If you make a commitment, honor it. If you make a promise, keep it. If you set a goal, achieve it.

Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it’s the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence...all directed at specific goals.

Advancement only come with habitually doing more than you are asked

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

The magic behind every outstanding performance is always found in the smallest of details.

It's simply not enough to just show up and do your work. Superior performance is not, never has been, nor will it ever be, the by-product of ordinary efforts.

Your job is not done when you have determined your goal. You must also plan for and determine how it is to be accomplished. Goals and plans are meaningless if they cannot be executed successfully!

Can you imagine what you could do, if you did all that you can?

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.

Each day should be founded on a purpose and work in harmony with the core reason for your life.

Do what feel is right, and back yourself up. Live the life you want to live,

Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It's real singing, and it's what the Kop is all about.

Prepare your hearts as a fortress, for there will be no other.

Take action once a day to do something that ignites your life.

Tell me, warrior, how soon can we do this again?

Take calculated risks. Act boldly and thoughtfully. Be an agile company.

To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

Wishing will not make it so. The Lord expects our thinking. He expects our action. He expects our labors. He expects our testimonies. He expects our devotion.

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