Favorite Inspirational Quotes

The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile.

Bruce Barton

This quote is another way of saying that the person who goes the extra mile is the one who will reap the big rewards.  Who knows?  Maybe this is where “going the extra mile” came from.  I’m sure someone will let me know.

What matters is that I won’t get the pay raise, promotion, successful business, or whatever if I only do the normal everyday stuff that everyone else also does.  I have to be willing to do more, work longer, think more exceptionally, etc. to get more than the person who doesn’t.  Otherwise we would all have the big rewards, right?

If I will just do what other people won’t for a few years, I will be able to do what other people can’t later in life.  It’s all up to me.  Do I want the big rewards?  Or do I want to be like everyone else doing normal everyday stuff and getting normal everyday rewards.

These are questions I really need to think hard on as my days are interrupted yet again by others’ concerns and problems.  But at least I am here to help for a short duration even if it does take away time and attention from my own concerns and priorities.  When it is done, then I can start again knowing that I must travel the second, undemanded mile.

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My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

Johnny Carson

So success does involve work and sometimes hard work.  What is important is to work on the thing that gets you ahead - the business at hand.

Even if I work hard at surfing the Internet, that is not work that’s going to get me where I want to be.  It won’t bring me success unless my goal is to reach the end of the Internet.

But who am I to judge if that is someone’s goal?  It’s just not mine.  I need to do the work that will get me to my goals.

Another point in this simple one sentence quote is that I must work each day.  Every day I have to take action on the things I must get done to make steps toward my goals.

It does me no good to sit here staring at my Action Enforcer with its time blocks of tasks to do.  That doesn’t get them done.  Actually moving and doing the task gets it done.  If I have strategized correctly and planned well, each day’s tasks will lead me to my overall vision.

So I guess I had better get to work, hadn’t I?

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Luc De Clapiers

And here I sit today having a hard time getting into motion.  Again, I have received news that going to change my life.  Not good or bad, just change in a way I had not expected.

I’ll have to adapt a bit and some of the things around me will have to change as a result.  I just feel kind of stuck thinking about the changes.  Maybe just a result of a too active holiday weekend without sufficient time for recovery. (Remember this was originally written in my journal back on 1 December.)

What I do know is that by sitting here doing nothing, I sure am not working on my  websites or writing articles or doing any of the 1001 things I could do toward creating the life I desire, one that won’t be quite so open to such changes happening.

Nor am I studying or listening to courses that could aid my personal growth.  All that takes action.  Movement.

I also know that if I am too cautious about making the changes needed, in my business or studies or whatever, I won’t take the actions needed.  Well, I do have things I can do and this journal is only the first step.

Time to get moving.

(Not quite the post one would expect about taking action being better than sitting back being cautious but this was where I was then and the getting moving was more important to me then.

But you do know we can’t sit around cautiously waiting for everything to be right before doing anything.  It just doesn’t work that way.  While I’m busy waiting for things to be right, someone else takes action and gets the prize.

Instead of “ready, aim, fire” there are those who rightly say it should be “ready, fire, and then correct”.  Just get taking some action.  Just get into some form of motion toward your goal today.)

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