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

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming. - Goethe Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.  A person who truly does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them. Make things count! Make today great!

Your reputation and integrity are everything. Follow through on what you say you're going to do. Your credibility can only be built over time, and it is built from the history of your words and actions. - Maria Razumich-Zec

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic and faithful, and you will accomplish your objective. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding. - Harvey Mackay  It is inevitable that we must change our habits if we intend to get different results. Continue to only develop ones that are giving us positive results. Don't settle for less. Believe and achieve! Start now! Make today great!

To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed. - Bernard Edmonds

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 Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

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

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do,but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.— Quote from A Course in Miracles

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. - Norman Vincent Peale If you realized how powerful your thoughts are,you would never think a negative thought. Make the right choices. Start today. Make today great!

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

Deliver more than You are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when You learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that You do. Make Your self so valuable in Your work that eventually You will become indispensable. Exercise Your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. - Og Mandino

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!

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

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.

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

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. - John Quincy Adams Never give up, and always remain confident in what you do. Let the difficulties that you face make you more determined to achieve your objectives and win against the odds. After all, difficulties are just things to overcome.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hope - Andrew Carnegie

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 Constant focus, Concentrated effort and Continuous improvement can help you achieve to your potential. Live the life you deserve! Live it with passion. Start by making today great!

Few people leap to the top of their profession. Most get there incrementally, step by step, experience by experience, and even mistake by mistake. If we give up...we fail for sure. To have a clear chance at success, we have to keep reloading and taking aim at our target!

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

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'" — Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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.

A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader; a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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! 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! Love, laugh, live!

Taking action is the part...most people don't do. Then we wonder why things don't change for the better. Decide what you want. Decide what you need to change or sacrifice to get it. Set your plan. Put your plan in motion!  Don't stop believing. Don't fear. Don't wait. Don't give up. Don't give in. Don't settle for less!  Start NOW! Make TODAY a great day!

When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up. - Tom Krause Get up, get over it, get a plan, get focused, get going!

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. - Leo Buscaglia

At the end of each day you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you. -- Jim Rohn Sent from my iPhone

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 weekend! Set goals, take action! Make it great! Sent from my iPhone

Affect the things that are in your control, and it all begins with the person that stares back at you in the mirror. If it is to be, it is up to me.

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. Realize the life lessons you have learned along the way and you will be a happier, more confident person. Make today great!

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

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

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 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.

In one minute you can change your attitude and in that minute you can change your entire day.  - Spencer Johnson 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? – Bob Proctor

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. -  Kahlil Gibran

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered; it is something molded. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery  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. 

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. ~Joe Lewis  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. Being alive is a gift, being happy is by choice! 

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

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. - Melody Beattie

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 Constant focus, Concentrated effort and Continuous improvement can help you achieve to your potential. Live the life you deserve! Live it with passion. Start by making today great!

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

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you. - Zig Ziglar There's nothing more attractive than confidence, once you see your own beauty, so will everyone else!

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. - James Allen If you realized how powerful your thoughts are,you would never think a negative thought. Make the right choices. Start today. Make today great!

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming. - Goethe Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.  A person who truly does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them. Make things count! Make today a great day!

Build Long-Term Relationships- 85 percent of the happiness and success you enjoy in life will be determined by the quality of your relationships with others. - Brian Tracy

Most beginnings are small, and appear trivial and insignificant, but in reality they are the most important things in life. -  James Allen

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

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. - Wayne Dyer