Actions, Not Promises

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung

The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

You need to make a commitment,
and once you make it,
then life will give you some answers.
- Les Brown

Further reading: Don't Wait - Begin Today

Take Action Now

How Much Do You Want It?
    

After You Have Chosen Your Path, Walk It Each Day

There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix

You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)

The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

There are a hundred valid reasons why something can't be done,
but only one reason, Commitment, why it can.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Take Charge of Your Life - Secrets for Getting Un-Stuck

Enthusiasm and Passion

Wanting To Win

You Can Do It
     

Committed Action

There are a hundred valid reasons why something can't be done,
but only one reason, Commitment, why it can.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.
- the character Morpheus in the movie The Matrix

You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Take Charge of Your Life - Secrets for Getting Un-Stuck

Wanting To Win

Enthusiasm and Passion

You Can Do It
     

Honor Your Commitments

The most important promises are the ones we make to ourselves.
The promises we make to ourselves are the ones
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If you have integrity, nothing else matters.
If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
- Alan K. Simpson

Honor your commitments with integrity.
- Les Brown

First say to yourself what you would be;
then do what you have to do.
- Epictetus

Today's exercise:
Consider how much you do or do not value your promises to yourself.
Do you take such promises seriously? Break them easily?
Make new promises as circumstances change?

Further reading: Commitment

The Habit of Making Excuses

Character

What You Know Is Right
   

Act on Your Principles

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.
- Carl Jung

You need to make a commitment,
and once you make it,
then life will give you some answers.
- Les Brown

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

The key to success, and to happiness,
is being fully engaged in life -
leading yourself with inspiration and committed action -
setting your own fine and honorable example.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Take Action Today

How Much Do You Want It?

Committing to a Decision

Don't Wait - Begin Today
    

Your Promises

The most important promises are the ones we make to ourselves.
The promises we make to ourselves are the ones
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If you have integrity, nothing else matters.
If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
- Alan K. Simpson

Do what you love, love what you do,
and deliver more than you promise.
- Harvey McKay

Today's exercise:
Consider how much you do or do not value your promises to yourself.
Do you take such promises seriously? Break them easily?
Make new promises as circumstances change?

Further reading: DO IT

Commitment

The Habit of Making Excuses

Character

Stand Up To Your Obstacles

George Washington Carver quotes: Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver

George Washington Carver (January 1864 – January 5, 1943), an American botanist and inventor who was born into slavery, revolutionized the previously cotton-based agriculture of the Southern United States through his research into and promotion of peanuts and sweet potatoes. He is noted for inventing or commercializing over 100 varied products made from peanuts.

There are a hundred valid reasons why something can't be done, 

but only one reason, Commitment, why it can.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Practice makes perfect - sometimes

Vince Lombardi quote: Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is

Amelia Earhart: Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done

Affirmations of an Inspired Life - Young-Adult Version