More Quotes & Pieces of Wisdom

“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain cool and unruffled under all circumstances.” — Thomas Jefferson

Recognize that if you are not continually getting better, you are getting worse. That which does not slowly consistently improve, slowly consistently gets worse.
Japanese principle of Kaizen

Understand, it’s not enough to avoid saying anything negative; you must go on the offensive and start making positive declarations over your life.
Make a list of your goals, your dreams, the areas where you want to see change. Confirm your desires by Scripture, and then every day before you leave the house, speak those blessings aloud. Something supernatural happens when you speak those words aloud. Joel Osteen

Top salespeople(consultants) do not fear prospecting. Face your fear. Do the things you fear. The ability to confront your fear is the mark of the superior person.

Remember, 80% of what you accomplish on the outside is determined by who you are on the inside. How you see yourself determines how the world responds to you.
Jim Rohn (?)

You must see yourself capable of being the best. see yourself with the capacity of being really good at what you do

The two biggest enemies to yours and my success is fear and doubt. Eliminating fear and doubt is the key.

If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain. Work to confront the fears that hold most people back.
Brian Tracy (?)

When I saw people who were doing better than I was, I naturally assumed they were better than I was. And if they were better than I was, then I must be worse than them, so that would mean they were superior and I was inferior. Which is absurd!

Learn to Take a Break

Getting into the gym to work out and build one’s muscles up is a highlight of the week for many of us, no matter how many times a week we do it. It can allow us to work through the tension of the rest of the week, give us time to think things through while also expending some energy. It would not be going too far to suggest that there are many of us who view training as an indispensable part of our weekly routine. However, a training regime does need to have breaks built into it if it is ever going to be effective and worthwhile.

The benefits of training regularly are proven. It would be easy to conclude from this that any time spent training makes those benefits all the greater, and within a certain limit this is true. But for training to have the long term effect that we are looking for it will be necessary for you to take regular breaks in order to kick back and relax. Going at a hundred miles per hour all the time will have one result only – burn-out. The ill-effects of that are worse than not training at all.

If you simply live to train, you will miss the opportunity to get things out of life that effect you positively on a mental and physical front. When you are relaxed and happy, the body releases chemicals that you need in order to keep an upbeat mentality. Without that mentality, any setback in your training regime may well be met with resentment and anger, and the result will be poor or non-existent training sessions.

Prayer before starting work

Prayer for the Day
Dear Father God, I am so thankful to be called a child of God. Forgive me when I fall into the devil’s trap of complaining or worrying. Lord, help me to cast my cares upon You, for I know that You care for me. Help me also to not allow contrary circumstances to get me down, but rather, may I remember that I serve a mighty God Who is greater that my circumstances. I do praise You, Lord, and when I think of all the things You have done for me over the years, I am truly grateful. Fill me with Your joy, peace and love daily so that I might serve You with a merry heart. I ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Please Give me a fresh supply of strength to do my job.

Anoint my projects, ideas, and energy; so that even my smallest accomplishment may bring You glory.

Lord, when I am confused, guide me. When I am weary, energize me. When I am burned out, infuse me with the light of the Holy Spirit.

God’s Word says I am strong. God is fighting my battles for me. I’m excited about my future.” I have victory

Affirmations I needed one day just to get through a day of work

Great resources for The New Year

Happy New Year to all my muscle building buddies!! At this time of year we are looking at ways to improve ourselves in the coming year. Here are some great items I came across for simplifying and streamlining in 2010.

1) The Business guru – Tim Ferris, author of “The 4 hour workweek” did an interview on the powereofless.com website. Download the mp3 of this interview for free.
http://thepowerofless.com/2009/01/exclusive-interview-leo-talks-with-tim-ferriss-of-4-hour-workweek/

2) “The power of less” – With the countless distractions that come from every corner of modern life, it’s amazing that we’re ever able to accomplish anything. The Power of Less demonstrates how to streamline your life by identifying the essential and eliminating the unnecessary – freeing you from everyday clutter

3) Gretchen Rubin is a best-selling writer whose new book, The Happiness Project, is an account of the year she spent test-driving studies and theories about how we can be happy in this life http://slate.com/blogs/blogs/happinessproject/default.aspx
Book signing : Washington, DC — January 18, 2010
Borders 5333 Wisconsin Ave. NW Washington, DC 7:00 pm

4) excerpt from Gretchen Rubin ….”One thing I’ve been doing all year is keeping an elaborate Happiness-Project self-scoring chart. … I lifted the idea from Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography. He recounts how he identified thirteen virtues he wanted to cultivate, then made himself a chart with those virtues plotted against the days of the week. Each day, he’d score himself on whether he lived up to his goals. ”
http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/2006/12/how_you_too_can.html

If anyone else wants to try this, Franklin’s thirteen virtues are available at http://www.sfheart.com/FranklinsVirtues.html. Also, a free online tool you can use to track your progress is available at http://www.joesgoals.com/.