Based on these seven principles on two Scripture passages:

"The righteous man will flourish like the palm tree; He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God. They will still yield in old age; they shall be full of sap and very green, to declare that the Lord is upright; He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him" (Psalm 92:12-15).

And Psalm 103:5 says the Lord "satisfies your years with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle."

1. Keep Learning. Undisciplined lifestyles result from live of people who aren't constantly learning - about God's Word and about new things that challenge you mind. (Proverbs 4:20)

2. Keep Loving. Emphasized the importance of taking your bitterness, resentment, jealousy, and unforgiveness to the cross-or else it prevents you from receiving God's love and returning that love to Him and to others in your life.

3. Keep Laughing. Being able to laugh causes you to be more open and more transparent. God intended for us to have a healthy sense of humor and laugh. Proverbs 17:22 says, "A Joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones."

4. Keep Laboring. God never intended for us, as we age, to cease working. Psalm 92:14-15 tells us that those who are planted in the Lord's house "will still yield fruit in old age; they shall be full of sap and very green." Being "full of sap" means full of energy and being "green" refers to living a productive life rather than giving up at a certain age. That doesn't mean you have to continue in the same career all of your life, but God wants His children actively involved in productive service of some kind for their entire lives. It's what keeps us mentally vibrant.

5. Keep Leaving. Letting go of past hurts is the key to allowing God's love to flow through you. In fact, until we forgive ourselves, we cannot love ourselves or anyone else. "God doesn't want us keeping and continuing with old hurts, old criticism, and old jealousy."

6. Keep Longing. Keep longing for better things; God wants you to dream. He wants you to have goals. Find out what God wants you to do in life, and continually challenge your mind and spirit. Be willing to take risks as God guides. When God directs you into new avenues of ministry, career, and friendship, an important thing to remember: "God leads us one step at a time. If you wait until you can figure it out, you'll live most of your life in disobedience."

"Most people are so shortsighted, they look at what do I feel, What do I want? People with vision look beyond today. We live in a world of shortsightedness; it's not what happens today. It's what can happen, what will happen?"

7. Keep Leaning. Continue to lean on God and trust Him for everything. Proverbs 3:5-6 says, "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight." "If that becomes the core of your thinking," "It will keep you young."

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Each of us has two distinct choices to make about what we will do with our lives. The first choice we can make is to be less than we have the capacity to be. To earn less. To have less. To read less and think less. To try less and discipline ourselves less. These are the choices that lead to an empty life. These are the choices that, once made, lead to a life of constant apprehension instead of a life of wondrous anticipation.

And the second choice? To do it all! To become all that we can possibly be. To read every book that we possibly can. To earn as much as we possibly can. To give and share as much as we possibly can. To strive and produce and accomplish as much as we possibly can. All of us have the choice.

To do or not to do. To be or not to be. To be all or to be less or to be nothing at all. Like the tree, it would be a worthy challenge for us all to stretch upward and outward to the full measure of our capabilities. Why not do all that we can, every moment that we can, the best that we can, for as long as we can?

Our ultimate life objective should be to create as much as our talent and ability and desire will permit. To settle for doing less than we could do is to fail in this worthiest of undertakings. Results are the best measurement of human progress. Not conversation. Not explanation. Not justification. Results! And if our results are less than our potential suggests that they should be, then we must strive to become more today than we were the day before. The greatest rewards are always reserved for those who bring great value to themselves and the world around them as a result of whom and what they have become.

By : Jim Rohn

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The enemy of great is good. The primary reason so few leaders or organizations ever become great is because they get good and then stop. They stop growing, learning, risking, and changing. They use their track record or prior successes as evidence that they've arrived. Believing their own headlines, the leaders in these successful organizations are ready to write it down, build the manual, and document the formula. This mentality shifts their business from a growth to a maintenance mindset.

Neither you nor your business ever "arrives." We never get to the place where there's nothing more to be done and nothing more to be said. In the words of my friend Dave Anderson, "Yesterday's peacock is tomorrow's feather duster." What you strutted yesterday; the next day is just cleaning dust off of shelves.

I like to distinguish between a "goal mindset" and a "growth mindset." A person with a "goal mindset" has very tangible, numerical goals to achieve over a specific period of time. Nothing is wrong with clearly defined goals, but there's a better way of thinking that I call a "growth mindset." A growth mindset recognizes goals on the journey, but only as part of a process—not as the end results.

