Greatness does not allow excuses or have room for blame. 

Greatness is made by determination, toughness, and creativity. 

The need to fill the well of status acknowledgment or external validation is endless, a bottomless pit that can never be fully accomplished. Once the desire and need for outside affirmation are changed to the pursuit of personal excellence, our internal growth is compounded and our results magnified. 

The timeless challenge to personal fulfillment is that we always want to control what we cannot control, and yet we ignore and do not care about everything that is in our power to control. 

We cannot control time or others, yet we try.

We can control our thoughts, behaviors, and feelings, and ignore them. 

What we claim in truth and faith as ours is what we receive. 

If we claim love, we receive it because we also give it. 

If we claim peace, we feel it because we do not destroy it. 

If we claim focus, we experience it because we allow it. 

Leave Anger and Regret at home, they are not needed. 

Anger blames others. 

Regret blames you. 

Both Anger and Regret have never made a situation better or even gotten close to solving a problem.

They are more than useless, they are destructive. 

The friends you need are Compassion and Action, take them with you everywhere.

Compassion helps you see the best in others and in yourself. 

Action always makes sure you are heading in the direction of your goals and potential. 

Self-vilification is a deathly poison. 

When we condemn ourselves we kill our enthusiasm, we kill our confidence, we kill our creativity, we kill our potential. 

Do not take the poison. 

Every worthwhile achievement requires moving heavy obstacles. 

Every goal is only obtained by work. 

Every success is built on the foundation of work. 

To do more work, get stronger. 

Adding strength never makes the load lighter, it just increases the capacity to perform work.

Confusion is man-made. 

God speaks with clarity. 

Find clarity and find God. 

Desire is over half the problem. 

Yet… 

Desire is always over half the battle.

Whatever desire is chosen, that is where the work begins. 

Desire is always over half of the solution. 

So if we want to be better, that desire will drive us. 

If we want to do better, that desire will drive us. 

Thoughts produce feelings, and feelings create energy. If we want to feel good, we need to manufacture positive energy. 

But, if we constantly worry, find fault, talk badly, gossip, judge others, and believe in self-doubt we will keep creating negative energy.