"I firmly believe that we all need to find something to do in our lives that stops us from eating the couch. Whether we make a profession out of it or not, we all need an activity that is beyond the mundane and that takes us out of our established and limiting roles in society (mother, employee, neighbor, brother, boss, etc.)."
-- Elizabeth Gilbert
"Believing you have the ability to reach your goals is important, but so is believing you can get the ability. Embracing the (accurate) belief that you can change will allow you to make better choices and reach your fullest potential."
-- Heidi Grant Halvorson
"One interesting and effective way to engage the subconscious is to visualize, using a meditative approach. Visualizing is a way to “make believe,” to pretend that something you want is already real. It’s not necessary to actually see a picture in your mind’s eye, although it’s fine if you do. Despite its name, visualization relies on feeling, not vision. The important thing is that you feel as if it is genuine by acting as if it is true. It is the feeling that convinces your subconscious that it’s real, not the picture."
-- Natalie Reid
"The greater danger for most of us, said Michelangelo, is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. A big dream is a goal that will stretch you beyond your current capabilities. That is the point. Dream BIG."
-- Newt Gingrich
"Happiness also brings out the best in us. When we are happy we relate better with others. We feel more connected, we are less afraid, and we are more confident. Our inner happiness is attractive, literally, in that it attracts happy relationships. When we are happy we also work better. Occupational psychology research confirms that if you can say “I am happy in my work,” you are likely to be more productive, more creative, and more successful and experience less stress, less depression, and less mental illness. True happiness enables us to be more successful"
-- Robert Holden
"Your beliefs about your strengths and your weaknesses play a large role in determining the goals you set for yourself. If I believe that I’m good at math and science, then setting myself the goal of becoming an engineer makes sense for me. If I believe that I am uncoordinated and slow, then trying to make the varsity basketball team probably doesn’t make so much sense. Our beliefs about our abilities influence what we think is possible—and what we might realistically be able to achieve."
-- Heidi Grant Halvorson
"Try to notice what you are saying in yourself at this moment, to what thoughts and feelings you are consenting. They will be perfectly woven into your tapestry of life. To change your life you must change your inner talking, for “life,” said Hermes, “is the union of Word and Mind.” When imagination matches your inner speech to fulfilled desire, there will then be a straight path in yourself from within out, and the without will instantly reflect the within for you, and you will know reality is only actualized inner talking."
-- Neville Goddard
"Your identity emerges out of your habits. Every action is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity."
-- James Clear
"It doesn’t matter in the least. Let people have their opinions. More than that—let people be in love with their opinions, just as you and I are in love with ours. But never delude yourself into believing that you require someone else’s blessing (or even their comprehension) in order to make your own creative work. And always remember that people’s judgments about you are none of your business."
-- Elizabeth Gilbert
"Imagination is such a powerful thing. We can’t do anything unless we can imagine it first. So imagine practical and emotional challenges of the journey too, as well as visualising the outcome, and it will help you to get there. You can put it on a mood board so that it visually exists too."
-- Trinny Woodall
"Ask your future self, “What could I be doing better that would help me grow faster?” The benefit of asking this question is that you are able to cut out the distractions that are keeping you from achieving your goals, the tasks that might be draining your creativity, or the things you are doing out of obligation but not strategy. Go so far as to ask, “Will you be proud of me in this moment?”"
-- Sten Morgan
"What we desire does not lie in the future but in ourselves at this very moment. At any moment in our lives we are faced with an infinite choice: “what we are and what we want to be.” And what we want to be is already existent, but to realize it we must match our inner speech and actions to it."
-- Neville Goddard
