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#1

“Once you can clarify your unique vision for the end goal—comfort, happiness, security, etc.— you can get started on the path toward the reality of success.”
― Curtis L. Jenkins, Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living

tags: business-tools, foundational, new-opportunities, opportunity, principles, realise, reality, success, unique, vision

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#2

“It is an acceptance of being uncomfortable that drives change.”
― Curtis L. Jenkins, Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living

tags: business-tools, entrepreneurship, foundational, opportunity, principles, realise, reality, success, unique, vision

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#3

“I want to see a world in which entrepreneurs give time to their visions to reality so that they have more money, more family time, and more support, a world in which they can stop working so hard and start living!”
― Curtis L. Jenkins, Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living

tags: business, entrepreneurs, financial, leadership, management, managing, small-business, solid-plan, team-work, vision

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#4

“If you want to build a better business, you must build better relationships. Relationships are crucial to developing the business you hope to achieve.”
― Curtis L. Jenkins, Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living

tags: building, confidence, dreams, end-goals, goals, high-performance, operational-success, organising, visionaire, visions

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#5

“you must get the right talent and set the proper expectations. If you don’t, you will pay for the job twice—through your employees’ time and your own.”
― Curtis L. Jenkins, Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living

tags: business-tools, confidence, dreams, end-goals, goals, leadership, management, new-opportunities, success, visions

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#6

“Every entrepreneur should spend time with all their employees, individually and collectively. It is the only way to understand what they want, what is in it for them, what they are hoping to achieve, and what they aspire to become.”
― Curtis L. Jenkins, Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living

tags: building, confidence, dreams, end-goals, goals, leadership, management, organising, visionaire, visions

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#7

“Communication is how entrepreneurs tell their story, which, in turn, should inspire employees to work smart and encourage customers to action.”
― Curtis L. Jenkins, Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living

tags: business-tools, foundational, leadership, new-opportunities, opportunity, principles, realise, reality, success, unique

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#8

“Business leaders make one of two mistakes: overestimating or underestimating their capabilities.”
― Curtis L. Jenkins, Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living

tags: business-tools, foundational, leadership, new-opportunities, opportunity, principles, realise, reality, success, unique

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#9

“Entrepreneurs never get to the realization of their vision by doing what got them to the point they are currently at.”
― Curtis L. Jenkins, Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living

tags: new-opportunities

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#10

“Every entrepreneur faces mediocre moments or points in their careers when they are not meeting their goals. What they do in response to these shortcomings is what either leads them astray or guides them to success.”
― Curtis L. Jenkins, Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living

tags: business-tools, confidence, foundational, leadership, management, new-opportunities, opportunity, principles, success, unique

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#11

“A leader can bring the solution to people, but sometimes a leader has to bring the people to the solution.”
― Curtis L. Jenkins, Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living

tags: entrepreneurs, financial, leadership, management, managing, realise, reality, solid-plan, team-work, vision

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#12

“Hard work without a solid plan isn’t likely to get you where you want to be. You need to be teachable; you need to be dedicated, and you need to work smart.”
― Curtis L. Jenkins, Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living

tags: business, entrepreneurs, financial, leadership, management, managing, small-business, solid-plan, team-work, vision

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#13

“Entrepreneurs must organize their business for success by developing a project management mindset that allows them to plan, build, divide, and conquer.”
― Curtis L. Jenkins, Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living

tags: confidence, dreams, end-goals, goals, leadership, management, new-opportunities, visionaire, visions

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#14

“Think of one thing you can do that will make a big difference in what you are trying to achieve.”
― Curtis L. Jenkins, Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living

tags: business-tools, foundational, leadership, new-opportunities, opportunity, principles, realise, reality, success, unique

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#15

“A Visionaire always takes a step back during a crisis to get out of their own way.”
― Curtis L. Jenkins, Vision to Reality: Stop Working, Start Living

tags: business-tools, confidence, foundational, leadership, management, new-opportunities, opportunity, principles, success, unique

