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“If I wanted to make a difference… Wishing for things to change wouldn’t make them change. Hoping for improvements wouldn’t bring them. Dreaming wouldn’t provide all the answers I needed. Vision wouldn’t be enough to bring transformation to me or others. Only by managing my thinking and shifting my thoughts from desire to deeds would I be able to bring about positive change. I needed to go from wanting to doing.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“Every time we choose action over ease we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect, and self-confidence.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters

“When you get right down to it, intentional living is about living your best story.”
― John C. Maxwell, Intentional Living: Choosing a Life That Matters