A life changing prayer...

Friends a personal commitment to Excellence...
(If you read this loudly even once a week - your life will change)


I am the sum total of the genetic endowment 

with which I came into the world, and of all the experiences which have made up my life. 

Some of them have been good, some bad, 

but all of them have been mine. 

What I currently am is what I deserve to be. 

My life, my reputation, my influence 

is the mirror of the choices I have made. 

If I am not everything I can be, it is because 

I haven’t chosen to be more. 

I am determined not to live in my past, 

which I cannot change, 

or to waste time waiting for the future, 

which I cannot guarantee, 

but to live in the emerging reality of the NOW, 

which is all I have. 

I cannot do everything, but I can do some things. 

I certainly cannot do everything well, 

but I can do some things well. 

I cannot guarantee I will win, 

but I can promise I will not allow losing to become a habit, and if I fail, it will not be a failure of nerve. 

So I will stand tall, feel deeply, think large, and strive mightily, 

remembering what I accomplish probably 

won’t change the course of human history, 

but what I attempt will 

create the course of my personal history. 

Toward making this declaration a reality, 

I hereby commit myself.