A great marketing genius named Roy Williams says that our minds are far better suited to imagination than reality...

"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time." -- Joe Girard

To be self-reliant adults, we need to get some guidelines:

• Be different, if it means higher personal and professional standards.
• Be different, if it means being more gracious and considerate to others.
• Be different, if it means being cleaner, neater and better groomed than the group.
• Be different, if it means putting more time and effort into all you do.
• And be different, if it means taking the calculated risk. The greatest risk in life is to wait for and depend upon others for your own security. The greatest security is to plan and act, and take the risk that will ultimately ensure your personal freedom and independence.

...Denis Waitley

"Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said." -- Jim Rohn*

"There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it." -- Dale Carnegie

"Leaders tap into the emotions of their people by getting excited themselves." -– Brian Tracy