How things turn out often depends not on our ability or our inability, but our availability. Previous POWER UPS are listed below. You choose happiness. It doesn't choose you. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Albert Einstein Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. Zig Ziglar Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. Philip K. Dick Not less than two hours a day should be devoted to exercise, and the weather shall be little regarded. If the body is feeble, the mind will not be strong. Thomas Jefferson channeled via Bill Walton Focus on the solution or else you'll be stuck with the problem. You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time. - Charles F. Kettering Are you fit company for the person you wish to become? 1 / 42
The future will depend on what we do in the present. You always pass failure on your way to success. Mahatma Ghandi There's no reward in life without risk. You've got to be before you can do, and do before you can have. It may be that those who do most, dream most. Stephen Butler You must be on top of change or change will be on top of you. Mark Victor Hansen Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale Amazing what can happen when your goals are bigger than your excuses. Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets. Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be your best. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. Thomas Alva Edison Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions. Tony Robbins Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. Josh Billings When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. Victor Frankl Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. Doug Ivester 2 / 42
Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right. The Grateful Dead, Scarlet Begonia You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have. The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. John Powell You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. John Wooden Cowboy Logic. Be sure to taste your words before you spit them out. An extraordinary lilfe is not attained by ordinary effort. If you don't know what you want from life, what do you think you will get? Napoleon Hill Attitudes are contagious, ask yourself "Is mine worth catching?" Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately transform into hard work. Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one. Benjamin Franklin When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this... you haven t. Thomas Edison 3 / 42
Sometimes we wait too long for things that are never going to come. Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. You may delay, but time will not. It's hard to beat a person who never gives up. Babe Ruth Don't count the days, make the days count. Fear melts when you take action towards a goal you really want. Anything which can be done can be done better. To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are. A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping stone to the optimist. Eleanor Roosevelt Good enough isn't. Appreciation never depreciates. It is the value we find in one another. Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier. 4 / 42
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. American Proverb Native Positive things happen to positive people. You've got to cross the line every once in a while to know where it is. Success is in the details. The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. Stephen Covey It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. Napoleon Hill Those who do not create the future they want must endure the future they get. Failure is an attitude, not an outcome. The secret of life isn't what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you. ~ N. Peale If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. Ivan Turgenev 5 / 42
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. Abraham Lincoln Consider the turtle. He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out. The highest form of ignorance is to reject out-of-hand something you know nothing about. If I had no fear, what would I do different? Your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life. SteveJobs You won't have a chance unless you take one. We all need someone who inspires us to do better than we know how. High achievement always takes place in a framework of high expectation. Don't let the past steal your present. What you seek is not out there. It is within you. No man is happy unless he believes he is: Publilius Syrus Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. 6 / 42
What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now. Buddha What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dreams come a size too big so that we may grow into them. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. Robert Collier Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. Angela Monet It is what it is. It's not what it should have been and not what it could have been. It is what it is. Get over it and move on. Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act. - Leonard Cohen Never let the fear of striking out get in your way. Babe Ruth Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone. Gertrude Stein Change your priorities and you will change your life. Anything the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve. Napoleon Hill 7 / 42
When you re tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you. Never assume the obvious is true. William Safire By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail. Benjamin Franklin Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. You cannot live your life just based on what everyone else thinks. The future you see is the future you get. You will never win if you never begin. Helen Rowland Never use a long word when a diminutive one will suffice. You win or lose by the way you choose. Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life s coming attractions. 8 / 42
Nothing will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome. Jules W. Lederer Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there. Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. If you don t know what you want, don t say you never had a chance. Napoleon Hill Never ruin an apology with an excuse. Kimberly Johnson Your ideas won't work unless ' You' do. Experience is what you get, when you don't get what you want. People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. Peter Drucker Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets. Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. Richard L. Evans Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. Charles Caleb Colton 9 / 42
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. Earl Wilson Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called 'sure-thing-taking. Jim McMahon Make each day your masterpiece. John Wooden 1910-2010 Not knowing the reason behind your goals, makes reaching them meaningless, if not impossible. Attitude determines altitude. A client is an appreciating asset. You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you. Brian Tracy Success is the elevation of "I'm possible" over "Impossible". People loan their trust, they don't give it. Don't let your worries get the best of you. Remember, Moses started out as a basket case. For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. Never long for anyone from the past. There is a reason why they never made it to your future. There are no impossible dreams. Just our limited perception of what is possible. 10 / 42
If you want to leave your footprints on the sands of time, be sure you're wearing work shoes. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. Mother Teresa "You always succeed in producing a result." - Tony Robbins A problem well-stated is a problem half solved. Charles F. Kettering The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure. You can't turn back the clock - but you can wind it up again. Everything can look like a failure in the middle. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative. W.C. Stone Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway. We are lead by our most dominant thought. You can't rewrite history, but you can be the author of your future. Everything can look like a failure in the middle. 11 / 42
