“The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be…the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.” ~Og Mandino I’ve lived long enough to confidently say, “you are correct…
Category: Effort
Daily focalPOINT – Circumstance
“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.” ~George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, 1893. I couldn’t agree with…
Daily focalPOINT – Action
“What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.” ~Jason Fried I use my P.E.A.C.E. acronym as a simple approach to creating a successful life: “A Plan combined with solid Effort and an effective Attitude while being helpful and help-able in the key relationships from the people in your Community …
Daily focalPOINT – Start and Finish
“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.” ~Goethe I’ve always made it a habit to tackle the one thing I dread the most, first. Procrastination is an excuse for laziness, being undisciplined, fear of not knowing what to do, fear of failure or all the above. I have found those who get ahead…
Daily focalPOINT – Perseverance*
“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
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*
“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*
“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
“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*
“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)
Jay Meyer
I started this blog in 2008 because of my passion for helping others take their lives to the next level. My hope is that, through sharing my life experiences as a business leader, husband, father, and recovering drug addict, I will positively impact your life.