"If you want to be the best you can be and to achieve what is truly possible for you, you must be brutally honest with yourself. You must sit down and analyze yourself in detail to determine where you are today, as well as what you must do to get where you want to go."
-- Jack Welch
"Your inner dialogue is the key to your perceptions, your decisions, your actions, and how you live your life. A useful metaphor is to think of your mind as being full of fast-moving mental traffic. Each thought is a vehicle that wants to take you somewhere. The thoughts you “take” to be true and wise are what shape your future experiences."
-- Robert Holden
"Make a habit of daily goal setting and achieving for the rest of your life. Focus on the things you want rather than the things you don’t want. Resolve to be a goal-seeking organism, moving unerringly toward the things that are important to you."
-- Andrew Clancy
"A man can assure his success only if he learns how to utilize his personal qualifications so as to create and control his opportunities to succeed. He should be able to bring himself to good luck, and not expect anybody or any event to bring good luck to him."
-- Norval A. Hawkins
"What brings you joy? Every single one of us has our own inner joy route and things that feel loving to us. This awesome action is where you can get in touch with them. The more you open up to love, the more you will realize your true purpose and passion. The goal is to use your passion to live a purpose-filled life. Give yourself permission to be in the journey of life and explore your passions."
-- Shannon Kaiser
"Life is a constant balance of holding on and letting go. Releasing habits, people, and situations that no longer serve you is an act of self-love. When we hold on to things that no longer help us grow, we become stale and bored with life. This is when the depression can sneak in and we avoid acting on our inner pull. Show up for yourself, and let go."
-- Shannon Kaiser
"A 'stretch' goal is something that not easily achievable. It's a goal that will demand more of you than perhaps you currently have, forcing you to learn new skills, step outside your comfort zone and become more flexible. In the process you'll develop more resilience. When you've accomplished that stretch goal, set another that will stretch you even further."
-- Stephanie Philp
"I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings."
-- Harriet Rubin
“We need to have the courage to enter into this other hidden world (our subconscious) [...] If we do this, we will discover two things: the origin of our involuntary behaviour and our unexplored potential.”
-- Mario Alonso Puig
"Self-knowledge is a primary key to Success Intelligence. It is far more important than your IQ, your CV, your Ph.D., your MBA, or your last job reference. The better you know yourself—what you value, what inspires you, what you are made of—the more effectively you will live, work, and relate to others. Self-knowledge is the jewel in the crown of success. It enables you to be inner-directed, self referring, and true to yourself."
-- Robert Holden
"We talk about beliefs as if they're things that you can pick up and handle. But beliefs aren't things. Beliefs are just thoughts that are repeated. The more the thoughts are repeated the stronger they become. They attract other similar thoughts. The thinking process becomes a habit. And eventually you end up with a belief. Beliefs can also come about because of some trauma or incident, from your parents or teachers, from the media. In short - they can come from anywhere."
-- Stephanie Philp
"Practice five or more minutes of box breathing daily (building up to twenty minutes). Read something inspiring as part of your morning or evening ritual, or a spot drill. Say no to new commitments and say yes to downtime for learning or helping someone out."
-- Mark Divine
"We can make do without enjoyment for a while, and even without a lot of satisfaction. Without purpose, however, we are utterly lost, because we can’t deal with life’s inevitable puzzles and dilemmas. When we do have a sense of meaning and purpose, we can face life with hope and inner peace."
-- Arthur C Brooks and Oprah Winfrey
"Over time, I learned that success is not a race; it is a journey. I also learned that success is not an achievement; it is a discovery. The primary task, then, is to create a vision for success—one that engages your whole being. Vision is what helps you discover the truth about success. Vision is the first key to Success Intelligence."
-- Robert Holden
"Your expectations determine the next ring, your attitude—the outward manifestation or reflection of your values, beliefs, and expectations. If you have a positive attitude, others will be drawn to you, and you will be more likely to find success. Your attitude determines the fifth ring: your actions. You are happiest when your outside actions are congruent with your values on the inside."
-- Andrew Clancy
