Harvesting Your Sweetest Dreams this Spring.

Written by Nancy D. Bishop


"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedesrepparttar goal." ~ Pamela Vaull Starr

The days are getting longer now andrepparttar 130319 sun sits higher inrepparttar 130320 sky. The sugar maples stretch after a long cold winter. Soon their sweet sap will run and fires will be lit at maple sugarhouses for all night boiling vigils. The fires must be continually stoked, babied and watched. Dreams are cooking. You can seerepparttar 130321 evidence as white smoke billows out fromrepparttar 130322 rooftops of maple sugarhouses and sweet steam rises fillingrepparttar 130323 air. The farmer's dream is to boilrepparttar 130324 sap collected fromrepparttar 130325 maple tree into maple syrup in a span of 4 to 6 weeks.

If you ever visit a sugarhouse during boiling season I think you will find a happy crew of farmers, neighbors and friends talking aboutrepparttar 130326 past winter and making predictions for this year's maple season. People support one another duringrepparttar 130327 long boiling time whilerepparttar 130328 dream is cooking. Making maple syrup is not a enture "to go alone" asrepparttar 130329 process is demanding. Temperatures have to be watched,repparttar 130330 fires can't go out and every yearrepparttar 130331 season depends on justrepparttar 130332 right weather conditions.

To Be A Champion, Become A Child

Written by Priya Shah


Copyright © 2003 Priya Shah

Have you ever wondered what successful people have that makes them successful?

Ever wonder how those champion recruiters in your company manage, month after month, to getrepparttar most new recruits,repparttar 130318 biggest bonuses,repparttar 130319 largest paychecks?

Well let me tell you a secret. No one starts out as a Champion. Most of them started out like you and me.

So what is it that makes a Champion different fromrepparttar 130320 rest?

Champions have an attitude, a mindset that sets them apart fromrepparttar 130321 rest. But most of these qualities are not exceptional.

Indeed each and every one of us possesses these qualities when we start out in life. But somewhere alongrepparttar 130322 way we tend to lose them and diminish our own potential.

To be a Champion, you must first become a Child! Let me explain:

1. Champions are Willing to Learn.

Children come into this world with an innate desire to learn, to understandrepparttar 130323 world around them.

They are like sponges observing and absorbing every fact, every reaction. Because they know that their very survival depends on it.

One ofrepparttar 130324 most important, and oft-repeated, qualities we need to succeed in business is a willingness to learn - to be teachable.

To become a champion, you must be willing to educate yourself or be educated, to read about, learn and absorb allrepparttar 130325 things you need to know, even if they are completely new to you.

If you don't, you are doomed to failure fromrepparttar 130326 start.

2. Champions are Willing to Act

Have you notice how children completely geared towards action? As soon as they learn a new skill, they want to put it into action.

Champions arerepparttar 130327 same. They put their newly learned skills to use, taking concrete steps to improve their performance, so they can take their business torepparttar 130328 next level.

They know that they must act on what they have learned, even if they haven't perfected it. Which brings me to their next quality.

3. Champions are Not Afraid to Fail

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