Monday Morning Motivations Tenacity Pays

Published by Robert A. & Vicki L. Prentice of Professional Development Systems
January 8, 2007 Issue 230

From the Desk of Bob

WE ARE OFF TO THE RACES! How exciting it is that we are launching into a new year full of great anticipations, expectations, and wonderful possibilities for the future.

Welcome all of our readers to another year of Monday Morning Motivations. Our goal this year is to bring you well thought out ideas, solutions, and positive attitudes to help you live a richer, fuller and happier life.

I cannot motivate you. That’s impossible. Here is what I can do: I can equip you with the tools, resources and ideas to help you pull yourself up by your own bootstraps and motivate yourself to greater things this year. Working together we will create an incredible synergy. I promise that if you take these ideas and earnestly apply them into your life incredible things will occur. Not only great things for you but everyone you come into contact with also.

Success is an attitude! Do you have the right kind of attitude for success?

Fasten your seatbelt and hang on–we’re going for a joy ride!

To Your Continued Success! Bob

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Seeds of Success: Fresh Starts & New Beginnings

Daily Affirmations

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Life Attitudes

“One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

“Take each day as you find it; If things go wrong don't mind it; For each day leaves behind it; A chance to start anew.”
~Gertrude Ellgas~

“If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not falling down, but the staying down.”
~Mary Pickford~

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Seeds of Success: Fresh Starts & New Beginnings

By Robert A. Prentice

Would you like to make sure that your new year gets off on the right foot? How would you like to make a positive fresh start, with a new beginning and that allows you to finish the race ahead of schedule? If your answer is Yes, then permit me to ask you a few more questions?

• Do you have your goals written down and in place?
• Are your priorities in order?
• Are you prepared?
• Is your head on straight and are you thinking right?
• Do I have the right attitude?

Honestly, I catch myself, asking myself, these questions just about everyday in a process that I refer to as a “check-up from the neck up.”

My motivation for these check-ups is simply this: I know that when I am not focusing on my goals and priorities, I am not ready for the challenges and opportunities that come my way, and my thinking and attitudes are wrong, then nothing seems to work in my life. This is a fact that has been proven to me many times over the years. I find that the days I don’t give myself one of these check-ups, it is pretty easy for me to get off track in one or more areas of my life.

That is why I love new beginnings so much! (Don’t we all?) I truly value the fresh start that comes with the beginning of a new year, a new month, a new week, a new day, or even a new hour. These fresh starts allow me an opportunity to get things back on track as I make the necessary adjustments to my goals, priorities, plans, thoughts, and attitudes, and they can do the same for you!

Allow me to challenge you, in this first month of a new year, to do what I do: Make it a point to give yourself a “check-up from the neck up” as often as it is necessary to keep yourself on track in your personal and professional life. Imagine the incredible growth that must be in store for each of us as we seize the opportunities for a fresh start that each new beginning affords!

Daily Affirmations

Every morning is a fresh beginning.
Every day is the world made new.
Today is a new day.
Today is my world made new.
I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day.
This moment–this day–is as good as any moment in all eternity.
I shall make of this day–each moment of this day–a heaven on earth.
This is my day of opportunity.

~Dan Custer~

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