Oprah Winfrey has a great quote that reinforces this, “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”

So you may be wondering: How does all this relate to your web marketing puzzle?

Well, a great exercise for the new year is to make a list of the current marketing collateral you have in place. This is the foundation that you have already built for your business (i.e. name, tagline, logo, website, blog, email list etc.). Try and list the haves and resist the urge to list the have-nots. Building on what you have already accomplished is a way to keep a consistency with your business messaging. It also saves you time – you won’t have to reinvent the wheel everytime because the initial content will be there to support you. You might find some marketing gems when backtracking through your materials. See if Jessica inspires you as much as she did her 9,174,836 YouTube fans and have a happy and healthy New Year!

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing that’s why we recommend it daily” –Zig Ziglar

“I judge a man not by how high he climbs, but by how high he bounces, when he hits the bottom.” – Gen. George S. Patton

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle

“Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.” – David Joseph Schwartz

“I’ll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.” ~Author Unknown

“Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have-so spend it wisely” Kay Lyons

“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.” –Kierkegaard

“If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.”

“You can’t wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.” – Pat Schroeder

“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” – Marilyn vos Savant

Motivational quotes from Steve Jobs. Remembering a brilliant man.

~ “Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”
– Businessbrief.com

~ “Click. Boom. Amazing!”
– Macworld keynote 2006 via MacStories.net

~ “Do what you love to do. Find your true passion. Make a difference. The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
– Businessbrief.com

~ “Start small, think big. Don’t worry about too many things at once. Take a handful of simple things to begin with, and then progress to more complex ones. Think about not just tomorrow, but the future. Put a ding in the universe.”
– Businessbrief.com

~ “Be entrepreneurial. Look for the next big thing. Find a set of ideas that need to be acted upon quickly and decisively and jump through that window. Sometimes the first step is the hardest one. Just take it. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
- Businessbrief.com

~ “That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works”
– New York Times, The Guts of a New Machine, 2003

~ “Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”
– Businessweek

~ “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
- Steve Jobs’ Stanford Commencement Address

“If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.” – William James

“Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.” – Denis Waitley

“Do something worth remembering.” – Elvis Presley

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Helen Keller

“Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.” Theodore T. Hunger