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

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future. - Denis Waitley 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!

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning. - Pat Riley What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.

Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals. - Jim Rohn

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop  the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. - Colin Powell

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

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion. The potential for greatness lives within each of us. - Wilma Rudolph

You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever. - Wayne Dyer 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!

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 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!

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.

Change is usually not a question of capability; it’s almost always a question of motivation – Tony Robbins 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.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs - Maxwell Maltz

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

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

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

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you. - Les Brown

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

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life - Tony Robbins

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!

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain -- he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem -- he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills. - William Arthur Ward Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it.

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 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!

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it. - Jack Canfield Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.  Find it & go after it.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration - James Allen

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning. - Pat Riley

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

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion. The potential for greatness lives within each of us. - Wilma Rudolph

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

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - 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. It always seems impossible until it is done. How long should you try? Until you succeed!

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 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!

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  Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.  Don't wait for it...go out and achieve it. High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately.

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!

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.

Life is sacred. I hold in my heart all the parts of myself—the infant, the child, the teenager, the young adult, the adult, and my present and future self. My story includes every success and every failure, every error and every truthful insight, and all of it is valuable. I have compassion for me, and I also feel compassion for others. I create a life of acceptance and understanding. - Louise L. Hay

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. - Bob Marley

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. - Og Mandino

Discipline yourself to find something positive in every situation every day. You attract positivity when you are positive within. - Brian Tracy For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. - Aristotle Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

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.

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. - Keith Harrell The most important words we'll utter are those words we say to ourselves, about ourselves, when we're by ourselves.

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

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others. - Plato As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life - Tony Robbins

Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations. - Federico Fellini

Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.  - Robert Collier

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!

Attitude, to me, is more important than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do.  It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill.  It will make or break a company… a church… a home.  The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we embrace for that day.  We cannot change our past… we cannot change the fact that people act in a certain way.  We cannot change the inevitable.  The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude… I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it.  And so it is with you… We are in charge of our attitudes. - Charles Swindoll 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

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.

Don't be afraid of growing slowly, be afraid of standing still. - Chinese proverb