A Winner's Blueprint For Achievement

This was on a poster in the LISD main office and it was too good to pass up so I wrote it down. It's nearly as good as Scripture in my book. I'm going to try to read it every morning as a way to prepare myself for the day.

"A Winner's Blueprint For Achievement "

BELIEVE while others are doubting.
PLAN while others are playing.
STUDY while others are sleeping.
DECIDE while others are delaying.
PREPARE while others are daydreaming.
BEGIN while others are procrastinating.
WORK while others are wishing.
SAVE while others are wasting.
LISTEN while others are talking.
SMILE while others are frowning.
COMMEND while others are criticizing.
PERSIST while others are quitting.

-W.A. Ward



More words of wisdom:

"We are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, since nothing is perfect... because in the process we will catch excellence."
-Vince Lombardi

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
-Aristotle

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
-John Quincy Adams