ALL IN THE STATE OF MIND

If you think you're beaten, you are
If you think you dare not, you don't
If you'd like to win, but you think you can't
It's almost a cinch you won't
If you think you'll lose you're lost.
For out in the world you find
Success begins with a fellows will,
It's all in the state of mind.

For many a race is lost
'Ore ever a step is run;
And many a coward fails
Over the work he didn't begin.
Think big and your deeds will grow:
Think small, and you will fall behind:
Think you can and you will.
It's all in the state of mind.

If you think you're outclassed, you are:
You've got to think high to rise
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go away
To the stronger or the faster man,
But sooner or later the man who wins
Is the fellow who thinks he can.

    Unknown

IF

IF...you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.  If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting, too;  If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies, or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good not talk too wise;  If you can dream and not make dreams your master, if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim, if you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same;  If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, and stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;  If you can make one heap of all your winnings, and risk it on one turn of pitch-and -toss, and lose, and start again at your beginnings, and never breathe a word about your loss:  If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone...And, son, hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them:  "Hold on!"  If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch, if neither foe nor loving friends can hurt you, if all men count with you, but none too much;  If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty-second's worth of distance run, yours is the earth and everything that's in it!  And, which is more, you'll be a man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling

You can't bitch your way to productivity.
Will St. John

Men give some credit for genius.  All the genius I have lies in this:  When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.  Day and night it is before me.  I explore it in all its bearing.  My mind becomes pervaded with it.  Then the effort which I make, people are pleased to call the fruit of genius.  It is the fruit of labor and thought.
    Alexander Hamilton


The more you do of what you've done, the more you'll have of what you've got.
Anon

THINK ON THESE THINGS

You can't control the length of your life, but you can control its width and depth.

You can't control the contour of your countenance, but you can control its expression.

You can't control the other person's opportunities, but you can grasp your own.

You can't control the weather, but you can control the moral atmosphere which surrounds you.

You can't control the distance that your head shall be above the ground, but you can control the height of the contents in your head.

You can't control the other person's annoying faults, but you can see to it that you do not develop and harbor provoking propensities.

You can't control hard times or rainy days, but you can bank money now to boost you through.

Why worry about things you can't control?  Get busy controlling the things that depend on you.
Unknown

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Unknown

A CREATIVE MATURE PERSON IS

 

FLEXIBLE.  A person who is able to tolerate frustration
and uncertainty...who's not defensive about the past, overwhelmed by the
present, or fearful of the future.

 

OPEN-MINDED.  A person who's receptive to what's going on
and is willing to learn from others...who can see merit in challenges to
traditional ways of doing things.

 

INDEPENDENT.  A person who is able to make decisions...who
is not unduly influenced by others.

 

SENSITIVE.  A person with keen empathy...who strives to be
aware of other people's thoughts, feelings and needs.

 

PERSISTENT.  A person who concentrates on goals...who has
intense motivation to accomplish objectives, even in the face of obstacles.

 

REALISTIC.  A person who is comfortable with the
contradictions of the real world...who rejects oversimplification, but is not
overwhelmed by complexity.

 

FORESEEING.  A person who has a long term perspective that
allows for living with current uncertainty.

 

EXPRESSIVE.  A person with a healthy, spontaneous, zest
for living...who is able to "let loose" and communicate real feelings
when the situation is appropriate.

 

CURIOUS.  A person who likes to explore new ideas, by
asking questions and analyzing data...who is always on the lookout for new
solutions to problems.

 

SELF-ACCEPTING.  A person with a strong self-image...who is
constantly striving to become as much as he or she can be.

          Larry
Wilson

 

 

RISKS

        To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
        To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
        To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
        To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas, your dreams, before the crowd is to risk their loss.
        To love is to risk not being loved in return.
        To live is to risk dying.
        To hope is to risk despair.
        To try is to risk failure.

But our risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in this life is to risk nothing.  The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.  He may avoid suffering and sorrow but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love...live.  Chained by his certitudes, he is a slave, he has forfeited freedom.  Only a person who risks is truly free.

Unknown


The present moment is never intolerable.  It is always what is coming in five minutes or five days that make people despair.  The law of life is to live in the present, and this applies to both time and place.  Keep your attention to the present moment, and in the place where your body is now.  Do a fair day's work, and then stop.  Overwork is not productive in the long run.
    
Emmet Fox

You know a person has reached the pinnacle of success when he shows as much happiness over an honor bestowed on someone he helped as he would if he had received it himself.