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes. Zig Ziglar If you place a small value on yourself, you can be assured that the world won't raise your price. Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat. Napoleon Hill Don't let someone become a priority in your life when you are just an option in theirs. Discipline is remembering what you want. Action is the antidote to despair. Fill your life with people who have the passion you want to emulate. Vision comes to prepared spirits. You cannot predict the future, but you can predict what you will do with it. Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. David Lloyd George All the advice you ever gave anyone is for you to hear. Byron Katie The secret of getting ahead is getting started. 12 / 42
Opportunities multiply as they are seized." ~Sun Tzu It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. Henry Ford The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going. Ralph Waldo Emerson If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. Mario Andretti The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn. Attitude is everything. Pick a good one. It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin Positive change involves short-term sacrifices for long-term payoffs. Success comes in cans; failure in can'ts. Some people develop a wish bone where their back bone should be. If you don t like where you are, then change it! You re not a tree. 13 / 42
Everything you want in life is right outside your comfort zone. Robert Allen If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Dr Wayne Dyer We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Ralph Waldo Emerson When life gives you a 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1000 reasons to smile. Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base with your foot on first. How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. Annie Dillard You are either part of the solution or part of the problem. Fail earlier to succeed sooner. The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will. Jim Rohn Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. If you are coasting, you're going downhill. God helps those who help themselves. In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. Malcolm Forbes Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction. Will Rogers 14 / 42
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations. Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. Henry D. Thoreau Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. G. K. Chesterton When nothing is sure, everything is possible. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. - Benjamin Franklin Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic. Dale Carnegie Some things have to be believed to be seen. - Hodgson No one ever excused his way to success. - Dotto, Dave Del People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.~anonymous You'll never achieve your dreams if they don't become goals. 15 / 42
The great danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss, but that it is too low and we reach it.~michelangelo Not much in life is learned in our comfort zone. Try. Fail. Learn. Repeat. Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen R Covey Failure is the path of least resistance. Appreciate what you have while you pursue all that you want. All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.~d.carnegie Don't allow anyone else to set your goals and your dreams. What is it that you really want? Man's biggest mistake is to believe that he's working for someone else. It is never too late to have a happy childhood. Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. Lou Holtz They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. 16 / 42
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.~herm Albright The only disability in life is a bad attitude.~scott Hamilton Other people and things can stop you temporarily. You re the only one who can do it permanently. You will never win if you never begin. If you repeat today's activities you will duplicate today's results. To control the result you must control the process. Whatever you believe with emotion and conviction becomes your reality. Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I will remember. Involve me and I will understand. -Confucius If you lack the courage to start, you have already finished. People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals that is, goals that do not inspire them. Tony Robbins Here s the first step: Start right where you are. Go as far as you can see. When you get there you will see even further. Napoleon Hill One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. 17 / 42
Nobody really cares if you're miserable so you might as well be happy. What worries you masters you. We shape our habits; then our habits shape us. Stephen Covey Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. - John Steinbeck If you keep doing what you are doing you will keep getting what you are getting. The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. Goals must be reviewed daily. Fear is the little darkroom where negatives are developed. May you live all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift Never begin the day until it is finished on paper. Jim Rohn If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter if your alarm doesn't go off in the morning. Denis Waitley You cannot get to the top by sitting on your bottom. You can make the dream come true if you wake up and work. Everyone is gifted - but some people never open their package. When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you. From Tin Cup Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll'. Denis Waitley Chance favors those in motion. James Austin You can change all things for the better, when you change yourself for the better. Jim Rohn (1930 2009) Rather than being a wondering generality take action to be a meaningful specific. You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction. Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand. There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem. Every success is built in the ability to do better than just good enough. Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons. Be a good LISTENER. Your ears will never get you in trouble. Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you react to it. With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution after the initial enthusiasm has passed. The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. -- Benjamin Franklin If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary. Jim Rohn 18 / 42
Most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners. Robert T. Kiyosaki Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. John Wayne They can't hurt you unless you let them. If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. Every man is guilty of all the good he didn t do. Voltaire You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Brian Tracy Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out. John Wooden The most effective way to manage change is to create it. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. -Anne Frank A life without cause is a life without effect. Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. He who angers you, controls you. If you don't like change... You're going to like irrelevance even less. As long as you're faced in the right dirction, it does not matter the size of your steps. Why stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. No amount of travel on the wrong road will bring you to the right destination. You don't have to be great to get started but you have to get started to be great. Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Sometimes your only available transportation is a leap of faith. A goal without a plan is just a wish. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success. Either you run the day or the day runs you. Jim Rohn You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with. Set goals that are magnetic and you will be pulled to them. Integrity means doing the right thing even when it is not convenient. Captain Chesley `Sully' Sullenberger The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot. As long as you re going to be thinking anyway, think big. Donald Trump If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there. Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. Oscar Wilde The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch. Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. Albert Einstein You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted. Your best teacher is your last mistake. Change before you have to. Jack Welch You can't or you won't? Treat everyone like they are the person packing your parachute. Most of the time we don't communicate; we just take turns talking. Stop being who you were and become who you are. Of course, the length of life is important. But for today, let's focus on its width and depth. 19 / 42
