Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow.
Les Brown
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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Napoleon Hill

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

Unknown

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The Sands of Forgiveness
by Author Unknown

A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face.

The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand:

TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE.

They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him.

After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone:

TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE.

The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?”

The other friend replied “When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”

LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND AND TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN STONE.

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People often say that motivation doesn’t last.
Well, neither does bathing-that’s why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

A great mentor of mine taught me that “writing causes thinking.”

Bob Proctor

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else.
Unknown

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.
Douglas Jerrould

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I have decided that I will try to limit the amount of motivational messages to avoid creating a misunderstanding about the main topic of this blog… but today I found something that I think it needs to be posted:

Attitude
Author unknown

Submitted by Emma Jo Krause

There once was a woman who woke up one morning,
looked in the mirror, and noticed she had only three hairs on her head.
Well,” she said, “I think I’ll braid my hair today?”
So she did and she had a wonderful day.

The next day she woke up,
looked in the mirror and noticed that there wasn’t a single hair on her head.
“YEA!” she exclaimed,
“I don’t have to fix my hair today!”

Attitude is everything.

Be kinder than necessary,
for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

Love generously,

Speak kindly…….

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass.

It’s about learning to dance in the rain.

Have a good day…I sure I’ll have

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Motivation is the fuel necessary to keep the human engine running.
Zig Ziglar

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility and commitment.”
H. Ross Perot

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard

Don’t let life discourage you;
everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Richard Evans

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Bob Proctor

In every success story, you find someone who has made a courageous decision.
Peter F. Drucker

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Confucius

Without dew and light flowers fade.
Charity and love are the dew and light of the human heart.
De Gentis

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.

Jim Rohn

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Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long.  We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we are curious…and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Walt Disney

(Submitted by Kari Atkinson, Champions Club Member)

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Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other.

Dr. Maxwell Maltz

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