"I think its very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice. Constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself."
-- Elon Musk
"Research has shown that people who track their progress on goals like losing weight, quitting smoking, and lowering blood pressure are all more likely to improve than those who don’t. One study of more than sixteen hundred people found that those who kept a daily food log lost twice as much weight as those who did not. The mere act of tracking a behavior can spark the urge to change it."
-- James Clear
"Your success is directly linked to your thoughts about yourself. You will act out who you think you really are. You’ll take on what you believe you can handle."
"Open yourself up to growth. Release yourself from the idea that you already are as much as you will ever be. You are infinite. You are endless."
-- Stacie Bloomfield
"In my life I’ve always made a conscious choice to work in fields where I love what I do so much that it ceases to feel like work. When you love what you do, life seems so much more beautiful—in fact, the very idea of “work” dissolves. Instead, it feels more like a challenge, a mission, or a game you play. I encourage everyone to try to move toward work that feels this way."
-- Vishen Lakhiani
"Don’t allow grief to conquer you! You don’t have to stay in the sad place where you find yourself right now. It is possible to rise up and take the steps of faith that will carry you toward a better tomorrow."
-- Brian Zahnd
"Be gentle with yourself. Falling down is a part of life. Get back up and allow your True Self to guide you. Soon you'll be shining even brighter. Most bright lights fall down many times before they learn to fly."
-- Mikaela Katherine Jones
"Alone time allows you to have conversations with your creative self. It gives you the space and time to analyze what is going well in your life, what you want to do more of, and the things you want to change. When you gain the insights that come from this experience and apply them, they will undoubtedly elevate and improve the quality of your life."
-- Sherrie Campbell
"Each day is a gift, and we never know when our time may be up. I hope all of us end our last day on this earth pursuing the thing we love the most with all of the energy and passion we possess."
-- Jim Stovall
"Be conscious of things that make you smile. Like children's laughter. It is from the place of feeling good and feeling gratitude that we are able to bring our dreams into reality . . . So let the good times and the tears of gratitude roll."
-- Mikaela Katherine Jones
"People with a growth mindset believe that they can improve with effort. They outperform those with a fixed mindset, even when they have a lower IQ, because they embrace challenges, treating them as opportunities to learn something new."
-- Travis Bradberry
“Taking chances is a great way to test myself and our group, and also push boundaries while having fun together.” And push boundaries he does. His teams create products that people say won’t work. They break records that people claim are impossible. And they accept challenges that no one else attempts. But through it all, Branson acknowledges his risks are “strategic judgments, not blind gambles.”
-- Richard Branson
"We have to start where most of your obstacles lie—in your head. I call these your input/output messages. Many people stop dreaming because they’ve been bombarded with failure messages. We often stab our spirits to death by talking to ourselves with negative, killing affirmations."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"Success, too, is the ability to solve problems. The most effective and respected people in every field are those who are the most capable of dealing with the problems that arise in that field."
-- Brian Tracy
"Our preference for instant gratification reveals an important truth about success: because of how we are wired, most people will spend all day chasing quick hits of satisfaction. The road less traveled is the road of delayed gratification. If you’re willing to wait for the rewards, you’ll face less competition and often get a bigger payoff. As the saying goes, the last mile is always the least crowded."
-- James Clear
"Every obstacle in life comes with a corresponding lesson and the seed of a greater good. Embrace the struggle and view healing as more than simply restoration—but, instead, as a life lesson in the great resources you already have inside of you."
-- Jim Stovall
"Strange as it might sound, turning things such as clocks, pictures, calendars and anything else you can ‘flip’ upside down is an excellent Neurobic exercise. When you read them this way, your right brain hemisphere dominates rather than your left and this can improve spatial awareness – having an awareness of your relationship with your surroundings."
-- Don Macpherson
"Fear will always exist; learn to be an optimist and find a way out of the painful cycle of thoughts that is blocking you. Don’t forget that fear is a terrible liar—it always paints reality as worse than it is."
-- Marian Rojas Estape
"People are not failures; they simply have failed in their attempts. Great performers use a failure or mistake as a litmus test. Then they leverage the agony of defeat, doing everything in their power to make sure it won’t happen in the future."
-- Brian Levenson
""Just the act of walking into a library of your own makes you feel smarter and wiser.” As you read and listen to other’s concepts, you’ll begin to have a few new ideas of your own. Some of us see our own gifts sooner than others. Some gifts at first may not look like gifts at all. We may be completely missing that genius."
-- Jim Rohn
"A real, deep education is self-education. When you are self-educated, you’re hungry to learn from everyone and everything and everywhere. You’re committed to lifelong learning. You can’t get enough. You’re an information sponge, drinking deeply of all the available wisdom."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"And you have treasures hidden within you—extraordinary treasures—and so do I, and so does everyone around us. And bringing those treasures to light takes work and faith and focus and courage and hours of devotion, and the clock is ticking, and the world is spinning, and we simply do not have time anymore to think so small."
-- Elizabeth Gilbert
"In sport, as in life, we should be seeking a healthy balance between mind and body in order to feel, and be, at our best. We should actively take better care of our brain, so that it can continue to look after our body as we grow older."
-- Don Macpherson
"There are days when we cross the finish line, reach the goal, or pass the milestone. These are special days, and we should enjoy them. But don’t ever forget the ancient Chinese proverb, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Every step along the way is to be experienced, enjoyed, and savored."
-- Jim Stovall
"People who are brave enough to stand up to life's hardships have a better chance of surmounting them. They are thus more likely to acquire satisfying jobs and loving relationships. They are also apt to be more highly esteemed."
-- Melvyn L. Fein
"Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. The same way that money multiplies through compound interest, the effects of your habits multiply as you repeat them. They seem to make little difference on any given day and yet the impact they deliver over the months and years can be enormous. It is only when looking back two, five, or perhaps ten years later that the value of good habits and the cost of bad ones becomes strikingly apparent."
-- James Clear
"To change what’s in your subconscious mind, figure out what’s in there—see what the program is—and then replace it with a program of your own design, one that works for you. Your subconscious mind makes your world match what it holds: it dictates what you observe. To change your world, therefore, change what’s in your subconscious mind."
-- Natalie Reid
"This is likely because you’re so consumed by your own dramas, anxieties, distractions, insecurities, and duties that you aren’t receptive to inspiration. You might miss the signal because you’re watching TV, or shopping, or brooding over how angry you are at somebody, or pondering your failures and mistakes, or just generally really busy. The idea will try to wave you down (perhaps for a few moments; perhaps for a few months; perhaps even for a few years), but when it finally realizes that you’re oblivious to its message, it will move on to someone else."
-- Elizabeth Gilbert
"And here’s the trick that makes getting there possible—all you have to do is take the next step. Rather than approaching goals with an all or nothing mindset, break them down into little bite-size chunks. Just start. Take a step, then another, and another. And just keep going. Slow growth is good growth."
-- Stacie Bloomfield
"Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted."
