What’s the first thing you think about when you look your morning mirror? Okay, aside from the expected “Ugh!”, what thoughts do you have about the coming day?  Are you thinking about how tough or uncertain the day will be, or are you excited about yet another possibility for doing something great?…

The thing is, we still live in a world that’s filled with opportunity. In fact, we have more than an opportunity — we have an obligation. An obligation to spend our time doing great things. To find ideas that matter and to share them.

To push ourselves and the people around us to demonstrate gratitude, insight, and inspiration. To take risks and to make the world better by being amazing. … You get to make a choice. You can remake that choice every day, in fact. It’s never too late to choose optimism, to choose action, to choose excellence. The best thing is that it only takes a moment — just one second — to decide.

       Seth Godin

The thoughts you have the moment you wake up can have a profound impact on the rest of your day, and by extension, the rest of your life / career.  Yet sadly, so many are afraid to have thoughts about magnificent possibilities and instead, give in to blaming everything but themselves so they don’t have to take responsibility for their lack of action. Whether you take action or not, you are the primary source of your future, so why not give it the greatest possibility for an awesome one…

The most accurate way to predict the future is to get busy creating it.

       Ralph Marston

And what if you don’t feel so “amazing” first thing in the morning? Then fake it till you make it!  Don’t wait for the right feelings to have successful thoughts.  Instead, make a firm habit of thinking incredible and exciting thoughts and watch how the feelings and reality follow…