Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all
the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long
as ever you can.

- John Wesley

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This one step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything.

- Scott Reed

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When you spend your life doing what you love to do, you are nourishing your Soul.
It matters not what you do, only that you love whatever you happen to do.

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

- A. W. Tozer

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Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression
of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your
smile.

- Mother Teresa

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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from
one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

- Samuel Johnson

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Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something
one finds; it is something one creates.

- Thomas Szasz

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Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have
accomplished with your ability.

- John Wooden

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Life happens. It will happen again and again - the routine demands of life will overload you, or unexpected events will blow in from nowhere and threaten to drive you off course. You might run into a crisis at work and feel overextended, your kids might get sick, your computer might burn itself to smoldering microchips (as mine did while I was writing Unstoppable Women), your babysitter could announce she's moving to Des Moines...

Life has infinite possibilities - and infinite ways to complicate your plans.

When such things occur, we all must confront the urge to give up. Don't do it! When you're tempted to rationalize - "Well, I'll quit for now, but I'll get back on track tomorrow or next week" - seize the day! Take one immediate action to get yourself moving toward your task before the temptation to once again throw in the towel gets too strong.

Quitting is a habit. Every time you quit, you damage your self-esteem and send your psyche the message that you're incompetent. You are competent! And each time you take action and stick to your commitment when you felt like quitting, you'll gain a newfound confidence that makes the next step increasingly easier.

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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Nelson Mandela

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There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.

- Bunker Hunt

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Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

- Denis Waitley

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"Creative," "flexible," "imaginative"-- these three words are almost interchangeable. If you are creative, you can think of alternative ways to work around problems, ways that align with your own skills and reflect your values. If you are flexible, you are able and willing to change and modify plans; you adjust to new circumstances and needs. If you are imaginative, you envision what is not and what can be -- you see in your mind what you haven't yet seen in the material world.

All three words refer to your willingness to experiment with new approaches and fresh solutions. When you have these qualities, you will bend and not break when challenges arise.

     When a great wind blows, that which is rigid will snap 
     and break.  That which is flexible will bend.  When the
     wind dies down and calm returns, the flexible will rise
     again.

We see almost limitless creativity in inventors. We have all read or heard the stories of people like the Wright brothers, Eli Whitney, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford. These people triumphed by using imagination and flexibility. They experimented with new materials and techniques that often seemed unrealistic or preposterous at the time.

For years, they suffered failure after failure, but they never felt regret. Each time they simply abandoned what did not work, revised their theories, and continued to look for what would work. They were flexible and humble enough to learn from other people's ideas and experiments and to adapt them to their own projects.

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

- Juvenal

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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

- Vincent Van Gogh

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Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.

- Phillips Brooks

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A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

- Denis Waitley

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Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

- Margaret Cousins

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Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.

- Arthur Pine

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The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

- Eddie Robinson

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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

- Helen Keller

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Do you ever feel a little different from most people, that you don't quite fit into a particular niche? If so, don't feel bad because you don't "fit in." Celebrate it. Turn your uniqueness into a strength. Your skills, strengths, passions, and gifts are like no one else's. So why should you conform to someone else's idea of what you should be? You shouldn't. Instead, turn your differences into assets. The world is full of extraordinary women who have done just that.

Today, Aretha Franklin is hailed as the Queen of Soul. But when she signed a deal with Columbia Records in 1961, they tried to turn her into a pop jazz singer. Franklin was less than enthusiastic. In 1966, she went to Atlantic Records and focused on soul, and her career began to soar. She was one of the first women to actively steer her own recording career. Her mantra with producers was, "If you're here to record me, then let's record me, not you." As a result, she earned R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

Another woman who didn't quite fit in is Oprah Winfrey. In the early days of her career, Oprah was fired as a TV reporter because she broke the cardinal rule of journalism: She openly sympathized with the unfortunate people she interviewed. When she started crying while interviewing a woman who had lost seven children in a tragic fire, she lost her job.

