Michael Phelps has been quoted as saying, “I simply want to be the best Michael Phelps.”
While you may not be the most-decorated Olympic athlete of all time, you do have unique strengths and gifts. Ask yourself, “How can I be the best ME there is?”
“Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too, can become great.” – Mark Twain
No one is ever too young or too old to need or be a mentor. Who can you mentor today? Who is someone great that inspires you?
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
What are your dreams? What solutions do you have to offer the world? Believe that you can make a difference.
“Stop pointing out problems and become part of the solution. Stop repeating the past and start creating the future. Stop playing it safe and start taking risks. Expand your horizons. Accumulate experiences. Enjoy the journey. Find every excuse you can to celebrate everything you can. Live like today is the first and last day of your life.”
– Chase the Lion
How can you make a positive difference where you are right now? In what areas of your life have you grown cynical, and how can you start to overcome that? If you knew you could not fail, what would you do? What are you currently thankful for?
“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.” – Margaret Fuller
Who/What are the most important people/things in your life? Don’t forget to live.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
– Mark Twain
What are the things you keep putting off today to do tomorrow instead? What risks have you been avoiding?
“The tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goals, the tragedy lies in not having any goals to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideals, but it is a disaster to have no ideals to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach.” – Dr. Benjamin Mays
Take a moment to sit down and write out some of your goals for the rest of this year. What do you want to accomplish?
“One man cannot do right in one department of his life whilst he is occupied doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole.” – Gandhi
“You manage things, but you lead people.” – Stephen Covey, A. Roger Merrill, and Rebecca R. Merrill, First Things First
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” – Albert Einstein
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