These are the quotes and the blogs that I wrote for Advent 2015: 24 days of inspiration to help prepare you for 2016. Each quote leads to a post for further thoughts.
“Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?” Marianne Williamson.“Repetition makes reputation and reputation makes customers” Elizabeth Arden
“I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn.” Jackie Joyner Kersee“Everyone on this planet is given the same 24 hours in the day. The question is: what do you choose to do with yours?” Unknown“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by“. Douglas Adams.“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” Walt Disney“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.” A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh“It’s hard not to like someone once you know their story.” Mister Rogers“If it’s important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse” Ryan Blair
“Happiness is the secret ingredient for successful businesses. If you have a happy company it will be invincible” Richard Branson“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it“. Lou Holtz“You’re either changing your life or you’re not. No waiting for this or that or better weather or other hurdles. Hurdles are the change.” Terri Guillemets“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use the more you have” Maya Angelou“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible” Tony Robbins“Wake up with determination, go to bed with satisfaction” – unknown“Im too busy working on my own grass to notice if yours is greener” – unknown“Business owners need to realize that their design is a reflection of their business even if it is not intentional. If you don’t care about your design then your design is telling people that you don’t care about your business.” – Marco Suarez“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs” – Henry Ford
“If you do what you always did, you will get what you always got” – Albert Einstein“Life is too complicated not to be orderly” – Martha Stewart“Be not afraid of going slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.” – Chinese proverb“Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response” Michael Bartel“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit” Aristotle“Are you in earnest? Then seize this very minute. What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it; only engage and then the mind grows heated; Begin, and then the work will be completed.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