What's more, when Oprah was 22 and a new anchorperson, a group of men in suits sat around a table and suggested that she change her name to Suzie! They told her, "No one will ever be able to pronounce or remember Oprah. Besides, Suzie is friendlier."

To stay true to herself and to keep her media career going, Oprah came to realize that she would have to create her own venue. She worked hard to launch The Oprah Winfrey Show, a talk show with a heart and a hand extended to people in need. Today, Oprah is a one-woman media empire worth billions.

Imagine what would have happened if either of these women listened to popular opinion! People look at what has worked in the past, and they'll encourage you to conform to a tested formula. But your uniqueness might be a whole lot more interesting than any formula.

ACTION: Let your inner voice be your guide.

Take a moment to list at least 5 things that you believe are unique about yourself. Perhaps it's your outlook on life, your sense of humor, your mission, or the way you really listen and can make a person feel special. Celebrate your uniqueness and acknowledge these gifts that make you special. When people offer suggestions that you change something, listen to your inner voice. Does their advice have merit, or is your unique style a truer reflection of who you are?

Follow your own vision, despite what others think you are supposed to do. Don't try to be like someone else, because you'll only be second best. Honor your authenticity. Stand tall in who you were meant to be. People will beat a path to your door if you let your uniqueness shine.


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A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

- Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

- Norman Vincent Peale

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Your circumstances reveal your beliefs. Question your beliefs and upgrade them, and watch your circumstances upgrade accordingly.

- Alan Cohen

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The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.

- Brian Tracy

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It's hard enough to stay positive and keep the faith in the day-to-day pursuit of our dreams. When we associate with negative or unsupportive people, it becomes almost impossible.

Unfortunately, it's difficult to eliminate all of the negative people from our lives because they may be those closest to us-a parent, spouse, sibling, or even best friend. And since these people have history with us, they'll typically remember how we've succeeded or failed in the past. They may simply not be able to think of us in terms of what's possible. The saying "A prophet has no honor in his own home" couldn't be more true.

We all need to create a support team and an environment that provides love and encouragement. Sometimes, those who are closest to us aren't the best people to do that. In that case, we need to find someone who can.

To create the best possible support team, try the following tips:

· Build more relationships that nourish and restore you-with a coach, buddy, spiritual advisor, mentor, or role model. Spend time with people who will hold you to a higher standard.

· Pay less attention to relationships that make it easy for you to maintain the status quo. Some friends will always tell you what you want to hear and let you get away with failure. Spend your time with friends who understand your goal and will help you grow.

· Terminate negative relationships-those focused on gossip, mutual complaining, or making excuses. They add nothing to your journey and are not a good investment of your time and energy.

· Intentionally open yourself to meeting new people.

· Get buy-in from your family. If you can help your family members see how your goal directly benefits them, you'll get more of their support. For example, if you're going back to work, you can point out that the money you make will help pay for a nice family vacation. If your goal is to lose weight, you can explain that being healthier will mean you'll have more energy to be with your kids and spouse.

· Get a support buddy. Share your daily insights and draw strength from each other. This not only provides accountability structure, but it makes the process more fun and enjoyable.

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Aristotle

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We are hoarding potentials so great that they are just about unimaginable.

- Jack Schwartz


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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

- William Butler Yeats

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I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.

- Confucius

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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.


- Liane Cardes

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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

- Zig Ziglar

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

- Mark Twain

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Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

- George Bernard Shaw

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

- Mark Twain

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The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

- James Whitcomb Riley

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What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.

- Thomas Crum

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Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.

- Mary Lou Retton

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To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

- Katherine Graham

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It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?

- Henry David Thoreau

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It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

- Les Brown

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It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

- Charles Kettering

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There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.

- Kurt Hahn

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The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

- Bernard M. Baruch

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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

- Ben Stein

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You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

- Galileo Galilei

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By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

- Grenville Kleiser

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Choose once and for all to get past all of the former excuses that stopped you from achieving your goal or dream and step into your power by saying: "This is my time, my life, my moment of truth. I will not stop until I achieve my goal!"

