. - Jim Rohn

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be - Marcel Pagnol

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness & simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart. - Sarah Ban Breathnach

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 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!

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!

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

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 Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. Change the way you see things, and you will have the power to change your world. Instill optimism and creativity in all you do. Make the impossible...possible. Turn ordinary into extraordinary! May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism. Start now! Make today great!

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret - curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.  - Walt Disney Believe in yourself, believe in your dreams!  Realize that you don't have to look outside yourself for strength...it is there all the time.

We lose ourselves in the things we love. We find ourselves there, too. - Kristin Martz Do what you love and love what you do! Life is too short not to!

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our  souls blossom. - Marcel Proust, Renew an old friendship, enhance an existing or make a new friend!  Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life.

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 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!

Don't cheat people of their growth. Empower them to solve problems and generate ideas. Watch them grow! - Stephen Covey

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 We're all leaders... If you influence anyone's beliefs, thinking, behavior, or development, then you are engaging in leadership.  If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more...you are a leader.

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true. - Robert H. Schuller Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.  Don't wait for it...go out and achieve it.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there -  Will Rogers Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Get up, get moving, do something! Set goals and take action daily to achieve them!  Live the life you deserve! Start today!  Make today great!

When you know clearly what you want, you'll wake up every morning excited about life. - Mark Victor Hansen