Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. ~ Helen Keller

If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won’t be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret. ~ Jim Rohn

When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation—it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams. ~ Les Brown

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer. ~ Denis Waitley

Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you. ~ Zig Ziglar

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. ~ Aristotle

Unless what you say benefits the other person, don’t say it. ~ Denis Waitley

Don’t use your mind for a filing cabinet. Use your mind to work out problems and find answers; file away good ideas in your journal. ~ Jim Rohn

Stop stewing and start doing! ~ Denis Waitley

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. ~ Norman Schwarzkopf

Ignore people who tell you ‘you can’t’ or try to discourage you. ~ Jeffrey Gitomer

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow. ~ Khalil Gibran

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin. ~ Ivan Turgenev

Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words, ‘I tried.’ That’s what this game of life is all about. Trying. There’s the tryers, the criers, and the liars. ~ Mickey Rooney

The fact is that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. ~ Richard Cushing

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘certainly I can!’—and get busy and find out how to do it. ~ Theodore Roosevelt

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. ~ Henry Ford

No Matter How Busy You Are by Jim Rohn

No matter how busy you are, make sure to find some time over the next two weeks to reflect, think, give and plan.

The week between Christmas and New Year’s is the ideal time for this. Try to slow things down. Spend time with the ones you love and care about. Take some time to talk with your spouse and kids about goals and dreams for the next year. Use this as a time to recharge your batteries (and not just by watching TV the entire time), and with excitement, think about a handful of changes or additions you want for your life in the New Year.

I believe you will find the act of reflecting, thinking, dreaming and planning (with your family) to be one of the most important exercises you can do that will positively impact the next 12 months.

And, remember, do not neglect to commit yourself to set this time aside, or you will find that the business of life can and will get in the way.

So, let’s all take a moment to gather up the past year of victories and defeats, growing as well as those times of stagnation, and use it to wipe a clean slate and thoughtfully design the next year the way we truly desire it to be.

Winning is never whining. ~ Denis Waitley

Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease. ~ Jim Rohn