When goal-oriented people hit a milestone, they have tendency to settle very quickly, but when growth-minded individuals hit a goal, they blow right on by because they're constantly learning and growing.

Success has a brutal side: It can make you arrogant, it can make you complacent, and it can close your mind. To survive the temptations of triumph, we must realize that success is not the point and should never be the ultimate objective of an enterprise. The goal of business is to strive to reach full potential. I define full potential as focusing on seeing how far you can go, how good you can get, and how many people you can bring with you. Reality dictates that you will most likely never reach your full potential, but the journey keeps you humble, hungry, and focused. What you become in the process helps you and your organization make the leap from good to great. Use your success as a stepping stone, not a pedestal.

Leaders of successful organizations are tempted to stop working on themselves. They continue to work hard on their job, but they have a tendency to neglect personal growth. They use their experience and track record as a license never to read another book and an excuse never to attend another developmental course in their field. They point to their acclaim and accomplishments and decide to rely on the skills they have learned in the past to run the rest of their career. They develop an arrogance of intelligence that creates a disabling ignorance. This ignorance disables them, their people, and, as a result, their business.

Growing people grow people. But when you don't grow, you plateau. It's just a matter of time. Once this happens, you plateau everyone working for you. When I as a leader go flat, my influence with everybody in my organization fizzles and fades. When the leader doesn't grow, the people don't grow. It's the Law of the Lid; a stagnant leader stunts the growth of the organization.

Let me give you four benefits of pursuing your potential, even during seasons of success.
• We have higher self-esteem. People that are constantly learning and growing have a good self-image.
• We are willing to change and risk. One of the obvious evidences of growing people is that they are constantly changing and risking. Show me a person that doesn't change, that doesn't risk, and I'll show you a person that's not growing.
• Our passion increases. When we begin to grow personally, our passion for life and learning begins to increase proportionately.
• We lift the lid for others. What a leader does determines what everybody else is going to do. The people don't pass the leader. An organization's growth doesn't outpace the leader's progress. As I lift the lid for myself, I lift the lid for others.

One of the most amazing things to me is how much room there is at the top. On the other hand, it's jam-packed and crowded at the bottom. On the streets of average, there's traffic and congestion, but success has so few people on the roads. It's amazing how the higher you go, the less people there are. Three percent of the people in the United States have a library card. Six percent of Americans believe Elvis is still alive. Trust me, there's a lot of room at the top.
As a leader you should learn like you'll live forever and live like you'll die tomorrow. Either way, you're covered. by : John C. Maxwell

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Father's Day is approcahing. May you be inspired with this video. Enjoy!

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Mistakes are the springboards of accomplishment. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had as much foresight as hindsight and were able to avoid ever making a mistake? Not only is that unrealistic, it's unwise. Out of mistakes come major accomplishments because mistakes are often the springboard for accomplishment.

Once Thomas Edison was working with a lab assistant who was coming up dry after over 700 experiments. In discouragement he told Mr. Edison that after all these mistakes, errors and false starts, he simply did not believe the project was valid. Mr. Edison quickly told him that he was not wasting his time and that he now knew more about the project than anybody alive. Edison wisely observed that he had not made "mistakes" but had acquired an "education" as to what would not work. Needless to say, the assistant went back to his project with renewed vigor.

It's safe to say that if each of us took that approach to life we would end up accomplishing much, much more. After every mistake we need to understand that we can look back and learn so that we can move forward with confidence and avoid making the same mistake again. Let's look at three tips on how to handle a mistake - either at home or at the office.

First, don't let it depress or discourage you. See a mistake as a step on the road to a solution. We must realize that depression and discouragement are negatives that limit the future. Second, admit the mistake - I'll admit that takes courage, but recognition of errors is a sign of maturity. Not to recognize them is to deny them. The reality is that "denial" is more than just a river in Egypt - it's something that will limit your future. Third, understand that when we confront our mistakes we are taking full advantage of them as the "positives" they are. Only when you ignore mistakes are they negative. Buy that idea and I'll SEE YOU AT THE TOP!

By : Zig Ziglar - A motivator and teacher. He is the author of 26 books and loved by millions of people world wide for his practical wisdom and his gift of hope.

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