-- Robert Collier (1885-1950)
"Let the why drive your actions. It is about sharing your true self with the world and letting your passion guide you. Use that to emanate your why to the world. This will give you more support and success than focusing on why others aren’t supporting you. Shine your inner light by aligning with your why. When you believe in yourself, you don’t need others to believe in you. The best support comes from within."
-- Shannon Kaiser
"You need something else to motivate you besides the money and the accolades. When you balance your checkbook and put the awards on the shelf, if that was all you wanted, you come to find that you still lack purpose and fulfillment. I know this because I’ve experienced it myself. Sure, I can buy a nicer car and a bigger house, but at the end of the day, I go home to my wife and kids and they are what really matters."
-- Sten Morgan
"As we have explored here, the other option available to you is to honestly take responsibility for yourself, your life and your world. Choose to believe that this process will work, whether you have an understanding of the science behind it or not, and it will. 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
"There are only two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is."
-- Albert Einstein
"Success does not happen overnight, and it does not happen easily. But we believe that everyone can find a way to be successful. The outcome is simply a result of an ongoing process — learning to live successfully."
-- Newt Gingrich
"Almost anything that’s worth having in life – things that will inspire or fulfill you – will be outside of your comfort zone: excitement, passion, fulfillment, satisfaction, love, success, money ... attaining whatever you want probably involves some action that lies outside of your comfort zone. When you move outside of your comfort zone, you’re going to feel fear. The only way to really shift you stance is to start approaching the things that scare you."
-- Dr. Aziz Gazipura
"Everything that you can see around you, began in the invisible world of someone’s soul. It was first a talent, then a dream. It came into being because of talent, discipline, and desire, all invisible ingredients which live in the souls of men and women."
-- Henry Cloud
"Surrender to a new consciousness, a thought that whispers, I can do this thing in this moment. I will receive all the help I need as long as I stay with this intention and go within for assistance."
-- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"I would define self-belief as a strong feeling deep inside your soul that you can overcome whatever challenge lies in front of you, wherever. Self-belief also empowers you to know that when things don’t go to plan, you can bounce back sooner rather than later. You know you can trust your skills to get you over the line and you back yourself to sort it out."
-- Don Macpherson
"Each time you repeat an action, you are activating a particular neural circuit associated with that habit. This means that simply putting in your reps is one of the most critical steps you can take to encoding a new habit. It is why the students who took tons of photos improved their skills while those who merely theorized about perfect photos did not. One group engaged in active practice, the other in passive learning. One in action, the other in motion."
-- James Clear
"By manifesting, you are bringing something that already exists in your heart and mind into your own subjective universe so that you can observe it and by doing so, make it real. Give it form, depth and meaning in your life."
-- Natalie Reid
"Whatever gifts you have been given can be enlarged and developed through practice. For instance, no one gets the gift of teaching fully developed. But with study, feedback, and practice, a “good” teacher can become a better teacher, and with time, grow to be a master teacher. Don’t settle for a half-developed gift. Stretch yourself and learn all you can."
-- Rick Warren
"When we think about the adversity advantage, it is important to remember that the adversity carries no automatic benefit with it, but our reaction to the adversity can make all the difference. For every person you can show me defeated by circumstances, I will show you another individual facing the same circumstances who has turned the adversity into an advantage and moves forward as a better, stronger person with a heightened sense of destiny for their life."
-- Jim Stovall
"The law of life is to grow, develop, improve, evolve, and become ever more and ever better. Study other geniuses to realize the genius in you. If you want to think out of the box, start studying the people who already think out of the box. Make sure you have access to a library of books, recordings, and articles by these geniuses."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"The more you let negative thoughts roam freely in your mind, the more powerful they become. It is therefore essential to interrupt this process before the negatives find their way into your subconscious where they will be harder to shift or change."
-- Don Macpherson
"A fearful person sees their environment as hostile and upsetting, making them vulnerable to everything. We shouldn’t forget that the best challenges possess an element of uncertainty; nothing great can begin without a little fear."
-- Marian Rojas Estape
“When people have a fixed mindset and they don’t do well at something immediately, they quit. If you don’t believe you can really improve, why keep trying?”
-- Carol Dweck
"Visualizing what I wanted from life seemed to bring it to me, and that was all very positive. But, as I was to discover, the law of attraction can work two ways – positively and negatively."
-- Camilla Sacre-Dallerup
"You must determine where you have been in your life, so that you can know where you are now. If you don’t know where you are, precisely, then you could be anywhere. Anywhere is too many places to be, and some of those places are very bad. You must determine where you have been in your life, because otherwise you can’t get to where you’re going. You can’t get from point A to point B unless you are already at point A, and if you’re just “anywhere” the chances you are at point A are very small indeed."
-- Jordan B. Peterson
"If you do not feel that kind of passion or importance for the things you do on a daily basis, either find something new to do or a new attitude about the course you are on. There will come a day when people read your obituary and consider the mark you have made in this world. On that day, it will be too late to make a difference. Make your mark while you can."
-- Jim Stovall
"If people are to be winners, if they are to fulfill their potential, they must possess courage. If they do not, if they make excuses and avoid the possibility of failure, they are sure to fail—no matter how strenuously they proclaim their inherent worth."
-- Melvyn L. Fein
"When scientists analyzed the brains of taxi drivers in London, they found that the hippocampus—a region of the brain involved in spatial memory—was significantly larger in their subjects than in non–taxi drivers. Even more fascinating, the hippocampus decreased in size when a driver retired. Like the muscles of the body responding to regular weight training, particular regions of the brain adapt as they are used and atrophy as they are abandoned."
-- James Clear
"Decide to become consistently exceptional. Create a can-do attitude to give yourself an attitude of gratitude—an attitude that’s going to give you more altitude than anyone’s ever had before. Maintain a positive mental attitude and an extraordinary mindset."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"It takes some extra effort and energy to really evaluate your thoughts. But overly positive or exaggeratedly negative thoughts will influence how you feel and behave and can interfere with your quest for mental strength. Examine whether your thoughts are realistic before determining a course of action so you can make the best decisions for yourself. Identify beliefs and thoughts that will hold you back, such as those that encourage you to give away your power, waste energy on things you can’t control, dwell on the past, or expect immediate results. Replace them with more realistic and productive thoughts."
-- Amy Morin
"Knowing how wonderful taking walks makes me feel has also helped me tune in to when I’m feeling wound up. I recognize the signs that it’s time to pause and head straight to the walking trail near my house."
-- Stacie Bloomfield
"Create habits that force you to fight complacency in preparation. Remember, complacency is the enemy of success."
-- Brian Levenson
"Resources acquired with little effort and praise obtained without exertion are empty. They do not provide lasting satisfactions because they are not secured through personal merit."
-- Melvyn L. Fein
"A life lived to its fullest is nothing more than a series of years, months, weeks, and days lived in the same fashion. Somehow, when we project into the future, we only think of things that hold a great deal of significance to us."
-- Jim Stovall
"Forgiveness is an act of love and an elevated mindset with which to approach other human beings and life in general. To forgive is to respond positively when you have been treated negatively. It’s a special form of surrender, and it lifts human beings to a higher plane."
-- Marian Rojas Estape
“Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they think.”