Realizing that being unstoppable is simply a decision that you make every day, every hour, or sometimes every minute gives you the awareness that it is a choice.

And every time you choose to honor your commitment and take a single step, you are honoring yourself and exercising your self-discipline muscle. With each step you take, that muscle will grow stronger and stronger, making it easier to bring about change in your life.

Your time is now. Make a pledge to yourself that you are fully committed to reaching your goal.

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

- Colin Powell

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Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

- Lou Holtz

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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

- Albert Einstein

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"Creative," "flexible," "imaginative" - these three words are almost interchangeable. If you are creative, you can think of alternative ways to work around problems, ways that align with your own skills and reflect your values. If you are flexible, you are able and willing to change and modify plans; you adjust to new circumstances and needs. If you are imaginative, you envision what is not and what can be--you see in your mind what you haven't yet seen in the material world.

All three words refer to your willingness to experiment with new approaches and fresh solutions. When you have these qualities, you will bend and not break when challenges arise.

When a great wind blows, that which is rigid will snap
and break. That which is flexible will bend. When the
wind dies down and calm returns, the flexible will rise
again.

We see almost limitless creativity in inventors. We have all read or heard the stories of people like the Wright brothers, Eli Whitney, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford.

These people triumphed by using imagination and flexibility. They experimented with new materials and techniques that often seemed unrealistic or preposterous at the time. For years, they suffered failure after failure, but they never felt regret. Each time they simply abandoned what did not work, revised their theories, and continued to look for what would work. They were flexible and humble enough to learn from other people's ideas and experiments and to adapt them to their own projects.


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Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.

- Robert Collier

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Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.

- Arthur Pine

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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

- Maya Angelou

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How you deal with challenges will determine whether you achieve your goal or give up and settle for less than you deserve. If we really want to create different results in our lives, we must become aware of how we interpret the "facts" or "events" of our lives and understand that our explanations often do not represent the "truth" of what's possible for us.
In a very real sense, facts are an objective account of the event that occurred. No interpretation or meaning is attached. For example: "I was rejected by a potential investor for my project," "My husband left me," "I lost my job," "I was diagnosed with an illness," "I can't get pregnant."

Truth represents what's possible in any situation. "Each rejection brings me one step closer to an investor for my project," "I will find a new, better relationship," "I can find a better and more fulfilling career," "My health will improve," "I can adopt," and so on.

Many people believe that events control their lives and that their circumstances have shaped who they are today. It's not true. It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but how we respond to those events, what we think they mean, and whether challenges trigger the "giving up" reflex in us or motivate us to hang tough and keep fighting.

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Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

- George Sand

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Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

- Joel A. Barker

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The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

- Blaine Lee

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The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.

- Blaine Lee

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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

- Dale Carnegie

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Tom Monaghan, founder of Domino's Pizza, has had at least a hundred "excuses" for failing in business - he started a business with no business sense, he expanded too soon, went broke, lost everything, built it back up, and almost lost everything again. But what's incredible about Tom Monaghan is that he's never given up.

After working 16 to 18 hours a day, 7 days a week for 10 years, he lost control of his company in order not to have to file bankruptcy. The new management team kept him on as president, but with no authority, because they couldn't find anyone willing to work those types of hours for only $200/week. Overnight, Tom went from CEO of Domino's Pizza to the manager of 12 corporate stores. He visited each store driving a rusted out, beat up Rambler, sleeping in his car to keep expenses down. After ten months of this arrangement, the new management decided Domino's had no future and agreed to give Tom his stock in return for just one of the Domino's franchises.

With Tom back in control of Domino's, it took him 6 long years to rebuild his business, paying off every last creditor. And today Domino's is a billion dollar organization.

