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

When I thought I couldn't go on, I forced myself to keep going. My success is based on persistence, not luck. - Estee Lauder Here's to wishing all of you the strength, courage, determination and persistence you need to face your hardships and fears, to be able to experience the life you deserve.

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. 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!

For those who have died, we show great appreciation and remembrance.  Men and women giving their best to defend what they love.  They defend our country, they fight for our freedom.  Unknown and faceless to everyone except those who knew them personally.  Some call them soldiers, others call them heroes.  Because of them, we continue to live in freedom. For this we give our thanks!

Write it on your heart that everyday 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!

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

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 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.

When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged  because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference. -  Zig Ziglar A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could. Give praise and encourage others daily. Start now! Make today great!

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is siimply 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

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

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

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult. - Julia Cameron Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome – William James

The higher you want to climb, the more you need leadership. The greater the impact you want to make, the greater your influence needs to be. - John Maxwell

Start by focusing in on your dreams and goals. Then, take action everyday toward those dreams and goals. Soon the impossible will be possible and the invisible will be visible. Feel the energy and excitement that comes with doing something you are truly passionate about. Create a positive momentum by harnessing and refocusing this energy to achieve the life you deserve. Start today. Make today great!

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.

With every new day comes a new beginning. A fresh start. Focus in and enjoy each new moment life brings you. You have to make it YOUR choice to believe in yourself and in your dreams. If you believe in something...you must commit to it. YOU have the right and the power to choose. Decide today to use your power to choose. You have to believe to achieve. Once you have your attitude right you must believe it can and will happen. Have faith and release the past. You have to start with the right attitude. In everything you do you must have the right mind set first. You have to get your head in the game to get, be and stay motivated. Carry yourself with confidence, for who you are and all you do. Make it great!

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. - Vince Lombardi Be the best you can be. Be the best YOU. Commit to excellence and strive for continuous improvement! Live the life you deserve! Aren't you worth it?

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

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 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.

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 GREAT day.

Each person adds one more source of willing energy until there's enough to actually transform the world. - Carmen Harra

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.

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 Practice Random Acts of Kindness, always. 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! You are never more like God than when you give, when you take time for people, or when you do something good for somebody who can never repay you. Make today 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.

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible. - William Arthur Ward Change your thoughts and you change your world.

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny. – Alan Cohen

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!

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

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

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

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?

To move the world we must first move ourselves." -- Socrates Seek to inspire yourselves. Celebrate the everyday "little wins". It's ok to feel good about them. You are worthy, you are capable...most of all, you are deserving! Once you believe...share the message and help others to do the same! Do your share to make this world a better place! Make today great!

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. Believe and achieve! Start now! Make today a great day!

Magic is believing in yourself... If you can do that, you can make anything happen. -  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Believe in yourself, believe in your dreams. Believe you deserve to achieve them. Believe you can...and you will. Set a plan and take action. Start now. Make today great!

If you're bored with life and you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things...then you don't have enough goals. - Lou Holtz You have to have dreams and goals! Things big enough, and with enough pull-power to get you to take action! A burning desire to achieve great things! Seeing isn't believing...believing, is seeing! Make it happen! Start today! Make today great!

When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impact upon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live. - Sasha Azevedo

Accept the notion that you deserve all the happiness you can honestly attain through the application of your talents and abilities. The more you like and respect yourself, the more deserving you will feel of the good things in life. And the more deserving you feel, the more likely you will attain and hold on to the happiness you are working toward. - Brian Tracy

Affect the things that are in your control, and it all begins with the person in the mirror. 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!

The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are. -Thomas Dreier 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!

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!

We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. - Charles R. Swindoll A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. 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?

Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. And there's no telling what will happen when you act upon them. - Jim Rohn They serve as your road map towards achieving whatever you desire. If you don't know where you are going...you may never get there. Set goals, set a plan and take action! Start now! Make today great!

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!

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

The key to success is simple: Keep doing more of the things that work, stop doing things that don't. Ask questions and try new things to get better results. It's all up to you to act upon these things. 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!

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

Choosing the right responses to things can truly make the difference in your attitude and outcomes you experience. Choose wisely and create the outcomes that benefit you. Make today great!

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 There is no better time than NOW to show & tell others how much you love them! Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it's only through sharing that friendships are born.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. - William James 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. Make it great!

Magic is believing in yourself...If you can do that, you can make anything happen. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Believe in yourself, believe in your dreams. Believe you deserve to achieve them. Believe you can...and you will. Set a plan and take action. Start now. Make today great!

Write it on your heart that everyday is the best day in the year - Ralph Waldo Emerson Be thankful for all the things that are in your life. Having gratitude opens the doors to receiving. 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!

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