I am honored to join over 140 of my Colleagues, Coaches and Dr. John Maxwell this week to make our way to Guatemala to train more than 20,000 Guatemalan leaders on the Transformational Leadership. The participating Guatemalan leaders represent a cross-section of seven different streams of influence; government, business, education, etc…at all levels. The need for transformation exists when people groups experience unnecessary suffering. Currently in Guatemala, half of children living there suffer from chronic malnutrition resulting in stunted growth and lowered IQ scores. It has the highest rate of child malnutrition in Latin America. I’m excited to be part of this mission. Please keep us in your prayers. This is just the beginning… Thank you!

Throughout the trip I will be updating my blog. Here’s some more info on the trip:

Live with passion!

“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”
–George Herman “Babe” Ruth

“My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.”
–Hank Aaron

“The minute you start talking about what you’re going to do if you lose, you have lost.”
–George Shultz

“Keep your mind on the things you want and off the things you don’t want.”
–Hannah Whitall Smith

“I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot… when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.”
–Michael Jordan

“We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat.”
–Queen Victoria

“I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.”
–H. Jackson Browne

“The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.”
–Brian Tracy

“The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, thats the day you start to the top.”
–O.J. Simpson

“When you win, nothing hurts.”
–Joe Namath

“If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.”
–Jan McKeithen

“You can’t be a winner and be afraid to lose.”
–Charles Lynch

“Never let defeat have the last word.”
–Tibetan Proverb

“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.”
— Anonymous

“Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”
–Vince Lombardi

“Regardless of what you do put in, every game boils down to doing the things you do best and doing them over and over again.”
–Vince Lombardi

“Success demands singleness of purpose.”
–Vince Lombardi

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
–Winston Churchill

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
–Abraham Lincoln

“Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will all be judged by only one thing – the result.”
–Vince Lombardi

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.”
–Vincent T. Lombardi

“The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.”
— John Wooden

“The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.”
–Joe Paterno

“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.”
–Elbert Hubbard

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
–Will Rogers

“I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability. ”
–Bruce Jenner

“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
–Lou Holtz

“Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.”
— Michael Johnson

“There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.”
— Robert Fripp

“Success is not permanent. The same is also true of failure.”
–Dell Crossword

“Success comes before work only in the dictionary.”
–Anonymous

“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
–Thomas Jefferson

“The harder you train, the easier the game.”

“Some people dream of success… while others wake up and work hard at it.”
–Author Unknown

“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
–Billie Jean King

“If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way; if you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.”
–Unknown

“To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.”
–Muhammad Ali

“Act as though it is impossible to fail.”
–Anonymous

“Others can stop you temporarily — you are the only one who can do it permanently.”
–Zig Ziglar

“View every problem as an opportunity…”
–Joseph Sugarman

“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
–Lou Holtz

“People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.”
–Anonymous

“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.”
–Babe Ruth

“If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out. ”
–George Brett

“Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball.”
–Jim Murray

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
–Eleanor Roosevelt