MICHAEL JORDAN QUOTE

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. 

If you run into a wall, 

don't turn around and give up. 

Figure out how to climb it,
go through it,

or work around it."

-Michael Jordan

21 SUGGESTIONS FOR SUCCESS

1. Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery. 2. Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent. 3. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. 4. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know. 5. Be forgiving of yourself and others. 6. Be generous. 7. Have a grateful heart. 8. Persistence, persistence, persistence. 9. Discipline yourself to save money on even the most modest salary. 10. Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated. 11. Commit yourself to constant improvement. 12. Commit yourself to quality. 13. Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationship with people you love and respect. 14. Be loyal. 15. Be honest. 16. Be a self-starter. 17. Be decisive even it it means you'll sometimes be wrong. 18. Stop blaming others. Take responsibility for every area of your life. 19. Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did. 20. Take good care of those you love. 21. Don't do anything that wouldn't make your Mom proud. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

There is no failure except in no longer trying. - Elbert Hubbard

NEW DAY

It's a new day, thank GOD! New hopes, new opportunities to become better, new things to learn. May we all do our best in not only school, but in all parts of our lives today. May we be humble and continue to strive for excellence! Never give up! Do all in love! Smile because you woke up to a new day! :)

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” - Thomas A. Edison

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

- Thomas Alva Edison

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. They are weak. I believe that you get what you want if you want it badly enough. - Sophia Loren

ONE STEP AT A TIME

I needed some inspiration and motivation today. Found some! :) Click on this video: ONE STEP AT A TIME By: Jordin Sparks

I gotta remind myself... it'll all happen at its right time... there's a season for everything... take it one step at a time... enjoy the journey... breathe... smile... be content with the present... hopeful for the future... blessed with the past... thankful and prayerful in all things... --- P.S. Thank you to Terry who always finds ways of encouraging me right back! You're the sweetest! ;) Here's the quote she shared with me that I'd like to now share with you: "People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves, they have the first secret of success." - Norman Vincent Peale --- And now, here are the lyrics to this very awesome song:

"One Step At A Time" Hurry up and wait So close, but so far away Everything that you've always dreamed of Close enough for you to taste But you just can't touch You wanna show the world, but no one knows your name yet Wonder when and where and how you're gonna make it You know you can if you get the chance In your face as the door keeps slamming Now you're feeling more and more frustrated And you're getting all kind of impatient waiting [Chorus:] We live and we learn to take One step at a time There's no need to rush It's like learning to fly Or falling in love It's gonna happen and it's Supposed to happen and we Find the reasons why One step at a time You believe and you doubt You're confused, you got it all figured out Everything that you always wished for Could be yours, should be yours, would be yours If they only knew You wanna show the world, but no one knows your name yet Wonder when and where and how you're gonna make it You know you can if you get the chance In your face as the door keeps slamming Now you're feeling more and more frustrated And you're getting all kind of impatient waiting [Chorus] When you can't wait any longer But there's no end in sight When you need to find the strength It's your faith that makes you stronger The only way you get there Is one step at a time [Chorus x2]

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.

- Thomas Merton

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

If we always do what we've always done, we will get what we've always got. - Adam Ubranski

ATTITUDE

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright, quoted in Reader's Digest, June 1995 Attitudes are contagious. Are yours worth catching? ~Dennis and Wendy Mannering Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one. ~Cavett Robert It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same. ~Francesca Reigler If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. ~Mary Engelbreit He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ~Samuel Johnson Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Instruction Book To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. ~Ken S. Keyes, Jr., Handbook to Higher Consciousness Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. ~Joe Clark The only disability in life is a bad attitude. ~Scott Hamilton I don't like that man. I must get to know him better. ~Abraham Lincoln To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. ~Confucius I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl If we shall take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ~William James What is possible? What you will. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com Success is due less to ability than to zeal. ~Charles Buxton Anywhere is paradise; it's up to you. ~Author Unknown We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them. ~Elbert Hubbard Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. ~Betty Smith Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold. ~Maurice Setter For my part I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. ~Adlai Stevenson A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. ~Hugh Downs Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. ~Arthur Christopher Benson

GO FOR IT!

From time to time, we court reporter students need a little boost. It's difficult going through the court reporting program because you have to fail SO MANY TESTS before you can reach a 98% or higher accuracy to pass through speed levels. For my fellow court reporter students, this post is especially for you! Enjoy these inspiring words of determination by Jo Ryan, which she penned in her little hardcover book Go For It! Whenever I need to remind myself that I CAN get to 225 WPM, I always reach for this mini book filled with amazing photography of animals and these awesome, inspiring quotes!

Hope you like this! And remember: STAY MOTIVATED! ;)

People can because they think they can.

Waste your money and you've only wasted money... Waste your time and you've lost part of your life. All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder. *This is my FAVORITE quote from this book! :) Many people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could. Don't ask for a light load: ask instead for a strong back. If you look for rest, you'll find boredom... If you look for work, you'll find rest. The only real mistake is not learning from your mistakes. It's not because things are difficult that we don't dare... It's because we don't dare that things are difficult. Obstacles: those things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else. The way to do more is not to think of things as impossible. A big shot is a little shot who kept shooting. *I remember when I first started to learn my theory in court reporting school. I thought I could NEVER write 80 WPM on this crazy steno machine! But you just keep trying, trying, trying... and before you know it, you can write 225 WPM! Happiness is dreaming dreams, and working to make them come true. When opportunity meets preparation, success is the result. Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely. "I can't" never accomplished anything... "I will try" has worked wonders. The greater the difficulty, the more glory in overcoming it. Achieving is easiest when we work the hardest, and hardest when we work the easiest. Success is open to everyone who chooses his goal and goes for it. People become great by doing what they don't want to do when they don't want to do it. *This is also known as DISCIPLINE!!! :)