Accepting Vulnerability

"When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability….To be alive is to be vulnerable."

-- Madeleine L Engle

Directing Your Mental Activity

"Every time you repeat a new optimistic conclusion, you redirect your mental activity to a different neural pathway. With enough repetition, these new beliefs will take over as your spontaneous, automatic responses, so you won’t have to work at it so much. Imagine how wonderful it will be when the peaceful, positive assumption becomes your natural response to everything!"

-- Sandra Anne Taylor

The Best Ways To Build Resilience

"Being allowed to experience failure is one of the best ways to build resilience. When you are wrapped up in cotton wool and shielded from risk, or are never allowed to make mistakes, you never learn how to deal with them – how to do better, and how to accept the need to confront and challenge yourself and your abilities."

-- Suzie Hayman

Only You Can Decide

"Don’t let yourself be swayed by the opinions of others, by the chatter of the masses. Only you can decide to develop an unflinching will, to concentrate, to stay focused on your chosen objective until the task is successfully completed."

--  Bob Proctor

When A Mistake Becomes Real

"See every mistake as your life teacher, A mistake becomes truly a mistake if it keeps repeating itself. It shows that something is wrong and you are not learning."

-- Sean Lana

Getting Off The Tour Bus of Life

"To act means getting off the tour bus of life (for example watching television) and living among the locals, allowing worlds other than your own to stimulate your senses. It means smelling, tasting, sensing, and feeling as others feel. As Warren Buffett once put it, “Can you really explain to a fish what it’s like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it.”"

-- Donald Van de Mark

Why Clear Goals is Important

"Clear goals allow the brain to know what it needs to focus on; immediate feedback gives it a sense of moving in the right direction. This is one of the reasons why games and competitions are such good sources of flow. A golfer knows what he or she is aiming for, and finds out soon enough whether the shot is a good one."

-- Tim LeBon

Overcome The Defeatist Attitude in Life

"No matter your past or personality, you can (and should) overcome a defeatist attitude toward life. At some point, if we don’t overcome this thinking, we allow the mistakes of our pasts to sabotage our presents and our futures to a degree that helps no one."

-- Joshua Becker

Never Compare Yourself To Anyone Else

"You should never say to a child ‘Why can’t you be like so-and-so’ or ‘You did that so much better than…’ It doesn’t build competitiveness; it builds rivalry and resentment, and often leads to people giving up. In the same way, you should never compare yourself to anyone else: ‘I’m so useless – I can’t do it as well as so-and-so…’ or ‘I wish I were like…’ You are your own unique being with your own unique abilities, strengths and opportunities. Celebrate that."

-- Suzie Hayman

Stop Living Someone Else Life

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

-- Steve Jobs