Gerry L. Wright

The more positive and confident you are, the sharper and quicker your intuitions and solutions will be. Make it a practice to confidently expect things to go well for you.

Creative individuals frame their experiences. Such people are highly ambitious, and they do not always succeed, by any means. But when they fail, they do not waste much time lamenting; blaming; or, at the extreme, quitting. Instead, regarding the failure as a learning experience, they try to build upon its lessons in their future endeavors.

Men and women who are successful have a series of general skills, but they also have one or two core skills at which they have developed the ability to perform in an outstanding manner and do excellent work.

You don’t have to play basketball like Michael Jordan to have his mind-set and mental toughness, and apply it to whatever you do. You don’t need Kobe’s athletic skills to attack your dreams the way he attacks his. You don’t have to overcome injury and impossible odds like Dwyane Wade to overcome whatever obstacles are standing between you and your

It takes great strength to be vulnerable enough to put your ass on the line, in public, and work toward a dream that feels like it’s slipping away. We all have eyeballs on us. Our family and friends are watching, and even if you’re surrounded by positive people, they will have ideas about who you are, what you’re good at, and how you should focus y