-- Martin Seligman
"Find your genius. Find your uniqueness. Ask yourself, what do I like? What energizes me? What would I do if I didn’t have to work? What’s my passion? What’s my unique calling? What’s my life assignment? Discover what you’re good at doing and what you’re great at doing? Repeat it, improve it, polish it, grow forward and you’ll wow yourself."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"Sometimes motion is useful, but it will never produce an outcome by itself. It doesn’t matter how many times you go talk to the personal trainer, that motion will never get you in shape. Only the action of working out will get the result you’re looking to achieve."
-- James Clear
"Think about trying to live your life “on purpose.” This means really do what you’re doing with your whole mind, body, and spirit. Don’t be doing one thing and thinking about doing another. This conscious effort to “live in the moment,” will make you better at the things you do but, more importantly, will cause you to examine the significance of the tasks on which you decide to invest your time."
-- Jim Stovall
"The mind is the most powerful instrument we have when it comes to succeeding or failing. It is either our best friend or our worst enemy. It is the one enemy that is more powerful than all others. Our mind can turn on us in a nanosecond if left unmanaged. We cannot allow ourselves to believe our negative, fixed, fear-based thoughts. They are no more mature than that of a two-year-old."
-- Sherrie Campbell
"There is no growth without change; there is no change without fear or loss; and there is no loss without pain. Every change involves a loss of some kind: You must let go of old ways in order to experience the new. We fear these losses, even if our old ways were self-defeating, because, like a worn out pair of shoes, they were at least comfortable and familiar."
-- Rick Warren
"Making friends with nature will absolutely make your life better. Whether it is hiking a new trail, foraging for mushrooms with your local naturalist society, putting up (and snoozing in) a hammock in your backyard, or sitting on a park bench and sketching trees and squirrels, being outdoors will help you clear your mind."
-- Stacie Bloomfield
"It’s all in your head. It’s in your head that genius begins. Mind power is only good when we recognize that it is our power. There’s no more life in an ant than an elephant; it’s simply spirit taking infinite forms. You choose your form, and then you become the form."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"Remember, we don’t always get what we want, need, or earn. We do, eventually, get what we expect. Go through today with the highest of expectations, and you will, like my friend, discover that 'The best is yet to come.'"
-- Jim Stovall
"Learn to love yourself, and to move through life with a sense of well-being. The most important thing is knowing how to be good to yourself. People who remain stuck in a state of guilt can’t manage to see their strengths or their talents. They see everything as crashing down on them because of their limitations or defects—because their perception is distorted!"
-- Marian Rojas Estape
"Many people think they lack motivation when what they really lack is clarity. It is not always obvious when and where to take action. Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement."
-- James Clear
"There is one grand lie—that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe."
-- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"Discomfort isn’t simply about work ethic. I’ve seen people with a strong work ethic become very comfortable in their training. Their growth slows down, they become complacent, and those top performers start to slide. You can show up every day to do your job, to train, to put in the hours of practice—and still not take it to the level of an elite performer in preparation. They push themselves to do things that their brain is saying are impossible. Being uncomfortable is a ever-ending cycle that begins anew every time their performance ends."
-- Brian Levenson
"We become old in our attitudes when we begin to believe that our best days or the best things in life are behind us. We begin to cling to memories instead of the expectation of tomorrow. On the other hand, no matter what age we may be, if we assume “The best is yet to come,” it becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy and will insure us a great day ahead."
-- Jim Stovall
"Procrastination takes its toll on success and happiness; accomplishment and indecisiveness are as contradictory as success and procrastination. Your life will only improve by your actions."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"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
"Though it might feel artificial and forced in the beginning, get started on whatever it is you hope to achieve and quite soon the momentum takes over and you find yourself easily carrying on with whatever it is you intended to do. All it takes is a little effort at the start."
-- Gill Hasson
"Hundreds of studies have shown that implementation intentions are effective for sticking to our goals, whether it’s writing down the exact time and date of when you will get a flu shot or recording the time of your colonoscopy appointment. They increase the odds that people will stick with habits like recycling, studying, going to sleep early, and stopping smoking."
-- James Clear
"Our basic needs are very simple. “Stuff” beyond that is either icing on the cake or baggage that weighs us down. Make sure that you have your “stuff” instead of your “stuff” having you."
-- Jim Stovall
"The past is a valuable source of information, but it doesn’t determine your future. The act of living with your mind anchored in the past, turning over and over things that have already happened, can have adverse effects, bringing up emotions and sensations from melancholy, frustration, guilt, sadness, or resentment all the way to full-blown depression. All of these have an element in common—they prevent us from enjoying the present. Getting stuck in the past prevents us from moving forward in life."
-- Marian Rojas Estape
"The world respects people who can create. Just remember that in order to create anything, we must first dream it. To live your dream, you must first have a dream to live. Dreams create the world of reality."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"Not a day goes by where I don’t want to sit in the sunshine and breathe in fresh air. Going on a walk outside with a podcast playing in my headphones is my favorite way to relax. I gave myself margin in my day to make walking a part of my schedule, and I now crave this part of my routine. I need the outdoors. When I don’t have it, I feel depleted."
-- Stacie Bloomfield
"Just start taking action. Start taking action. Start moving in the direction of your goals. Just taking that action will motivate you to continue to move forward. Set obtainable goals for yourself, and in reaching them, you will gain more and more confidence along the way!"
-- Megan Tull
"Remember that yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift. That’s why it’s called “the present.” Be sure to live it that way and plan to live it that way in the future."
-- Jim Stovall
"Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.” Don’t allow trash into your mind indiscriminately. Be selective. Choose carefully what you think about."
-- Rick Warren
"The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do. Each time you write a page, you are a writer. Each time you practice the violin, you are a musician. Each time you start a workout, you are an athlete. Each time you encourage your employees, you are a leader."
-- James Clear
"In the game of life, you’re the audience you’re playing to. Even if you listen to the advice of others, in the end you are the person in charge of making your own decisions. Be daring enough to follow your dreams, to immerse yourself in them, and you’ll find courage and boldness to achieve them."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"When we trust in our process, what we really are focused on is controlling what we can control: our own actions. 'Control what you can control' has become a mantra for professional athletes as they prime their minds for the uncertainties of a performance. Simply listing all the things that are in your control and all the things that are out of your control during a performance can be extremely helpful. It reminds us why we rely on our process."
-- Brian Levenson
"In order to be a successful human being, we must take the life priorities that we all have and make sure they all fit into our schedule. Our business activities can expand to account for the entire day unless we first and foremost schedule our priorities. Time for family and personal growth should be blocked out in our calendars before the daily crush of activities is allowed to take over our lives."
-- Jim Stovall
"Whatever your goal, always try to get better, to give value and to help bring the best out of others. Try to be a human vitamin, someone who adds, who helps, who brings joy and optimism even to periods of uncertainty."
-- Marian Rojas Estape
"You can make your dream even more tangible by being specific and putting dates by your goals. Hang your dream board somewhere where you’ll see it every day, and, when you look at it, notice the wonderful feelings you experience when you imagine those dreams coming true. This is what visualization is all about."
