Carol Van Vreede, CEO of Skyline Exhibit Resource, emphasizes the importance of self-belief, optimism, and personal growth throughout her career journey. She encourages individuals to take charge of their lives, control their decisions, and invest their time wisely to realize their aspirations. The document highlights the significance of self-actualization and cultivating positive thoughts while celebrating progress along the way.

1. Carol Van Vreede
Chief Executive Officer
Skyline Exhibit Resource

2. High School
 Reserved and quiet
 Extremely studious
 Played 3 sports for all 4 years

3. College
 Reinvention time
 Believe in yourself, that others will believe too
 Optimism can be contagious and powerful
 Graduated from UW Oshkosh in 1988
 BBA in Marketing and HR

4. Career
Heritage Insurance
American Cancer Society
NWTC
Skyline Exhibits

5. Skyline- The Early Years…

6. 2000-2008
 Growth Period
 From 1 to 24 Employees
 Office Space Expansion
 Addition of In-House Graphic Print Production

7. 2008
 Construction of the New Office
 Groundbreaking- June 2008
 Construction Completed Dec. 22nd, 2008
“If you build it, they will come”

9. New Exhibit Lines

13. New Products Offered
Exhibit Storage and Asset Management
Interior Design
Museums
Retail Stores
Flooring
Vehicle Wraps

14. Interior Design
 Wall murals

27. Vehicle Graphics

29. YOU!

30. Who are you?
Job
Family Relationship
Personality traits
Physical characteristics

31. How well do you know yourself?
Morally?
Ethically?
Physically?
Intellectually?

32. Know where you want
to go….

33. Know where you are
NOW…

34. Be honest with yourself.
Identify specifically what you
want to change.

35. People that exude magnetic
confidence, are people who are
comfortable with who they are
now, and where they are going
tomorrow. They are disciples of
constant improvement, constantly
checking:

36. What they are doing?

37. Who are they doing it with?

38. Are they supporting their goals
and objectives?

39. They have little patience or
time for people that drag down
the average.

40. LIVE YOUR LIFE!

41. Control your future!

42. Questions for you to ask
yourself…

43. In your life right now, what
would you rather be doing?

44. In your life 24 months from now,
what would you rather be doing?

45. What would you like to be doing
less of that you’re doing now?

46. What would you like to be
doing more of that you’re doing
now?

47. In the next 6 months, what
would you like to do that you’ve
never done before?

48. Over the past 12 months:

49. How and where have you grown?

50. Who have you proactively
added to your life that has
made a difference in you?

51. What have you quit, decreased
that has improved your life?

52. What new activity, focus, habit
have you added that has
improved your life?

53. Where you are 2 years from
today is directly tied to what
you are willing to start right
now!

54. THIS AIN’T NO DRESS
REHEARSAL.
THERE IS NO TAKE 2…

55. Think about this…

56. To a great degree, everything exist
in your head, and you allowed it to
be there.

57. How you perceive of your
experiences and then how you
act on them actually defines
YOUR reality.

58. YOU make your life
happen.

59. Be completely and totally
invested in the present
moment…

60. What you are doing…

61. Who you are talking
to…

62. Who you are listening
to…

63. What you are
thinking…

64. Define YOU!

65. IT’S TIME TO TAKE
CHARGE OF YOUR
LIFE!

66. If you want to see a change for
the better, you have to take
things into your own hands.

67. To affect the outcome of
anything, you must control the
action at the point of decision
making.

68. When you control the decisions,
you control the actions.

69. If not YOU, who?

70. If not NOW, when?

71. YOU BECOME WHAT
YOU THINK ABOUT!

72. Your thoughts will cause you to be
rich or poor, loved or unloved,
happy or miserable, attractive or
unattractive, powerful or weak.

73. Think of yourself as
becoming the person
you want to be.

74. What you project
yourself to be, you
can become!

75. Have the courage to
confront what you
can imagine.

76. Reality is something
you can rise above.

77. Courage is resistance to fear
and mastery of fear…

78. Courage is not the
absence of fear.

79. Visualize what you
want.

80. Make your mental
blueprint and begin to
build.

81. TIME: YOUR MOST
VALUABLE ASSET!

82. To realize the value of one year,
ask a student who failed a grade.

83. To realize the value of one
month, ask a mother who gave
birth to a premature baby.

84. To realize the value of one week,
ask the editor of a weekly
newspaper.

85. To realize the value of one day,
ask the cancer patient awaiting
diagnosis.

86. To realize the value of one hour,
ask a child waiting to go to
Chuck E. Cheese.

87. To realize the value of one
minute, ask the person who
missed the plane.

88. To realize the value of one
second, ask the person who just
avoided an accident.

89. To realize the value of one
millisecond, ask the person who
came in 4th in the Olympics.

90. Invest your time well!

91. The most powerful words to raise
your confidence and gain the
support of people around you
is…

92. I HAVE MADE A
DECISION!

93. All systems say GO!

94. Overcome emotional
reliance on other
people’s approval!

95. Self Actualization

96. I am one of the
friendliest people
you’ll ever know…

97. I am the most
enthusiastic people in
the room…

98. I am the most helpful
person in town…

99. I really love to talk to
people…

100. I will ask for what I
want…

101. I will make every
encounter
memorable…

102. I will always think and
hesitate before
answering…

103. I will appreciate and
celebrate all that I
have…

104. I will get over it
quickly and bounce
back…

105. I’m going to have a
great time today…

106. I will remind myself
that THESE ARE THE
GOOD OLD DAYS!!!

107. In closing, keep in
mind this isn’t a
sprint, it’s a
marathon.

108. Understand that you can not
afford the luxury of a negative
thought about anything.

109. Have patience, empathy and
confidence.

110. Find enjoyment, challenge,
adventure and opportunity in
every thing you do.

111. Celebrate various steps on your
journey.

112. Believe in yourself
and the greater good.

113. Let your dreams
always outweigh your
memories!