Living a Life of Purpose

In this day and age that we live in it is vitally important to set our sights on our call, our Destiny, and to have purpose in our lives.  I’ve compiled the following quotes to help inspire you, encourage you, and possibly provoke you to live a life of purpose.  Enjoy!

Only life’s best to each of you…..Cindy Seip

“The purpose of life is a life with purpose.”~Robert Byrne

“Do not mistake activity for achievement.”~Mabel Newcomber“When he walks, he casts a shadow of purpose.”~Emme Woodhull-Bäche “Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.”~Washington Irving “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”~Helen Keller “Purpose serves as a principle around which to organize our lives.”~Anonymous “I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know:  the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.”~A. Schweitzer “We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our heart.”~John Ruskin “Life is a promise; fulfill it.”~Mother Theresa “The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”~Ralph W. Emerson “How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.” ~William Shakespeare “Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.”~M. L. King “Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.”~Anonymous “I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail. “~Woodrow Wilson It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly.”

A Joy-filled Journey to Destiny!

With the help of the World-wide Web, I’ve compiled some great quotes which I hope will encourage, empower, and help you see how truly valuable you are in this journey of life.  Please take from this site what you need to fulfill your destiny, and to have a joy-filled journey, as you find your true purpose in life!  Enjoy your own special journey!

Cindy

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“Focus on the journey, not the destination.  Joy is found not in finishing an activity, but in doing it.” Greg Anderson “Joy is your destiny. You were created for joy.  Pay attention to what brings you joy and take joyful actions daily.  Creative action equals joy attraction.  Joy is the path to your true purpose.” Marta Davidovich “Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.” Wilfred T. Grenfell “Joy comes from using your potential.” Will Schultz “This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.” George Bernard Shaw “Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy.” Upanishads “Joy is our goal, our destiny.  We cannot know who we are except in joy.  Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves.” Marianne Williamson Does your journey feel like “The Path Less Traveled?”  If so, you’re not alone.  We are all called to do something great, and to be great means that we are called to do something out of the ordinary, or in other words, ODD!  Enjoy your destiny!

Endurance: The Key to Health, Success, Life, and Happiness?

Yesterday was a beautiful day in Frankfort, Kentucky, so I decided to take a VERY LONG walk to test my endurance level.  All told, the walk was probably close to 12-15 miles long with several hills!  While I was walking, I realized that what I was doing required a great deal of endurance.  I also realized the similarities between the endurance required to run the race of life, the endurance to grow a business in the 21st Century, and understanding human endurance.  That being said, I’ve compiled the following quotes about endurance.  Please be encouraged by these words. “Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.”   William Barclay   “Endurance is patience concentrated.”   Thomas Carlyle   “Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.”   John Ruskin    ”Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.”   “Endurance is the crowning quality, and patience all the passion of great hearts.”  James Russell Lowell “Unless you have courage, (a courage that keeps you going), always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race. Henry Ford   “Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.” Kenneth Hildebrandt “Success demands singleness of purpose. “ Vincent Lombardi “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” Booker T. Washington  “Prolonged endurance tames the bold.”  Lord Byron ““Those who endure conquer.”

“When the Going Gets Tough, the ‘Tough’ Get Going.”

I found this article about never giving up, and it was probably one of the most powerful articles I’ve read on human endurance, will-power, fortitude, and courage.  I hope that the heart of each and every single person that reads this is touched as deeply as I was.  I was moved to tears after I read it because I realized that I’ve overcome many of the same obstacles that Wilma did, but as a woman business owner in a primarily male-dominated society.  I could read between the lines to see my own willingness to persevere through each and every trial, obstacle, and set-back that you could possibly imagine.  I went through all of that so that my success would somehow impact the lives of others.  My goal is to leave a lasting impression on other entrepreneurs, male or female, that you are well able to take the land!  With each battle won, we’re that much closer to being able to encourage others wholeheartedly to go ahead, take the risk, take the step, and ultimately trust in yourself!  So from me to you—GO FOR THE GOLD—Be a Wilma in the Virtual Assistance arena of life, or in your little corner of the world!!!!  Enjoy!

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 Cindy Seip, Founder, CEO, and Lead VA

OPTT, Inc.

Office Professionals’ Temporary Team, Inc.

