Life Choices and Trade-Off

"Life is always about choices and trade-offs. Successful transitions are about making these choices in alignment with our identity and where we would like to be headed." 

-- Stephen Macdonald

Make It An Integrated Part of You

"Bring your idea or mental picture to mind often, both in quiet meditation periods, and also casually throughout the day when you happen to think of it. In this way it becomes an integrated part of your life, and it becomes more of a reality for you. Focus on it clearly, yet in a light, relaxed way. It’s important not to feel like you are striving too hard for it or putting an excessive amount of energy into it — that tends to hinder rather than help."

-- Shakti Gawain

How To Set Your Goals

"Some people get hung up on setting a goal because they think that one goal is what they'll need to work on for the rest of their life.  What is better, is to create a goal that inspires you, delights you, and is just beyond your reach. Then, when you achieve that goal, you can set your next goal, and the next, and so on. If you do have a huge goal, then you can break it down into smaller goals."

-- Joel Fotinos

Courage To Follow Your Heart and Intuition

"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 others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

-- Vishen Lakhian

Build Up Mental Toughness

"Character Building: By seeking rejection in tough environments, one can build up the mental toughness to take on greater goals."

-- Jia Jiang

No Excuses For Your Success

"It’s true that unforeseen events and changing circumstances can affect your game plan and, potentially, the outcome. Elements of luck will certainly play a role. You may find that you have to put your plans on hold temporarily, or regroup and come at your goal a different way. But none of that matters. The success or failure of your effort still rests entirely with you. No excuses!"

-- James P. Owen

At This Point of Your Life

"The level of your success at this point in your life is the sum of your thoughts, beliefs, and actions up to now. And if you keep living your life with the same thoughts, beliefs, and actions, then you'll continue to achieve roughly the same amount of success. You won't get something different until you do something different. And you won't do different things until you become different."

-- Joel Fotinos

The Law of Manifestation

"The first Law of Success, the law of Manifestation, demonstrates how things come into being. In quantum physics, consciousness creates reality—and this applies to your personal world as well."

-- Sandra Anne Taylor

The Development of Habits

"Habits are a bit like training a new puppy. They require lots of reinforcement and checking that you are on the right track. If left unattended, new habits can simply disappear (or you can develop unwanted ones!). The new habits require that you check in with them regularly to make sure you are putting them into play (just like you need to check in regularly with the new puppy to make sure it is doing what you are training it to do)."

-- Stephen Macdonald

Thoughts Have Magnetic Energy

"Thoughts and feelings have their own magnetic energy that attracts energy of a similar nature. We can see this principle at work, for instance, when we “accidentally” run into someone we’ve just been thinking of, or “happen” to pick up a book that contains exactly the perfect information we need at that moment."

-- Shakti Gawain