With Enthusiasm Nothing Can Stop You

"With enough enthusiasm, nothing can stop you; it can, indeed, help give you anything you want in life.  It creates persistence; enthusiastic people do not give up until they achieve their goal.  And in most cases this is what makes the difference."

-- Barry Parker


"To be authentic is literally to be your own author..., to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them."

-- Warren G. Bennis


"Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives."

-- Vernon Howard

The Key To Your Winning

"The key to winning what you want lies in thinking positively toward yourself. The only real basis other people have for judging your abilities is your actions. And your actions are controlled by your thoughts."

-- David Joseph Schwartz


"Who am I? To answer this, we must first learn to become more aware of ourselves. To be aware, we must STOP and PAY ATTENTION! We need to STOP and objectively watch ourselves in action.

We live most of our lives by habit. These habits keep us stuck in patterns that limit our experience of life. Once we detect a pattern we were previously unconscious of, we can choose differently, if we want. With awareness comes choice and with choice, we gain freedom."

-- John Robson

Don't Be Stuck Waiting For Life

"Stop waiting for someone to give you your life.  You'll be waiting a long time.  You have many choices in life.  Always choose the Path that contributes to your growth and that makes you feel at peace with yourself and others."

-- Susan Jeffers


"Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive."

-- Jamais Cascio


"You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself."

-- Beryl Markham

What Our Mind Attracts

"We know that our mind attracts what we think about, so if we mentally rehearse the changes we want, we provide it with a target at which to direct its subliminal attention. Seeing internal pictures of ourselves in the outcomes we want is one of the most influential habits we could ever cultivate in our desire for change."

-- Gary Dooley


"It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. ...I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing."

-- Oriah Mountain Dreamer


"Let me listen to me and not to them."

-- Gertrude Stein

How To Keep Your Dream Alive

"If your dream is to travel and see more of the world, keep your dream alive by having a photograph or picture of the places that you would like to visit on your fridge or your desk (use travel brochures). Don't leave it until it is too late: don't become one of those people who spent their later years regretting the things they didn't do."

-- Sue Hadfield


"We are each unique beings with a unique path in life. If we wish to be fulfilled, we need to go to our own hearts for direction. We might regularly ask ourselves:

"What do I really want to do?"
"What brings me greatest happiness?"
"How can I bring more of these into my life?"
Life wants us to go for what brings us most joy and meaning."

-- John Robson

How To Stretch Yourself To Succeed Forever

"To achieve a big goal, you are going to have to become a bigger person. You are going to have to develop new skills, new attitudes, and new capabilities. You are going to have to stretch yourself, and in so doing, you will be stretched forever."

-- Jack Canfield


"We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think SHOULD. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail...We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart."

-- Julia Cameron

Stop That Forever Thinking and Try Something

"We would advise anyone who is doing something they haven't done before is to constantly experiment.  Don't spend forever thinking, try some stuff.  It is works great.  But it's great if it doesn't work as well, as long as you learn and then adjust what you are doing.  The most important thing is to take action and make some progress."

-- Richard Newton and Ciprian Adrian Rusen


"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."

-- Carl Sagan


"What you must dare is to be yourself."

-- Dag Hammarskjold

Look At The Positive In Your Life

"Too often people dwell on their problems, but there are always positive things in your life that you should be thankful for.  You may have your health.  Thank God you do."

-- Barry Parker


"A critic is a legless man who teaches running."

-- Channing Pollock


"Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish."

-- Barbara Sher

You Have The Power To Find The Path

"We all have the power to find the Path that teaches us, strengthens us, and allows us to move away from the people and situations that hurt us."

-- Susan Jeffers


"Thanks to the power of our inner critics, most of us have a very poor opinion of ourselves. Yet self- contempt merely keeps us miserable and stuck in our mediocrity.

If we were to make only one change to transform the quality of our lives, we might try sending a little love our own way."

-- John Robson

Do You Know That Visualizing Your Result First Is More Important

"Visualizing what you want as if it has already happened takes your attention away from the how part of the change process and places it instead on the result. In this way, you stimulate your subliminal resources, causing the how to become transparently clear to you. How you get from A to B is less important than your ability to imagine what B will be like when you get there."

-- Gary Dooley


"In so many neighborhoods, if people want to buy a head of lettuce or salad or some fruit for their kid's lunch, they have to take two or three buses, maybe pay for a taxicab, in order to do it."

-- Michelle Obama


"If you had a friend who talked to you like you sometimes talk to yourself, would you continue to hang around with that person?"

-- Rob Bremer