The Value of Excerise

"The value of exercise for mental health is widely discussed now, as well as the health dangers of having a sedentary lifestyle. Though I do think that can feel dispiriting if you have never enjoyed exercise, if you feel you are starting from a place of low fitness or if you are lacking in body confidence. The main thing is to choose a form of exercise you enjoy – or can at least bear to do – and find a way to stick with it.  Recognise what motivates you. Does being outdoors make you feel good? Are you more likely to go to a class where there is a social aspect, at a set time every week? Does it help to listen to music or podcasts when you work out?"

-- Trinny Woodall

The Whole Point of Doing Anything

"But that’s forgetting about the joy of learning and doing. Yes, it may take longer. Yes, it may be inefficient. Yes, it may even cost you millions of dollars in lost opportunities because your business is growing slower because you’re insisting on doing something yourself. But the whole point of doing anything is because it makes you happy! That’s it!"

-- Derek Sivers

The Power of Resilient

"On an individual level, those that are more resilient report better wellbeing – which means boosting resilience can also help to reduce stress, burnout, anxiety and depression. Research has shown that resilient people have attributes that help to facilitate adjustment and coping in adverse or stressful situations, whereas someone with low resilience may struggle to cope with challenging situations such as failure, which can lead to negative emotions."

-- Gemma Leigh Roberts

Be Prepared For The Journey Ahead

"But whatever you do, don’t underestimate how difficult it will be to reach your goal.  Most goals worth achieving require time, planning, effort, and persistence. Thinking things will come to you easily and effortlessly will leave you ill prepared for the journey ahead, and as a result can be a recipe for failure."

-- Heidi Grant Halvorson

The Power of Your Mental Ability

"You have the mental ability right now to set any goal and achieve everything you could ever want or hope for in life. By using your brain—your ability to think, plan, and create—with greater precision and accuracy, you can solve any problem, overcome every obstacle, and achieve any goal you can set for yourself."

-- Brian Tracy

Be Willing To Improve Yourself

"Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. The man who does not shrink from self-crucifixion can never fail to accomplish the object upon which his heart is set. This is as true of earthly as of heavenly things. Even the man whose sole object is to acquire wealth must be prepared to make great personal sacrifices before he can accomplish his object; and how much more so he who would realize a strong and well-poised life."

-- James Allen 

Think of Both The Wonderful Things and The Obstacles

"When you are thinking about taking on a new goal, make sure you think about both the wonderful things that will happen if you succeed and the obstacles that stand in your way. This process of mental contrasting will not only help you to make a good decision about whether or not to adopt the goal, but it will naturally engage your motivational systems and maximize your commitment to the goals that you do decide to achieve."

-- Heidi Grant Halvorson

Just Do It Competently and Let It Go

"There are only so many hours in a day, after all. There are only so many days in a year, only so many years in a life. You do what you can do, as competently as possible within a reasonable time frame, and then you let it go. When it came to everything from washing the dishes to wrapping Christmas presents, my mother’s thinking was much in line with General George Patton’s: “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”" 

-- Elizabeth Gilbert

It Is About What You Want To Be

"In the end, it’s about what you want to be, not what you want to have. To have something (a finished recording, a business, or millions of dollars) is the means, not the end. To be something (a good singer, a skilled entrepreneur, or just plain happy) is the real point.  When you sign up to run a marathon, you don’t want a taxi to take you to the finish line."

-- Derek Sivers

Attract The Conditions of Your Life

"Observe your inner talking and remember your aim. Do they match? Does your inner talking match what you would say audibly had you achieved your goal? The individual’s inner speech and actions attract the conditions of his life. Through uncritical self-observation of your inner talking you find where you are in the inner world, and where you are in the inner world is what you are in the outer world. You put on the new man whenever ideals and inner speech match. In this way alone can the new man be born."

-- Neville Goddard