-- Camilla Sacre-Dallerup
"Don’t give up. Put your best foot forward. Show up. Do the work. Sharpen your skills. Ask for help. Roll with the setbacks. Learn from the failures. Lean on your support systems. Don’t carry it all alone. Embrace your own story. It won’t look like everyone else’s story. Believe that you are fully equipped for success."
-- Stacie Bloomfield
"On a more general level, becoming a skilled reader opens a universe of possibilities. People who are not overawed by the written word have a place to go when they do not have answers. They thereby take advantage of what others have learned. This enables them to figure out what to do in situations that they have not previously encountered."
-- Melvyn L. Fein
"Make a commitment to pursue the things that really matter for you and your family. Let the rest of the world try to keep up with the Joneses, whoever they may be."
-- Jim Stovall
"You can complain, “I’d do it if it weren’t for my parents, if it weren’t for my boss, if it weren’t for my spouse”—whatever or whomever you choose to blame. None of this is true. Every one of us can have excuses, but the choice here is, either have excuses or get results. Let’s think big and go for big results."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"For most of my early life, I didn’t consider myself a writer. If you were to ask any of my high school teachers or college professors, they would tell you I was an average writer at best: certainly not a standout. When I began my writing career, I published a new article every Monday and Thursday for the first few years. As the evidence grew, so did my identity as a writer. I didn’t start out as a writer. I became one through my habits."
-- James Clear
"The elevator to success is out of order today. You’re going to have to take the stairway, one step at a time."
-- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"Keep your mind busy and goal oriented. Let there be no room for the negativity that will impede your climb to the top. Your mind is under your control. It is up to you to harness your power over it. All it takes is putting some conscious effort into thinking about your own thinking. When you find yourself feeling or thinking negatively, reach for the support that can redirect you in a more positive direction."
-- Sherrie Campbell
"Never make having things or achieving status as your goal. Instead seek to be the kind of person who will naturally do the right thing that will result in all of the things that our culture calls success."
-- Jim Stovall
"Faking it till we make it is part of the normal process of becoming competent. No one is skilled from the first moment they try something new. Likewise few of us are free of trepidations when we enter virgin territory"
-- Melvyn L. Fein
"Don’t expect everything to happen without you doing your bit. Instant results are often deceptive, and you need to accept that it’s difficult to build stable and durable relationships—in any area of life—in a matter of minutes. It requires patience, perseverance, and knowing how to give of yourself."
-- Marian Rojas Estape
"Let’s face it: the amount of time you have on earth is limited. It doesn’t matter what the mental or the real obstacles are. It’s time here and now to set your goals, plan your big thinking, and live bigger than you ever thought you could."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"The path to success is filled with failure. People who live their best and truest lives understand that. They are not afraid to fail, and not afraid of how they look to others."
-- Peter S. Temes
"The capacity of people to dig out from the rubble of their shattered lives and dreams and—within a few days—be building back, bigger and better, makes us all proud. But let us never forget that, when you’ve lost everything that you own, but you still have your friends and family around you and the desire to go on, you still have everything."
-- Jim Stovall
"Prevailing wisdom claims that the best way to achieve what we want in life—getting into better shape, building a successful business, relaxing more and worrying less, spending more time with friends and family—is to set specific, actionable goals."
-- James Clear
"Those of us who have less courage require a more indirect approach. We need to deal with our fears incrementally. Not one decisive battle, but many small encounters are needed for us to become more daring. This has the advantage of freeing our energies for other endeavors."
-- Melvyn L. Fein
"Try a new food. Do something you have never done before. Tinker with an idea you’ve had. Pick up a new hobby. Simply exposing yourself to experimentation throughout your daily life will help you experiment with your craft."
-- Brian Levenson
"Keep reaching for things that are just beyond your grasp. Get up on those tippy toes. Stretch yourself has high as you can. Remember that the best things often take years to grow and mature, so when you feel like giving up, keep reaching and have faith that what you want is a few steps in front of you."
-- Stacie Bloomfield
"As we go about our daily lives, it is important to remember that we always find what we’re looking for. If you set out today thinking that this is going to be a bad day, shortly things will begin to order themselves to meet your expectation. Conversely, if you set out with an expectation of greatness, this can be one of the greatest days of your life."
-- Jim Stovall
"Stop stalling. Embed a big desire in your soul. Big desires keep your heart and soul on fire. Your fire is fanned by your dreams, ambition, dream team, and compelling lectures, books, audios, videos, and stories. You’ll know you’re here to serve and make a difference."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"Character building is a slow process. Whenever we try to avoid or escape the difficulties in life, we short-circuit the process, delay our growth, and actually end up with a worse kind of pain—the worthless type that accompanies denial and avoidance."
-- Rick Warren
"You've heard the advice. If you fall off a horse, you must immediately get back on. If you do not, your fears are liable to multiply exponentially. Should this occur, you might never get on another horse ever again. Better therefore to suck up your courage and try once more. Then if this fails, you are asked to climb on again. As long as it takes, and however much you may get bruised, you must never give up. To make a habit of backing down would ensure a lifetime of weakness."
-- Melvyn L. Fein
"To be happy we must be capable of rebuilding ourselves as much as possible in the face of trauma and hardship. The reason is simple: there is no life story without its wounds. Failures, and how one frames them, are the most decisive aspect of anyone’s trajectory in life."
-- Marian Rojas Estape
"If you are not happy now, there is no specific thing that you are going to purchase that will make you happy. Don’t confuse “having” with “being”. The media would tell you that having goods and services is the ultimate in this life. The reality is, having comes from doing; and doing comes from being. Resolve to be the kind of person you want to be who will then do the kinds of things that you wish to do in this life that can result in your having the things that you really want."
-- Jim Stovall
"All big things come from small beginnings. The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision. But as that decision is repeated, a habit sprouts and grows stronger. Roots entrench themselves and branches grow. The task of breaking a bad habit is like uprooting a powerful oak within us. And the task of building a good habit is like cultivating a delicate flower one day at a time."
-- James Clear
"Never think of learning as being a burden or studying as being boring. It may require some discipline, but it can be an adventure. It can also prepare you for a new beginning. Notice the first word in my Think Big credo: Think. That’s the first step. Use everything in your power to utilize and develop that capability, and you’ll be in for some great surprises."
-- Donald Trump
"Your self-esteem and subsequent successes are entirely based on how much work you do in and on yourself to make yourself a masterpiece."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"As athletes know, fear can provide an edge. It heightens our awareness and provides the power to try our best. As long as it does not mutate into panic, it furnishes an advantage over less motivated adversaries. Fearful people do not need to be docile. Their fear can prepare them to act. Likewise, those who remain lucid are able to plan ahead. They can develop strategies designed to maximize their assets while taking advantage of their opponent's liabilities."
-- Melvyn L. Fein
"We can’t always choose what happens to us, but we can always choose what we are going to do about it. You are where you are in every area of your life because of the choices you have made in the past. Put another way, all of the choices you’ve made in your life, put together, have brought you to this place, at this time, reading this article."