Tom's story proves that you can reach the pinnacle of success despite having a difficult childhood, the skimpiest of financial resources, and little more than a high school education. Like him, you may feel you have every reason to make excuses, to fail, to quit. But "quit" wasn't in Tom Monaghan's vocabulary. "Persistence" is.

And persistence is what will make you unstoppable.

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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

- Willis Whitney

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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

- Willis Whitney

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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

- Winston Churchill

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Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

- Robert Collier

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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

- Winston Churchill

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Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

- Napoleon Hill

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Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

- Napoleon Hill

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The only opinion about your dream that really counts is yours. The negative comments of others merely reflect their limitations - not yours. Fashion photographer Richard Avedon tried to convince Cher that she didn't have the right look to be a model. He told her flat out, "You will never make the cover of Vogue because you don't have blond hair or blue eyes." When she did, Vogue sold more copies than it had ever sold before.

When Gustave Leven was making plans to launch Perrier in the United States, several consulting firms advised him, "You're foolish to try to sell sparkling water in the land of Coca-Cola drinkers."

A New York Publisher told James Michener after reading his first unpublished manuscript, "You're a good editor with a promising future in the business. Why would you want to throw it all away to try to be a writer? I read your book. Frankly, it's not really that good." Michener's manuscript, titled Tales of the South Pacific, eventually was sold and later won a Pulitzer Prize and was adapted for stage and screen as "South Pacific."

Remember, there is nothing unrealistic about a dream that aligns with your purpose, ignites your passion, and inspires you to plan and persevere until you attain it. On the contrary, it's unrealistic to expect a person with such drive and commitment not to succeed.

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Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.

- Robert Collier

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The most important characteristic of becoming unstoppable is to have perseverance.

There is an old adage that says "the arrow that hits the bull's eye is the result of a hundred misses." And that is so reassuring to those of us who are pursuing a dream and along the way things don't go as fast or exactly as we'd hoped.

Ray Charles was a testament to the power of never quitting.  When he was six years of age, he lost his eyesight.  His mother told him, "Ray you've lost your sight, but you haven't lost your mind.  You can still create a productive life for yourself."  To a young, poor, blind child from the south, the possibilities didn't seem too bright. But as Ray thought about what he really wanted to do with his life, he dreamed of becoming a recording star.  His dream wasn't just to produce an album, but becoming a star.  So as a child, he would practice playing the piano and singing each day.  One day a teacher heard Ray practicing at school and told him, Ray, "You can't play the piano, and God knows you can't sing. You'd better learn how to weave chairs so you can support yourself."

This type of comment would stop most people, but it didn't stop Ray.  He deeply wanted to become a star and remained focused on his goal.  Many times after auditions, people would tell him that he should just quit, that he couldn't carry a tune in a bucket.  But Ray Continued.

Ultimately, Ray's perseverance paid off.  He received countless awards for his music including winning 12 Grammy Awards and he was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  He performed before millions of people, including presidents and heads of state.  And his unique musical style made a lasting imprint on all forms of popular music in the past 50 years.  All because he didn't listen to the negative influences in his life and refused to quit. 

The next time someone tells you to forget your dream, remember Ray Charles, and if your dream is something that you REALLY want, don't let anything stop you until you achieve it!

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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

- John Dryden

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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

- Antoine Saint-Exupéry

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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

- Albert Schweitzer

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There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a business person.

- Anthony Robbins

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When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.

- Harold Kushner

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There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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"Slow and steady wins the race." It's not glamorous, but it's true. The tragedy is that most people never even get in the race, and many of those who do hope that success comes easily and swiftly. When it doesn't, they're out of the race, before it really begins. What they don't realize is that the decision to be unstoppable is never made just once. It is made moment by moment, again and again.

Setbacks are inevitable. In fact, they're evidence that we're doing something. The more mistakes we make, the greater our chance of success. Failures indicate a willingness to experiment and take risks. Unstoppable women have learned that each failure brings wisdom and insight that will take them one step closer to achieving their dreams. When we focus on one unstoppable moment at a time and stay the course, the end result will take care of itself.

