You Just Need To Change

"Remember that you just need to change one thing for your life to begin to improve. And, quite often, when you do make that change, the other things in your life that you want to change will follow."

-- Sue Hadfield


"Self-contempt never inspires lasting change."

-- Jane R. Hirschmann & Carol H. Munter


"Who you really are is enough."

-- Oriah Mountain Dreamer

The Fundamental Strategies for Wealth and Happiness

"Become master over what you have and what you are.  That's where the seeds of greatness are sown, great wealth, great health, great results, great influence, and great lifestyle.  Take interest and even delight in doing the small things well.  It will help you become a sophisticated person, one who knows the fundamental strategies for wealth and happiness."

-- Jim Rohn


"The journey to know ourselves ideally brings us to self-understanding and acceptance. It is NOT a quest for self-improvement.

When we open to love and accept ourselves, no matter what, our innate love, power and wisdom emerge naturally."

-- John Robson

Every Effect Has A Cause

"We know that every effect has a cause. And thought is the first cause of success in any worthwhile achievement. If you don't think, you don't succeed. If your thoughts are based on the wrong premises, you fail to get the right answers."

-- W. Clement Stone


"They also serve who only stand and wait."

-- John Milton


"When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you."

-- Susan Sarandon

The Only Important Thing Now

"The only important thing now is today, and the things you have to get done today.  If they're done, and the things you have to get done today.  If they're done well they will influence your future and perhaps make it better.  But the important thing is to live these twenty-four hours as if they were your last - enjoy every moment of them, and you will have a happier life."

-- Barry Parker


"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes


"There is more to life than merely increasing its speed."

-- M.K. Gandhi

Do It Even It Seems Frightening

"Feel the fear and do it anyway!  EVen if it seems frightening, 'So What!'  Fear and action arent' mutually exclusive! with each step forward, we learn to hold fear from a position of power instead of pain."

-- Susan Jeffers


"We can no longer prosper by increasing human productivity. The more we try to do, the more poverty we will create."

-- Paul Hawken


"Effective leadership isn't about having power over people, it's about doing good for people."

-- Bill Treasurer

Introduce Newness To Your Life

"Think of as many ways you can introduce newness or a change of direction to everything you do. You’ll be pleasantly surprised at how many things you can change, primarily because we tend to establish fixed habits of routine in which we drift mindlessly through life in the same old way, producing the same old results."

-- Gary Dooley


"Self-contempt never inspires lasting change."

-- Jane R. Hirschmann & Carol H. Munter


"Who you really are is enough."

-- Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Look Back On Your Life Without Regrets

"If you see your life on this earth as temporary, if you want to live your life to the full, if want to look back on your life without any regrets, then you can. Others have done it. Why shouldn't you?"

-- Sue Hadfield


"The journey to know ourselves ideally brings us to self-understanding and acceptance. It is NOT a quest for self-improvement.

When we open to love and accept ourselves, no matter what, our innate love, power and wisdom emerge naturally."

-- John Robson

The Right Attitudes Win For You

"Attitudes do make the difference. Salesmen with the right attitude beat their quotas; students with the right attitude make 'A's; right attitudes pave the way to really happy married life. Right attitudes make you effective in dealing with people, enable you to develop as a leader. Right attitudes win for you in every situation."

-- David Joseph Schwartz


"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."

-- Harper Lee


"How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look."

-- Joyce Carol Oates

Few People Understand Failure

"Failure is generally accepted as a curse.  But few people ever understand that failure is a curse only when it is accepted as such.  But few ever learn the truth that failure is seldom permanent."

-- Napoleon Hill


"We arrive on this planet empty handed. We all will soon leave empty handed. So then, how and in what spirit do we want to spend the time in between?"

-- Nimo


"Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity."

- Fritjof Capra

Your Brain Sees No Difference

"When you perform any task in real life, researchers have found, your brain uses the same identical processes it would use if you were only vividly visualizing that activity. In other words, your brain sees no difference whatsoever between visualizing something and actually doing it."

-- Jack Canfield


"And yet, ironically, we always fear and resist opening to that which is most real in us. When we trust in the process and give ourselves over to it, however, our true nature comes forth. The result is real integrity, love, authenticity, creativity, understanding, guidance, joy, power, and serenity-all of the qualities we are forever demanding that personality supply."

-- Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson

Why Are You Afraid

"Why are we afraid!  Have you ever heard a parent calling out to a child going off to school, 'Take some risks today, Darling.'  Considering how many 'be carefuls' our parents bombarded us with, it's amazing we even manage to walk out the front door!"

-- Susan Jeffers


"When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing."

