“If our mindset is not aligned with our desires or goals, we will never achieve them.”

- From Limitless by Jim Kwik

“Focus on what it would be like to achieve your dreams.”

- From Harris Rules by Tim and Julie Harris

“Every day you must take action that is congruent with your big goals and dreams.”

- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne

“Imagination is where every extraordinary achievement begins. In your imagination there are no limits, you can be completely free.”

- From The Answer by John Assaraf and Murray Smith

“When you have a crystal-clear picture of what you want the future to look like, it’s easier to make decisions that get you closer to making that future a reality.”

- From Time Management Essentials by Anna Dearmon Kornick

“To be happy, successful, and productive, operate out of your imagination, your dreams, and your vision.”

- From The Power of One More by Ed Mylett

“Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.”

- Henry David Thoreau

“Are you willing to sacrifice who you are for who you could be?”

- From The Power of One More by Ed Mylett

“Success begins with figuring out what you want, then making the choices that will get you there.”

- Shellye Archambeau

"Plans are the backbone of progress; they provide structure to our ambitions."

- Josh S. Levin

"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now."

- Alan Lakein

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.”

- Daniel Burham

“How can I get from here to where I want to be? If you are going to improve your life and realize your potential, you will have to figure out where you are now; where you want to be; and how you get from one to the other.”

- Michael Hyatt and Daniel Harkavy

“If you should visit a ship in port and ask the captain for his next port-of-call, he’ll tell you in a single sentence. Even though the captain cannot see his port, his destination, for full 99% of the voyage, he knows it’s there, and barring an unforeseen and highly unlikely catastrophe, he’ll reach it. All he has to do is keep doing certain things every day. If someone asked you for your next port-of-call, your goal, could you tell him? Is your goal clear and concise in your mind? Do you have it written down?”

- Earl Nightingale

“It would be impossible for a ship to come into a certain port without a compass as it would be for a man or woman to make any headway on the sea of life without a purpose. Nobody ever drifts into anything desirable. To get the thing worth while you must know where your goal lies, and you must make straight for it, past all the rocks and sandbars.”

- Orison Swett Marden

“Work expands so as to fill the time available for completion.” In other words, if you have no bumpers, boundaries, or non-negotiables built into your life, you will always find more work to do to fill the void and vacuum. You’ll mire yourself in busy work and perfectionism out of a perverse need to appear “busy” without realizing that you are wasting your time--your most precious and finite resource--on activities that don’t do anything to drive your business or life forward. Even worse, when you don’t have clear boundaries between your work and life, they start to bleed into each other, preventing you from being fully present in either one. When you’re at work, you feel guilty that they haven’t spent more time with your family and when you’re with your family, you feel guilty because you haven’t accomplished enough work.”

- From The Perfect Week Formula by Craig Ballantyne

"Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning."

- Thomas Edison

"If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else."

- Yogi Berra

“The power of a plan is not that it will get you there. The power of a plan is that it will get you started. It’s easy to assume that you need to put together the plan that will get you there—in other words, the right plan. The plan that will work. No. The point is not to come up with the brilliant blueprint that is guaranteed to take you all the way to the finish line. The point is simply to come up with a plan that will get you out of the starting gate. It’s not even that your starting plan doesn’t necessarily get you there—it for sure won’t get you there, at least not the exact plan you conceive at first. Nobody has that degree of perfect precision in long-range planning, and there are too many variables and surprises along the way that will require adjustments to the plan. You have to start with a plan, but the plan you start with will not be the plan that gets you there.“

- From The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson

“Every man is what he is because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind. It is essential for you to encourage the positive emotions as dominating forces of your mind, and discourage—and eliminate negative emotions… First: I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my definite purpose in life; therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action. Second: I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action, and gradually transform themselves into physical reality; therefore, I will concentrate my thoughts for thirty minutes daily, upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture.”

- From Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill