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

Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations. - Federico Fellini Write the script of your own life, rehearse it in your mind, then go out and perform it to the best of your ability. Our minds can shape the way something will become because we act according to our expectations. Start now, make today great!

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!

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 Changing your mind about anything...is work. The realization that you CAN change your mind and make a choice is a great start. 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 Actions truly speak louder than words. Lack of action also speaks volumes. Inaction breeds doubt and fear, action breeds confidence and courage.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!

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 Believe in yourself...believe in your dreams...believe you deserve to achieve them. Instill optimism and creativity in all you do. Make the impossible...possible. Turn the ordinary into extraordinary! Affect the things that are in your control, and it all begins with the person in the mirror. Don't just be all that you can be. Become more than you ever thought you could be! Start NOW for life is too short! Begin by making TODAY a great day!

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. — Eckhart Tolle 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! Be thankful for all the things that are in your life.  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. Learning ...

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you. - Zig Ziglar You are powerful. Believe in yourself, believe in your dreams!  Realize that you don't have to look outside yourself for strength...it is there within you, all the time.

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.

You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions. - Adlin Sinclair It's not always easy. Acceptance and change takes dedication and work. The more compelling and vivid your thought is on what you want to change, and the change you want to make. The more likely you will do something about it.

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.

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.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. - Mario Andretti Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

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!

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 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!

I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret. -  Anthony Robbins

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!

It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened to you in your past that determines who you become.  Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny. - Anthony Robbins

By acting in a positive, pleasant and optimistic way, you become a positive, optimistic and enjoyable person. - Brian Tracy

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

The greater your dream...the greater your belief must be! The greater your belief...the greater your plan to achieve must be! The greater your plan to achieve...the greater your ability to risk and take action must be! The greater your risk and action...the greater your results will be! The greater your results...the greater your dreams will be!

It's easier to take than to give. It's nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a lifetime. -- Joan Marques 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 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!

You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination. - Ralph Marston Build upon you past experiences and use it as a stepping stone. Don't forget from your mistakes, but also...don't dwell upon them. Learn from them! Focus your energy on building positive momentum and creating positive change. Start now, make today a great day!

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. - Vince Lombardi

You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great. - Les Brown   If you don't act now while it's fresh in your mind, it will probably join the list of things you were always going to do but never quite got around to. Chances are you'll also miss some opportunities.  Everyone has the power to impact the outcome of their life. Focus and 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! Your big opportunity may be right here, right now! Make it great!

Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you. -  Jim Rohn Take control of your thoughts. Take control of your attitudes. Take control of your responses. Take control of your actions. Take control of your desired outcome.

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 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. 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!

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. Leaders are made, not born.  Leaders have a sense of missions--vision--that uplifts, motivates and inspires men and women to heights to help them achieve that vision. Leaders make things happen.

As long as we believe that someone else is to blame for our problems/difficulties, we are powerless to change. Forgiving helps us take back our power. Letting go of blame allows us to take responsibility for our lives. Forgiveness is an act of self-kindness. Choosing now to heal old unfinished business, completes the past. It ’ s time to surrender your pain and set yourself and others free. This will change the course of your life. - Victoria Butcher All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame others, it will not change you.

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

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. - Vince Lombardi

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 It's the little things you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness. It's a great day to start your momentum for a productive week! Set goals, create a plan, take action! Make it great!

Don't spend your precious time asking 'Why isn't the world a better place?' It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is 'How can I make it better?' To that there is an answer. - Leo Buscaglia Take personal responsibility.  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.  You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing. Start now.

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 The happiest people don't always have the best of everything...they just make the best out of everything. Make today great!

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

If we did all the things we are  capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. - Thomas Edison Embrace the unexpe c ted. 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!

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 Believe in yourself...believe in your dreams...believe you deserve to achieve them. Instill optimism and creativity in all you do. Make the impossible...possible. Turn the ordinary into extraordinary! Affect the things that are in your control, and it all begins with the person in the mirror. Don't just be all that you can be. Become more than you ever thought you could be! Start NOW for life is too short! Begin by making TODAY a great day!

Happy Friday Everyone!! Getting ready for a fantastic weekend!!  Words to remember: 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!

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

You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself. - Harvey S. Firestone 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!

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 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!

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 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!

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. - Alice Walker You are powerful. Believe in yourself, believe in your dreams!  Realize that you don't have to look outside yourself for strength...it is there within you, all the time.

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!

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves - Thomas Edison

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill

One of the most important truths I've learned over the years is this: Leadership is leadership, no matter where you go or what you do. Times change. Technology marches forward. Cultures vary from place to place. But the true principles of leadership are constant and stand the test of time. - John Maxwell If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more...you are a leader.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand. - Vince Lombardi

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. - Jamie Paolinetti

Learn to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want. - Jim Rohn 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. Start today. Make today great!

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance. — Eckhart Tolle 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! Be thankful for all the things that are in your life.  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. Learning ...

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.-  Lou Holtz

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 Changing your mind about anything...is work. The realization that you CAN change your mind and make a choice is a great start. 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!

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 The real opportunity for SUCCESS! lies within the person and not in the job.

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.