-- Rabindranath Tagore


"No matter how painful our early experiences were, our Essence cannot be harmed. Our Essence is waiting for the opportunity to reveal itself. In a very true sense, we are waiting for the opportunity to become ourselves. Our spirit is yearning to break free, to express itself ..."

-- John Robson

Our Comfort Zone Come With A Price

"Change involves a degree of risk, which the comfort zone associates with fear, and in an attempt to avoid the fearful images that accompany the risk we allow our comfort zone to keep us safe where we are. But this security comes at a price. By remaining where we are, we stay stuck in what may be a very damaging and toxic situation."

-- Gary Dooley


"And yet, ironically, we always fear and resist opening to that which is most real in us. When we trust in the process and give ourselves over to it, however, our true nature comes forth. The result is real integrity, love, authenticity, creativity, understanding, guidance, joy, power, and serenity-all of the qualities we are forever demanding that personality supply."

-- Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson

Feel Positive About Yourself

"When you feel positive about yourself and your expectations then you know that it is possible to move in the direction that you want to go and to achieve your goals. "

-- Sue Hadfield


"When the soil disappears, the soul disappears."

-- Terri Guillemets


"No matter how painful our early experiences were, our Essence cannot be harmed. Our Essence is waiting for the opportunity to reveal itself. In a very true sense, we are waiting for the opportunity to become ourselves. Our spirit is yearning to break free, to express itself ..."

-- John Robson

Life Is Passing By While You Wait

"Don't spend time worrying about whether you will lose your job, or whether you will have money or health problems somewhere down the road.  Most of the things that people worry about never come to pass. While you are waiting, life is passing by, and the precious moments that you spend waiting will never come again."

-- Barry Parker


"The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp."

-- John Berry


"It's best not to get too excited or too depressed by the ups and downs of life."

-- Dalai Lama

How To Learn From Personal Experience

"The simple approach of doing things and then reflecting on how they went and what you can learn from the experience of undertaking activities is extremely powerful.  Since the earliest days, mankind has learnt from personal experience."

-- Richard Newton and Ciprian Adrian Rusen


"We are the ocean -- vast, deep, powerful and rich. Nourishing and nurturing. Dive down into the dark stillness of being.  Sense the rising and falling of surface thoughts and emotions, sometimes gentle, sometimes violent. Always shifting. Always in motion. Draw back and watch the waves of your life at play. Know you are the unfathomable depths -- surface agitations can't disturb you. Know that you are bigger than the little things that aggravate you."

-- John Robson

Success Is Based On Imagination

"Your potential is unlimifed.  It depends on you. How far do you want to go?  Remember what Thomas Edison said: Success is based on imagination plus ambition and the will to work."

-- W. Clement Stone


"We can experience any kind of pleasure and pain either too much or too little. But to experience all this at the right time, toward the right objects, toward the right people, for the right reason, and in the right manner -- that is the median and the best course, the course that is a mark of virtue."

-- Aristotle


"He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment."

-- Meister Eckhart

Life An Ongoing Process of Learning

"As long as you can remember that life is an on-going process of learning, you won't have the disgruntling sense that you haven't made it yet."

-- Susan Jeffers


"Why aren't you happy? It's because ninety-nine percent of everything you do, and think, and say, is for yourself -- and there isn't one."

-- Wu Wei Wu


"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."

-- Dalai Lama

Let Your Will Have No Power To Weaken You

"Reframing failure into feedback is a habit that is easily developed. Once your mind gets used to seeing things differently, any unsuccessful outcomes you experience will have no power to weaken your resolve to try again because you feel you are continuously learning something new and useful."

-- Gary Dooley


"There is no room for God in him who is full of himself."

-- Hasidic Saying


"Do not feed your ego and your problems, with your attention. ... Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be nothing but a thin ghost of its former self. You will be able to see right through it, to the divine presence that shines in each of us."

-- Eknath Easwaran

How May Years of Your Life Ahead

"You will never know how many years lie ahead of you, so it makes sense to make sure that you are not wasting them but that you spend your life in a way that makes you feel proud of yourself. "

-- Sue Hadfield


"On the spiritual path, we must be diligent to discriminate whether we are acting from ego or from soul. If ego is in charge, what we do is self- referencing. At the deepest levels, we are motivated by our own self-interest. We're looking out for ourselves more than for others.

Although soul works through individuals, its focus is on the needs of others and on service to humanity."

-- John Robson

What Are Healthy Conversion

"Conversation is a big part of our psychological environment. Some conversation is healthy. It encourages you. It makes you feel like you're taking a walk in the warm sunshine of a spring day. Some conversation makes you feel like a winner.  But other conversation is more like walking through a poisonous, radioactive cloud. It chokes you. It makes you feel ill. It turns you into a loser."

