I return home reinvigorated once again by my Dale Carnegie Course, where I work as a Volunteer Coach. This is such a wonderfully motivating environment that the positive energy feast only serves to help me be at my best as I go to work this month.

The sales are full and to their proper extension, life is taking a newer direction, never before has it been this interesting or invigorating.

All Hale 2009.

It began with all the pomp and circumstance to light a fire in my belly getting me to take a look at everything and realize that the most interesting challenges await me this year, but challenges are good, and strengthen your virtual muscles.

If life had no curve balls, it would be too smooth and that could spell disaster and idleness.

Right now, taking the initiative was never more important. Every day spells networking prioritization to make the most of each new wave of success.

Interestingly enough, passion for every endeavor, and a positive forward thinking focus is the key to success.

I must consistently, and constantly remind myself of this fact. Nothing worth doing ever came without some grit, tenacity, and some stubbornness in the forward direction of reaching a goal.

I have many a time attended my beloved San Jose Sharks Hockey games, this means that I get to watch them try to score a goal in a small window on an incredibly gifted hockey goalie. There is nothing more amazing then watching the puck go in the net.

I liken this to life, anything worth while must be fought for and won, on the field of business battle. Vince Lombardi once stated:

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi

Well put. Here we are in this kind of scenario. When I go into work every day it is easy to lose site of the goal. Welcome to 2009, a Season for Courage, and a time where goals are met and made through grit and hope. Every fill, every business success comes when life throws you a curve ball. When that happens it is time to hit a home run out of the park. Through focus and patient resolve, anything can be accomplished.

I am thrilled to be in a place where I can be in the driver's seat. I still have an incredible feeling that in spite of a down economy through positive mental outlook and aptitude that any business success can be obtained if passion is applied to the most important of life pursuits-happiness.