Rewarding Yourself

"The purpose here is to reward yourself for a job well done. This is positive reinforcement. The reward is an opportunity to stop and smell the roses that bloom as a result of your hard work."

-- K. Jeffrey Miller


"The greatest risk in life is...never taking one."
-- Arthur Wang


"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."

-- Edwin Elliot


"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

-- Herman Cain

Too Much Free Time

"Too much free time on your hands just leads to trouble. There is too much time to sit and worry about your trouble, imgaining the worst and become overly conscious of every little ache and pain. It can be depressing. Don't fall into this trap."

-- K. Jeffrey Miller


"Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for."

-- David Starr Jordan


"The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze."

-- Arthur Wang


"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."

-- Anne Frank

Try Out Your Ideas

"Don't give up on your ideas. Write them down, then act on them. Some of them will work and some of them will not. Remember, in order to have a really great idea you have to have a lot of ideas. Try them all."

-- K. Jeffrey Miller


"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else."

-- Mitch Albom


"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love."

-- Sophocles


"If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

Doing The Worst First

"Doing the worst first leaves you feeling more accomplished than when you concentrate only on the simple or pleasant tasks. The dread, guilt and procrastination are all reduced with the principle of doing the worst first."

-- K. Jeffrey Miller


"The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark."

-- Barbara Hall


"Keep true to the dreams of thy youth."

-- Friedrich von Schiller

Each Day Accomplish Something

"Accomplishing something each day is not really difficult. Sometimes the achievements are very small. The trick is making sure that most of the achievements, no matter how small are stepping stones toward larger achievements or goals. You don't have to accomplish a major goal every day. In fact, that would be impossible."

-- K. Jeffrey Miller


"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."

-- Lord Byron


"If you would stop analyzing everything and just look for things to appreciate, you would live happily ever after. "

-- Abraham-Hicks

Learning Something New

"I love learning something new. The sense of accomplishment that comes with learning is a great feeling. When your efforts result in the satisfaction that comes with learning something new, be proud and celebrate!"

-- K. Jeffrey Miller


"Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again.
Fail better."

-- Samuel Beckett


"Don't ever be afraid to admit you were wrong. It's like saying you're wiser today than you were yesterday."

-- Robert Newell

Great Experience To Help Others

"Whether you call it coaching, teaching, mentoring or tutoring and whether or not you get paid for it, helping others achieve their goals is a great experience."

-- K. Jeffrey Miller


"The mark of a successful man is one that has spent an entire day on the bank of the river without feeling guilty about it."

-- Arthur Wang



"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."

-- Sam Keen

Harness The Will Power

"Goal setting helps us harness this will power. It gives us something to look forward to. Is there something you are looking forward to? If not, find or plan something. Use it to strength your determination. Dig deep now and it will give you the practicse to do it again and again."

-- K. Jeffrey Miller


"It's so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it's not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it . in our hands."

-- Jaka


"We must take change by the hand or rest assuredly, change will take us by the throat."

-- Winston Churchill


"To get the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain."

-- Dolly Parton

Find a Profitable Hobby

"Dr. Waldridge's advice was true. The patients who loved their work and enjoyed it like a hobby always seemed to be the happiest and healthiest. They also demonstrated the greatest longevity. Find a hobby and if possible make it a profitable one."

-- K. Jeffrey Miller


"We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."

-- Arthur Wang


"To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity."

-- Irving Wallace

Do Have A Hobby

"Hobbies and collectables bring joy and great pleasure to people. Unfortunately, many people do not have hobbies or have allowed hobbies to die because life is too busy."

-- K. Jeffrey Miller


"Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy."

-- Milton Erickson


"Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves."

-- Phillip Dormer Stanhope


"Once your thoughts reflect what you genuinely want to be, the appropriate emotions and the consequent behaviour will flow automatically. Believe it and you will see it."

-- Wayne Dyer

Learn Money Saving Discipline

"My parents taught me to save money. Ultimately this proved to be my first lesson in goal setting. I had something to look forward to and I worked to obtain the money necssary to bring about what I wanted. The excitment of finally purchasing the items I saved for was tremendous."

