A Helping of Maxwell

Here is a little snippet from John Maxwell on lasting Leadership. Leaders That Last… develop personal discipline. put their confidence in God. keep the value of material possessions in perspective. recognize the danger of becoming a slave to pleasure. seek and refresh God’s vision for their lives. This comes from John Maxwell’s little book The [...]

Prayer’s Role in Success

“It may be an old-fashioned idea, but somehow I can’t get away from the belief that no man can attain success in its highest form without the aid of earnest prayer! Prayer is the key with which one may open the secret doorway referred to in Lesson Eleven. In this age of mundane affairs, when [...]

Set your Compass

In striving to achieve success, you will ultimately arrive at scenarios that will test you. If you commit to doing what’s right, and stay true to your moral compass, you will always be better off in the long run. “Integrity is the rock upon which we build our business success–our quality products and services, our [...]

Who You are will always be revealed

“A man passes for what he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light which all men may read but himself…If you would not be known to do anything, never do it. A man may play the fool in the drifts of a [...]

Desire…

“There is a great difference between a need and a desire. For example, you may need a new car for business, and you may desire one in order to give you pleasure to your family. The one for your business you will get as a matter of necessity. The one for your family you will [...]

One Minute Insights

These nuggets come from page 25 of The One Minute Entrepreneur… Humility helps you to be open to learning and growing your expertise. Take care of your numbers and your numbers will take care of you. To create a successful business you must first master the basics. For a mentor to be effective, you have [...]

How Open is Your Mind?

It’s good to have knowledge and conviction in what you do. It helps you to act with confidence and be assertive, which is necessary in success. But be wary of any inclination to think you know it all. This closes the mind. The old saying that “a mind is like a parachute, it only works [...]

Are you Smarter than a Squirrel?

What does a squirrel do in the summer? He gathers food for the winter. In the summer, the weather is nice. Food is abundant. The squirrel could easily get out of his little squirrel bed, scamper down the tree, have some breakfast, and frolic all day with his squirrel friends, without a care in the [...]

Mindset

“Life is a romantic business. It is painting a picture–not doing a sum–but you have to make it a romance, an it will come to the question of how much fire you have in your belly.” “To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.” Both [...]

Moms

“Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in truth; bears all things, believe all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”- [...]