"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
