ARE YOU SPENDING OR INVESTING

“What if someone came to you and offered to deposit $86,400 into your bank account every morning? Wouldn’t that be heavenly! There’s only one catch: You must wisely spend or invest the entire amount every day. Any squandering of the money is not acceptable. Nothing can be carried over, and anything left in the account will be lost to you at midnight. Of course, another $86,400 will be deposited the following morning. What would you do in this situation? You bet! You would be sure to spend all of the money or invest it wisely. Well, this happens to you every day. Only the gift is not measured in dollars and cents; it is measured in time. You are given 86,400 seconds every day. How you use them is up to you. You can squander the time and lose its benefit, or you can invest it wisely and be rewarded. Don’t live a squandered life. Since you have only one life to give, live it well! What separates a futile life from a fruitful one? Your attitude. Your attitude will be the difference between existing and living!”


From Attitudes That Attract Success by Wayne Cordeiro

 

ARE YOU THE CARETAKER OF YOUR TEAM?

The following comes from Pat William's book "How To Be Like Mike."

“One day during the 1997-98 season, Phil Jackson called off a practice.  Michael said to Scottie Pippen, ‘We’re not playing well enough not to practice.  So they went to Phil and requested a practice.  Turned out they practiced for three hours.  Later, MJ said, ‘The best players have to be the caretakers.’”

YOU WORK AS HARD AS YOU CAN AS LONG AS YOU CAN

"I used to work so hard that I would often vomit after working out.  This was whether I was at Jackson State or with the Bears.  People would ask me why I could work like that even after I was a starter in the NFL, an All-Pro.  I always had a difficult time workout out with other people who didn't share that belief.  And I always thought, 'That's just the way you do it.'  You work as hard as you can for as along as you can and the small gains you make will eventually pay off."

From "Never Die Easy" by Walter Payton with Don Yaeger