Having Patience and Perseverance to Succeed

patience thumb Having Patience and Perseverance to SucceedAre you patient enough to be successful?

If you’ve spent any time at all reading my articles, then you know that I believe focus, excellence and action are key ingredients to success.  All three of these are very proactive, lean-forward stances. 

However, there are times when what you really need is nothing more than a heaping helping of patience.  I’m not saying you should give up.  I’m just saying that …

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Give It Time: Quotes to Inspire Patience and Persistence

long road thumb Give It Time: Quotes to Inspire Patience and Persistence

Need some inspiration to carry on toward your goals?

Give it time!  Things do not happen overnight.  We’ve got to learn to practice patience and persistence if we want our efforts to pay off.

Your breakthrough could happen tomorrow, next week or next month.  If you quit now, you’ll never know what might be. 

Stay the course and your efforts will likely result in success.  Give up and you have …

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Gaining Perspective Helps to Achieve Excellence in Life

We all need the proper perspective to achieve excellence in our lives.  We need to look at the big picture.  This is often difficult because we seldom take the time to step back from our daily activities to reflect and observe our life as a whole.  Our days are filled with busyness.   We get in a position where we can’t see the forest for the trees.  Our lives become cluttered …

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My Three P’s of Good Parenting

Being a parent is a tremendous and humbling responsibility.  Children are so open and vulnerable to the influence of their parents.  I can’t help but think that what I do in these few short formative years will likely impact my kids their entire lives.  That is a lot of pressure!  I want my children to grow up to be successful in whatever they choose to do.  Like most of you, …

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A Better Life Requires A Continual Commitment

The key to a better life is continuous, incremental improvements. 

It is rare that we experience a dramatic, huge leap forward.  Do you ever feel like you must be missing something because you read all these books about the secrets of self-improvement yet fail to experience the super results they claim are possible? 

Did you know that if you perform a search on Amazon for “secrets to success” in the …

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