Enjoy this beautiful story of a boy overcoming obstacles and the selfless father who is giving his all to help his child become all that he can be.

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 -

After years of competing and coaching, I know that every defeat is a lesson for eventual victory.

Sammy Lee – Diver

I learned to win by learning how to lose – that means not being afraid of losing. That probably helped me more than any other single thing. Jeff Blatnick – Greco-Roman Wrestler

I was nervous, so I read the New Testament. I read the verse about no fear, and I felt relaxed. Then I jumped farther than I ever jumped before in my life.

Willye White – Long Jumper

Winning and Losing

Failing and Succeeding

It’s all intertwined together.

To not be afraid of either is the key to long-term happiness.

Deborah Cole Micek

Success is achieved inch by inch, yard by yard, just 10 yards at a time – either in football or in life – just focus on the inches – and keep moving in the direction of your dreams.

Enjoy this video with Al Pacino as he motivates his football team during half-time.

Perhaps you feel like you’re at the half-time in your life… your career… your relationship.
Now it’s time to take account, measure up, and take things one inch at a time.

ALOHA!

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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Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
~Tom Krause