Always Remain Optimistic

"Remain optimistic, no matter what is going on. Look for something good in the problem or situation. Very often, what appears to be a major setback is an opportunity in disguise."

-- Brian Tracy

Approach Life As A Game

“If you approach life as a game with growth as the objective, you’ll put yourself in the right frame of mind to engage in and enjoy the adventure, whatever it brings.”

-- Dan Sullivan

Conscious Choice To Celebrate Life’s Gifts

"Our choice to spend the day doing something enjoyable isn’t about ignoring our grief or masking our sadness. It’s about making a conscious choice to celebrate life’s gifts and refusing to behave in a pitiful manner. Instead of pitying ourselves for what we lost, we choose to feel grateful for what we had."

-- Amy Morin

The Beauty of The Human Mind

"To dream anything you want to dream. That’s the beauty of the strength of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed."

—- Bernard Edmonds

Initially Most Things in Life Don’t Work Out

"Remember that most things in life don’t work out, at least initially. Remind yourself that problems and difficulties are a normal and natural part of life. They are unavoidable. The only thing you can control is how you deal with them."

-- Brian Tracy

Create A Bigger Future

"Creating goals for yourself automatically takes you out of the past and creates a bigger future. If you’re having trouble coming up with meaningful goals, a good way to start is to write down five or ten of your accomplishments from the past year and then think about what would represent a further achievement in each area."

-- Dan Sullivan

The Value of Hobbies

"Hobbies often bring valuable mental flexibility and insight. If you’re lucky, these insights can spill over and enhance your job. But even if they don’t, your brain can be getting a workout."

-- Barbara Oakley

Feeling Sorry For Yourself

"Feeling sorry for yourself requires a lot of mental energy and does nothing to change the situation. Even when you can’t fix the problem, you can make choices to cope with life’s obstacles in a positive way. Feeling sorry for yourself won’t move you any closer to a solution."

-- Amy Morin

Make A Decision Right Now

"Make a decision, right now, that you are going to unlock your full potential for success and happiness and become the extraordinary person that lies deep within you. You are going to accomplish all the wonderful things that you were put in this world to achieve."

-- Brian Tracy

The Seed of All Achievement

"Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist, DESIRE is the seed of all achievement; the starting place, back of which there is nothing, or at least there is nothing of which we have any knowledge."

-- Napoleon Hill

Who Has Lived Well

"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction."

—- Bessie Stanley,
Late 19th/early 20th century poet

How To Become An Expert

"You’ll never become an expert at anything by simply reading a book. Athletes don’t become elite competitors after reading about their sport nor do top musicians increase their musical abilities by simply watching other performers play. They also have to practice."

-- Amy Morin

You Can Hold Only One Thought

"Although your mind can contain thousands of thoughts, it can hold only one thought at a time, and you are always free to choose that thought at any given moment. Whatever thought you choose at the moment will determine whether you become angry and flustered or remain calm and collected."

-- Brian Tracy

Learning How To Learn

"Cultures are changing, and new skillsets are becoming important. Learning how to learn is an important meta-skill that can help you keep up with rapidly evolving skillsets."

-- Barbara Oakley

Growing Can Be Simple

"Growing can be as simple as making an effort to learn something that increases your perspective on the world or using the time you have left to make a new kind of contribution."

-- Dan Sullivan

When To Reset Your Thoughts

"Going for a run, taking a shower, cooking some food, watching a show, reading a book, or listening to music are all tools I use to reset my thought processes when I realize that my thoughts are not serving me well."

-- Phil M. Jones

Your Extraordinarily Powerful Thoughts

"Your thoughts are extraordinarily powerful, with the ability to make you mad or glad, positive or negative, excited or calm. The thoughts you think determine the emotions that you experience. When you find yourself at a crunch point, when you experience a sudden setback or reversal, your very first job is to seize control of your thoughts and feelings to ensure that you perform at your best."

-- Brian Tracy

Why Develop Your Mental Strength

"Developing mental strength is about improving your ability to regulate your emotions, manage your thoughts, and behave in a positive manner, despite your circumstances."

-- Amy Morin

Security Inverse Relation With Opportunity

"Opportunity is inversely proportional to security; the bigger the opportunity the lesser the security and more security means lesser opportunity."

-- Rupal Jain

The Past Is The Past

“The past is the past. You can’t change that. What you can control is your attitude on the next shot. The only thing in the world that matters right now is the next shot.”

-- Barbara Oakley

Best Time To Work On Imagination

"The best time to work on a faulty imagination is at night, just as you are ready to go to sleep, for then the automatic or sub-conscious mind has everything its own way, and the thoughts or suggestions you give it just as your conscious or “day” mind is about to go off duty will be taken up and worked on during the night."

-- Napoleon Hill

The Bigger Future in the Vision

"The act of making your future bigger than your past is the very act of growth itself: the bigger future is the vision, and growth is what makes it real."

-- Dan Sullivan

Obstacles Were My Life

"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin—real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life."

-— Fr. Alfred D’Souza (d. 2004),
Australian writer and philosopher

Knit Together Into Mastery

"Becoming an expert in something new, whatever the subject, means building small chunks of knowledge using day-by-day practice and repetition. Gradually, these small chunks can then be knit together into mastery."

-- Barbara Oakley

Bad For Those Who Never Made Mistake

"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success; we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

-— Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), Scottish author and reformer

No Right Way To Achieve Success

"Achieving success in your BIG idea is unlikely to be a straight line from where you are now to where you would like to be. There is also no one right way to get there. There are just actions you can take that get you closer and other actions that will take you further away.:

-- Phil M. Jones