Unknown

The worst bankruptcy is the person who has lost enthusiasm.

Will St. John

 

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Albert Einstein

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt


EXCELLENCE.... The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Vincent Lombardi

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

Dennis Waitly

Avoid making the wrong mistakes.

Yogi Berra


PRESS ON - Nothing is the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Calvin Coolidge

Whatever you are willing to put up with and accept is probably what you will have.
Will St. John


A person is as young as his dreams - or as old as his doubts.
Earl Nightingale


QUALITY..... Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
Unknown

There is brutality and there is honesty.  There is no such thing as brutal honesty.
Unknown


The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
 Harold Taylor


Mental picture, self image - there are rules and laws for the success of any venture or adventure.  It's called imagination.
Will St. John

Soon after the completion of Disney World some said, "Isn't it too bad Walt Disney didn't live to see this."  I replied "He did see it - that's why it's here."
Mike Vance

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely help another without helping himself.
Unknown

 

If you don't believe in yourself that will probably make it unanimous.
Jack McKewen

In the race for quality there is no finish line.
David Kearns


Only a fool learns by his own mistakes, a wise man learns by the mistakes of others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

In time like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
William Safire

Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.
Haim Ginott

Your attitude is the most used tool in life's tool box what you do with it is up to you...

    Good character is that quality which makes
    one dependable whether being watched or not.

    The noblest of the arts and the capital
    prize in the game of life is "Character."

    Reputation is what men think we are; character is what
    God knows us to be - what we know ourselves to be.

    Reputation is the veneer; character is what is on the inside.

    Character determines destiny.

    Reputation is what one has before the footlights:
    character is what one is in the dark.

    The fundamental principle in character building is sacrifice.

    Character is property - it is the noblest of possessions.

    Among the rarest riches a man may possess is his character.

    When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost,
    much is lost; but when character is lost, all is lost.

    Character, which took a lifetime to build, is often
    destroyed in a single act.

    When a renowned banker was asked what he considered
    the best bank collateral, he replied: "Character."

    Character is like the foundation of a house
    - it is below the surface.

                                                Unknown    

There is no security on the earth; there is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthur


John Heisman explaining what a football is on the first day of practice:  "A prolate spheroid - that is, an elongated sphere - in which the outer leathern casing is drawn tightly over a somewhat smaller rubber tubing.....better to have died a small boy than to fumble this."


You can observe a lot just by watching.
Yogi Berra


Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill


Be careful of what you think, young man, for you shall surely get it.
John Todd


There are no mistakes, only lessons.  Life is a series of linked recoveries.  Growth is a process of trial and error.  Life involves experimentation.  The "failed" business ventures are as much a part of the process as the venture that ultimately works."
Will St. John



Remember, "It’s a poor worker who blames the tools for failure."

Man is made or unmade by himself.  By the right choice he ascends.  As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the originator of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
James Allen


Given limited energy we must decide to choose to dwell on the problem or work on a solution.
Will St. John


Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye


Failure occurs only if the loss of that thing takes our enthusiasm, our love for life, our zest and courage, our conviction, our faith and our happiness from us. That is failure indeed.
Will St. John

Your attitude is the most used tool in life's tool box what you do with it is up to you...

Remember, "It’s a poor worker who blames the tools for failure."

Everyday each individual is faced with a decision--a decision that is the only choice we truly have power over--that is, the attitude in which we face each day.  Good and evil are not easily separated. Positive and negative thoughts rain on our attitude and set in place the foundation of how we look at the day.  We find that our attitude is tested and directed every day, not necessarily by any given situations, good or bad but the reactions to it.  This, the rudder of reaction, will either turn our ship of thoughts outward to the open sea or inward towards the reef of negativity.  Thus we start each day making a choice to set the mind-set sail to catch the positive or negative trade winds.

Once the realization is made that the mind is a mental reservoir that can only hold a single thought on its surface at any given moment, it becomes beneficial to drop the negative.  There is a choice to counter-balance or replace the negative with quality vision that offers hope, strength and a sense of self-confidence.  It may help to absorb the words of great individuals who, at times in their life, were faced with this gauntlet of skepticism. Individual thoughts are not unique.   Everyone who has lived has faced the necessity of making an attitude adjustment--a choice of grasping the positive or floating toward the negative.

Energy is the single most important ingredient you have in getting the most out of life, don't burn it up holding on to a negative thought.  Your life is extremely valuable.

I hope this helps you navigate the current path of your life in these trying time