"You must fight the temptations that keep you from completion of the tasks that lead to achievement. You must force yourself and discipline yourself to resist these temptations and push through to completion. Do what you must: Set benchmarks and create balanced scorecards, measures, metrics, and deadlines for every key task. These things activate your subconscious forcing system, enabling you to start earlier, work harder, stay later, and get the job done."
-- Andrew Clancy
"Highly creative people who think differently have figured out that failure is a learning experience and, as such, is a necessary and expected part of future success."
-- Michael Edmondson
"Each of us is here for a reason, to learn and grow and to give our gifts. When we are able to do so, we’re filled with the creative life energy that I call the 'juice.' The juice is our reason for living. It’s our fullfillment, our joy. It’s what happens when life is activated by love. It’s the energy we get from the things that matter and mean something to us."
-- Gladys McGarey
“People have lots of dreams, wishes, and desires, but they never truly focus on their goals and whether they can realistically achieve them. When you have clear goals, you can weigh the pros and cons of every decision without getting tied up in what other people think. But you can only achieve your goals if you know what they are.”
-- James P. Owen
"The moral of this chapter is that if you want to be successful in your life, work, and leadership, you need to be the driver rather than the passenger. When you are the passenger, you do not have a clear destination in mind and you allow your external world to determine both your direction and destination. When you are the driver, you control your destiny. You have a clear destination in mind and are taking action to advance toward that destination."
-- Ryan Gottfredson
"One way to help keep you focused on what you want is to remind yourself from time to time what your life would be like if you don't make this big decision. What would happen? Would you go back to wishing and hoping for change? Would things stay the same? Would things actually get worse? Remember those words from my mother: if you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got."
-- -- Joel Fotinos
"Everyone has goals. The people who actually achieve their goals create routines. They build systems. They consistently take the steps that, in time, will ensure they reach their ultimate goal. They don’t wish. They don’t hope. They just do what their plan says, consistently and without fail. They forget the goal and focus solely on the process."
-- Jeff Haden
"The level of your success at this point in your life is the sum of your thoughts, beliefs, and actions up to now. And if you keep living your life with the same thoughts, beliefs, and actions, then you'll continue to achieve roughly the same amount of success. You won't get something different until you do something different. And you won't do different things until you become different."
-- Joel Fotinos
"If you do not change your attitude and your actions for the better, then your situation will not change for the bettter. I know that sounds obvious, but one thing I have found from my own experience, and from having taught these ideas to thousands of people over the years, is this: we often say we want change, but we don't commit to the change. Then nothing changes, and then we complain about it. It's important for you to embrace this simple truth—you will need to change your attitude, and you will need to change your actions."
-- Joel Fotinos
"True health is about living with the world around us as an engaged, participatory experience. It’s about cooperating with the living force within us: our will, our desire to be here and to share our gifts with the world. Our willingness to do so becomes our sense of purpose, and once we have that, our souls can be healthy in any state."
-- Gladys McGarey
"Go for a walk, a run or a bike ride (usually better before the shower!) Exercising, even just a 20 minute walk each day means that you're moving your body. Exercise helps defeat emotional, physical and mental stress. Better still, exercise floods your brain with positive chemicals and leaves you feeling great."
-- Stephanie Philp
"Life in the 21st century certainly challenges individuals to think differently about everything. We need to implement the process of thinking differently in our lives so that we become adaptable to the changes ahead."
-- Michael Edmondson
"No matter our roles, advancement and improvement require gaining new knowledge, learning new tasks, and developing more skills."
-- Ryan Gottfredson
"If you think age is your limitation, search for amazing people over fifty (or sixty or seventy or eighty, or whatever age), and you will find dozens and dozens of stories of people older than you who started a new chapter in their lives and had great success. Or if you think you're too young, search for amazing people under twenty-five (or twenty, or seventeen, or fifteen, or even twelve) to find stories of people who have achieved amazing things at a young age. Whatever your circumstance, the internet is a great place to find inspiration from others who have shared that same circumstance and overcame it."
-- Joel Fotinos
"There will always be obstacles that stand between you and anything you want to accomplish. The ability to solve problems is essential in any successful endeavor, and you possess that ability, if you desire the goal intensely enough; nothing can hold you back."
-- Andrew Clancy
