"Use your spare moments to create. The mind does well when challenged with a change of pace. It craves stimulation. Start thinking bigger now. No matter how well you feel your life is going, it could be better. While others are enjoying only a small portion of their potential, you can think bigger and live in ecstasy. Every moment that you use instead of wasting adds to the potential for awesomeness in your life."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"You can decide right now what you’re going to watch. Don’t let the TV own you. Many people are unconscious: they go home, they turn the set on, and they vaporize many good hours while somebody else is making a fortune entertaining them. The person who kills time is also killing their potential. The person who is to succeed makes every moment count and come alive with full potential."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"Time has more value than money. Do you doubt me? Ask a father who has only hours to live. His children may be young and growing, and he will not get to see them through school. Ask him if time is more valuable than money."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"Every experience of life is meant to strengthen your ability to motivate yourself. Each time you do, your momentum increases. Building belief and faith in yourself is a foundation that moves you forward regardless of any obstacle."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"As you work toward success, you’ll find that some obstacles are mental, involving self-talk and negative input from others. Other obstacles are actually real. They happen after you’ve contrived your dreams and go out to hear other people say no. Or you need the money, or you need to have a joint venture partner."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"Your success is directly linked to your thoughts about yourself. You will act out who you think you really are. You’ll take on what you believe you can handle."
"We have to start where most of your obstacles lie—in your head. I call these your input/output messages. Many people stop dreaming because they’ve been bombarded with failure messages. We often stab our spirits to death by talking to ourselves with negative, killing affirmations."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"A real, deep education is self-education. When you are self-educated, you’re hungry to learn from everyone and everything and everywhere. You’re committed to lifelong learning. You can’t get enough. You’re an information sponge, drinking deeply of all the available wisdom."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"The law of life is to grow, develop, improve, evolve, and become ever more and ever better. Study other geniuses to realize the genius in you. If you want to think out of the box, start studying the people who already think out of the box. Make sure you have access to a library of books, recordings, and articles by these geniuses."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"Decide to become consistently exceptional. Create a can-do attitude to give yourself an attitude of gratitude—an attitude that’s going to give you more altitude than anyone’s ever had before. Maintain a positive mental attitude and an extraordinary mindset."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"Find your genius. Find your uniqueness. Ask yourself, what do I like? What energizes me? What would I do if I didn’t have to work? What’s my passion? What’s my unique calling? What’s my life assignment? Discover what you’re good at doing and what you’re great at doing? Repeat it, improve it, polish it, grow forward and you’ll wow yourself."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"It’s all in your head. It’s in your head that genius begins. Mind power is only good when we recognize that it is our power. There’s no more life in an ant than an elephant; it’s simply spirit taking infinite forms. You choose your form, and then you become the form."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"Procrastination takes its toll on success and happiness; accomplishment and indecisiveness are as contradictory as success and procrastination. Your life will only improve by your actions."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"The world respects people who can create. Just remember that in order to create anything, we must first dream it. To live your dream, you must first have a dream to live. Dreams create the world of reality."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"In the game of life, you’re the audience you’re playing to. Even if you listen to the advice of others, in the end you are the person in charge of making your own decisions. Be daring enough to follow your dreams, to immerse yourself in them, and you’ll find courage and boldness to achieve them."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"You can complain, “I’d do it if it weren’t for my parents, if it weren’t for my boss, if it weren’t for my spouse”—whatever or whomever you choose to blame. None of this is true. Every one of us can have excuses, but the choice here is, either have excuses or get results. Let’s think big and go for big results."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"Let’s face it: the amount of time you have on earth is limited. It doesn’t matter what the mental or the real obstacles are. It’s time here and now to set your goals, plan your big thinking, and live bigger than you ever thought you could."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"Stop stalling. Embed a big desire in your soul. Big desires keep your heart and soul on fire. Your fire is fanned by your dreams, ambition, dream team, and compelling lectures, books, audios, videos, and stories. You’ll know you’re here to serve and make a difference."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"Your self-esteem and subsequent successes are entirely based on how much work you do in and on yourself to make yourself a masterpiece."
-- Mark Victor Hansen
"Again, I want you to understand that everyone occasionally experiences fear. Recognize it for what it is, and work to quickly, safely, and satisfyingly convert it into rocket fuel. All it takes is right thinking, right talking, right acting, and doing the right thing to get the right results, right here and right now. Right thinking vanishes fear, right talking beats it out of existence, and right action makes it disappear." 👾
-- Mark Victor Hansen