Hope in Times of Hopelessness

In these trying times, please be encouraged by these quotes about hope from distinguished individuals who have faced many of the challenges that we face.

“Never talk defeat.  Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.”  “Practice hope.  As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.”  

Norman Vincent Peale

“Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, ‘Yes,’ and hope will reappear.”

Monroe Forester

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“Hope deferred maketh the heart sick; but when desire cometh, it is a tree of life.”  “There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.”  

 King Solomon   

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“Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.” “Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.” 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and seeing them gratified.  He that labors in any great or laudable undertaking has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy…To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.”  “Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.”                                     

Samuel Johnson     

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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.  Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”

Helen Keller

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“Within each of us is a hidden store of energy. Energy we can release to compete in the marathon of life. Within each of us is a hidden store of courage. Courage to give us the strength to face any challenge. Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost.”     

Roger Dawson

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“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.”  

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Building Character in our lives…

Some Powerful Thoughts about Character

Character, honesty, integrity, and virtue all seem to tie together so nicely into one neat little package. “ It is my earnest desire to possess a life that exemplifies a character of excellence!”  Cindy Seip 

“I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.” John D. Rockefeller

“I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that ultimately fails.” Woodrow Wilson

“If people like you, they’ll listen to you; but, if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”Zig Ziglar

“Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.” Alexander Pope

 “Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.” Arthur Schopenhauerv

 “How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.” William Shakespeare

What Determines Success?

How Others Characterize True Success

“The secret of success is constancy to purpose.” BENJAMIN DISRAELI

“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.”  Sophia Loren

 

 “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.” Louis Pasteur

 

  “Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” Benjamin Franklin

 

“I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” John D. Rockefeller

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” Conrad Hilton

“If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying. “Here comes number seventy-one!” Richard M. Devos

“Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.” Admiral Hyman Rickover

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.” Walter Elliott

“Before success comes in any man’s life he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps, some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do.” Napoleon Hill

“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.” Napoleon Hill

“What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.” Napoleon Hill

“Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.” Dr. Samuel Johnson

“Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic. It is not idly, passively waiting and hoping for some good thing to happen. It gives us hope by helping us realize that the righteous suffer no failure except in giving up and no longer trying. We must never give up, regardless of temptations, frustrations, disappointments, or discouragements.” Joseph P. Wirthlin

“You don’t become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems.” Mark Victor Hansen
“He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter.” Henry Fielding

“A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must….be undaunted when the going gets tough.” Ronald Reagan

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Cost Comparison: Full-time Employee versus Virtual Assistant

A cost comparison for a full-time employee versus a Virtual Assistant 

COST COMPARISON	Full-time Employee	Virtual Assistant
Hourly Rate of Pay	$20.00	$35.00
Fringe Benefits @ 35% (Health/Dental/Life Insurance, Retirement Plans)	7.00	None
Overhead Rate @ 50% (Office Space, Equipment & Office Supply expense, UI Insurance, Worker’s Compensation, Overtime Pay, Administration Costs)	$10.00	None
Total Effective Rate of Pay	$37.00	$35.00
**Hours Per Year	2,080 hrs.	480 hrs.
TOTAL Annual Labour Cost	$76,960.00	$16,800.00

 Difference = $60,160.00 per year

By hiring a Virtual Assistant…
You SAVE over $60,000.00 per year!

Although the Virtual Assistant’s hourly rate is more than the employee’s rate in the first place, you save the cost of benefits and overhead that would have to be applied to the new employee’s wage. And, because Virtual Assistant’s are usually more experienced, more efficient, and better connected than the employee, you’ll need to devote far less time to the project to get the same results, only 480 hours a year versus 2,080 for the new employee.

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More thoughts on courage…

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”  ~Ambrose Redmoon

“Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.”  ~Samuel Johnson 

“Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.”  ~Ralph Waldo EmersonCourage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”  ~Winston Churchill

“Courage doesn’t always roar.  Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”  ~Mary Anne Radmacher

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”  ~Mark Twain

What is courage????

“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.”

 

Allen Cohen

 

I moved this past week into a new complex, a smaller apartment, and it was all completed in four days!  It was a stretch for me personally, but through the change, or through “movement,” I discovered a different level of LIFE!  I plan to experience a new level of power in my life, too!  Change is good!