You Can Be Extraordinary

"You are only as strong and extraordinary as you give yourself reason to be. So determine your musts, my friend. Make them real. Feel them in your gut.  Because the world needs you to show up now." 

-- Brendon Burchard

You Do Have A Choice

"You can’t redirect where you are headed or change yourself if you personally don’t want that for your life. It’s a choice. I couldn’t become healthy and work toward creating a better future if I didn’t want to do what was necessary to make that a reality."

-- Matt Mayberry

Leap Now and Worry Later

"If you’re having trouble motivating yourself to make the leap out of your old life, set it up that not to do it is more painful than actually doing it.  I told everyone what I was going to do, set a date to fly off, set a date to resign and set up business meetings for when I got there. If I had bottled it, I would have felt very foolish. I know it’s a cliche, but sometimes you have to ‘just do it’. Leap now and worry later, I say."

-- Suzy Greaves

At Your Last Breath

"If you follow your inner light, your purpose, when you are breathing your last breath and somebody asks you whether you feel any remorse or sorrow that you wasted your life, you should be able to say, “No, I lived my life to the fullest; I lived the life I was destined to live.”"

-- Ichak K. Adizes

Please Do Not Wait Anymore

"You don’t need to wait until you can find more time; you have all the time you need. You don’t need to wait until you can find more money; money never drives success. (Though if you so choose, money can be the result of success.) And you absolutely do not need more motivation."

-- Jeff Haden

As Long As You Learn Something

"Stacy’s story made me wonder why most of us never discover that one passion that is so powerful and consuming, that it can drive us past any obstacle.  What stands in the way of our finding the one thing we love to do? “I think it’s the fear of failing and the fear of not fitting in,” Stacy says. “We want to be like everyone else, and we get so tied to things being a certain way. But when you’re concerned about fitting in, you really narrow your options in life. I always tell my kids, if you’re interested in something, try it. Even if you end up deciding it’s not for you, it doesn’t matter as long as you learn something.”"

-- James P. Owen

Why Having Goals is Important

"When failures or setbacks happen, as they inevitably will, some will simply quit. Some will blame others for misfortune and settle into mediocrity.  Many will want to give up, but their dreams won’t let them. Having goals and dreams is important. It can help you through the hard times, the dark days. And if you quit, it’s all over."

-- Matt Mayberry

When Things Go Wrong

"When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,

And the road you’re trudging seems all up hill,

When the funds are low and the debts are high

And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,

When care is pressing down a bit,

Rest, if you must—but don’t you quit.

Often the goal is nearer than

It seems to a faint and faltering man.

Often the struggler has given up

When he might have captured the victor’s cup,

And he learned too late, when the night slipped

down, How close he was to the golden crown."

Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,

And many a failure turns about

When he might have won had he stuck it out.

Don’t give up, though the pace seems slow,

You may succeed with another blow.

Success is failure turned inside out—

The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,

And you never can tell how close you are,

It may be near when it seems afar;

Stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit—

It’s when things seem worse that you mustn’t quit."

-- Edgar A. Guest

How To Get Blockbuster Performance

"Real progress triggers positive emotions like satisfaction, gladness, even joy. It leads to a sense of accomplishment and self-worth as well as positive views of the work and, sometimes, the organizations. Such thoughts and perceptions (along with those positive emotions) feed motivation, the deep engagement, that is crucial for ongoing blockbuster performance"

-- Ryan Babineaux

Start Doing The Work You Want

"Pretend to be something you’re not until you are—fake it until you’re successful, until everybody sees you the way you want them to; or Pretend to be making something until you actually make something. I love both readings—you have to dress for the job you want, not the job you have, and you have to start doing the work you want to be doing."

-- Austin Kleon

When You Cannot Forgive

"Those who cannot forgive, those who hold on to guilt or blame themselves or others, end up spending a great deal of unnecessary and negative energy that “eats them up” and makes them sick. The worst energy sucker is hate. It ages us prematurely."

-- Ichak K. Adizes

Your Magical Journey

"The hardest step is always the first – it means taking responsibility for your life and knowing that only you can change it. It is a Big Leap, and it is momentous and life-altering. But it is also a magical journey."

-- Suzy Greaves

How Affirmations Works

"Affirmations are very powerful when used in an energetic way, rather than just saying them because they sound good! You’ve got to mean them. You’ve got to believe them, and then feel them inside your core."

-- Abby Wynne

The Truth of Learning

"You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make.  The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure."

-- George Clooney

Very Little for a Happy Life

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

-- Marus Aurelius

Measuring Success

"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed."

-- Booker T. Washington