Stop Stressing – Don’t Look Back By Larry Tobin The past can be a problematic albatross to carry around. We’ll forget where we left our keys 20 minutes ago, but ask us to remember an embarrassing moment from our childhood and it will come to mind like a flash. For some reason, we seem incredibly [...]

Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it!

The concept that success is mine when I work my hardest to become my best, and that I alone determine whether I do so, became central to my life and affected me in a most profound manner. – Coach John Wooden (by SuperCoach Michael Neill): There is a story about a young aide who began [...]

(from Michael Neill, author of Supercoach and other books): “There is no try – there is only do or not do” – Yoda, from The Empire Strikes Back The other day, I was explaining to my wife why I hadn’t emptied the dishwasher when I heard myself saying “well, I tried to do it, but [...]

…How do you achieve excellence? By doing the right thing. Excellence is the result of caring about what you do, and of putting your very best effort into what you care about. Excellence is an outward expression of inner integrity, and few things are more valuable than that. Excellence is a choice you always have [...]

1. Champions Expect to Win – When they walk on the court, on the field, into a meeting or in a classroom they expect to win. In fact they are surprised when they don’t win. They expect success and their positive beliefs often lead to positive actions and outcomes. They win in their mind first [...]

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. ~Oprah Winfrey

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~Sir Winston Churchill

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves … self-discipline with all of them came first. ~Harry S. Truman

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies on a limited set of targets. ~Nido Qubein