Make A Positive Action To Change It

"Your boss is not responsible for your happiness or success. Your parents or family members are not responsible for your happiness or success. Your friends are not responsible for your happiness or success. Only you are responsible for your own happiness and success. (And, by the way, you aren't responsible for the happiness and success of other adults. Stay in your own lane!) If there is someone who you feel is causing you distress or limiting you in any way, then make a positive action to change it."

-- Joel Fotinos

Find People Who Knows More Than You

"I encourage you to find people who know more than you do regarding various facets of life. Or find people who were once in the same position you are in right now.  Listen, learn, and appreciate these people. They will help you see what is not visible at this time."

-- Robert Sully Sullivan

Evaluate Your Life in Its Totality

"Evaluate your life in its totality! We all waste so much time doing meaningless things. We burn hours on social media and watching television, which by the end of the year would add up to entire days and weeks if you tabulated time like you do your taxes. You should, because if you knew the truth you’d deactivate your Facebook account STAT, and cut your cable. When you find yourself having frivolous conversations or becoming ensnared in activities that don’t better you in any way, move on!"

-- David Goggins

Your Body is the Subconscious

"The body is the subconscious, and for this reason, when you look after your body, you are taking care of your mind; and when you take care of your mind, you also take care of your body."

-- Mario Alonso Puig

Increased Your Set of Life Skills

"If you've experienced hardships or negative experiences that you've triumphed over, you will have also increased your set of life skills. You will have learnt ways to look at things differently, and developed additional skills for tackling life's challenges, as well as achieving your goals."

-- Stephanie Philp

An Easier Time To Learn

"There has never been an easier time to learn. You can do it all from the comfort of your own home if you choose. Education opportunities are everywhere: join a free MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) and take part in university modules; watch YouTube videos by experts; read books; listen to podcasts. In fact, you can do it all online.  Whatever you want to learn, the world will teach you."

-- Shaa Wasmund

You Have Incredible Mental Power

"You have incredible mental powers that you habitually fail to use to their full extent. By systematically setting goals for your life and making detailed plans to achieve them, you will save yourself years of hard work and use vastly more of your thinking powers than the average person."

-- Andrew Clancy

Make Peace with Yourself

"If you’re one of the few who acknowledge that, want to callous those wounds, and strengthen your character, it’s up to you to go back through your past and make peace with yourself by facing those incidents and all of your negative influences, and accepting them as weak spots in your own character.  Only when you identify and accept your weaknesses will you finally stop running from your past. Then those incidents can be used more efficiently as fuel to become better and grow stronger."

-- David Goggins

When Opportunity Doesn't Knock

"Unleash hidden potential through character skills. The people who grow the most aren’t the smartest people in the room. They’re the ones who strive to make themselves and others smarter. When opportunity doesn’t knock, look for ways to build a door—or climb through a window."

-- Adam Grant

The Uncomfortable Truths About Life

"One of the uncomfortable truths about life is this: we don't always get what we want; we get what we settle for. After all, if you didn't settle for something, you would get more, right? That's common sense, and yet it's not always something we want to hear.  It's uncomfortable because it puts the responsibility of your life squarely on the shoulders of . . . you."

-- Joel Fotinos