“Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” –John Maxwell

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
–Ralph Waldo Emmerson

“The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.” –Zig Zigglar

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matter compared to what lies within us.
–Oliver Wendell Holmes

Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.

–Francis Gray

“The act of being an entrepreneur is a theological act: it is a belief that God has given you the tools to go out, make money and take care of your family.”

- Paul Zane Pilzer, Nobel Prize Winning Economist and Author

“The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

- Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese’s

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do so, you’ll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you’ll shake it to pieces.

Norman Vincent Peale -

“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way.
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home”

~ Chief Tecumseh (Crouching Tiger) Shawnee Nation 1768-1813 ~

Someone sent me an email this afternoon, that actually put me in a state of shock. Their message echoed something someone else mentioned to me over the weekend in regards to not being willing to put in a little bit of effort for something to achieve their goals and obtain success.

Both people stated they “simply didn’t have the patience” to go through a few hoops to access something extremely valuable to aid in their success.

In both cases, I discovered they were both complaining about something they were being given for free - a generous gift of knowledge to access, and yet they were whining about having to do something that would take both of them less than 60 seconds to do!

I admit… I was a bit shocked!

This led me to think… hmmmm… what kind of message have the “Success Gurus” been sending the world?

Are they somehow mis-guided to think that:

People don’t want to hear that success

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