-- K. Jeffrey Miller


"Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?"

-- Fanny Brice


"Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs."

-- Maxwell Maltz

Use Music To Lift Your Spirits

"Make a tape or CD of your favourite music, play it and sing along. Upload your I-Pod or MP3 player with your favourites. Use the music to lift your spirits and to keep them up. Sing in the shower, in the car or anywhere you can get away with it, even if you cannot carry a tune."

-- K. Jeffrey Miller


"A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it."

-- Frank Howard Clark.


"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."

-- George E. Woodberry


"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

-- Helen Keller

Get Busy As The Clock Is Ticking

"Most of all, I acknowledged that there is an end to my time on this earth. Admitting this helped me realized that there is a limited amount of time to accoumplish my life's goals. This realization was a great inoculation against procrastination. The focus on my goals and dreams quickly increased. I had to get busy, the clock is ticking."

-- K. Jeffrey Miller


"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

-- Virginia Woolf


"We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same."

-- Carlos Castaneda


"This is the best day the world has ever seen. Tomorrow will be better."

-- R.A. Campbell

Did You Stick Long Enough

"You really have no idea if you are good or bad at something until you have tried it. Even then if you have tried something and not been very good at it, you must ask yourself: Did I stick with it long enough to be good at it."

-- K. Jeffrey Miller


"If you've never run aground, you've never been anywhere!"

-- Arthur Wang


"Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger."

-- Lou Holtz


"Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race."

-- Andrew Carnegie

Daily Affirmatoin

"Today is the most magnificent day of my life. Health, wealth, happiness, love, success, prosperity, and money come to me in great abundance."

Using the daily affirmation each morning to help you spring out of bed with a positive attitude and with positive expectations for the day.

-- Herbert Harris


"Do More

Do more than belong: participate.
Do more than care: help.
Do more than believe: practice.
Do more than be fair: be kind.
Do more than forgive: forget.
Do more than dream: work."

-- William Arthur Ward

Your Own Imagination

"Your imagination is the connecting link between your own human consciousness and the universal consciousness. Through your imagination, the formless energy of the universal mind becomes the formed universe in your own mind and thus your life experience."

-- Herbert Harris


"What you thought before has led to every choice you have made, and this adds up to you at this moment. If you want to change who you are physically, mentally, and spiritually, you will have to change what you think."

-- Dr. Patrick Gentempo


"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams."

-- Oprah Winfrey

Have A Clear Purpose

"A clearly defined purpose projects your life into eternity. Once you have identified your purpose, you can set a direction for your life. As you strive to realize your purpose, you harmonize with the rhythms of life which form your destiny."

-- Herbert Harris


"The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others."

-- Don Shula


"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."

-- Charles R. Swindoll

Your Purpose In Life

"Your purpose is what you want your life to represent. It is generally revealed through your long-range goals. Your purpose provides orientation and direction for your journery through life. It is your reason for living. Like a ship's compass, your purpose guides you when all else fails. No one can choose your purpose for you. Only you can determine it for yourself."

-- Herbert Harris


"Our society is so caught up in winning, we forget that most of the great men and women in history have, at one time or another, failed at something. Often repeatedly, and discouragingly. But each failure is nothing more than a brick in the wall that forms the foundation of our success. We can't forget that."

-- Carlton Young

Develop a Goal Oriented Mindset

"Develop the habit of being goal-oriented. As your goals are accoumplished, you grow and progress toward the vision of life you have for yourself. Where there are no goals to be systematically achieved, your vision of a better life cannot be realized."

-- Herbert Harris


"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. "

-- Anne Frank


"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

-- Sir Winston Churchill

Fully Express Your Vision

"By fully expressing your vision through your senses, your feeling nature, you energize it and harmonize it with the universal force that makes it happen in your life experience."

-- Herbert Harris


"Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real courage is in finding the good in what you have, the opportunities in every hurdle, the pros in every con."

