"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
