Here is my next installment for the weekly Positive Thinking quotes. Often in life we can get a little down and sometimes even a simple quote can inspire us to push through to the next day. So while this might not be a life changing Blog post, it may give you a smile, or a burst of momentum on a slow day.
This week’s quotes come from Minister Robert Schuller. You may have heard of Robert Schuller (b. Sept 16th, 1926) before, internationally renowned minister of the Crystal Cathedral, in California. Mentored by Norman Vincent Peale (see our blog post on Peale), Robert is famous for his Hour of Power television show, and for speaking around the world on Faith and Positive Thinking. His famous writings/speakings include Move Ahead With Possibility Thinking and You Can Be The Person You Want To Be.
Robert Schuller is considered by some to be an expert in motivational speaking and positive thinking. He reminds us there is more to life than what we think, and that we should live exciting lives, full of possibilities and positivity.
Now for some Robert Schuller quotes:
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Robert H. Schuller
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert H. Schuller
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Robert H. Schuller
I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Robert H. Schuller
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
Robert H. Schuller
Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.
Robert H. Schuller
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Robert H. Schuller
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Robert H. Schuller
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Robert H. Schuller
Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.
Robert H. Schuller
High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.
Robert H. Schuller
These Robert Schuller quotes are phenomenal! They really are. Each one is powerful and can create change in our lives. You should seriously write down a half dozen of them that really spoke to you or impressed you, and post them places you will read them each day. Places like- on your computer, bulletin board, office desk, refrigerator, bathroom mirror, even a piece of paper to put in your wallet or your purse.
Even a tiny little quote can create an avalanche of accomplishment.
To success and positive thoughts, a great weekend and week,
Do you ever feel that you have lost connection with your customer base? This sense of separation can come from ineffective communication or a result of poor listening, off-target marketing, or an issue of weak product branding. Disconnection can happen when the marketing campaign utilizes wrong strategies that stray from the interests of the targeted, niche market. How do you reconnect? It is vital to Internet marketing success that an “alive” relationship is established and maintained at all times. Never take for granted your audience! They must feel valued and made to feel important or you will lose them, both new buyers and repeat purchasers. “Show me you know me” needs to be your focus. Be Connected!
This weekend I was re-reading my last article Did You Open Your Gift? and I realized I needed to confess to you. Yes, I open my gifts and am excited and use them….mostly.
I have always enjoyed exercising and have been a member of several exercise groups and/or gyms through the years. Well, a new gym came into our area about 18 months ago. It is only 3 minutes (by car) from my house. How convenient would that be? I thought about this membership for several months since it would involve a good sized down payment and monthly fees. One day Larry said that I should do it. He wanted me to have this gift of gym membership because he is a good husband…and he knows that I can get great benefits from exercising.
So……I accepted the gift right away (didn’t want him to change his mind!).
I opened it—meaning I know the benefits of exercising. I know that aerobic activity can increase my metabolism, lower my blood pressure and cholesterol, reduce my stress, etc. I know that exercises with weights can help me maintain or even build bone mass—so important for a woman. I have been in the gym, gone through the introduction and learned how to use the machines.
I was pumped up and ready to go…until I found out I would need surgery. I was unable to exercise for 2-3 months following the surgery and you know the rest. My enthusiasm had faded. Sure, I have been a few times but not really enough to obtain the full benefits of this membership (which we still pay for monthly).
So….I have accepted the gift and even opened it, but now I am not using it. My excuses are all valid-I work long hours and am exhausted by the time I get home….I have meetings or music rehearsals 2 or 3 nights a week……my back is slightly injured…..I am not in the mood….I wish I had a friend to go with me….
Still the bottom line is that I am not taking advantage of my membership (gift) and using it. I can’t blame this on anyone but myself. I have to make the decision to do this if I want to be successful in improving my health and maintaining my weight. I can’t ask anyone to do it for me—it’s up to me!!
It’s the same for most of us, isn’t it? We make excuses (many are certainly valid) and never accomplish our goals. I am committing to going to the gym 2 days a week—a small commitment but better than doing nothing (did I hear someone call me a couch potato?). I challenge you to take a step forward even if it is a small step. Commit yourself to taking steps toward what you want in your life. We can do it!!
We bloggers and article writers need to conduct a campaign to identify keywords which are likely to deliver high quality, responsive visitors to our websites or blogs which will, in turn, convert into customers.
We will have a good return on our investment when we identify keywords, keyword opportunities, specific search phrases, variations of those keywords and even commonly used mis-spellings of keywords, that will result in changes in buying patterns and lead to changes in the focus of our blogs. Stay in tune for for upcoming information and training in this area.
We’re having our second webinar training on blogging THIS Wednesday!
