"Each time you move forward in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build up a habit of persistence. You become stronger, prouder, and more powerful; you deepen your levels of self-discipline and personal strength. You develop the iron quality of success, the one quality that will carry you forward and over any obstacle that life throws in your path."
-- Andrew Clancy
"It is critical that as we age, we continue to feed our minds to avoid the natural tendency to lose brain function. Our physical bodies need exercise. So does our brain. Many people of advancing age resort to solving puzzles. That is fantastic. My preference is learning something new and then remembering it long enough to take a test. Engage and commit yourself to lifelong learning. How cool is it to keep both our bodies and minds sharp at any age!"
-- Robert Sully Sullivan
"Teach what you want to learn. The best way to learn something is to teach it. You understand it better after you explain it—and you remember it better after you take the time to recall it. Like the Golden Thirteen, you can do this in groups, with each member teaching a distinct skill or slice of information."
-- Adam Grant
"Even in tough times, you can look back and see how far you’ve come, how much you’ve learned, and the support you’ve received along the way. Paying attention to the “reverse gap” is a perfect exercise in gratitude and is far more likely to give you a boost of happiness than striving for happiness in the future. That’s why gratitude is such a powerful system for Blissipline."
-- Vishen Lakhian
"The secret to high performance and satisfaction—at work, at school, and at home—is the deep human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world."
-- Andrew Clancy
"It's natural to want the journey to riches to be easy and painless. Unfortunately, that's not realistic. However, if you expect that your journey will include highs and lows, then you won't be surprised and you can prepare yourself, which will minimize the chances that you will give up before you reach your goal."
-- Joel Fotinos
"It’s not a matter of what you wish you could achieve. The question to ask is what accomplishment is most important to you — so important that you’re willing to put it at the center of your life and make any sacrifice necessary to achieve it."
-- James P. Owen
"Redefine success. The most meaningful form of performance is progress. The ultimate mark of potential is not the height of the peak you’ve reached, but the distance you’ve traveled—and helped others travel."
-- Adam Grant
"The point is, if you reach for your dreams, there will be people there to help pull you into the stars. Likewise, and I promise, if you choose to immerse yourself in the mud of this world, someone will help pull you in deeper as well. The choice to reach where you want is purely yours, but I exhort you to reach for the stars."
-- Robert Sully Sullivan
"Our brains are hardwired to move towards success and reward, and away from threat and change. When we set those large, sometimes barely achievable goals we set ourselves up to fail from that moment. It is far more pragmatic and ultimately more successful to set small goals and, as we achieve them, set new small goals. Before we know it, that elephant has been eaten and our preferred future awaits us."
-- Stephen Macdonald
"What is auto-suggestion? Very simply put, auto-suggestion is repeating something over and over again to create a certain outcome. When you consciously feed suggestions to your subconscious mind, it gets to work on orienting your life toward what you are feeding it."
-- Joel Fotinos
"The more you believe in your chosen goal and the possibility of attaining it, the more certain you will be to do so. Ask yourself, “Do I believe that this goal can exist?” and “Do I believe that it is possible for me to realize or attain it?”"
-- Shakti Gawain
"Your happiness will accelerate your movement toward your goals, but it should not be tied to them. The best thing you can do to meet your goals is to find a life balance that allows you to be happy now. Integrate practices into your daily routines that allow you to feel content and focus on the journey, not the destination. That’s how you’ll break free of stress and anxiety and be in the best position to fulfill your vision."
-- Vishen Lakhian
"If you can look around you and see failure and difficulty, that’s a product of your mind. If you see abundance and achievement, that’s a force of your own, too. Everything that you’ll ever manifest is in the boiling pot of your conscious energy, creating the concoction that you’ll later call your life."
-- Sandra Anne Taylor
"Before you take action, everything is a theory. After you take action, you are in the process of moving toward something. There is nothing worse than unrealized potential. Wouldn't it be terrible to come to the end of your life and think, “I wish I had wasted less time procrastinating and taken more actions and chances . . .”? It doesn't have to be that way."
-- Joel Fotinos
