New Year's Sky photo by c r i s

Well we are almost there, heading down the stretch to a New Year. Many people will make resolutions, but I think it better to make the unfulfilled dreams of last year the focus of the shinning new year. Don’t look back at last year’s failures look ahead to this year’s potential.

Nick

1. For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.

Source: T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding”

2. Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

Source: Henry Ward Beecher

3. We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.

Source: Edith Lovejoy Pierce

4. Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Source: Hal Borland

5. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

Source: Oprah Winfrey

6. “Another fresh new year is here . . .
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!

This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!”

Source: William Arthur Ward

7. We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.
Source: Ellen Goodman

8. “I will seek elegance rather than luxury, refinement rather than fashion. I will seek to be worthy more than respectable, wealthy and not rich. I will study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly. I will listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with an open heart. I will bear all things cheerfully, do all things bravely await occasions and hurry never. In a word I will let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common.”

Source: William Ellery Channing

9. “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”

Source: Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things.

Source: John Burroughs

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A Tribute to Jim John

I cannot really rely in language the depth of Jim Rohn’s impact on my life. the quote below is one of my favorite Jim Rohn Quotes and had the biggest impact on me.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get

Source: Jim Rohn

Below are Denis Waitley’s words  on the passing of Jim Rohn.

Jim Rohn, a treasured colleague and friend, passed away Saturday, December 5, 2009.

As a man of many words, I simply cannot find the words to describe my heartfelt emotions concerning the loss of perhaps the greatest business and personal development philosopher of our time.

During our forty-year relationship, no one set the standard of excellence higher than Jim, and his unique ability to transmit complex ideas into easy-to-understand actions is without peer. His mortal life may have transitioned, however his message, his contribution, his works, his integrity and humility are immortal. His voice will be heard for generations to come.

He raised the bar in our industry to an incredible level, never having to tout or promote his works from the platform. His lessons sold themselves. He never sought fame nor material riches. He was, is and will always be one of the world’s most authentic and valuable teachers in how to live successfully.

Denis Waitley

I have included here my top ten Favorite Quotes by Jim Rohn as they are part of the huge legacy that he has left behind for all of us.

1. “You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight”

2. “Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.”

3. “You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”

4. “Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.”

5. “There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that’s important.”

6. “It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.”

7. “You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.”

8. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”

9. “The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”

10. “Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.”

Here is a short video of Jim Rohn:

You can read the Tribute to Jim Rohn at:

http://tribute.jimrohn.com/

Nick

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