Daily focalPOINT – Perseverance
January 23rd, 2012
“Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality, the other a matter of time.” The road to excellence will be littered with setbacks and failures…accept this fact, learn from the setbacks, get back up, brush yourself off and move on. Often the difference between success and failure is one more [...]
Edge Time
January 22nd, 2012
If you haven’t figured it out yet, one of my new goals for 2012 is to try to provide a “nugget” of inspiration every day in order to help you stay on course toward achieving greatness in all aspects of your life. Hopefully you all know what my P.E.A.C.E. acrostic stands for. Many years ago [...]
Daily focalPOINT-Excellence
January 21st, 2012
“Small minds and small people talk about things, average minds and average people talk about other people, great minds and great people talk about dreams, goals, ideas and concepts.” ~Tom Hopkins How great is your mind? Greatness and excellence in your life will only happen if you choose to spend time with the right people, [...]
Daily focalPOINT-Excellence
January 20th, 2012
“No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.” ~Horace I’m into my 7th decade of breathing air on this earth and still spend at least 20 hours a week studying and preparing for everything I do. With that [...]
Daily focalPOINT-Excellence
January 19th, 2012
“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” Are you always looking for the path of least resistance? Are you avoiding life by drinking and drugging or using some other form of addictive/self-medicating behavior? Understand excellence is often developed through the effective handling of the obstacles and challenges in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]