The Sum of Your Experiences

"The main idea here is that your life is the sum of your experiences. This just means that everything you do in life—all the daily, weekly, monthly, annual, and once-in-a-lifetime experiences you have—adds up to who you are. When you look back on your life, the richness of those experiences will determine your judgment of how full a life you’ve led. So it stands to reason that you should put some serious thought and effort into planning the kinds of experiences that you want for yourself."

-- Bill Perkins

An Integral Part of Learning

"Failure is an integral part of learning. Unfortunately the world today believes that failing is bad and as a result we have, on the whole, become fearful of failure. I’ve spent my life embracing failure, indulging the experience, basking in the frustration and despondence that failure brings."

-- Nicholas Haralambous

Maintain That Winning Attitude

"So, it is important to maintain that winning attitude no matter how rough the road to the goal. It is important to use positive affirmations to remind the mind, to psych up the mind, so no negative impulses will jeopardize or get in the way of that finish line, that award ceremony you will have at the time of your achievement."

-- John Paul Carinci

Become Your Own Life Inventor

"Today, this special day, let us use our imagination. Let us make believe that we are an inventor such as Thomas Edison. And during this experiment let us each do something new, challenging, and almost impossible. Let us become the inventor of our own life. Maybe we can emulate that persevering mindset of the great inventor for an entire week! You will be shocked at how you attack work and life like the inventor you have imagined yourself to be."

-- John Paul Carinci

Dwelling in the Past

"Dwelling in the past isn’t limited to recalling painful, negative experiences or memories. We can also focus on good things, celebrations, past experiences, and achievements, and even though they’re positive, they can still keep us from experiencing the joy and freedom of today."

-- John F. Westfall

Life Design is a Journey

"We know that life gets messy.  For every step forward, it can sometimes seem you are moving two steps back. Mistakes will be made, prototypes thrown away. An important part of the process is letting go—of your first idea and of a good-but-not-great solution. And sometimes amazing designs can emerge from the mess. The Slinky was invented this way. Teflon was created this way. Super Glue. Play-Doh. None of these things would exist if a designer somewhere hadn’t screwed up. When you learn to think like a designer you learn to be aware of the process. Life design is a journey; let go of the end goal and focus on the process and see what happens next."

-- Bill Burnett

Action Is Power

"The more powerful a person is, the more they identify with achieving their goals and the more they persist in the face of resistance. Knowledge is not power, action is power."

-- Chris Lipp

Make It Part of Your Thinking

"Now I tell people that I was born with a burning desire to follow my dreams, and I sincerely believe that if you say that often enough it becomes such a part of your thinking that the last thing you’ll do is give up on whatever your dream is."

-- Camilla Sacre-Dallerup

Positive Influenced Other Lives

"The true measure of a person’s success in life should not be judged by their rise to wealth or stature, but rather by the degree to which they have positively influenced other lives in their own lifetime."

--  JPC

The Power of Any Thought

"Thoughts are not facts. They are suggestions offered up to us by the brain to help us make sense of the world. The power of any thought is in how much we believe it to be the only truth. Taking power out of those thoughts starts with stepping back, getting some distance (metacognition) and seeing them for what they are."

-- Julie Smith