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. Dr. Seuss You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough. It is never too late to be what you might have been. A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks. Life is like photography. We use negatives to develop. Never tell me that the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon. Successful people don't waste time licking imaginary wounds. There is nothing so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. William James A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. Do what you can with what you've got wherever you are. Theodore Roosevelt Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions. Tony Robbins We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein There is always room at the top. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. "Fortune favors the prepared mind." Louis Pasteur Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves. Some turn up their noses, and some don t turn up at all. The will to win is worth nothing without the will to prepare. More often in life, we end up regretting the chances in life that we had, but didn t take them, 20 / 42
than those chances that we took and wished we hadn t. "Try?"... There is no "try"... There is only "do," or "not do." Just start and never stop. Make an unshakable, 100% commitment to yourself and to your goals. Go the extra mile. It s never crowded. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Vince Lombardi The empires of the future are empires of the mind. When you re tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you. If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. Begin each day as if it were on purpose. 21 / 42
We don t see the things the way they are. We see things the way WE are. Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. Zig Ziglar The road to success is always under construction. You don t reach the top of the mountain by walking downhill. Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. Winston Churchill "Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not." George Bernard Shaw Faint heart never won fair lady. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things. All times are good times, if only we know what to do with them. 22 / 42
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. Stephen Covey Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas A. Edison Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away. Denis Waitley It is what it is; deal with it. The best way to predict the future is to create it. Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf. Fortune befriends the bold. John Dryden Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up. Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. 23 / 42
A problem is a chance for you to do your best. Little by little one walks far. The difference between the ordinary and the extraordinary is that little extra. Zig Ziglar You will never win if you never begin. Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere. Experience is a hard teacher because she gives you the test first, the lesson afterwards. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. When in doubt, just take the next small step. How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to? Tony Robbins There is no substitute for hard work. Thomas A. Edison Wishes cost nothing unless you want them to come true. 24 / 42
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently. Tony Robbins Failure results from the inability to resist the temptation of doing small things first. Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow. The path to success is to take massive, determined action. If it is to be, it is up to me. Once a new idea rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road. FEAR is an acronym for "False Evidence Appearing Real". Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The 25 / 42
amount of work is the same. Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. "Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life." -Sophia Loren Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be. If you only do what you know you can do, you never do very much. An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. Don't wait. The time will never be just right. Creative minds are rarely tidy. Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own. The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. 26 / 42
Success comes in cans; failure in can'ts. Beginnings are always messy. Worry is the darkroom in which negatives are developed. Nothing says poor craftsmanship like wrinkled duct tape. Time is money. Spend it wisely. The person who knows everything will learn nothing. You are what you do, not what you say. It's not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know. A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions. Life is 10% what you are given and 90% what you make of it. There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing. 27 / 42
Underpromise; overdeliver. Eighty percent of success is showing up. - Woody Allen If you don t care for your client someone else will. The most successful people are those who are good at Plan B. No great idea ever entered the mind through an open mouth. Life is like poker. You can't take out unless you put in. Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves. Some turn up their noses, and some don t turn up at all. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your mind off your goals. Talk less. Say more. The great difference between human beings is what they feed into their minds on a regular basis. You are the only person on this earth who can use your ability. 28 / 42
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read. Mark Twain Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. A good plan today is better than a great plan tomorrow. Gen. George Patton Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows that it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows that it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle; when the sun comes up, you had better be running! Seize the Day! If all you ever do is all you've ever done, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got. Nobody cares what you know until they know that you care. On time is late for leaders. You will never plow a field if you only turn it over in your mind. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Emerson Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) 29 / 42
Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. Voltaire You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal. Time is our only competition. If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score? Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic. Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution. Deliver more than you promise. Every time you exercise self-discipline you elevate your level of self-esteem. If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. Lewis Carroll 30 / 42
