"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
