"Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts".

- Author unknown

I remember as a kid my grandpa reading me bedtime stories when I stayed at their house.  One I remember as a small kid was about the train engine trying to make it up the hill; you remember, where the train engine kept saying:

"I think I can, I think I can, I think I can"

and then as he topped the hill, he started saying:

"I knew I could, I knew I could, I knew I could"

That is the essence of this quote, think you can and you will!  Think you can't, and you wont!

Three Simple Rules in Life

Today's saying caught my eye as it is so simplistic.  Due to its simplistic nature, I am not going to comment any further but, instead, let you think about it.  BUT, after you read it and think about it - GO DO IT!

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

Ever wonder how the ones who "make it" in this world; how they did it?  It is quite simple; they are simply, repeatedly excellent.

That doesn't mean they do not make mistakes, that would make them perfect; but they are excellent.  They are excellent in their speaking, they are excellent in their thoughts, they are excellent in their deeds, they are excellent in their relationships, and they are excellent in business.

Anyone can hit excellence once, maybe even twice; but it only lasts if you make it a habit - being excellent every day.  When I was a kid, I used to listen to music; I was a big 80's hair band fan.  There were several "one hit wonders" that I enjoyed, but I don't remember most of them.  It was the bands that were consistently charting songs, they were "excellent" and continually put out albums (this was before the digital music age) that I remember.  Bands like:

Bon Jovi
Poison
Def Lepard
Van Halen
Aerosmith

You get the picture.

Make excellence a habit, something you do everyday in everything.  Excellence is a way of life, it is choosing to do right and be excellent in all walks of your life.  If you can master this thought, you too can be "excellent".  Simply make excellence a habit, not merely an act.

Life is Like Riding a Bicycle. To Keep Your Balance, You Must Keep Moving. - Albert Einstein

Nothing living, that quits moving ever gets better.  Keep moving forward, even when the challenges seem overwhelming.

A moving target is harder to hit than a moving target.  Remember those days going to a fair and playing that Old Western Shooting Gallery?  For a few dollars, you get to shoot a rifle at several different targets, racking up points for each hit.  Some of the targets were stationary while other targets were moving.  The stationary targets were never worth as many points as the moving targets; moving targets are harder to hit! 

Don't be stationary, keep moving!  Set a goal and work toward that goal.  Don't stop moving, keep going, even when the resistance seems to great.