Anything that can be done can be done better. It's not what you know and it is not who you know. It's what you know and who you know. Act as if. The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. I've never seen a monument erected for a pessimist. ~ Paul Harvey Most of the things that we worry about are either out of our control or have already happened or never will happen. When would be a good day to start? Preseverance is not a long race. It is many short races one after another. In life you need either inspiration or desperation. Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time. Brian Tracy Passion doesn t punch a clock. 31 / 42
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. Some people dream of worthy accomplishments while others stay awake and do them. W.I.N. What s Important Now? Successful people constantly acquire specialized knowledge relevant to their goals. Nothing will work unless you do. The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. Every morning you are handed 24 golden hours. They are one of the few things in this world that you get free of charge. If you had all the money in the world, you couldn't buy an extra hour. What will you do with this priceless treasure? Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can. You can t build a reputation on what you're going to do. Henry Ford Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. Michael Caine 32 / 42
Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time. Brian Tracy There s no off switch on a tiger. If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. Thomas A. Edison You feel positive about yourself to the degree that you feel you are in control of your life. Our comfort zone determines our performance range. The only way to increase your production is to elevate your comfort zone. Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford Don t put a limit upon the effort that you expend. More people rust out than wear out. The greatest pleasure in life is to accomplish that which others say you cannot. You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived. 33 / 42
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? If you don t like what you are getting out of life consider what you are giving. What we see depends mainly upon what we look for. The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those who got there first. Your goal should not be to be the best at what you do. Your goal must be to be the only one who does what you do. Differences sell. Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be. You succeed the moment you decide that failure is not an option. The cowardly never started and the weak dropped out along the way. A goal is a dream with a deadline. A goal properly set is halfway reached. Everything counts! Everything that you do is either moving you towards or away from your goals. 34 / 42
Goals are meaningless without plans. No goals no glory! A goal has power. As soon as you create it, it seems to release an inner force you didn t know you had, a power that channels your energy and inspires you to move steadily toward your objective day after day, month after month. Goals must be clear, specific, and measurable. If you really want to do something, you ll find a way; if you don t, you ll find an excuse. What course of action would you take if you knew exactly what the results were to be? Whether you think that you can or you can t, you re right. Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down. Charles Kettering Invent the life you want to live. Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. I am easily satisfied with the very best. Winston Churchill 35 / 42
You will always miss 100% of the shots you don t take. You are what you chose today, not what you have chosen before. The past does not equal the future. Be audacious! Life changes. You change. Get over it. Life is not linear. It is boring and explosive. You can t learn anything from experiences you re not having. We tend to get what we expect. hen life gives you limes, make margaritas For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? What is the most valuable use of my time right now? There is no such thing as a good excuse. 36 / 42
Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce. We will either find a way or make one! Hannibal Fast tempo is essential to success. All greatness is achieved while performing outside your comfort zone. If you do not ask, the answer is always no. You are the only person responsible for your life. A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided. Tony Robbins Never confuse motion with action. Benjamin Franklin Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow. The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach. How would the person you d like to be do what you re about to do? 37 / 42
Enthusiasm is the yeast of success. Fake it until you make it. There is much to be said for not saying much. Unless you are the lead dog the view is always the same. How committed are you? There is a remarkable difference between a commitment of 99% and 100%. Every choice you make has an end result. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the one's that you did. Successful people plan actions, they don't plan results. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers. Do or do not. There is no try. Yoda Never miss a good chance to shut up. 38 / 42
Are you making footprints in the sands of time, or are you just covering up your tracks? Successful people are those who make a habit of doing what unsuccessful people don't like to do. Don't agonize, organize. Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. Theodore Roosevelt Take massive, intelligent action. In order to succeed you have to DO something. Never, never, never give up. Winston Churchill Don t wish it were easier. Wish you were better. Jim Rohn Indecision may or may not be my problem. Jimmy Buffett 100% of all market down-turns were eventually followed by market up-turns, 100% of the time. Think Big. Start Small. Act Now. Life is a series of great opportunities disguised as insolvable problems. 39 / 42
Worry is the misuse of imagination. We have exactly enough time --- starting now. Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked. Warren Buffett on the current situation Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. Action cures fear. Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do. Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor. There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so. William Shakespeare Every winner has scars. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Emerson The optimist expects the wind. The pessimist complains about the wind. The realist adjusts the sails. If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change. from "The Leopard" 40 / 42
It is better to have something to remember than nothing to regret. Whatever happens, take responsibility. Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is action in the presence of fear. Your Bank Account of Days. It s your unknown quantity of days from which you are permitted to withdraw only one precious day at a time. No deposits accepted. Practice client astonishment. If you are the smartest one in your group, you need a bigger group. It is not the critic who counts,... The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly... who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. Theodore Roosevelt 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name. Work your plan or have your life run by the plans of others. If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain. 41 / 42
"Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life." Harvey MacKay Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal. Mike Ditka A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. No one ever says "It's only a game." when their team is winning. A fool with a plan is better than a genius with no plan. Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning, Satan shudders & says Oh crap he s awake!! 42 / 42