"Merely thinking positively doesn’t actually move us forward in our lives. We also need to acknowledge obstacles and hindrances that must be overcome. This grounding is beneficial because it moves us toward action. We start the transition from being dreamers to doers."
-- John F. Westfall
"Motivation is not something you are born with. The feeling that you are energized and want to do something cannot be relied upon to always be there. Mastering motivation is building the capacity to do what matters most to you, even when a part of you does not feel like it."
-- Julie Smith
"Remember, too, to invest in your health, even if you haven’t done much of that in the past. As I explained earlier, your health massively changes your ability to enjoy all kinds of experiences. So it’s well worth your while to spend time and money improving or at least maintaining your health, whether by joining a ritzy gym (the kind you actually look forward to visiting), hiring a personal trainer, or following along with fitness videos."
-- Bill Perkins
"Inventors are the most driven individuals because they must do the seemingly impossible. They invent something or improve something in a manner that hasn’t been done before. All along the way the inventor experiences failed attempts. Sometimes those failed attempts number in the thousands, but that doesn’t deter the inventor. He welcomes failure, realizing that each new failure brings him closer to his breakthrough, the successful completion of the invention."
-- John Paul Carinci
"No matter how badly things seem to be going, they can usually get better when we change the way we perceive them. This is something I’ve known deep down since I was very young. Even in my teens, I remember paraphrasing a Chinese proverb to a friend who was sad and down in the dumps. ‘We can’t prevent the birds of sorrow flying over our heads,’ I told her. ‘But we can stop them making nests in our hair.’ That’s how I lived my life and it’s a message I will continue to pass on."
-- Camilla Sacre-Dallerup
"Adaptive coping style. That means confronting problems directly, appraising them honestly, and dealing with them directly without excessive rumination, unhealthy emotional reactions, or avoidance behavior."
-- Arthur C. Brooks
"Forgive yourself and others. Forgiveness helps release the anger and pain that haunt the past. When we forgive others, it helps us far more than them. We can assume they’ll never own up to the damage they did, but it doesn’t matter. As soon as we choose to release them and forgive, a tremendous weight falls away from us. It’s not easy but it is essential."
-- John F. Westfall
"Human connection is a powerful tool for stress resilience. Your relationships change your biology and psychology."
-- Julie Smith
"Any marathon runner or bike racer or Olympic athlete must focus on the finish line. They must keep the cobwebs out, go through their routine endless times. They visualize their technique and what to avoid along the way. In other words, they psych themselves up or motivate themselves. The true sign of a winner is that they expect to win. Many winners never once think of failure or that they might not succeed."
-- John Paul Carinci
"Mozart did not write a single piece of music that became a resounding success and retire a wealthy man. Mozart wrote hundreds of pieces of music and many of them were masterpieces that made him famous but most of them were regular pieces of music that were forgettable and forgotten by history. Shakespeare did not write Macbeth as a stand-alone piece of genius. He wrote it alongside some of the worst plays that he had ever written. The point here is that these geniuses did more than most. They wrote more than most. They practised more than most. They published more than most and in so doing they refined their craft. They shut up and did things. They lived action words like did, wrote, practised, published and built. They did not think about building, doing, writing, they did them."
-- Nicholas Haralambous
