This week’s motivational phrase is:

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd – Edward de Bono

I have stated this before and will reiterate it again, do not wait for opportunity to find you. Seek out opportunity on your own. If you do not find it, then create your own opportunity or be relegated to join the rest of the sheep in the crowd.

This week’s motivational phrase is:

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. You can’t clear your own fields while you’re counting the rocks on your neighbor’s farm – Cicero.

Truly, you cannot begin to clean up your own company or even your own life, for that matter, when you are constantly and consistently concentrating on the faults in the lives of all of those around you. Work on your own life and fix your own path before concentrating on the lives and paths of others, whether to be helpful or hurtful. How can you cast dispersions when you have fault in yourself? How can you help others when you do not even help yourself? Concentrate on you, for you are your most valuable asset from which you can see the greatest and longest return.

This week’s motivational phrase is:

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials – Seneca.

Plainly put, you can not make progress with yourself better without making mistakes. The key is to learn from them not dwell upon them.

This week’s motivational phrase is:

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was – C. Northcote Parkinson.

To anyone who has tried, had success and it faded away, be proud that you did what 97% of others will not do. You transformed your thoughts into feelings then took action and yielded positive results. It is my opinion that it is better to have tried and failed than to never attempted at all. Never trying is giving up before you start. Do not be an eternal quitter. You may believe it is safer to not try. Quite the contrary. You have little to no control when you do not take your future into your own hands. Regardless of business, endeavor or hobby…do not live your life as a never-was.

This week’s motivational phrase is:

If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it – Anonymous.

I do not know who created this quote, but that doesn’t change the message. If opportunity does not find its way yo you, then create your own opportunity. Your big break may be one that you have to create for yourself.