Worrying Too Much About Failure

"If you spend very much time worrying about failure, it will build, and in the end you will fail.  The best way around this is to look upon them as challenges.  Act aggressively to get them out of your mind.  If you do this quickly every time they crop up, they will soon disappear."

-- Barry Parker


"Many of us have been taught to do our duty. What reaction does this bring up for you?

For me, doing my duty often means doing something I really don't want to do. My heart's not in it. When this is the case, tasks may get done but there's no gift to the world. We do not truly serve if we give to others with resentment.

Perhaps we need to give ourselves permission to say no and look after our own needs. When our own needs are met, we are much more likely to want to give from a full heart.

It's not selfish to look after ourselves -- it's essential!"

-- John Robson

Meaningless of Comparison to Other People

"While there is value in encouraging the best from ourselves, and in living up to our own standards, there is little to be gained from trying to see how well or badly we do in comparison to other people."

-- Lynn Williams


"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."

-- Henry Ford


"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart."

-- Pearl S. Buck

The Purpose of Your Life

"If you make anything external the purpose of your life, you will always make yourself a candidate for mental torture.  Even if you succeed in getting what you want, you will always live with the fear of losing it."

-- Susan Jeffers


"We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open."

-- Harry Edwards


"We love because it's the only true adventure."

-- Nikki Giovanni

Use Failure As Feedback

"By changing the word ‘failure’ to ‘feedback’ we change our response because the word ‘feedback’ is highly unlikely to have any previously established unconscious negative associations for us."

-- Gary Dooley


"If you accept a limiting belief, then it will become a truth for you."

-- Louise Hay


"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend."

-- Melody Beattie

Take Care Of Your Own Health

"Taking care of your own health is all part of living a full and happy lifestyle. Believing that you are worth it means believing that you should look after yourself – with all the things you already know you need. Working hard, looking after a family, and having fun are all easier to achieve if you are feeling rested, well and energetic."

-- Sue Hadfield


"Pick one aspect of your life, e.g. your health, your competence, your prosperity or relationships, and think back to when you were a child. What messages about this subject did you hear from adults at that time that are still playing on your subconscious tape recorder? Messages like: "Men can't be trusted." "Money doesn't grow on trees." "You're not smart enough to succeed in business."

How is your world reflecting your beliefs back to you, today?"

-- John Robson

Creating Greater Self Confidence

"The habit of faith requires that you simply believe that there is a higher power in the universe and that this power wants the very best of you.  The greater faith you develop, the greater confidence you will have that everything that is happening to you is part of a great plan that is moving you inevitably toward something better."

-— Brian Tracy


"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson


"There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in."

-- Seth

What You Can Never Lose

"You can lose the material things, but you can never lose your mastery, what you learn and who you become in the process of achieving your goals."

-- Jack Canfield


"Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important."

-- Stephen Covey


"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'"

-- Lao-Tzu

Unconscious Mind Needs You To Take Action

"The unconscioous mind will, indeed, produce the winning feeling, but unless you are actually working towards achieving your goal it will soon get stuck in a rut.  You have to see yourself as making progress, and for this you have to take action."

-- Barry Parker


"Time management is all about making decisions. At each step of the way, we want to choose activities that best support what we want to do with our lives. To do this, we need to be clear about our short and long-term goals.

Here's a general question to ask yourself often: "Is this the best use of my time in terms of meeting my goals?" Sometimes, of course, we don't have any choice. But ask yourself honestly, "Could I take more control if I really wanted to?" Often, we play the victim because we don't want to make the effort to change our behaviour."

-- John Robson

Being Perfect Is Very Limiting

"Trying to be perfect is very limiting.  It also creates an intense feeling of being trapped!  We go about our lives pulling ourselves down instead of building ourselves up.  Maybe we should all walk around with compasses."

-- Susan Jeffers


"We could hardly wait to get up in the morning."

-- Wilbur Wright


"Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard."

-- Anne Sexton

The Toxic Fears Will Die

"The way to break out of our toxic fear habits is to understand that they need ‘fuel’ in order to continue; without our input the toxic fears will die. The key to change, therefore, lies in learning how to stop feeding the fire."

-- Gary Dooley


"Passion emerges when your essence expresses itself. How do you stop yourself from fully expressing who you are?"

-- John Robson


"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."

-- Henri Frederic Amiel