-- Jim Stovall
"Keep your end goal in mind to stay motivated on the days when you feel like giving up. Remind yourself of your goal in creative ways. Write down what you want to accomplish on a note and hang it on the wall or make it your computer screensaver. Visualize yourself meeting your goal each day and it will help you stay motivated."
-- Amy Morin
"Blame is a neat little device you can use whenever you don’t want to take responsibility for something in your life. Use it, and you’ll avoid all risks and impede your own growth."
-- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"Open yourself up to more experiences, more traveling, and rediscover what makes you feel like you. Here’s the best part about getting away: it doesn’t have to be a big trip to achieve the same results. The goal is to leave your normal environment for a spell."
-- Stacie Bloomfield
"People make a few small changes, fail to see a tangible result, and decide to stop. You think, “I’ve been running every day for a month, so why can’t I see any change in my body?” Once this kind of thinking takes over, it’s easy to let good habits fall by the wayside. But in order to make a meaningful difference, habits need to persist long enough to break through this plateau—what I call the Plateau of Latent Potential."
-- James Clear
"Unless we are prepared to deal with our fears regarding defeat, offence, and pain, we cannot protect ourselves from life's hazards. In addition, only if we master our fears can we fulfill our potentials. Forever holding back is a prescription for ruin."
-- Melvyn L. Fein
"Again, I want you to understand that everyone occasionally experiences fear. Recognize it for what it is, and work to quickly, safely, and satisfyingly convert it into rocket fuel. All it takes is right thinking, right talking, right acting, and doing the right thing to get the right results, right here and right now. Right thinking vanishes fear, right talking beats it out of existence, and right action makes it disappear." 👾
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"If you have the opportunity, don’t miss out on doing something for others. This doesn’t mean collecting favors and keeping track of who’s given you what or which services you’ve handed out to others. Few things create a greater sense of satisfaction than finding it in our power to help others."
-- Marian Rojas Estape
"If-then and why thinking are huge for preparation—for theorizing, experimenting, and testing—but when performing, we want to be how thinkers. When we think in terms of how, we create a commitment to ourselves to find a solution. How guides us toward action."
-- Brian Levenson
"The people who don’t give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity. They’ve taken into their hearts the idea that there is enough for all of us, that success will manifest itself in different ways for different people, that keeping the faith is more important than cashing the check."
-- Cheryl Strayed
"Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber. Paul said, “We know that these troubles produce patience. And patience produces character.” What happens outwardly in your life is not as important as what happens inside you. Your circumstances are temporary, but your character will last forever."
-- Rick Warren
"We’re entitled to greater good because we can conceive greater good. Fear and suffering can never be imposed upon us unless we impose it on ourselves. The same goes for joy. The spirit can give us no gift that we do not give ourselves permission to accept."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"Breakthrough moments are often the result of many previous actions, which build up the potential required to unleash a major change. This pattern shows up everywhere. Cancer spends 80 percent of its life undetectable, then takes over the body in months. Bamboo can barely be seen for the first five years as it builds extensive root systems underground before exploding ninety feet into the air within six weeks."
-- James Clear
"Growing ourselves can also be done in a solitary fashion. There is no greater gift to give yourself than to read, read, read. Get your hands on material that directly relates to the areas where you desire growth. The more you read, the more you learn, and the more confident you become. As they say, “knowledge is power.”"
- Sherrie Campbell
"The simplest thing is to think short term, to live according to our reactions to the anarchic external impulses that affect us, letting ourselves be carried along; what is better, although more difficult to achieve, is to design one’s life with long-term objectives, so that, even if something turns us out of our path, we can reorient ourselves toward our goals. A person without a project, who doesn’t know what they want to become, and who doesn’t find meaning in their life, cannot be happy."
-- Marian Rojas Estape
"Achieving your goals takes patience, research, work, work, work, discipline, self- control, and fearlessly seizing the moment when an opportunity presents itself. And the best way to do all of these things is to know what you want. Chase that dream. Do it with enthusiasm."
-- Stacie Bloomfield
"When you’re building the momentum to achieve your life dreams, you have to keep the flames of desire burning deep inside your heart, no matter what. See your desired end result fulfilled, feel as though it has been accomplished, and you’ll accomplish it."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
-— Thomas Jefferson
"People reflect your behavior back to you. The more you help others, the more others want to help you. Being a little bit nicer in each interaction can result in a network of broad and strong connections over time."
-- James Clear
"Experimentation in preparation is all about opening yourself to new ideas, new situations, new environments, and new challenges; it’s about conducting research so you can gain the clarity you need to trust your process."
-- Brian Levenson
"He taught us that, just as with all things in life, some things were in our control, and others never would be. Our dancing, our stamina and our state of mind were things we could control. But the music we had to dance to, the quality of the dance floor, the judges and the other competitors were not. Like them or not, we had to put up with them. ‘Just focus on those things you can control,’ he’d say. ‘And try not to worry about the rest.’ Words that have become a mantra for me and words I love to share with my clients."
-- Camilla Sacre-Dallerup
"Don’t let fear of the unknown stand in your way. Learn to study the fear and the challenges, and then change your perception of them."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"We cannot choose a lot of what will happen to us in life, but we are absolutely free, each and every one of us, to choose the attitude with which we confront it. We are dealt some cards, good or bad, but they’re the ones we have and we must play them as well as we can."
-- Marian Rojas Estape
"I have a suit in my closet with the pocket cut out. It’s a reminder to me that I won’t be taking anything with me. The last suit I wear won’t need any pockets."
-- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"Accomplishing one extra task is a small feat on any given day, but it counts for a lot over an entire career. The effect of automating an old task or mastering a new skill can be even greater. The more tasks you can handle without thinking, the more your brain is free to focus on other areas."
-- James Clear
"Goals can keep you energized to do the daily hard work. Of course, there is no way to control where you will be in ten years’ time, and along the way what you want can change, but that’s totally OK! The important thing is to set your intentions, wake up every day, and make little choices that will move you closer to having your dreams come true."
-- Stacie Bloomfield
"Receiving, reading, researching, remembering, and reflecting on the Word are all useless if we fail to put them into practice. We must become “doers of the word.” This is the hardest step of all."
-- Rick Warren
"We’ve said that your life will always move in the direction of your strongest thoughts. That’s good news if you are thinking on things that are noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, or praiseworthy. It’s bad news if you are thinking on things that are dishonorable, false, ugly, anxious, unjust, fearful, or just plain irrational. Our runaway negative thoughts can spiral out of control and lead our lives in the wrong direction."
-- Craig Groeschel
"We as human beings, over the whole course of our lives, pass through very demanding and difficult moments, which mean that we will not be able to be happy if we do not learn to get over them, or at least try."
-- Marian Rojas Estape
"Time magnifies the margin between success and failure. It will multiply whatever you feed it. Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy."
-- James Clear
"If you don’t take the time to experiment in the lab during preparation, how will your genius emerge? Where will your creativity spark? How will you feel confident when it’s time to perform? Experimenting opens up possibility. It allows us to test limits."
