Our Future Goals Determine Present Actions

"Aren’t past and future just as real, sometimes even more real, than the present? After all, the past determines who we are, as well as how we perceive and behave in the present. And our future goals determine which actions we take in the present."

-- Eckhart Toll

Accept That You Are Responsible

"It’s the very act of your observation, your focus, that produces the result, whether it’s a light particle or a red car.  Therefore the first step to changing your life is to accept that you are responsible for choosing what you observe."

-- Natalie Reid

If Money Was No Object

"One way you could begin to discover what it is that would fulfill you is to answer this question we regularly pose: ‘If money was no object, what would you want to spend your time doing?’"

-- Alison Price

Choose A Future That Fits

"Realize who you are—what your true personality is—and choose a future that fits it."

-- David Niven

Find The Opportunity Within The Challenge

"Some opportunities are buried deep within the challenge. Others are easy to find. The extent to which we’re able to slow down, breathe, and adopt perspective is the extent to which we’re able to find the opportunity within the challenge."

-- Greg S Reid

You Are Delaying Your Prosperity

"Change is not change until something changes.’ The longer you tolerate inconsistency, a sense of lacking, laziness, inactivity and bad habits in your life, the longer you are delaying your prosperity."

-- Pat Mesiti

Taking Responsibility For Your Life

"Everything in our physical world, our reality, is made of quantum entities: and as the experiments that follow demonstrate, your world is—literally—what you make it. The first step in making it beautiful is taking responsibility for your life and your world."

-- Natalie Reid

Pull The Plug and Move On

"If you know that investing more time toward reaching a solution is never going to help, then it is time to pull the plug and move on. Forget repairing it or changing it. Let it go."

-- Henry Cloud

Accept Then Act On It

"Accept — then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life."

-- Eckhart Toll

Distract Yourself With An Activity

"Don’t try solving a problem or addressing an issue with someone when you’re feeling overly emotional. Instead, distract yourself with an activity, like walking or reading, to help you calm down. Getting your mind off what’s bothering you, even for a few minutes, can help you calm down so you can think more rationally."

-- Amy Morin

Look At All Of Life As A School

"If you regularly transform your experiences into new lessons, you will make each day of your life a source of growth. The smartest people are those who can transform even the smallest events or situations into breakthroughs in thinking and action.  Look at all of life as a school and every experience as a lesson, and your learning will always be greater than your experience."

-- Dan Sullivan

Focus on What You Can Do

"If something has happened, if it is a past event that cannot be changed, it becomes a fact. Never worry or become upset about a fact, which is something that you cannot change. Focus on what you can do, not on what you cannot do."

-- Brian Tracy

When Our Character is Revealed

"Every individual who has attained personal achievement can tell you that the question is not will there be tough times, the question is when will they arrive? It’s through these moments of uncertainty that our character is revealed."

-- Greg S Reid

Your Future Not Predetermined

"You have to change your thinking about your future. Your future is not predetermined. Rather, you create your future through the decisions and choices you make today. What you need is a dream — a clear vision of the future you want to create for yourself."

-- Pat Mesiti

Learning To Live with Them

"Nobody’s life is entirely free of pain and sorrow. Isn’t it a question of learning to live with them rather than trying to avoid them?"

-- Eckhart Toll

Make A Decision Focus Intention

"Decide what you want and write it down and make a vision board. Decision means “to cut off”. Be bold. Be brave. Make a decision. Focus intention. Plant the seed you really want and know with certainty that the seed will harvest when you cultivate it. It’s the Law!"

-- Rupal Jain

Take Joy From the Process

"Take joy from the process, and use the small successes to fuel your continued efforts."

-- David Niven

Get Rid of Negative Energy

"They do not allow negative things to take up space in their lives, draining them of energy and resources. If the tooth is infected, they pull it. Immediately. They have little tolerance for nagging pains that are unresolved. They finish off problems and do not allow them to remain. They get rid of negative energy."

-- Henry Cloud

The Seed of Equivalent Benefit

“Every failure, every adversity, and every unpleasant circumstance carries with it the seed of equivalent benefit or advantage."

-- Napoleon Hill

Be Committed to Prosperity

"Generally speaking, genuine prosperity does not happen by accident. You decide to become prosperous. You have to be committed to prosperity. If you’re not fully committed to becoming prosperous, then you can’t blame anybody or anything else for your lack of it."

-- Pat Mesiti

The Price of Success

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

-- Vince Lombardi

The Fallacy of Motivation

"The fallacy of motivation is this: if you’re driving down the road in the wrong direction, you don’t need me to motivate you to drive faster. You need someone to say, “Stop! Change direction!”

-- Jim Roh

Life Is A New Game Every Day

"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday’s success or put its failures behind and start over again.  That’s the way life is with a new game every day, and that’s the way baseball is."

-— Bob Feller (1918-2011),
Hall of Fame baseball player

Get Rich Quick Narratives Distract Us

"Get-rich-quick narratives distract us from this. We are then left only to adopt someone else’s goal and perhaps quit halfway to achieving it. Obstacles are only as insurmountable as your goal—your want—is weak."

-- Greg S Reid

What Makes You Feel Fulfilled

"The clear message from modern research and the wise words of our elders is that living life with a sense of purpose and meaning is ultimately what makes you feel fulfilled."

-- Alison Price

Success in Life Require Clarity

"Perhaps the number-one reason for success in life is clarity — about who you are, what you want, and the details of the situation you are facing."

-- Brian Tracy

The Seed We Throw Out Into The World

"Every seed that we throw out into the world is either positive or negative along the continuum. To the degree that we sow positive, we reap positive. To the degree that we sow negative, we reap negative."

-- Chris Widener

Thriving in Competitive Waters

"To me, thriving in competitive waters wasn’t complicated. I wasn’t smarter and didn’t have a big-name firm. I just worked hard and treated clients like family. Each time a deal closed, I sent gifts and thank-you cards. Then I invited the client’s entourage to lunch."

-- Cliff Michaels

How To Make Progress

"Since you will spend most of your time trying to make progress, you must enjoy what you are doing in order to finish."

-- David Niven