Happy Valentines Day

Ann Quinn — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:54:07 +0000

WEEK 2 FEBRUARY 2012

Wherever you are in the world and whatever you do, it is a special day of love. As Helen Keller so aptly said, the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. This message today comes to you from my heart to yours.

Happy Valentines Day.

LOVE

Love is an energiser and it is your freedom. It soothes, encourages, it teaches; it’s the bond that strengthens each of us, giving us the courage to tackle what’s lying ahead. Never underestimate its power. When you love someone, you do anything and everything to support them, no matter what it takes. You give with all your heart. Love makes all things possible, all goals attainable. It inspires us to fear nothing and achieve our dreams. It brightens our days and lessens our burdens. There is no power stronger than love.

Ann Quinn

FOR YOUR FRIENDS

What day can also be more perfect than Valentines Day to cherish the deep bond of friendship? So reach out to the dear friends in your life and say thanks for the precious gift of their friendship.

Friendship is love with understanding. Our friends so enrich our lives. They complete us. Our friends are like a precious diamond, always close in our hearts, and treasured forever.

Ann Quinn

AND FOR YOU

You are the best friend you have. Look after yourself with love. Ann Quinn

And finally today and this week – Do all things with love and have a lovely week!

Love to all

Ann

Ann Quinn, Ph.D Peak Performance Specialist

True Champions

Ann Quinn — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:15:39 +0000

WEEK 3 JANUARY 2012

It has been an amazing few weeks here at the Australian Open culminating in an absolutely incredible and epic Men’s Final between Djokovic and Nadal. I have watched lots of great tennis matches at all the Slams, but this one was a truly remarkable match of endurance, courage, belief and skill. Both players gave it their all. There were epic shots and exhausting rallies to all corners of the court in a match that lasted 5 hours and 53 minutes. Both players are true champions in every sense of the word.

I’m a professional tennis player. I’m sure any other colleague tennis player would say the same: We live for these matches. We work every day. We’re trying to dedicate all our life to this sport to come to the situation where we play a six hour match for a Grand Slam title.
Novak Djokovic

I suffered during the match, but I enjoyed all the troubles that I had during all the match. I tried to be there, to find solutions all the time. I played a lot with my heart. I played a lot with my mind, and is something that is nice to be around and not just play tennis. Even though I lost it was something very special for me.
Rafa Nadal

And one from the 2012 Australian Open Women’s Champion, VIctoria Azarenka, who just 12 months ago was thinking of giving up, but she hung in there and is now Australian Open Champion and World Number 1.

I guess I made a pretty smart decision not walking out. I learned no one road goes straight; there are always ups and downs.

Are you giving it your all in whatever you do? Do you prepare to win in even the toughest of situations? Do you absolutely believe you can do it? Already a month has passed in 2012. Are you on track to achieve those goals you set last month? What do you need to do to be a true champion?

Any man can win when things go his way, it’s the man that overcomes adversity that is the true champion.
Jock Ewing

Have the courage, determination and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.

Love and blessings

Ann

Ann Quinn, Ph.D Peak Performance Specialist

Happy New Year

Ann Quinn — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:09:40 +0000

WEEK 1 JANUARY 2012

Are you ready to be extraordinary, become all you can be and make this year your best year yet? Life is what we make it. It’s an Olympic year and time to plan to win and make your golden dreams a reality.

Here’s a great tip for planning.

Instead of planning just once or twice a year, my challenge to you is to plan twice daily.We get so busy in our lives and become overwhelmed with all that needs to be done. We do, do and do! We need to balance all that with thinking, thinking and more thinking. Resist the urge to start working in the morning. Instead plan your day and what you should be doing. What are the 3 most important tasks you need to get done today? In the evening, plan again. Review and plan what is really important for the next day and week. Be twice as effective! You will be much more in control and on top of things and be empowered. Planning twice a day makes an incredible difference to your success.

To help you plan in different areas of your life, after many years of research and hands on coaching experience all over the world, I have developed a questionnaire to assess the 10 key areas of your life: Health and Fitness, Nutrition, Relationships, Career, Environment, Personal Development, Spiritual, Finances, Planning and Recovery.

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Click here for this special offer. Scroll down to the end of the page and “add to cart” to make the most of your life. I will even add in email support for the next 14 days too because I want to help you to win too.

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Wishing you quintessential success in 2012.

Warmly

Ann

Ann Quinn, Ph.D Peak Performance Specialist

Christmas Greetings

Ann Quinn — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:31:36 +0000

WEEK 3 DECEMBER 2011

Happy Christmas to all my dear readers. It has been a great pleasure bringing Quinnessential Quotes into your in-box every Tuesday and I hope I have inspired, challenged and energised you. I am heading to the great land down under for Christmas which will be wonderful. Family, great friends and sunshine too!

Here’s a great Christmas recipe……

Combine loads of good wishes, heart full of love and armfuls of hugs.

Sprinkle with laughter and garnish with mistletoe. Top off with presents.

Serves everyone!

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree:

the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Burton Hillis

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents

as opening our hearts.
Janice Maeditere

My very best wishes to you for a wonderful festive season. May your home be filled with joy, your heart with love and your life with laughter. Have an enjoyable and well deserved break and I will be back in your in-box in another few weeks.

