REFLECTION

“We should learn, by reflection on the misfortunes of others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves.”
– Thomas Fitzosborne

“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

“All of us are watchers — of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway — but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing.”
– Peter M. Leschak

“Evaluation of the past is the first step toward vision for the future.”
– Chris Widener

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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

-Socrates

Tell me whom you love, and I’ll tell you who you are.
– Creole Proverb

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
– Erich Fromm

PREPARATION

“The foundation of confidence in virtually every field is preparation.”
– Brian Tracy

“You cannot speak that which you do not know. You cannot share that which you do not feel. You cannot translate that which you do not have. And you cannot give that which you do not possess. To give it and to share it, and for it to be effective, you first need to have it. Good communication starts with good preparation.”
– Jim Rohn

“One of life’s most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn’t do our homework, that we are not prepared.”
– Merlin Olsen

“It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.”
– Whitney Young, Jr.

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“If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.”
– Earl Nightingale

“Power tires only those who do not have it.”
– Giulio Andreotti

“Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself. Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, The body is simply the means it uses.”
– Bryce Courtenay

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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.

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Music can be all things to all persons. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system
which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction….
Music makes us feel that the heavens open and a divine voice calls.
Something in our souls responds and understands.

-Leopold Stokowski

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The creatures that inhabit this earth–be they human beings or animals–are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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IDENTIFY YOUR VISION
by Vic Johnson
(excerpted from Day by Day with James Allen)

“The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by; this you will become.” - As A Man Thinketh

Whether you liked his politics or not, much can be learned from the life of former President Clinton. Grolier’s New Book of Knowledge reports that as a teenager “Clinton thought of becoming a doctor or a reporter or even a musician. But after a fateful meeting with President John F. Kennedy, while still in high school, he made up his mind to enter politics.” At that moment a vision was born that he would hold onto - that he would glorify in his mind over and over - for the next 30 years, until he himself was elected President at the age of 46.

Jay Leno, who succeeded the venerable Johnny Carson as host of The tonight Show, first envisioned that he would be the host when he was just 22-years-old and unknown and unproven as a comedian, much less as host of a show of such regard. For twenty years he enthroned in his heart an ideal that most people would have thought was “foolish”, “outlandish” and “impossible.”

Thoreau told us that “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” No doubt it’s because the masses are without a vision for their lives.

What is your vision for your future, your ideal life? Is it written down? Do you review it and think about it often? Have you “enthroned” it in your heart? Is your life organized around goals and objectives that will ensure your vision is reached?

Wallace D. Wattles wrote, “There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world.” And yet it is the “sustained and consecutive thought” about our vision that is the first and primary labor of achievement.

Thoreau also wrote one of my most favorite passages of all time. And it gives you the best reason there is to stop what you’re doing today and identify the vision for you life. “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY

“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”
– Denis Waitley

“Errant assumptions lie at the root of every failure. What are yours? What if they are wrong?”
– Brian Tracy

“It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts.” — Jim Rohn

“A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.”
– John Burroughs