Amy Jacobs, Ameriplan® NSD/NT Ace Recruiter - Top Producer

I am feeling good today & ready to go! My 2 year old is still sleeping (This is a first) So I am enjoying this time and taking advantage of the quiet time.

LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting forthe other person to die. -Carrie Fisher

LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. -Muhammad Ali

MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin
STAY POSITIVE!

LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
The greatest gift you can give to somebody
is your own personal development. I used to say
"If you take care of me, I will take care of you."
Now I say, "I will take care of me for you,
if you will take care of you for me."
--Jim Rohn

LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
The secret of success is to be ready when
your opportunity comes. --Benjamin Disraeli

MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
Tomorrow is now.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

We went to six flags yesterday for Rhiana's Birthday we had so much FUN we got there at 9:30am and left when the park closed at 9pm :-) We bought the Gold flash pass SO WORTH the extra money you reserve your ride position and get paged then you get on at the front of the lines we only waited 4-5 minutes compared to hours of line waiting time. I am still pretty tired we got home after 11pm and to bed after midnight.

LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS: You have your pencil. You have your colors. You paint paradise and live there.

LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS: THE BEST PART OF LIFE is not just surviving, but thriving-
With passion and compassion
And humor and style,
And generosity and kindness.
-Maya Angelou

MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
To gain access to the tremendousknowledge of your higher spirit,
You must quiet the mind that thinks,and go to the part that knows.

Yesterday was my hubby's B-Day so I took the kiddos shopping when he was at work we got him balloons, presents, cards and I bought one of those big variety cheesecakes (his favorite) when he came home we took him out for dinner :-) Sunday is my daughters B-day and were going to Six Flags for the day I bought her one of those life size card board Spongebob's (LOL) she loves Spongebob so that's her B-day theme for this year I also got her a tiara and sash to make her feel like a princess for her special day!

LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS: The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.

LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
The Three P's that lead to success and all your dreams...Passion, Purpose and Positive Steps. --Vernice Armour

MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
Saltwater is the cure for everything that ails us,sweat, tear or the sea.

I am not sure whats going on I think I have a stomach bug I feel so nauseous and sick this morning hopefully it passes I will be taking it easy today.

LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS: Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb. --Stephen Covey

LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS: Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action. --Ralph Waldo Emerson

MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
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

LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS: Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. --Zelda Fitzgerald

LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. --John Randolph

MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. --Martin Luther King, Jr.

STAY POSITIVE!

I hope everyone had a great weekend :-) Yesterday we went to see the new Fantastic Four movie it was good! We really liked it! It was such a Hot and Humid weekend both days were in the 90's to high when your 8 months pregnant that's for sure I would rather stay in witht he ac going (lol)

LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS: Nobody sees a flower--really--it is so small it takes time--we haven't time--and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. --Georgia O'Keeffe

LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS: Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought. --Karl Jaspers

MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
Men are like wine; some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. --Pope John XXII

I hope all you dad's have a Happy Fathers Day~

LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS: If, out of time, I could pick one moment and keep it shining, always new, of all the days that I have lived, I'd pick the moment I met you.--Unknown

LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS: What is success? It's the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
When one door closes another one opens. What you believe is the worst moment of your life could turn out to be the beginning of a new and better life... --Margie Tsoukias
STAY POSITIVE!

Fathers day is coming up fast I really have not put that much thought into it until now I am starting to get back on track after loosing my father. From the kiddos I ordered a father of the year plaque from personal creations. From me I think I am going to get hubby a Sears gift card and let him buy whatever. Next week I have my daughters B-day and hubbys B-day (lol) My daughter will be 2 years old we are going to Six Flags Great America for her Birthday.

Vitamins for the Mind: * Have a power picture of who you want to become. * Keep your word. Do not make excuses - don't even borrow them.* Stop talking failure.* Become a great communicator. That makes things happen.* Do not wait for things to happen.* Have a sense of urgency about your business.* Challenge yourself to have certain things done by a certain date. It's called a "By when.".* Learn to duplicate what successful people do and then do it. * Be bold - you can do it. The more you put into your business, the more you get out of it.* Continue to improve * Remember, the way you spend your time is far more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time spend is gone forever. Spend the rest of your life saying, " I am so glad I did this," instead of, "Oh, I wish I had done that." * Read, read, read. Become a reader and a leader.* Listen to motivational tapes every single day or listen free calls from Elllie Drake or Dani Johnson.Fire up! Just do it!

LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
Life is the flower for which love is the honey. --Victor Hugo

LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. --George E. Woodberry

MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for? --Robert Browning

It was a pretty good weekend yesterday we went to splash station water park with the kiddos. They had tons of fun! It was so great when we got home they were both so tired they went straight to bed so me and hubby had a great QUIET evening we were even able to watch a movie together we watched the Messangers it was good & pretty scary.

LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it. -Samuel Johnson

MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
Optimism is a kind of heart stimulus--the digitalis of failure. -Elbert Hubbard
STAY POSITIVE!

My sons school only goes today for 1 hour (LOL) so I will go pick him up in about 30 minutes they are having a Birthday party and receive report cards and that's it. I am so excited and proud of him next year he will be a 1st grader and in school ALL DAY (WOOHOOOO).

LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
There's nothing more important in life, than the people you meet along the way.

LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
Leaders who walk their talk will never lack for resources to get the job done.

MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
In the end each of us will be judged by our standard of life, not our standard of living.

My son and I had a wonderful time on his field trip yesterday! It's so cool to watch him interact with his piers. All the kiddos were wonderful and full of personailty :-)


LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was,
the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove.but, the world may
be different because I was important in the life of a child.

LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
I've never known anyone who, on their deathbed said.
I wish I had spent more time at the office.

MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
Tomorrow never comes and yesterday never comes back, so live today
to it's fullest so that your yesterdays will be remembered with happiness
and your tomorrows will be full of brightness and hope.- Nick Smith

I wont be home tomorrow I am going as a chaperon for my son's end of the year field trip we will be taking the city bus to the train station and then the train to Chicago! Should be interesting its going to be nice and cool outside (thank god) so I should be good to go!
Hes very excited :-)

Friday is my sons last day of school :-( He is very excited (lol) I am not to thrilled I enjoy the quiet time in the mornings o well next year he will be starting first grade and go all day (WOOHOO) of course hes not happy with that (lol)

LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. --James Russell Lowell

LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
You can increase your brain power three- to fivefold simply by laughing and having fun before working on a problem. --Doug Hall

MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle. --Norman Vincent Peale

Even though it was a short week I am so glad its Friday! We are taking the kiddos to the Chicago Childrens Museum at Navy Pier this weekend :-) It should be lot's of FUN!

LOVE/RELATIONSHIPS:
I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved. --George Eliot

LEADERSHIP/SUCCESS:
One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an
emergency. --Arnold H. Glasow

MOTIVATION/INSPIRATION:
He who waits upon fortune is never sure of dinner. --Benjamin Franklin