Newsletter 21-2

Born To Win
Issue no 21

Powerful Quotes to Motivate

"Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!"

-Anthony Robbins

"You are now at a crossroads. This is your opportunity to make the most important decision you will ever make. Forget your past. Who are you now?Who have you decided you really are now? Don't think about who you have been. Who are you now? Who have you decided to become? Make this decision consciously. Make it carefully. Make it powerfully."

-Anthony Robbins

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

-Dr. Stephen Covey

"If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development."

-Brian Tracy

"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

-Jim Rohn

"The majority of people meet with failure because they lack the persistence to create new plans to take the place of failed plans."

-Mark Victor Hansen

Just Relax

An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He

told his employer-contractor of his plans

to leave the house-building business and live

a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his

extended family. He would miss the paycheck, but

he needed to retire. They    could get by.

The contractor was sorry to see his good worker

go and asked if he could build just one more house

as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but in

time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his

work. He resorted to shoddy workmanship and

used inferior materials. It was an unfortunate way

to end his career.

When the carpenter finished his work and the

builder came to inspect the house, the contractor

handed the front-door key to the carpenter. "This is

your house," he said, "my gift to you."

What a shock! What a shame! If he had only known

he was building his own house, he would have done

it all so differently. Now he had to live in the home

he had built none too well.

So it is with us. We build our lives in a distracted

way, reacting rather than acting, willing to put up

less than the best. At important points we do not give

the job our best effort.

Then with a shock we look at the situation we have

created and find that we are now living in the house

we have built. If we had realized, we would have

done it differently.

Think of yourself as the carpenter. Think about your

house. Each day you hammer a nail, place a board,

or erect a wall. Build wisely. It is the only life you

will ever build. Even if you live it for only one day

more, that day deserves to be lived graciously and

with dignity.

Your life today is the result of your attitudes and

choices in the past. Your life tomorrow will be the

result of your attitudes and the choices you make

today.

What do you appreciate most about the

carpenter's story above...?

And, what are you building...?

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