-- Brian Levenson
"Purpose does not strike as a lucky lightning bolt of inspiration. Motivation and purpose are choices. The only thing needed to spark motivation is a decision to heighten your ambition and expectancy—to sit down, think about what you desire, and believe you can go get it. To keep that motivation, you must give constant attention and effort."
-- Brendon Burchard
"Think about your vision for the future. Visualize your goals and your compass will begin to gently guide you to make little daily decisions that will lead you toward your due north. It is funny how the more you think about what you want to happen in your life, like getting into shape, breaking a tricky habit, or trying to save money to renovate your home, the more likely your daily choices will lead you closer to it."
-- Stacie Bloomfield
"Core habits to lengthen your life are sleeping for seven or eight hours, healthy eating, moderate alcohol consumption, exercising three times a week as well as brushing and flossing your teeth."
-- Ros Taylor
"Making a choice that is 1 percent better or 1 percent worse seems insignificant in the moment, but over the span of moments that make up a lifetime these choices determine the difference between who you are and who you could be. Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations."
-- James Clear
"Napoleon said it. Don’t be afraid to grab a pencil and a piece of paper. A four colored ballpoint, a felt-tip pen, a blackboard . . . Write, cross out, draw arrows. Whatever you do, make a plan. You’ll be surprised at how many mutual acquaintances you find, you’ll discover past experiences that might be useful now, and, if you need to work on some skill because you notice it doesn’t come easy, read, inform yourself, and ask for help."
-- Marian Rojas Estape
"Whatever you want to do or achieve, there will always be a new problem standing in your way, or something you need to do before you can fully commit yourself. You can sit around and plan, waiting for everything to be just right, but nothing is ever going to happen until you actually start getting on with it."
-- Gill Hasson
"The detrimental effects of negative thinking patterns are incredibly deceitful and harmful to the mind, body, and spirit. If we give our negative thoughts the power to run our lives, we will run ourselves into the ground. We must train our minds not to talk about our problems but to talk to our problems."
-- Sherrie Campbell
"Questions are the tool of the curious, enabling performers to get to the root causes of their results—for better and for worse. Asking questions helps us solve problems, iterate and innovate, and do better over the long term."
-- Brian Levenson
"Give yourself a little margin to change things up if the air around you is stale. Paint the trim. Hang up artwork. Rearrange the furniture. Clean your room. Change the sheets. Create a space that inspires you. Make yourself an environment that will be a gift to you every day."
-- Stacie Bloomfield
"When someone loses them self and doesn’t know where to go, having values and a few guiding principles helps stop the boat from running aground. Aristotle said it long ago, in his Nicomachean Ethics: “Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what is right?” Today there are no marks to aim at, the archers have died out, and arrows are flying randomly in all directions."
-- Marian Rojas Estape
"If you look for what’s bad, you will find the bad. If you look for what’s negative, you will find plenty to be negative about. If you look for things to be critical of, there is always going to be something to criticize."
-- Craig Groeschel
"To change your life, you must change the way you think. Behind everything you do is a thought. Every behavior is motivated by a belief, and every action is prompted by an attitude."
-- Rick Warren
"I believe it shouldn’t have to take a brush with death to do something so natural, so simple, so basic, as to live your life the way you want to, on your terms, without having to answer to anyone else."
-- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
“Curiosity, I think, is the most important quality you can have. With curiosity, you figure things out. You are always looking for ways to get better, looking for reasons as to why certain things work. That curiosity leads you to knowledge.”
-- Curious George
"Happiness consists in having a fully realized life, in which we try to get the best out of our values and aptitudes. Happiness is making a little work of art out of life, striving every day to bring out our best selves."
-- Marian Rojas Estape
"When I pitched a fabric line that didn’t get picked up? It was OK. I reworked my pitch into something much better. When I didn’t sell through inventory of a product that I had heavily invested in? It was an opportunity to be more creative in my advertising strategies for the following year. The list goes on. Failure became something to learn from rather than something to fear."
-- Stacie Bloomfield
"When you train your mind to be adaptable, it learns how to deal with difficult environments. Your mind will become more agile, and your capacity in performance will grow."
-- Brian Levenson
"The most important part of reaching any goal is your perception of yourself. Do you want to be a famous speaker? Lead a successful business? Feel great about your body? Then, see yourself achieving it! “See it to be it” is what athletes say to visualize success. Live on your terms, no one else’s. Create a new, empowered version of yourself."
-- Megan Tull
"As a life coach I have learned that we can always turn a negative situation into a positive one. You just have to look at it from a different angle, and think, ‘OK, that wasn’t very nice – but what can I take away from it that will help me in the future?’ There is nearly always something positive to be found."
-- Camilla Sacre-Dallerup
"The law of exposure says that the mind absorbs and reflects what it is exposed to the most. Basically, if we allow a thought into our minds, it will come out in our lives."
-- Craig Groeschel
"Sleep deprivation and not getting enough rest, when compounded over time, actually manifests in a reduced ability to concentrate, creates more insomnia, makes us less productive, makes us more agitated, and literally slows us down. Our brains cannot emotionally regulate without rest."
-- Stacie Bloomfield
"The Law of Probability is not a theory, principle, or an idea. It is a law. It works for everyone, at all times. The rule is that the more you try, the more you will triumph. The more things you do, the longer and harder you work, the more likely it is that you will do the right things at the right times that will open the right doors that will accelerate your career. And this will not be a matter of luck or chance, but of law."
-- Brian Tracy
"Hard, gritty work needs to be cherished during preparation. When we come to the performance feeling like we’ve done everything we could to prepare, it frees us up to enjoy the performance. If we are all work and no play, we will never be able to maximize our potential. If we don’t make time for play, we won’t be able to see the true results of all our hard work."
-- Brian Levenson
"Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make. Your commitments can develop you or they can destroy you, but either way, they will define you. Tell me what you are committed to, and I’ll tell you what you will be in twenty years. We become whatever we are committed to."
-- Rick Warren
"Rejection, failure, struggle—these are all just facts of life. Those who don’t experience any of these are outliers (or single inhabitants of their parents’ basement who spend their days playing Xbox)."
-- Bobby Bones
"If you have a container that’s full of manure, there’s no room in the container for love or for anything else. We all have manure in our lives, but it’s knowing what to do with the manure that’s really important. If you take the manure and put it into the ground and use it for fertilizer, you can grow beautiful flowers with it."
-- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"The same is true with our minds. What we put in our minds comes out in our lives. Every action we take, every word we say, and every attitude we express originates in our thoughts."
-- Craig Groeschel
"Look at the greatest performers in your profession, and you will find that they add the “ERs,” or “extra reps.” The great ones don’t want to just be strong; they want to be strongER. They don’t want to be fast; they want to be fastER. They don’t want to be smart; they want to be smartER. And they are willing to persevere and do whatever they can possibly do to make that happen, all in pursuit of their bigger goal."
-- Brian Levenson
"There is an undeniable link between improved fitness and increased productivity. Fitness enhances our ability to solve problems, it increases stamina and energy, and it reduces feelings of stress and fatigue. It also teaches us that we can push ourselves beyond thresholds we did not think were possible."