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#16

“The road to your highest achievements leads through environments that support you.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

tags: life-goals, lifecoach, opportunities, personal-development, quality-management, self-esteem, self-improvement, selfcare, success-books

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#17

“Firestarters are flexible. They recognize situational needs and are able to flow into the accessible role identity most relevant to overcome emergent challenges.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

tags: business, dreams, entrepreneurs, how-to, motivational, organisations, private-lives, self-help, success

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#18

“Innovators are owners of the situation. They own it because they create it—quite literally. They embrace the world as it should match the vision in their heads. And when something is missing from that vision, they fill the gap.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

tags: awareness, how-to, innovators, life-goals, personal-success, research, self-assessment, self-esteem, visions

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#19

“People’s confidence in their abilities influences how they approach life. Their dreams are likely anchored to what they feel they can achieve.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

tags: awareness, how-to, innovators, life-goals, personal-development, personal-success, research, self-assessment, self-esteem, visions

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#20

“Why doesn’t every fire once kindled, survive and thrive? Why doesn’t every person accomplish her dreams? The simple answer is that the Firestarter’s life is a constant fight against extinction.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

tags: grow-the-mindset, happiness, life-goals, lifecoach, management, personal-development, quality-management, self-improvement, selfcare, success-books

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#21

“If you want to make a difference, you must live like no one else and strive to achieve goals that others view as impossible to reach.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

tags: empowerment, grow-the-mindset, happiness, life-changes, life-lessons, management, quality-management, self-growth, selfcare

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#22

“What others view as setbacks, Firestarters see as opportunities to learn and grow more.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

tags: empowerment, grow-the-mindset, happiness, life-changes, life-lessons, lifecoach, management, quality-management, self-growth, selfcare

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#23

“Belief that you can act is a powerful motivator. Belief that change can happen in a flash is an even stronger motivator.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

tags: dreams, grow, how-to, innovators, introspection, motivational, organisations, private-lives, research, visions

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#24

“Firestarters are able to make associations between similar situations and use lessons learned from one sphere of their lives to inform actions and thoughts in seemingly unrelated situations. They look for patterns of success, and then they pounce on situations that have proven to be generators of that success.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

tags: awareness, life-goals, lifecoach, personal-development, quality-management, self-esteem, self-improvement, selfcare, success-books

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#25

“Interest isn’t just something you feel. It’s something you live.”
― Raoul Davis Jr., Firestarters: How Innovators, Instigators, and Initiators Can Inspire You to Ignite Your Own Life

tags: empowerment, grow-the-mindset, happiness, life-changes, life-lessons, lifecoach, management, quality-management, self-growth, selfcare

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#26

“I needed to bring my own gifts to my new home, not resist them, not sway to and fro like the tidal waters of the lagoon, but rather chart my own course through the shallows like an experienced boatman.”
― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

tags: convent, courage, fighting, justice, love, nuns, risk, sixteenth-century-venice, survival, women-rights

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#27

“Venetian laws last but a week. They keep making new laws because no one follows the old ones…. Or enforces them.”
― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

tags: aristocratic-daughters, family, fiction-novel, freedom, hopes, noblewomen, novel, strength, turmoil

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#28

“I imagined myself a bird, looking down on our city, the Grand Canal like a snake slithering through stone, the city on either side like two hands clasped in prayer”
― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

tags: cultural, cultural-heritage, culture, fiction, fiction-writing, heritage, historical, historical-fiction, history, insight

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#29

“We are the bones of this city, the heart, the womb. The hidden structure and architecture behind the beautiful facades. We are unseen yet leaned upon, vessels yet not empty, the home for our families. The hopes of our city are thrust upon us, and we will be punished if we fail.”
― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

tags: convent, courage, love, nuns, risk, romance, secrets, sisters, sixteenth-century-venice, survival

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#30

“The next week passed in a haze of mourning, as thick and disorienting as the unrelenting fog that crept over the stones of Venice each morning.”
― Gina Buonaguro, The Virgins of Venice

tags: aristocratic-daughters, family, hopes, noblewomen, romance, secrets, strength, turmoil, women-s-rights

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