Blessings and love

Ann

Ann Quinn, Ph.D Peak Performance Specialist

Funny Facts

Ann Quinn — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:42:09 +0000

WEEK 2 DECEMBER 2011

For something different in this festive season, here are a few funny facts to share. Enjoy!

Many years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled ‘Gentlemen Only… Ladies Forbidden’… and thus, the word GOLF entered into the English language.

111,111,111 x
111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987, 654,321

Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter ‘A’?
A. One thousand

In Shakespeare’s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes, the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase… ‘Goodnight, sleep tight’

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride’s father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month, which we know today as the honeymoon.

In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts… So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them ‘Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down. It’s where we get the phrase ‘mind your P’s and Q’s’

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died because of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes

Q. What is the only food that doesn’t spoil?
A. Honey

At least 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow!

Have a great week!

Ann

Ann Quinn, Ph.D Peak Performance Specialist

Egyptian Reflections

Ann Quinn — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:52:16 +0000

WEEK 5 NOVEMBER 2011

It has been an interesting week to say the least. Four nights in a row were spent in four different countries; spent 6 hours on the tarmac at Heathrow unable to fly out because of the fog; got stranded in Cairo for 24 hours in the middle of the revolution; was a keynote speaker at the World Wide Coaches Conference in Port Ghalib; enjoyed an amazing tour of the Pyramids; a Nile River cruise and then to top it all off; got evacuated in the middle of the night due to an electrical fire in our hotel room in Cairo!

Here are a few quotes from the conference.

Why is more important than what.

Mark Barrell

If you cannot make them champions, at least make them happy.

Miguel Crespo

Kids learn so much from than their environment without even being taught.

Mike Barrell

It is the little details in your routines that make the difference between ordinary and extraordinary

Ann Quinn

Sure is good to be back in London! Hope your week is a great one.

Love and blessings

Ann

Ann Quinn, Ph.D Peak Performance Specialist

Developing Leaders

Ann Quinn — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:24:40 +0000

WEEK 4 NOVEMBER 2011

Have just spent a fabulous few days in Singapore working with some amazing leaders from around the world. Here are a few inspirational quotes to inspire the leader in you.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

Leadership Behaviours

Deliver outstanding results, inspire others to achieve their own aspirations, deliver beyond expectations and see beyond boundaries.

Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.

Tolstoy

Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever.

M.K. Gandhi

Whatever you do, lead with passion; be authentic; be vulnerable; and be yourself.

Wishing you all quintessential success

Ann

Ann Quinn, Ph.D Peak Performance Specialist

French Inspiration

Ann Quinn — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:23:25 +0000

WEEK 3 NOVEMBER 2011

Bonjour from Paris.

A few French quotes to inspire you this week for something different.

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

Voltaire (French Philosopher and Writer, 1694-1778)

None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

Comte de Mirabeau (French Writer, Orator and Stateman, 1749-1791)

He who fears suffering is already suffering that which he fears.

Jean de La Fontaine (French Fabulist and Poet, 1621-1695)

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (French Pilot and Writer, 1900-1944)

Wishing you a fabulous week

Love and blessings

Ann

Ann Quinn, Ph.D Peak Performance Specialist

Are You Interested or Committed?

Ann Quinn — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:02:12 +0000

WEEK 2 NOVEMBER 2011

Are you staying focused on finishing strong this year? I had some great feedback last week. It seemed like this one touched a chord with many, but are you really committed or just interested? Do you really want to achieve those goals you set and finish the year a winner?

There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either in or out. There’s no such thing as a life in-between.

Pat Riley

There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when its convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.

Kenneth Blanchard

Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.

Buddha

Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

Denis Waitley

When you are committed, you stay really focused. You show up all the time. When times are tough, you find another way; you set clear goals and know that little failures are just stepping stones to success. You never give in. And you know you will achieve success.

Wishing you quintessential success

Ann

Ann Quinn, Ph.D Peak Performance Specialist

Finish Strong

Ann Quinn — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:28:24 +0000

WEEK 1 NOVEMBER 2011

It is the 1st of November already and just two months to go until 2012. Whatever your field, sport or profession, my challenge to you all now is to Finish Strong for 2011. How you started does not determine your outcome. It’s how you finish that matters. I’ve seen too many people start out their year or season with great energy, intention, enthusiasm and passion only to lose their mojo when it is needed most. They end the year feeling tired, distracted, stressed and frustrated instead of being mentally strong, focused, fundamentally sound and passionately driven. They limp to the finish line instead of running through it. Here are some quotes to inspire you to finish strong.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Stephen Covey – Best selling author

Once cleared, a single hurdle – no matter how high – will always be behind you.

Dan Green

For every minute spent in organising, an hour is earned.

Author unknown

When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.

Larry Bird – Three time NBA Champion and three-time NBA Most Valued Player

Enthusiasm provides the energy but passion provides the emotion. When you combine the two, then great things are possible. You will FINISH STRONG.

Have an awesome week

Love Ann

Ann Quinn, Ph.D Peak Performance Specialist