Gratitude

“We consider enjoyment to have two primary components; appreciation and gratitude. To fully enjoy something, we must first appreciate it, like it, savor it. This is fun, of course, but when we add the second element - gratitude - we add thankfulness to the appreciation and have full, rounded, heartfelt enjoyment.”
Wealth 101: Getting What You Want-Enjoying What You’ve Got by John-Roger and Peter McWilliams

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” Oprah Winfrey

“Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.” Estonian proverb

The Law of Attraction states that you attract to your life whatever you give your energy, attention and focus. With appreciation and gratitude you are focusing on what you have. The more you are grateful, the more you will attract to be grateful for. Look at the people you know that are successful. Is gratitude part of their success?

Is gratitude part of your success?

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Time Marches On

I really like this line from Rudyard Kipling’s poem, If

“If you can fill the unforgiving minute, with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run ”

Each minute in our life IS unforgiving. It goes whether we want it to, or not. Each minute gathers into hours, hours into days and days into your lifetime. Where we are today, WHO we are today, is the sum total of those seconds and unforgiving minutes spent. Who we will be is the sum total of the seconds and minutes we are spending now.

And that is why we must spend each minute with sixty seconds of distance run. Kipling didn’t say 60 seconds of frantic sprint. For me distance run means measured, consistent effort. Not each and every minute of course, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But in order to become the person we want to be, there must be consistent effort - this is what personal development is all about.

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“If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream — and not make dreams your master; If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings — nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run — Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And — which is more — you’ll be a Man, my son!”

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Persistence Pays - 10 Quotes on Persistence

“If I have no other qualities I can succeed with love alone. If I persist, if I continue to try, if I continue to charge forward, I will succeed. If I stumble I will rise, and my falls will not concern me.”
Og Mandino in The Greatest Salesman in the World

“Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.”
Napoleon Hill in Think and Grow Rich

“Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.” Marabel Morgan

“Never, never, never, never give up.” Winston Churchill

“Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions - the hero and the sidekick.” Laurence Shames

“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.” Colin Powell

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
Thomas Edison

“Its always too soon to give up.” Norman Vincent Peale

“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” Samuel Johnson.

“My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.” Hank Aaron