-- Carolyn Hax


"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'"

-- Charles M. Schulz

Do Not Fear Criticism

"The fear of criticism robs you of your intitative and destroys your imagination. It is fatal to your personal achievement and encourages the development of inferiority complexes. When you fear the criticism of others, your desire for change is neutralized and you remain stuck in the very conditiion you want to change."

-- Herbert Harris


"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."

-- Pablo Picasso


"Have more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest."

-- William Shakespeare

Deep Desire For Change

"The key ingredient for change is desire - burning desire. Unless there is a deep hunger, a burning desire for the changes you want to bring abount in your life, these changes will not happend."

-- Herbert Harris


"The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the man perfected without trials."

-- Chinese Proverb


"The spirited horse, which will of itself strive to win the race, will run still more swiftly if encouraged."

-- Ovid

Bring Change To Your Life

"In order to bring about change in your life, you must have faith that such change is possible. No matter how negative your situation, how absolutely overwhelming it may appear to be, if you have faith that things will get better, that there is something better for you in this life, then you have taken the first step toward finding it."

-- Herbert Harris


"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

-- George Herbert


"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."

-- Herbert Kaufman

Growth Principle of Life

"The moment you reject the growth principle of life, you accept the static principle of death. The only way to attain the good health, wealth, happiness and prosperity you seek and deserve is to grow into these qualities and attributes."

-- Herbert Harris


"Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them."

-- Napoleon Bonaparte


"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

-- Helen Keller


"He is able who thinks he is able."

-- Buddha

Mistakes Are Life Lessons

"No one has ever succeeded without making mistakes. If you are making mistakes, at least you know you are trying. Mistakes are life lessos in wisdom."

-- Herbert Harris


"The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do, but the absence of doing it."

-- Peter Drucker


"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits."

-- Richard M. Nixon


"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. "

-- Wayne Dyer

Developing Good Habits

"Habits are actions or behavior patterns that become automatic over time, through frequent repetition and consistency. Good habits are those which induce positive cycles of good health, proper rest, a balanced diet, regular exercise and right thinking. By developing good habits, you establish a harmonic relationship with all that's good for you."

-- Herbert Harris


"Then give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you."

-- Madeline Bridges


"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."

-- St. Augustine


"Failure is never final and success is never ending. Success is a journey, not a destination."

-- Ben Sweetland

Relaxation Is Important

"Relaxation is the key to stress reduction and to mental and physical regeneration. Through relaxation you can communicate with your subconcious mind and tap into that well of universal knowledge, wisdom, energy and understanding."

-- Herbert Harris


"When you learn, teach. When you get, give."

-- Maya Angelou


"Your dreams are the blueprints of your soul. They should take you by the hand and lead you toward your life's purpose and passion. They are one of, if not the greatest, source of self-motivation that you have. So nurture them and feed them inspiration whenever you can."

-- Mac Anderson


"The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people."

-- Leo Tolstoy

Your Own Imagination

"Your imagination is the blueprint for your future reality. It is the first step in the creative process."

-- Herbert Harris


"There are generations yet unborn whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take today."

--- Andy Andrews


"Every single thing you do matters."

-- Andy Andrews


"I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying? Move past the fear."

-- James Todd Smith (aka LL Cool J)

Many Ways To Improve

"There are many ways to improve and develop your self-image. It can be developed into a powerful magnet, capable of attracting the right people, the right circumstances, good health, wealth, happiness and anything else that you can see in your mind's ey and feel in your heart."

-- Herbert Harris


"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."

-- Joseph Chilton Pearce


"Belief fuels enthusiasm, and enthusiasm explodes into passion. It fires our souls and lifts our spirits."

-- Mac Anderson


"Whether you think you can, or think you can't...you're right."

-- Henry Ford

Use The Word Challenge

"Using the word challenge instead of problem also gives a more positive spin to an impending confrontation. When you face a challenge, it creates a positive aura of challing together your troops and powers to meet a worthy opponent."

-- Herbert Harris


"The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary."

-- Vince Lombardi


"The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything they have."

-- Arthur Wang


"Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference."

-- Nolan Bushnell