Recognize people for actions and results: completion of special projects, achievement of company goals, demonstrations of company values. Replace "Employee of the Month" with "Achievement of the Month."
Intrinsic motivation launches you down the path of peak performance, proper goal setting helps define the path, and grit is what keeps you keeping on despite the odds and obstacles.
"Yesterday is but a dream. Tomorrow is only a vision. But today we'll lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope."