Monday Morning Motivations Tenacity Pays

Published by Robert A. & Vicki L. Prentice of Professional Development Systems
August 3, 2009 Issue 362

From the Desk of Bob

The heat is on! I feel the pressure of gearing up for an incredible Fall Speaking season. I am getting booked for speaking and consulting opportunities and it is a wonderful thing. I am ever so humbled by so many people over the years wanting to hear me speak my mind and share my heart.

In Seeds of Success today it will not be my writing today but that of Ben Franklin. His words have power.

Bob
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My Upcoming Speaking Agenda:
8/17-20/09- SDDC- Redfield, SD Staff Development and Leadership Training
9/11/09 - Subway- Rapid City, SD - Franchise Leadership Keynote
11/14 - District 5 SE Lions Forum- Sioux Falls - Motivational Talk
1/13/10 - SD Rural Water Board- Keys to Better Leadership Training
4/28/10 - Minnesota Sheriffs' Association - Key Note

Recent Past Speaking Engagements:
2/09/09- Enemy Swim Day School - Waubay, SD
2/26/09- Teton Coalition, Inc.- Rapid City, South Dakota
2/27/09- SDCTE Conference- Chamberlain, SD
3/5 - 3/6/09 - Opportunities, Inc.-Great Falls Head Start
3/18 - 3/19/09 SD County Commissioners Conference, Pierre, SD
3/20/09- Riley Brothers Construction- Morris MN
3/26/09- Teton Coalition- Rapid City, SD
4/7/09 - Sanford Health Conference, Winner, SD
4/23/09- Teton Coalition, Inc.- Rapid City, SD
4/24/09- SDSRT Conference,- Rapid City, SD
5/12/09 - Walmart - Huron - Leadership Training
5/19/09 - Golden Triangle, Cavour, SD - Leadership Training
5/28/09 - Teton Coalition, Inc. - Rapid City, SD - Leadership Training
6/16/09- RC Family of Companies- New Effington, SD - Special Meeting Speaker
6/18/09 - Teton Coalition, Inc. - Rapid City, SD - Leadership Training
6/19/09 - Rausch Granite Systems - Rapid City, SD - Leadership Training
7/23/09 - Dow Rummel Retirement Center - Sioux Falls, SD - Staff Meetings

Attitudes to Live By

Aspire for Excellence

Deliver Quality in all Things

Go to fun everyday!

Smile

Encourage Someone Today

Seeds of Success: Franklin on the 13 virtues...

By Robert A. Prentice

My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once, but to fix it on one of them at a time; and, when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another, and so on, till I should have gone through the thirteen; and, as the previous acquisition of some might facilitate the acquisition of certain others, I arranged them with that view, as they stand [below].

   1. TEMPERANCE
      Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.

   2. SILENCE
      Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid
      trifling conversation.

   3. ORDER
      Let all your things have their places; let each part of
      your business have its time.

   4. RESOLUTION
      Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without
      fail what you resolve.

   5. FRUGALITY
      Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself;
      i.e., waste nothing.

   6. INDUSTRY
      Lose no time; be always employed in something
      useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.

   7. SINCERITY
      Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly; and,
      if you speak, speak accordingly.

   8. JUSTICE
      Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits
      that are your duty.

   9. MODERATION
      Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much
      as you think they deserve.

10. CLEANLINESS
      Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.

11. TRANQUILITY
      Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common
      or unavoidable.

12. CHASTITY
      Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to
      dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's
      peace or reputation.

13. HUMILITY
      Imitate Jesus and Socrates

From The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

On the Sunny Side of Life

"Two things I have learned over the last 30 years of marriage to the same woman.

1. She is always right.

2. If I think she is wrong, I refer to rule # 1."

Bob Prentice, Spring of '09

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