-- Sherrie Campbell
"Bad habits are like heavy weights that you drag around as you go about your day. They’ll slow you down, tire you out, and frustrate you. Despite your hard work and talent, you’ll struggle to reach your full potential when you’ve got certain thoughts, behaviors, and feelings holding you back."
-- Amy Morin
"Since childhood, I’ve known that the difference between successful and unsuccessful people is in the way they think. It’s a lesson my father taught me, and it has guided me to this day."
-- John C. Maxwell
"Time is your most precious gift because you only have a set amount of it. You can make more money, but you can’t make more time. When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you’ll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time."
-- Rick Warren
"As observers of experts, we are often in awe of their ability to play and perform in a way that seems almost effortless. But the performance is the final product—what came before the play is almost always years of hard work in preparation."
-- Brian Levenson
"If you think you can’t do something, you probably won’t. If, on the other hand, you think you can, odds are you will. The same is true with your problems. If you dwell on them, they will overwhelm you. But if you look for solutions, you will find some."
-- Craig Groeschel
"I am master of my own destiny, and I can make my life anything that I wish it to be."
-- John McDonald
"I now know how toxic anger can be. Anger eats away at you, it changes who you are and how you act. It made me cautious and mistrustful of other people, and I went into survival mode, becoming quite cold and telling myself that the other girls were just jealous because I had a talent that made me special, and better than them. I know now that thinking in that egotistical way was doing me no favours at all. Nobody is any better than the next person, but sometimes we have to work hard to remember that."
-- Camilla Sacre-Dallerup
"What I call “no-limit living,” or “mastery,” is going to the top of the ladder —that’s where you become the same way a sculptor or painter or creator of any kind is to their creations. Shading, shaping, and making it into what you want it to be."
-- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"Your thinking determines your destiny. Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right."
-- Christine Caine
"Acceptance is the key to everything, whatever it might be, and is the key to change. You’ve got to be able to love yourself a bit to be able to move on."
-- Ros Taylor
"Love leaves a legacy. How you treated other people, not your wealth or accomplishments, is the most enduring impact you can leave on earth. As Mother Teresa said, “It’s not what you do, but how much love you put into it that matters.” Love is the secret of a lasting heritage."
-- Rick Warren
"I believe wholeheartedly that you were put on this earth for a reason. You were put here to build, live, and leave your own personal legacy. You are not here to be a carbon copy, lost in the crowd, not brave enough to go after your dream. So get up, suit up, and listen up."
-- Sherrie Campbell
"When you imagine yourself doing something, your brain creates the neural pathways that you will use when it comes to doing something for real. Visualizing is like someone going ahead and beating a path for you through the jungle – they've prepared the way ready for when you come along in that direction; the path has been made easier for you."
-- Gill Hasson
"Fear and doubt only exist in your mind and are never the truth. Have faith in your goals and focus on what really matters, which is how you can help others with your gift. It is not about you, it’s about them."
-- Megan Tull
"There’s nothing to worry about—ever! Either you have control or you don’t. If you do, take control; if you don’t, dismiss it. Don’t waste your energy on worry."
-- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"How you define life determines your destiny. Your perspective will influence how you invest your time, spend your money, use your talents, and value your relationships."
-- Rick Warren
"You grow by taking chances, and you reach your dreams by taking them, too. In a sense, risks provide the fuel needed to get on the road to, as Michael put it, wherever you want to go."
-- Bob Bowman
"Everything is simple. As children we see a bike, we want the bike, we get the bike. Even if we don’t know how to ride the bike, we believe that it’s possible to ride the bike and we just keep trying until we can do it."
-- Camilla Sacre-Dallerup
"Each goal we set acts as a small step toward making our vision become a reality. We must vision. We have to vision. It is essential to vision. The life we live is all about what we envision. All of life’s greatest miracles have developed from the tiniest mustard seed of an idea. If others can do it, I assure you that you can do it."
-- Sherrie Campbell
"A failure teaches you something and adds to your experience. That’s very helpful. Failure is an event, never a person; an attitude, not an outcome; a temporary inconvenience; a stepping-stone. Our response to it determines just how helpful it can be."
-- Zig Ziglar
"Without a clear purpose you have no foundation on which you base decisions, allocate your time, and use your resources. You will tend to make choices based on circumstances, pressures, and your mood at that moment. People who don’t know their purpose try to do too much—and that causes stress, fatigue, and conflict."
-- Rick Warren
"When you squeeze an orange, you get orange juice because that’s what’s inside. The very same principle is true about you. When someone squeezes you—puts pressure on you—what comes out is what’s inside. And if you don’t like what’s inside, you can change it by changing your thoughts."
-- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"Passion for a particular pursuit is critical, but, as with anything we love, we need to find ways to keep our interest kindled. Having such triggers will allow you to pursue excellence even on the days when you don’t feel so excellent."
-- Bob Bowman
"Just because you think it will be difficult doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it. Often, some of the best things in life come from our ability to conquer a challenge through hard work."
-- Amy Morin
"One of the things I’ve learned in life is that it’s ok to be wrong. I just make decisions, and I make lots of good ones and I also get things wrong but I’m not the sort of person who beats myself up; as long as I’m generally heading in the right direction and learn from my mistakes I’m un-phased."
-- Ros Taylor
"Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life. We were made to have meaning. This is why people try dubious methods, like astrology or psychics, to discover it. When life has meaning, you can bear almost anything; without it, nothing is bearable."
-- Rick Warren
"Like anything in life, the path to success is never a straight shot up the mountain, void of any challenge. Each day, whether we’re experiencing hardship or not, is a day we have the opportunity to make a clear and affirmative statement about who we are and what we want out of our lives."
-- Sherrie Campbell
"Relax, let go, allow, and recognize that some of your desires are about how you think your world should be, rather than how it is in that moment. Become an astute observer . . . judge less and listen more. Take time to open your mind to the fascinating mystery and uncertainty that we all experience."
-- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"In all aspects of life – even if you are not the obvious choice, you can still win a competition or get the job of your dreams if you work for it and keep on believing in yourself."
-- Camilla Sacre-Dallerup
"Doing things one step at a time also gives you time to look at what is working and what isn't, and to decide if you need to change tactics. So, as you go through each step, review the outcome. What's worked? What helped and went well?"
-- Gill Hasson
"Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past."
-- Rick Warren
"You must invest in yourself if you want others to invest in you. This will build your confidence. What you learn will become yours for life."
-- Megan Tull
"We begin by releasing the past. There is very little use in thinking about yesterday or the days before it. Unless recounting its joys or looking for its lessons that may help us Now, it is best to release the past entirely. All else comes at a dire effect to our joy and freedom in the moment."
-- Brendon Burchard
"The first is that people will respond for the benefit of all concerned if you speak to them with confidence and in a nonjudgmental manner. The second guidepost is that there’s a secret garden where miracles and magic abound, and it’s available to anyone who makes the choice to visit there."
-- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"The start of any dream begins as a choice—the choice to bring our dream to life. That choice must be so firm and deeply felt in our heart that we will do anything to reach our desired experience."
-- Sherrie Campbell
"It doesn’t even matter if your belief is true. If you believe it long enough and intensely enough, it becomes true for you, whether it is positive or negative."
