Daily focalPOINT – Excellence
January 18th, 2012
“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.” ~Colin Powell P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch Proverbs 13:4, “Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper.” (NLT)
Daily focalPOINT-Excellence
January 17th, 2012
“We are what we repeatedly do; excellence then is not an act but a habit.” ~Aristotle Excellence is simply doing the next right thing, one step at a time. It is a process, not an event. P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch Proverbs 13:4, “Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper.”
Daily focalPOINT-Excellence
January 16th, 2012
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.” ~Martin Luther King Jr. The road of excellence often gets painful along the way. Excellence is an attitude. P.E.A.C.E. Jay@EagleLaunch Proverbs 13:4, “Lazy people want much but get little, but those who work hard will prosper.” (NLT)
Expecting Greatness
January 15th, 2012
“It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.” – John Steinbeck When you set your new goals for the year, did you expect to achieve them or were you “hoping” that just maybe this was the year you were finally going to successfully achieve your New Year’s [...]
Seeing is Believing
January 14th, 2012
Luke 21:1-4, “As he looked up, Jesus saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. “I tell you the truth,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out [...]
Daily focalPOINT
January 14th, 2012
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” ~Harvey Firestone Are you leading and if you are, are you developing others? Are you motivating those you lead? Are you helping those you lead work through the pain of growth? Are you listening to those you lead? Do you truly care about [...]
Daily focalPOINT
January 13th, 2012
“Anyone can achieve success at the expense of others; it takes a special person to achieve success for the benefit of others.” ~Jay Meyer Last year our pastor asked us on the day prior to the day someone predicted the world was supposed to end to reflect on what we would change if we knew what [...]
Daily focalPOINT
January 12th, 2012
“If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves.” ~Zig Ziglar “A life without boundaries and defined priorities, is a life destined for poor quality no matter what standard one is living.” ~Jay [...]
Daily focalPOINT
January 11th, 2012
“Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.” ~Jim Rohn Character, plain and simple is one’s ability to handle the demands of reality. Running from reality and/or creating your own reality is quite common in the addiction community…been there, [...]
Daily focalPOINT
January 10th, 2012
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. “~Ben Franklin The best way to stay away from being a fool as described above, is to understand criticizing, condemning and complaining are simply vocal forms of laziness. If you don’t like what is going on then change it and if you can’t change [...]