-- David Joseph Schwartz


"Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things."

-- Albert Einstein


"Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort."

-- Paul J. Meyer

Worrying Too Much About Failure

"If you spend very much time worrying about failure, it will build, and in the end you will fail.  The best way around this is to look upon them as challenges.  Act aggressively to get them out of your mind.  If you do this quickly every time they crop up, they will soon disappear."

-- Barry Parker


"Many of us have been taught to do our duty. What reaction does this bring up for you?

For me, doing my duty often means doing something I really don't want to do. My heart's not in it. When this is the case, tasks may get done but there's no gift to the world. We do not truly serve if we give to others with resentment.

Perhaps we need to give ourselves permission to say no and look after our own needs. When our own needs are met, we are much more likely to want to give from a full heart.

It's not selfish to look after ourselves -- it's essential!"

-- John Robson

Meaningless of Comparison to Other People

"While there is value in encouraging the best from ourselves, and in living up to our own standards, there is little to be gained from trying to see how well or badly we do in comparison to other people."

-- Lynn Williams


"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."

-- Henry Ford


"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart."

-- Pearl S. Buck

The Purpose of Your Life

"If you make anything external the purpose of your life, you will always make yourself a candidate for mental torture.  Even if you succeed in getting what you want, you will always live with the fear of losing it."

-- Susan Jeffers


"We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open."

-- Harry Edwards


"We love because it's the only true adventure."

-- Nikki Giovanni

Use Failure As Feedback

"By changing the word ‘failure’ to ‘feedback’ we change our response because the word ‘feedback’ is highly unlikely to have any previously established unconscious negative associations for us."

-- Gary Dooley


"If you accept a limiting belief, then it will become a truth for you."

-- Louise Hay


"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend."

-- Melody Beattie

Take Care Of Your Own Health

"Taking care of your own health is all part of living a full and happy lifestyle. Believing that you are worth it means believing that you should look after yourself – with all the things you already know you need. Working hard, looking after a family, and having fun are all easier to achieve if you are feeling rested, well and energetic."

-- Sue Hadfield


"Pick one aspect of your life, e.g. your health, your competence, your prosperity or relationships, and think back to when you were a child. What messages about this subject did you hear from adults at that time that are still playing on your subconscious tape recorder? Messages like: "Men can't be trusted." "Money doesn't grow on trees." "You're not smart enough to succeed in business."

How is your world reflecting your beliefs back to you, today?"

-- John Robson

Creating Greater Self Confidence

"The habit of faith requires that you simply believe that there is a higher power in the universe and that this power wants the very best of you.  The greater faith you develop, the greater confidence you will have that everything that is happening to you is part of a great plan that is moving you inevitably toward something better."

-— Brian Tracy


"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in."

-- Seth

What You Can Never Lose

"You can lose the material things, but you can never lose your mastery, what you learn and who you become in the process of achieving your goals."

-- Jack Canfield


"Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important."

-- Stephen Covey


"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'"

-- Lao-Tzu

Unconscious Mind Needs You To Take Action

"The unconscioous mind will, indeed, produce the winning feeling, but unless you are actually working towards achieving your goal it will soon get stuck in a rut.  You have to see yourself as making progress, and for this you have to take action."

-- Barry Parker


"Time management is all about making decisions. At each step of the way, we want to choose activities that best support what we want to do with our lives. To do this, we need to be clear about our short and long-term goals.

Here's a general question to ask yourself often: "Is this the best use of my time in terms of meeting my goals?" Sometimes, of course, we don't have any choice. But ask yourself honestly, "Could I take more control if I really wanted to?" Often, we play the victim because we don't want to make the effort to change our behaviour."

-- John Robson

Being Perfect Is Very Limiting

"Trying to be perfect is very limiting.  It also creates an intense feeling of being trapped!  We go about our lives pulling ourselves down instead of building ourselves up.  Maybe we should all walk around with compasses."

-- Susan Jeffers


"We could hardly wait to get up in the morning."

-- Wilbur Wright


"Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard."

-- Anne Sexton

The Toxic Fears Will Die

"The way to break out of our toxic fear habits is to understand that they need ‘fuel’ in order to continue; without our input the toxic fears will die. The key to change, therefore, lies in learning how to stop feeding the fire."

-- Gary Dooley


"Passion emerges when your essence expresses itself. How do you stop yourself from fully expressing who you are?"

-- John Robson


"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."

-- Henri Frederic Amiel