Happy New Year, my fellow readers!
We have just begun a new year, 2013; how have you approached
and started this marvelous year? Did you set up a list of new year’s
resolutions, intentions, new goals, new mountains to climb? I think it’s time
for a jump-start, and the best time to get it going, the best time to start and
keep up the effort, to spread ambition, to show heart is: NOW!
In the course of the currently on-going playoffs of the
National Football League I would like to kickoff the first blog 2013 with the
following words of the legendary Vince Lombardi, who said: "The dictionary is
the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must
pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay
the price." Let this sink in for a minute and then re-read it. If 2013 is going
to be a successful year you must put in effort and hard work...and this is what
I want to encourage you to do. Jump-start 2013 with an ambitious explosion,
don’t wait, don’t hesitate, start now! If you had been able to take the
momentum of 2012 into the new year, get up and continue what you were doing
last year, step it up, and furthermore: keep it up!
Work is a privilege, a necessity, an opportunity—and
a damn chance to grab life by the horns (cf. Dodge), therefore: work! Success
will be the reward for your hard work, no matter what you’re going to do, but
do it full-on, with heart, and with passion. If you’re willing to work hard, to
pay the price for success, success is merely a matter of time, but always a
matter of fact. Let’s make this year an even better, more mind-blowing, more life-changing
one than the last. Get it started, for momentum you’ve already got. When people
ask you why you already work so hard, knowing the year has only just begun,
give ’em the F-150 Super Duty answer: "We own work [...] when compromise is not
an option" (cf. Ford).
If people tell you you’re watching to much television,
enchant them with the words Henry Ford once said: "There is no man living who
isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can do." You, as well as any
other person, is capable of doing things you don’t even know you could ever do—make
do...work hard...and be successful; because inspiration doesn’t favor
those who sit still, it dances with the daring (cf. Toyota). Dare, be inspired,
be willing to pay the price...and (you will) be successful.
Most of the ideas for this opening blog I derived from
(in)voluntarily watching commercials during the presentations of the NFL, so
when you watch football, pay attention to the messages, the ideas, the
inspiration those commercials convey; you don’t need to purchase inspiring
quote collections in your local bookstore, you don’t need to browse the
internet for food for the mind, you merely need to open your eyes and ears to
what is at hand. Do so and see, what you can learn, where you can get
inspiration in your everyday life!