-- Brian Tracy
"Success does not always mean earning lots of money, or having a top job. To some, it might mean knowing that their children have grown up into beautiful, kind, well-rounded people. To others, it might mean running 14 marathons. Or it could mean finding inner peace."
-- Camilla Sacre-Dallerup
"I do believe you have more chance at success if you love what you do for a living. But there’s also this: if you don’t wind up making a lot of money following your passion, you’re at least still doing what you love. I like to present worst-case scenarios, because that’s usually what we feel happens to us."
-- Bobby Bones
"The people who are part of the solution are going to say: This is the condition of the world, these are the things that are, and I am going to process them in such a way that I can change it. These people can’t be immobilized by their thoughts about things."
-- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"If you don’t work at it, it’s not going to happen by wishful thinking. You have to dedicate yourself to it every day. In other words, set a goal and work toward it. Athletes know that no one else can do the training for them, and business people should have the same discipline. You have to be self-reliant."
-- Donald Trump
"I may not have been the smartest or most talented person in the room, but I was the hardest working, and I caught up with those who I had viewed as more talented and naturally gifted with intelligence. It is so true that when you have the will, you can find the way."
-- Sherrie Campbell
"If your mind is active with issues of the day, keep a notepad by your bed to jot ideas down. You will then relax and sleep with a clear mind. There is always something therapeutic about writing things down. Getting it out of your head and down on paper objectifies and clarifies."
-- Ros Taylor
"So, what needs to happen is for a goal to be broken down into smaller, more doable steps. Taking a step-by-step approach is the most positive way forward because it means you set yourself up for constant successes by achieving small targets along the way."
-- Gill Hasson
"Commit yourself to your own magnificence. Every time you look into a mirror, remind yourself that what stares back at you is not an ever-changing body, but an invisibleness that is truly your highest self."
-- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"If you find yourself thinking that you haven’t got the life you wanted or deserved – if you are simply unhappy – then I urge you, please look at ways you can change direction. Remember the dreams you used to have and revive them. Don’t live the rest of your life with regrets, they are a bar to happiness."
-- Camilla Sacre-Dallerup
"Now is the time, to take charge of your future and start creating the life that you desire. What you see as possible determines your success. If you see an opportunity, then you are ready. It is important to always expand your possibilities, since possibilities create opportunity."
-- Megan Tull
"The greatest thing I did was take an interest in myself. I stopped comparing who I was with others. I looked at what worked for me and held tightly to the vision of what I wanted to achieve. I absolutely refused to give in to self-doubt and other destructive emotions."
-- Sherrie Campbell
"If your goal is to be more outgoing, behave in a friendly manner. If you want to be a successful salesperson, study how successful salespeople behave and then do what they do. You don’t necessarily have to wait until you feel like it or until the right time comes; start changing your behavior now."
-- Amy Morin
"The past is over for all of us. The future is promised to none of us. All we get is now—the present —and if you don’t know that you’re going to have to face a last day, you haven’t really been alive. Death is as important a part of life as living it."
-- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
"You have to do it yourself, whether you’re rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things have befallen you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It’s up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out."
-- Cheryl Strayed
"You have to believe that you are the one who creates your success, that you are the one who creates your mediocrity, and that you are the one creating your struggle around money and success. Consciously or unconsciously, it’s still you."
-- T Harv Eker
"I think it’s also thanks to Mor that I have come to believe that no matter how old we are, playing is a great way to help us tap into our creative mind, another route to helping us find our dreams. But it’s something we often give up as we grow up, like laughter, and that’s really sad."
-- Camilla Sacre-Dallerup
"Having a dream gives our life the emotional nutrition it needs to thrive. It gives our life the depth, meaning, and significance we crave to feel and experience. Our dream gives us a reason to live."
-- Sherrie Campbell
"Stop acting in that particular, despicable manner. Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honour."
-- Jordan B. Peterson
"Those who think they know everything will learn nothing. Those who approach a subject with doubt and resistance will learn very little. There is not much hope for them. But those who take up any subject with an open mind, willing to learn anything that will contribute to their advancement, comfort, and happiness, are wise."
-- John McDonald
“Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.”
— Elon Musk
"Sleep is important to our functioning and to willpower. Sleep deprivation – getting less than six hours a night – impairs how the body and brain use energy. The prefrontal cortex is especially affected and loses control over the regions of the brain that create cravings and the stress response."
-- Ros Taylor
"Goals framed in positive terms tell you what to do rather than what not to do. You are more likely to achieve goals that get you what you want, rather than goals that tell you to avoid something."
-- Gill Hasson - Adream is a basic need.
"A dream is as important to the functionality of our life as our breath is to the functioning of our body. If we have no dream to pursue, we have no journey to travel into wholeness, happiness, or wealth."
-- Sherrie Campbell
"Believe in yourself. Always treat others how you want to be treated. And when you fall, get up, brush yourself off and carry on."
-- Camilla Sacre-Dallerup
"Don’t let fear stop you. There are so many opportunities that are available to you that will enable you to live the life of your dreams, a life of passion and prosperity."
-- Megan Tull
"I have never met anyone who has achieved something by being static. You must be dynamic, and you must look at challenges as opportunities that will further engage you. By taking on challenges and meeting them, you’re moving toward your ultimate destination. And when you get there it will mean that you deserve it. Got it?”"
-- Bob Bowman
"So often, when people become committed to create change in one area of their lives, like pay off their debt, before they know it, they’re also losing weight and their marriages improve. Positive change leads to increased motivation and increased motivation leads to more positive change. Embracing change is a two-way street."
-- Amy Morin
"To perform at our peak, we require healthy air to breath, water to keep our systems hydrated, healthy nutrition to fuel our bodies, and adequate time to rest and sleep."
-- Sherrie Campbell
"Stay true to yourself, yet always be open to learn. Work hard, and never give up on your dreams, even when nobody else believes they can come true but you. These are not cliches but real tools you need no matter what you do in life to stay focused on your path."
-- Phillip Sweet
"Create the highest, grandest, vision possible for your life. Because, you become what you believe."
-- Oprah Winfrey
"You will accomplish more because you will dare to undertake more! You will realize, possibly for the first time in your life, that you possess the ability to accomplish anything that you wish to accomplish! You will realize how little your success in any undertaking will depend upon others and how much it will depend upon you."
-- Napoleon Hill
"Never forget that we always have a choice. We can see a problem as an obstacle or as a challenge. See it as a challenge and it becomes an obstacle that can be overcome."
-- Camilla Sacre-Dallerup
"Choose an ambition and, with full force, expect that it is possible and that you can make it happen. Give constant attention and committed effort to your dreams, and your motivation will perpetuate itself. Demonstrate a positive attitude as you strive for great things and take care to create a supportive environment around you that amplifies your motivation."
-- Brendon Burchard
"Ask, and ye shall receive. Knock, and the door will open. If you ask, as if you want, and knock, as if you want to enter, you may be offered the chance to improve your life, a little; a lot; completely—and with that improvement, some progress will be made in Being itself. Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today."
-- Jordan B. Peterson
