"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."

- Pablo Picasso

"If you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready."

- Will Smith


what is t.a.d.?
"I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan


what is t.a.d.?
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."

- William Shakespeare


what is t.a.d.?
"A belief is only a thought you continue to think. A belief is nothing more than a chronic pattern of thought, and you have the ability - if you try even a little bit- to begin a new pattern, to tell a new story, to achieve a different vibration, to change your point of attraction."

- Abraham-Hicks


what is t.a.d.?
"Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you."

- J. Gitomer


what is t.a.d.?
"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."

- Albert Camus


what is t.a.d.?
"Anything can be achieved in small, deliberate steps. But there are times you need the courage to take a great leap; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."

- David Lloyd George


what is t.a.d.?
"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson


what is t.a.d.?
"If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold."

- Howard Schultz


what is t.a.d.?
"Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

- Aristotle


what is t.a.d.?
"One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection."

- Madeleine Kunin


what is t.a.d.?

At the six month mark

We are at the mid-point of another year, and you have the opportunity to determine what you will do over the next six months to make 2011 what you want it to be. Take some time over the next few days to sit down and meditate on your goals. Write them down, and develop a plan of action for each. And most importantly, take that first step - no matter how small.

Here are a few posts from the archive to help motivate you:

> The February experiment (on developing new habits)
> Every day starts a New Year!
> Future me

Remember, the great equalizer is time - we all have the same number of minutes in a day, days in a week, and weeks in a year. Use your time wisely so that, in six months, you can look back on 2011 as the year you wanted it to be.

what is t.a.d.?
"The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time."

- Joe Girard


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