Today I wanted to share an email that I received from Cardinal Fitness. The Lou Holtz quote particularly stood out to me. Attitude is the key ingredient in almost everything you do in life. You can have all of the talent in the world, a ton of motivation- but if you don’t approach your life with a positive attitude you will never reach your full potential. With so many things going on and so many negative people out there, this can easily be forgotten. This email serves as a reminder. Read. Be inspired. Enjoy.
Begin email from Cardinal Fitness:
To achieve big things this year, you have to continuously challenge yourself. The road to success is typically long and hard. We look forward to helping you stay in shape for your journey.
Thought for the Day
Words can create impressions, images and expectations. They can influence how we think and sometimes even determine our actions. There’s a powerful connection between the words we use and the results we get.
You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
-Edmund Hillary
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
-John Quincy Adams
Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
-Lou Holtz
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-George Eliot
That Lou Holtz comment is one of my favorites. Attitude really is the key indicator. I’m sure there are a lot of exceptionally smart people out there with poor attitudes who will never do anything remarkable in their entire lives.
I went to high school with a guy who got a 1590 on his SAT’s. He only missed 3 questions! He dropped out of college in his second year because he just didn’t have the drive to finish. This was one of the smartest people I ever met in my life and he dropped out of school simply because of a poor attitude.