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| Jeffrey N. Schweitzer, EPA, CEP, ATP
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| Northeast Financial Strategies Inc
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About Our Firm:
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Offering Financial & Estate Planning, Investments, Insurance, Accounting, Payroll, and Income Tax Preparation for Individuals & Small Business. "Financial Strategies That Fit YOUR Needs!"
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| QUOTES from
the
Masters... |
| On Planning |
On Wisdom |
| "The
reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation
is because they don't have it well designed." -–
Jim Rohn
"Don't
just do something, sit there! Sit there long enough each morning
to decide what is really important during the day ahead." -- Richard
Eyre
"Failing
to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals?" -–
Brian Tracy
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"Wisdom
too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because
it comes late." -- Felix Frankfurter
"To
make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and
mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future." –-
Plutarch
"True
wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often,
and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth
all things but his own ignorance." --
Akhenaton
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This Will Make You Feel Better |
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If you sometimes get
discouraged,
consider this fellow:
He dropped out of grade
school.
Ran a country store. Went broke. Took 15 years to pay off his
bills.
Took a wife. Unhappy marriage.
Ran for House. Lost twice.
Ran for Senate. Lost twice.
Delivered speech that
became a classic. Audience indifferent.
Attacked daily by the
press and despised by half the country.
Despite all this,
imagine how many people
all over the world have been inspired
by this awkward, rumpled,
brooding man
who signed his name
simply,
A. Lincoln
Please call my office if we can be of service.
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| MESSAGES
from
the Masters... |
CREATING YOUR CHARACTER IS LIKE AN ARTIST CREATING A SCULPTURE by Jim Rohn
Could creating your character be likened to an artist creating a
sculpture? In my opinion, I believe that character is not something
that just happens by itself, any more than a chisel can create a work
of art without the hand of an artist guiding it. In both instances, a
conscious decision for a specific outcome has been made. A conscious
process is at work. Character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of
choices you make that gradually turn who you are, at any given moment,
into who you want to be. If that decision-making process is not
present, you will still be somebody. You will still be alive, but may
have a personality rather than a character.
Character is not something you were born with and can't change like
your fingerprint. In fact, because you weren't born with it, it is
something that you must take responsibility for creating. I don't
believe that adversity by itself builds character and I certainly don't
think that success erodes it. Character is built by how you respond to
what happens in your life. Whether it's winning every game or losing
every game. Getting rich or dealing with hard times. You build
character out of certain qualities that you must create and diligently
nurture within yourself. Just like you would plant and water a seed or
gather wood and build a campfire. You've got to look for those things
in your heart and in your gut. You've got to chisel away in order to
find them. Just like chiseling away the rock in order to create the
sculpture that has previously existed only in your imagination.
But do you want to know the really amazing thing about character? If
you are sincerely committed to making yourself into the person you want
to be, you'll not only create those qualities, but you'll continually
strengthen them. And you will recreate them in abundance even as
you are drawing on them every day of your life. Just like the burning
bush in the biblical book of Exodus, the bush burned but the flames did
not consume it. Character sustains itself and nurtures itself even as
it is being put to work, tested, and challenged. And once character is
formed, it will serve as a solid, lasting foundation upon which to
build the life you desire.
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