Title: “MaxPro Members Training: Blogging 202″
Date: Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Time: 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
As always this training is only available to MaxPro Members. This weeks training will be like nothing you’ve ever seen. We’re gonna show you guys some stuff about blogging that you probably never even knew existed!
Remember if you have questions that you want covered, please add them below as a comment. This is perect if you can’t be there live and have to watch the recording later.
Hope you all had a good weekend. Now its time to maintain motivation.
Maintaining motivation is a key factor in life’s journey. Life supplies us with a constant stream of information, events, and opportunities. It is difficult to keep sight of the goal and the process while maintaining the initial level of motivation which burned so brightly when it was new.
To actually stay motivated requires a daily habit. How you construct that daily habit is up to you. Bottom line is that you need to reinforce, reinforce and reinforce your own thoughts and desires so that you stay focused, focused and focused on where you want to be 365 days from today.
Developing a habit is to understand that attitudes are habits of thought. These attitudes are merely reflections of our foundational belief system that holds all of our experiences and knowledge. Much of this belief system has become so internalized that it is subconscious or what some call on automatic pilot.
Motivation techniques are essentially the internal fuels that keep our thoughts on the conscious level so that we do not allow unconscious thoughts from years of previous negative conditioning to take over. This is why changing actions or behaviors can be very difficult.
Regardless of your motivation techniques, the key to actually be successful requires that you use them each and every day as you travel the road to success. Keep that fuel as a constant stream into your conscious thoughts and life will be good for you if not even better.
Hi! This is Larry the resident Max Pro article writer. In my two years of both hobby and marketing article writing, I have learned some simple but important lessons. What you write and how you write, speaks volumes to your reading audience. Expertise in any subject area can work wonders when you write articles with good content that can be syndicated. These articles will result in genuine interest from a very targeted audience and will also lead to links back from websites and blogs that contain similar content. Over time, these articles will define your expertise in that subject area. This will build confidence with prospective customers and a level of trust.
I had an idea for posts I could make every week that would share some Positive Thinking quotes. Often in life we can get a little down and sometimes even a simple quote can inspire us to push through to the next day. So while this might not be a life changing Blog post, it may give you a smile, or a burst of momentum on a slow day.
To success.
Quotes for the week: Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill: (a great book by the way, read it!)
“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.” -Napoleon Hill
“Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.” -Napoleon Hill
“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” -Napoleon Hill
“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” -Napoleon Hill
“All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.” -Napoleon Hill
“Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.”
-Napoleon Hill
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right”. -Napoleon Hill
“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.” -Napoleon Hill
“Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.” -Napoleon Hill
As a blogger for two years, I have learned much about blog content. There are two kinds of blog content needed – remarkable & regular. More of our writing is regular as we share our passion, but work to get the unusual and extraordinary content as well. Adding quality media helps too as our world of readers are impressed by visual proof and substance. To engage with potential leads that will hopefully be converted to sales, the blog needs to encourage conversations. Without interesting content to link to, the blog will just be sharing other people’s content on your network. This is important to growing readership, but won’t get real traffic. What will get the traffic is quality and consistency of the blog posts. By having a regular blogging schedule, readers will have a sense of anticipation and other thought leaders will be encouraged to interact on the blog too.
Don’t you just love to see all the beautifully wrapped presents under the Christmas tree? Or how about the ones you receive for your birthday? Some people are masters at creating the most beautiful packages, aren’t they? When you see a gift, beautifully wrapped and decorated, does it benefit you? As long as it is sitting on a table or under the Christmas tree, you can’t derive any benefits or pleasure from it…other than maybe appreciating the wrappings.
The first thing you must do is to accept the gift. You can’t stop there!! You must open it to find out what is inside and then use the gift you have been given. As excited as I would get about getting a gift, I still can’t enjoy or appreciate it until I accept it, open it and use it. Larry knows that I love jewelry and you better believe I open my gifts and wear them right away (jewelry or clothes), spritz them (perfume), read them (books )…you get the idea. Those gifts don’t do me any good if I store them in the closet.
A business opportunity is somewhat like this. The most wonderful business opportunity can be right in front of you. It can offer all kinds of benefits. Will those benefits do you any good? No, not until you decide to become a part of the business—accept it.
Okay, now you have become a part of the business opportunity—it that it? No, but some people seem to think it is. The next step is to ‘open’—or find out what is contained—what the benefits can be and learn how to achieve them. Then get busy—use them to the max!
What I am trying to say is that MaxPro offers a fantastic opportunity for those who get involved—for those who use the trainings, forum, support, marketing, etc that is made available to them. This means more than just listening or reading or even posting at the forum. Those are the first steps, but you must move beyond that and actually be proactive in your own business. Do it!
Our wish is for every member of our MaxPro family (that is you!) to meet with great success. When we tell you that your success is our success, we mean it! There is great excitement in the office when we hear of your involvement…the steps you are taking toward success…and ultimately your success stories.
