Deep Practice Can Be Used To Develop Skill

"I believe more in nurture than nature in learning and development. I know what can be achieved in developing talent through the 10 000-hour rule and the principles of deep practice. Deep practice can be used to develop skills and train the mind and in a sport such as rowing, having the correct mindset is key."

-- Ros Taylor

The Beauty of One's Character

"The beauty of one's character cannot be separate from kindness in character, kindness forms the basis of virtue.  To be kind to others, basically means to appreciate the good points in others, committing kind acts with others.  Later on it comes to mean treating and helping others with a kind attitude.  Kindness is the actualisation of virtue.  As the key content of virtue, it helps to determine whether something is virtuous and it is the basic nature of virtue."

-- Buddha

Living a Fully Charged Life

"Living a fully Charged Life demands constant choice, presence, focus, stretching, growth, and mastery. Enjoying the blessings of being energized, engaged, and enthusiastic requires hard work, struggle, and a commitment most will never have."

-- Brendon Burchard

Solid Knowledge and Experience

"There’s nothing wrong with very solid knowledge and experience to go along with our perceptions. In fact, that is when you will be playing with a very full deck. Experience, knowledge, and prescience are a formidable combination of powers. Do not underestimate any of them."

-- Donald Trump

Result of Positive Habits and Behaviors

"Winning the race is all about pace. Be the tortoise. The person who, given enough time, will beat virtually anybody in any competition as a result of positive habits and behaviors applied consistently."

-- Darren Hardy

Life is Always Flowing and Changing

"The river, like life, is always flowing and changing, and we do not have any control over the river or life. Building personal resilience—the ability to recover from or adjust easily to change—is far more valuable and effective at reducing stress and finding meaning in the moment than trying to control life’s activities or events."

--  Alex Pattakos

Visualisation is A Powerful Tool

"Visualisation is so much more of a powerful tool than most of us realise. If we visualise a successful outcome, then it is much more likely to happen as we are drawn to that conclusion."

-- Ros Taylor

What Three Things Can I Do Today

"Action out your goal! In order to get over the insecurities of starting something new, you must take action. What three things can you do today to work your dream into reality? Ask this every day. Always ask yourself, “What three things can I do today that my future self will hug me for?”"

-- Shannon Kaiser

When Lingering Too Long in Your Comfort Zone

"Everybody likes to feel comfortable, but lingering too long in your comfort zone will erode your confidence. Be firm about what matters most to you and financial opportunities will arise. Never stop asking questions. Curiosity keeps you open to life’s possibilities."

-- Dan Sullivan and Catherine Nomura

You’ll Need To Become a Bit Riskier

"Sometimes the security of our lives keeps us from living life. But if you want to take that ‘next step’ toward the dream you’re after you’ll need to become a bit riskier."

-- Bob Bowman

Choose Faith It is a Choice

"Choose faith. I’ve experienced way too many amazing things in my life to write them all off as being coincidence, being lucky, knowing the right people, or being at the right place at the right time. Faith is a choice. I’ve lived without it and I’ve lived with it, and I can tell you that life is infinitely better with it."

-- Rhonda Sciortino

To Be The Person You Must Become

"It’s the messy work of making sense of your fortunes and misfortunes, desires and doubts, hang-ups and sorrows, actions and accidents, mistakes and successes, so you can go on and become the person you must next become."

-- Cheryl Strayed

WillPower Grows Over Time

"My willpower is about having the confidence and mindset to know that I can and will finish. Willpower definitely grows the more you achieve the little things despite adversity. And the more I believe I’ll gain more confidence as I proceed, then the more I know I can continue on increasingly challenging roads to achieve even bigger things. So willpower grows over time."

-- Ros Taylor

Meaningful Way of Contributing To The World

"Actualizing your full potential involves using your talents, character, and values to help others. Ask yourself how you are drawn to help and what you are passionate about doing, as a positive and meaningful way of contributing to the world."

--  Alex Pattakos

Make People’s Lives Brighter

"You see? It’s fun coming up with things you can do to make people’s lives that bit brighter than they’re expecting. It’s wonderful seeing them realize that they’re cared about and valued. It’s bound to make people want to go the extra mile for you but, to be honest, it would be more than worth doing regardless."

-- Richard Templar

People Need To Grow and Achieve

"People need to grow and achieve a sense of fulfillment, meaning and happiness. Individuals have the power to shape their own futures. Expand your future with continual learning, the engine of growth. Learn for the future."

-- Dan Sullivan and Catherine Nomura

Am I Moving Forward in Life

"Am I moving forward in life at the speed I wish to? Am I taking the necessary actions to do so? Am I managing my thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and relationships in ways that help me progress, grow, and contribute?"

-- Brendon Burchard

Our Response Lies Our Growth

“Between stimulus and response there is a space . . . In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

-- Viktor Frankl

When You Have A Growth Mindset

"It took me a long time, into my 20s, to realise you could work on things and gradually improve. Sport, gym, book writing! When you have a growth mindset, opportunities can be grasped, and it is important that this is developed for willpower and your Willpower Challenge."

-- Ros Taylor

When You Have Goals To Work Toward

"Call it visualization, call it dreaming, but we can’t move toward something if we’re not clear what it really is. We don’t have to know how our goals will come true, but continuing to focus on what you want is much easier when you have goals to work toward."

-- Shannon Kaiser

If You Remain Calm You Win

"Stay peaceful. Don’t give anyone the power to make you angry, sad, or frustrated. If you do, he or she wins. If you remain calm, you win. It’s that simple"

-- Rhonda Sciortino

Our Time On Earth is Short

"As the ancient Greek playwright and philosopher Euripides so wisely said: “There is just one life for each of us: our own.” Our time on Earth is short; we must not waste it by living someone else’s life."

--  Alex Pattakos

Focus On The Desire

"Life comes to us through opportunities and possibilities. All we have to do is put our focus on the desire, ask for the highest possibility and wait for the universe to deliver."

-- Yvonne Teoh Bource

Asking Questions Is Valuable

"Asking questions with genuine curiosity is a growth strategy. Questions help you interact with the world around you in a new way, even if you don't necessarily need the answers you seek. The act of asking questions is valuable in and of itself."

-- Dan Sullivan and Catherine Nomura

As You Overcome Setbacks

"As you overcome setbacks and your thinking becomes more robust, the less emotional you are and the faster your recovery from disappointment is."

-- Ros Taylor

Respond By Being Responsible

"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible."

--V.Frankl