The Morning Ascent

Quite often the hardest part of the journey is simply believing you are worthy of the trip.

Happiness doesn't start with a relationship, vacation, job, or money. It starts with your thoughts and what you tell yourself everyday. Your thoughts lead to words. Your words lead to action. And your actions lead to habits. Your daily habits formulate your reality.

When you learn a new way to think, you can master a new way to be.

The beginning of good things are always the hardest, but its these times that pave the path to greatness. The greatest miracle of your success in life will not be that you finished, it will be that you found the strength and courage to not only begin but to stay the course. Persistence is the single most common characteristic of high achievers.

It's not that those who are strong never get weak, or that we never hold our breath before we embark, it's that while our knees are shaking we force ourselves to breathe and take the next step forward.

Life is not easy. Achieving anything worthwhile takes time and effort. Align your efforts with your goals and then start every day ready to run farther than you did yesterday and fight harder than you ever have before. As your life unfolds, you will often realize that many of the times you thought you were being rejected from something good, you were in fact being redirected to something better.

You don't have to control everything to find peace and happiness. You just need to do your best and have faith that things will work out.

Believe in yourself and act every day as if it were impossible to fail.

Make today your day to shine!