Monday Morning Motivations Tenacity Pays

Published by Robert A. & Vicki L. Prentice of Professional Development Systems
December 21, 2009 Issue 382

From the Desk of Bob

Our main purpose here with Monday Morning Motivations is to challenge you and encourage you with positive and uplifting information and attitudes. Let us know if we are accomplishing our objectives. If not we are are open to any ideas for our growth and enhancement of this publication.

Here we are on the doorstep of a new year and a new decade. Planning an effective strategy to maximize the best of everything that life throws at us in the near future is going to be the best strategy for success. I want to be able to be in the position to seize any and all opportunities that come my way. How about you? Are you ready? Do you have your plan?
I know that I do.

Bob

P.S. My daughter Elie found these great quotes on Leadership, and her favorite quote is the one by John Quincy Adams.

"Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them." –John Maxwell

"Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average." –Jim Rohn

"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall." –Stephen R. Covey

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." –John Quincy Adams

My Upcoming Speaking Agenda:
1/13/10 - SD Rural Water Board- Keys to Better Leadership Training-Pierre, SD
1/22/10 - National Mutual Benefit- Keys To Better Leadership- Deadwood Conference
2/5/10 - National Mutual Benefit - Keys To Better Leadership- Green Bay Conference
4/8/10 - IEC-Dakotas Annual Convention- Pierre, SD
4/28/10 - Minnesota Sheriffs' Association - Key Note - Mankato Mn

Attitudes to Live By

Gain permission to ask questions.

Ask questions everyday.

Listen to the answers.

Be willing to change your thinking.

Rethink your thinking. Daily.

Face your fears.

Take Risks.

Change is a fact. Accept it!

Seeds of Success: Tough Times Make People

By Robert A. Prentice

It would be an understatement to say that we are living in some pretty tough times in our world and economy today.

Looking back over the last 25 plus years of self employment I can honestly say that it has not always been very easy.

Actually the truth, at times, surviving has been very difficult.

Has all the pain, the challenges and the hassle been worth it? I believe so. This is why I think and have this specific mindset.

Tough times make people stronger, smarter, and better looking (smile) if you work the program correctly. Allowing the challenges to cause you to think more creatively, to shift standard operating procedures, to get out of the norm, to completely throw away the box and begin a new. Not just think outside of it, but actually start from scratch. Rebuilding from the roots and the core of your passions.

I like to begin anew each day, week, month, year and decade. Begin each with fresh new thinking, and fresh new planning.

The result, well fresh new results are the result and get you the return on investments. The sweat and the blood are paying off. Tough times make people stronger. Tough times bring out the best in we mere humans if we allow them.

On the Sunny Side of Life: The economy is so bad...

The economy is so bad that I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.

The economy is so bad, I ordered a burger at McDonalds and the kid behind the counter asked, "Can you afford fries with that?"

The economy is so bad that CEOs are now playing miniature golf.

The economy is so bad if the bank returns your check marked "Insufficient Funds," you call them and ask if they meant you or them.

The economy is so bad Hot Wheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM.

The economy is so bad McDonalds is selling the 1/4 ouncer.

The economy is so bad parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children's names.

The economy is so bad a truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico.

The economy is so bad Dick Cheney took his stockbroker hunting.

The economy is so bad Motel Six won't leave the light on anymore.

The economy is so bad the Mafia is laying off judges.

The economy is so bad Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen.

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