Author Archives: Jim Montgomery

YOUR ASPIRATIONS ARE YOUR POSSIBILITIES

YOUR ASPIRATIONS ARE YOUR POSSIBILITIES

The first ingredient of your success is to dream a great dream.

You must dream big and think big to be big. High expectation always precedes high achievement.

You’re as small as your controlling desires, or as great as your dominant aspirations.

Once your mind stretches to a new idea it will never go back to its original dimensions. If you dream of little goals you can expect little achievement.

Dream of big goals and you’ll win big success.

PEOPLE WITH GOALS SUCCEED

PEOPLE WITH GOALS SUCCEED

Without goals there is no is no achievement.

A set definitive objective must be established if you are to accomplish anything in a big way.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this. Decide what you want. The world will turn aside and let you pass if you know where you are going.

Goals give you a starting place and a destination. Determine what you want. Decide on your major objections, targets, and destination.

You can plant your own dream, with a goal.

MOUNTAINS ARE CLIMBED ONE STEP AT A TIME

MOUNTAINS ARE CLIMBED ONE STEP AT A TIME

Everyone who got where they are had to begin where they were. Your opportunity for success is right in front of you.

To attain success or to reach your goal, don’t worry about having all the answers in advance. You just need to have a clear idea of your goal and move toward it.

Don’t procrastinate when faced with a difficult problem. Break your problems into parts and handle one part at a time.

Develop a tendency toward action. You can make something happen today. Break your big plan for success into small steps and take the first step right away.

Success starts with a first step.

DON’T BELIEVE IN MIRACLES, DEPEND ON THEM

DON’T BELIEVE IN MIRACLES, DEPEND ON THEM

You don’t need an explanation for everything.

Recognize that there are such things as miracles, events for which there are no explanations. Later, knowledge may explain those events away.

The fact that you plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return are common miracles.

Your duty to yourself is to believe that for which you have sufficient evidence, and to suspend your judgement when you have not.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Vision is the art of seeing invisible things.

SUCCESS IS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK

SUCCESS IS CLOSER THAN YOU THINK

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity. But you have to act on them if you’re going to be successful.

Distant pastures always look greener than those close at hand, but real opportunities are right where you are.

You must simply take advantage of them when they appear. You can start where you are at any time.

Success is all around you. It’s not in your environment, it’s not in luck or chance, or in the help of others. Success is in yourself alone.

You don’t need more strength or more ability or greater opportunity. What you need is to use what you have. Learn to seize good fortune, for it is always around you.

You must go to success, it doesn’t come to you.

Open your own doors to opportunity.

YOU WILL FIND TRUE JOY USING YOUR POTENTIAL

YOU WILL FIND TRUE JOY USING YOUR POTENTIAL

Your greatest success and happiness in life will be found when you use your natural abilities to their fullest extent. Happiness is not

having or being. It’s in the doing.

The essence of true wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is activity, laughter, and love.

You were created to conquer your environment, to solve problems, and to achieve goals. You’ll find no real satisfaction or

happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Yes, there is true happiness. It’s found in doing a job well done, in achieving a worthy goal, in putting your child to sleep, and in

writing the last line of your poem.

Your personal growth itself contains the seed of happiness.

FOLLOW THE PATH OF OTHERS TO SUCCESS

FOLLOW THE PATH OF OTHERS TO SUCCESS

You can learn from other people to make up for your lack of experience in any area of life.

Be open and receptive to the people around you. They have things to teach you.

Take advantage of the people that have made the journey ahead of you.

Try to pick the right role models. Don’t look for people that make you feel good or entertain you. Look for people that can help you.

Role models are more than people you like and admire.

The key is to look for people that will help you to be more successful. You can learn from the mistakes of others. You can learn

different approaches to overcoming challenges.

Learning “what not to do” is as important as learning “what to do.”

WHEN YOU STOP DREAMING YOU STOP LIVING

WHEN YOU STOP DREAMING YOU STOP LIVING

If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and yourself.

Hold the image of yourself as you long to be, the image of what you long to obtain, the image of health, efficiency and success.

You can lift yourself by your thoughts. Your vision will allow you surmount the highest obstacles. High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

What you see is what you get.

You’ll become as small as your controlling desire or as great as your dominant aspiration. The courage to follow your dreams is your first step towards destiny.

You can live your dreams.

LOVE IS ETERNAL

LOVE IS ETERNAL

Once you have learned to love; who you are, what you do, and those around you, you will have truly learned to live.

Search for love, for it is the most important ingredient of life.

Without it, your life will echo emptiness.

With it, your life will vibrate with warmth and meaning. Even during any hardship, love will shine through.

To love abundantly is to live abundantly. To love forever is to live forever.

Be thankful for what you have now.

And be thankful for the opportunities for love and success that are before you.

ALL PERSONAL GROWTH INVOLVES CHANGE

ALL PERSONAL GROWTH INVOLVES CHANGE
Personal growth is the process of responding positively to change. It involves risk as you step from the known to the unknown. 

All your growth will depend on your activity. Your strength and growth will come only through continuous effort and struggle. 

There will be no development without effort. 

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer of life. Your trials, your sorrows and your grief’s will develop you. 

When good or bad fortune comes your way, you must give it meaning and transform it into something of value. 

What happens to you is not as important as your reaction to what is happening.