"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
