Stop Poisoning Yourself

"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies."

-- Nelson Mandela

The Biggest Keys to Reach Full Potential

"There are usually many different ways to solve a particular problem. If your current method hasn’t been successful, be open to trying something new. Learning from each mistake requires self-awareness and humility, but it can be one of the biggest keys to reaching your full potential."

-- Amy Morin

The Power of Positive Thought is Huge

"The power of positive thought is huge. Just by consciously acknowledging your achievements along the way, you’ll feel more successful. And that, in turn, will make your future challenges seem more achievable. So it really is important to celebrate. Some celebrations may be private and others may be very public—I don’t care how you do it so long as you realize how well you’ve done."

-- Richard Templar

What You Do With What Happens

"It is not what happens to you that determines how far you go in life; it is what you do with what happens to you."

-- Zig Ziglar

When You Are Face with Pressure Situation

"When you face a pressure situation, stay true to yourself and your plan. Remain in the present and do what you have worked weeks and months to perfect. If you follow this prescription, the desired results should come."

-- Bob Bowman

Take The First Step and Gain Self Esteem

"It is true that when we take a step, we then desire to take another step, then another. When we move into action, we gain self-esteem."

-- Julia Cameron

Share Your Mistakes Help Prevent One in Future

"When you view mistakes not as something negative but instead as an opportunity to improve yourself, you’ll be able to devote time and energy into making sure you don’t repeat them. In fact, mentally strong people are often willing to share their mistakes with other people in an effort to help prevent them from making the same mistakes."

-- Amy Morin

You Can Choose To Be A Winner

"People who choose to see themselves as winners get the prizes in life. You can choose to be a winner and get the prizes, too."

-- Natalie Reid

Motivated People Seize The Truth

"Motivated people seize this truth. The great artists, leaders, and innovators use the entire force of their reasoning faculties to become their highest selves and do their highest good. They express who they truly are and pursue goals they find meaningful. They strategically contemplate their direction and values; they weigh what will give them the greatest sense of vibrancy and fulfillment in every major decision."

-- Brendon Burchard

Each Step You Take Toward Your Goal

"Optimists think about what they want and how to get it. They think about their goals and the specific steps that they can take each day and each hour to move themselves in the direction of their goals. Each step you take toward a goal that is important to you makes you feel positive, powerful, and more optimistic."

-- Brian Tracy

Pay Attention To All The Steps You Take

"Pay attention to all the steps you take toward your goal. In order to learn from your mistakes, you have to remember what you actually did in the process! This sounds kind of obvious, but most of us are so obsessed with the finished product, we completely ignore how we got there. Leave a trail of mental bread crumbs along the path of your endeavor (taking notes or keeping a very short daily journal on your phone helps), so that when the whole thing is over you can trace your path backward to the beginning."

-- Bobby Bones

Developing A Good Plan

"No matter what type of mistakes you’re trying to avoid, the key to success lies in developing a good plan. Developing a written plan increases the likelihood that you’ll follow through with it."

-- Amy Morin

The Healing is Entirely Up To You

"Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can’t cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It’s just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal. Therapists and friends can help you along the way, but the healing— the genuine healing, the actual real-deal, down-on-your-knees-in-the-mud change—is entirely and absolutely up to you."

-- Cheryl Strayed

Do Something versus Doing Nothing

"One of the worst fears we can have is the fear to attempt something. That can leave you feeling bereft for no particular reason except that maybe you will have missed your purpose. There is always the possibility of failure, but there is a greater chance of success if you actually try to do something versus doing nothing. I wasn’t sure I’d be a success on the radio, but I went for it and my program on Clear Channel was a big hit. But I had to take the chance first to find out."

-- Donald Trump

The Important of Milestones

"Milestones are important for two reasons. For one thing they help you to get organized so that you can launch your plan more effectively. And for another thing they ensure you stay on track and keep pointing toward your destination."

-- Richard Templar

The Still Small Voice Within You

“Trust yourself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” Listen to what is called the “still, small voice” within you. The starting point of true greatness in human life is when you begin listening to that voice, when you begin trusting your intuition and going with the flow of what it tells you to do."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Acknowledge The Factors That Led Up To The Misstep

"If you want to avoid repeating a mistake, spend some time studying it. Set any negative feelings you might have aside, acknowledge the factors that led up to your misstep, and learn from it. Look for an explanation without making an excuse."

-- Amy Morin

Push Beyond Old Marks and On To New Ones

"More important, it reminds him that to push forward in life—whether in pursuit of a record-setting time or in search of a new career path—he needs to push beyond old marks and on to new ones. And when he does, and when he has achieved success, he will have earned it. He will deserve it."

-- Bob Bowman

What Small Amount of Action Can Do To You

"The key to any sustained program lies in doing it one day at a time. Rather than create grandiose goals beyond our reach, it behooves us to commit to one discrete, feasible action. What small amount of exercise could you do, just for today? Do that thing."

-- Julia Cameron

Choose One Area of Life

"You can only be the best at one thing at a time. Choose one area of life to optimize for top-level success and focus on it ruthlessly."

-- Sten Morgan

When Enlightenment Comes

"Enlightenment comes when we realize happiness is a choice, sadness is a choice, anger is a choice, love is a choice. Every state, emotion, and mood available to Man can be generated at will in our mind. This realization is one of the most obvious guideposts on the path from adolescence to adulthood, from immaturity to maturity, from terror in life to transcendence."

-- Brendon Burchard

Do Solve A Problem Doing The Same Thing

"The problem won’t get solved. It’s a vicious cycle. When you repeat a mistake, the problem perpetuates and you’re more likely to just keep doing the same thing. You’ll never be able to solve a problem until you do something differently."

-- Amy Morin

Be Selective on Your Expertise

"You only have so much cognitive energy.  Be selective about what you choose to become expert as you don't want to be typecast as an expert in areas you do not want to spend time on."

-- Barbara Oakley

Automatically Block Out Negative Thoughts

"Here is an important point. Your conscious mind can hold hundreds of thoughts in a row, but it can only hold one thought at a time, either positive or negative. If you deliberately fill your mind with a positive thought about a goal you want to achieve and the specific actions you can take to achieve it, you automatically block out negative thoughts."

-- Brian Tracy

When Looking Back At Failure

"Look three failures back instead of at your last one. Time and space give you more clarity on solutions. The further we’re removed from conflicts, the smarter we are about them. Working on failures from the past will help you with those in the present—without your even needing to try. Sometimes we also notice, when looking back, that the failure wasn’t as significant as we thought at the time."

-- Bobby Bones

Learn How To Motivate Yourself Daily

"Likewise, no matter how motivated you are, the world can be a negative place. Things don’t go your way. You get criticized. You get ‘dirty’ again. So you have to learn how to motivate yourself every day, just like washing.”

-- Adam Khoo

Be Positive Time To Upgrade Your Skills

"Three years ago I had difficulties finding freelance IT assignments. I realized this was actually a positive. It meant it was time to upgrade my skills—to both broaden and deepen what I know. Today, I’m over fifty and have no issues finding work—contrary to most people my age.

-- Ronny De Winter
freelance software engineer, Belgium