It's important to remind ourselves that failure is an event, not a person. If you don't achieve your 30-day goal, does that make you a failure? If you don't get a promotion at work, does that make you a failure? If you get married and then divorced, does that make you a failure? Of course not!

Failure doesn't characterize who you are. It is simply an event that happens to you. And when you continue to move forward, despite difficult experiences, you have already won!

ACTION: Find the gift in the setback

The next time the outcome you had hoped for doesn't transpire, look for the gift. Ask yourself the following questions:
1. What can I learn from what happened?
2. What am I grateful for about this experience?
3. What are the potential benefits of this experience?
4. What is the best way for me to move forward?

Commit to finding the gift in any setback. And in advance, tell yourself that you will never, never, never quit. If you don't give up, you simply cannot fail. Not only will you achieve your dreams, but the combination of your commitment, courage, and faith will rise as the greatest triumph of all.


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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create
what you will.

- George Bernard Shaw

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It's easy to look at our present circumstances and let them dictate whether we think we can or cannot do something in the future. For example, perhaps you've attempted to lose some weight for years, yet when you look in the mirror, those unrelenting pounds are still staring you in the face. Or maybe you've made efforts to earn extra money, but your checking account remains consistently overdrawn. Or perhaps you've tried to lower your blood pressure, but your doctor tells you it's still too high. It requires enormous faith in yourself to stay focused on your goal when your current situation reflects something quite different.

To have faith regardless of your present circumstances requires great discipline-yet that is exactly what must happen if you want to make real changes in your life.

One proven way to develop empowering evidence to support your new belief is through a technique known as success imprinting. Belief, or self-confidence, is developed from past successes, or, as psychologists call them, success imprints. Success imprints are created anytime you have successfully achieved something that was thought to be difficult. Finishing a 5K run for the first time imprints a positive message on your subconscious, which makes the next race appear easier.

The same is true at work. Every time you accomplish something difficult, such as closing a complex sale, dealing with a challenging customer, or completing a project on time, you've created a success imprint that not only strengthens your self-esteem, but builds the belief that you can do it again in the future. Failures also create an imprint on our psyche and have the opposite effect on our self-esteem. That's why it's critical that we focus on each positive result, even if it seems like a baby step, so that we continue to create more of them in the future. Once you believe your goal is possible, the difficult will become routine.

For example, for years it was assumed that no one could break the 4-minute-mile barrier. Physiologists of the time considered it dangerous for anyone to even attempt to run a mile in less than 4 minutes. But on May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister broke that "unreachable" barrier. And once he did, the next 3 years saw 16 runners around the world also record sub-4-minute miles.

Success necessitates that we overcome obstacles. It is a natural part of the process. Each time we do so, we create a success imprint that strengthens our belief system and leads to greater and greater successes. When we consciously choose to rewrite our negative beliefs into positive ones, self-esteem and self-confidence will develop exponentially.



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Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

- Nido Qubein

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Life happens. It will happen again and again - the routine demands of life will overload you, or unexpected events will blow in from nowhere and threaten to drive you off course.

You might run into a crisis at work and feel overextended, your kids might get sick, your computer might burn itself to smoldering microchips (as mine did while I was writing Unstoppable Women), or your babysitter could announce she's moving to Des Moines.

Life has infinite possibilities - and infinite ways to complicate your plans. When such things occur, we all must confront the urge to give up. Don't do it! When you're tempted to rationalize - "Well, I'll quit for now, but I'll get back on track tomorrow or next week" - seize the day! Take one immediate action to get yourself moving toward your task before the temptation to once again throw in the towel gets too strong.

Quitting is a habit. Every time you quit, you damage your self esteem and send your psyche the message that you're incompetent. You are competent! And each time you take action and stick to your commitment when you felt like quitting, you'll gain a newfound confidence that makes the next step increasingly easier.


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