"...focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it."


-- Greg Anderson

"It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between."

-- Diane Ackerman

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude."

-- Denis Waitley

Your Dream Begins today

by Les Brown

What will your life be like when you’ve achieved your most deeply-held dreams? Let’s take a look at how you can start living your dreams this very day.

Do you have a dream, a vision of the life you wish to live?
How specific is that dream?
How clear is that vision?
How do you intend to reach it?
What obstacles stand in your way?
Are your fears holding you back or are you using them to move you forward?

Your fears can actually lead you to success.  Fear is an intense emotion.  But that doesn’t mean it has to control you, or even stop you.  Fear can prepare you and push you forward just as strongly as it can hold you back.  Fear heightens your awareness and increases your physical strength.  Fear brings your mind to sharp focus.  With all that going for you, does it make sense to just run and hide?  Of course not.  Fear gets you in shape to take action!

Are you waiting for things to get better before moving ahead?  If you’re serious about success, you need to start taking action today.  If you’re waiting for things to be perfect, you’ll wait forever and nothing will ever get done.

The way to achieve is to bloom where you’re planted, to do what you can, where you are, with what you have.  It’s easy to think up excuses for not taking action.  “If only I had more hours in the day.  If only I had a better job.  If only I could meet the right person.”  But excuses won’t bring you anything of value.  You’ve got to change your “if only” into an “I will.”  “I will make better use of my time.  I will work on improving my career.  I will create and nurture my relationships.”

Take a chance.  Have faith in yourself.  Your circumstances will improve when you make the effort to improve them.  Start where you are right now.  You have everything it takes to reach for whatever you desire.  Stop wishing.  Use your time, your energy, your thoughts and efforts to make it happen!  You’ll be glad you did!

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

-- Ella Fitzgerald

Jana Stanfield - If I Were Brave, Id be Creative

Humorist, songwriter and educator, Jana Stanfield combines laughter, wisdom and her million-selling songs into an interactive experience that generates fun and positive action

"You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing. Get interested in something! Get absolutely enthralled in something! Get out of yourself! Be somebody! 

Do something. The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have."

Norman Vincent Peale

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.  - Napoleon Hill

"A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." 


 Oscar Wilde

Let the GPS take over

"Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling." -- Vincent Van Gogh

Words to Learn By

 by John C. Maxwell

In my years studying leadership and evaluating leaders, I have stumbled across a leadership shortcoming that continually amazes me. Leaders will manage a team, work with the same individuals every day, yet hardly know anything about their people! These leaders have never prioritized acquainting themselves with the dreams, thoughts, hopes, opinions, and values of those they lead.

The best leaders are readers of people. They have the intuitive ability to understand others by discerning how they feel and recognizing what they sense.

I have found that leaders overestimate the amount of time and effort needed to get to know someone. In fact, in only one hour with you in private conversation, I could, probably by asking three questions, find the passion of your life:

What do you dream about?
 A person’s dreams are powerful revealers of passion. When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

What do you cry about?  
 Passion can be uncovered by peering into the hurts deep inside a human soul. The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force. When listening to a story of grief, you hear a voice thick with emotion, you see watery eyes flooded with feeling, and in that moment you glimpse the intense connections between a person’s deepest pain and their greatest passion.

What makes you happy?
 I have fun hearing what makes people tick and seeing the smile that comes when they talk about where they find joy. Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit. When a person operates in an area of pleasure, they are apt to be brimming with life and exuding passion.

If you can uncover a person’s dreams, hurts, and joys, you’ve discovered the central dimensions of their life.

The ability to connect with others is a major determining factor in reaching your full potential. In his popular training program, Everyone Communicates, Few Connect, world-renowned leadership expert John C. Maxwell shares the keys to developing the crucial skill of connecting. It’s a skill you can apply in your personal, professional and family relationships—and you can start right now!Click here now for more details or to order!