“The more you repeat a behavior, the more you reinforce the identity associated with that behavior.”

- From Atomic Habits by James Clear

“Building better habits isn’t about littering your day with life hacks. It’s not about flossing one tooth each night or taking a cold shower each morning or wearing the same outfit each day. It’s not about achieving external measures of success like earning more money, losing weight, or reducing stress. Habits can help you achieve all of these things, but fundamentally they are not about having something. They are about becoming someone. Ultimately, your habits matter because they help you become the type of person you wish to be. They are the channel through which you develop your deepest beliefs about yourself. Quite literally, you become your habits.”

- From Atomic Habits by James Clear

“Without a specific plan for making it happen, a dream is nothing more than a daydream. Having a viable plan for how you’re going to get from where you are to where you want to go is the quickest way to turn your wants into expectations. When you give your mind clear directions, it starts moving that way.”

- From Relentless Optimism by Darrin Donnelly

“The 5-Step Process to Get What You Want in Life:

1. Have clear goals.

2. Identify and don’t tolerate the problems that stand in the way of your achieving those goals.

3. Accurately diagnose the problems to get at their root causes.

4. Design plans that will get you around them.

5. Do what’s necessary to push these designs through to results.”

- From Principles by Ray Dalio

“Dreams + Reality + Determination = A Successful Life.”

- From Principles by Ray Dalio

“The most important quality you can develop for lifelong success is the habit of taking action on your plans, goals, ideas, and insights. The more often you try, the sooner you will triumph. There is a direct relationship between the number of things you attempt and your accomplishments in life.”

- From Goals! by Brian Tracy

“Success is goals and all else is commentary. All successful people are intensely goal oriented. They know what they want and they are focused single-mindedly on achieving it, every single day. Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow in the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target. … After countless talks on various themes, if I was given only five minutes to speak to you and I could convey only one thought that would help you to be more successful, I would tell you ‘Write down your goals, make plans to achieve them, and work on your plans every single day.’”

- From Goals! by Brian Tracy

“Your goals have to be impactful! If you don’t wake up in the morning emotionally charged about your goals, then you aren’t thinking big enough!”

- From Tom Ferry: Mindset, Model, and Marketing

“Learning to set goals is the master skill of success. Without goals your life is like a boat without a rudder. You drift along with the current, inevitably crashing onto the rocks time and time again. Proper goal-setting puts you in a speedboat and gives you a target to steer towards. You will go directly to your destination and arrive with great speed.”

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy

“The two strategies used by almost all great achievers are:

1. An unyielding commitment to constant learning; and

2. Clearly written goals that have specific plans laid out to achieve them.”  

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy

“Goals are no place to waffle. They are no place to be vague. Ambiguous goals produce ambiguous results. Incomplete goals produce incomplete futures. When we are specific, we harness the power of our dreams and set forces into action that empower us to achieve our goals. We then know exactly what it is we are shooting for — there is no question.” - From The Jim Rohn Guide to Goal Setting

“Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There’s no telling what will happen to you when you act upon them.”

- From 7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness by Jim Rohn

“Goals are exciting because they provide focus and aim for our lives. Goals cause us to stretch and grow in ways we never have before. In order to reach our goals, we must become better. We must change and grow.”  

- From The Jim Rohn Guide to Goal Setting

“Your mind doesn’t care about the size of your goals. If you set little goals you’ll achieve little goals; if you set big goals you can achieve big goals. And for the most part it takes just as much time, energy, and life force to achieve big goals as it does little ones. Go BIG!“

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy

“Ask yourself, ‘Why aren’t I at my goal already?’ If you want to double your income, why aren’t you earning twice as much already? If you want to spend more time with your family or friends, why aren’t you doing it already? Often, forcing yourself to develop the answers to these questions will enable you to see the critical constraint that is holding you back.” 

- From Focal Point by Brian Tracy

“David Kohl, professor emeritus at Virginia Tech University, has found that individuals who write down their goals will have nine times the success of those who don’t put their goals on paper. Yet Dr. Kohl’s research suggests that only 20 percent of our population has goals and less than 10 percent take the time to write their goals down.”  

- From Executive Toughness by Jason Selk

“There’s a vast difference between optimism and wishful thinking. One is a mind-set that expects progress through effort, and the other is nothing but a bulwark against the fear of failure. Someone who is optimistic expects the best while actively working to bring it about. Wishing externalizes responsibility and hopes that everything lines up according to plan, but doesn’t do anything to actively bring about the desired change. Someone who operates from a place of wishful thinking is—in essence—a closet pessimist.”

- From Die Empty by Todd Henry

“The universal principle is, ‘You become what you think about most of the time.’ Top people think about their goals most of the time. Especially, the most successful people think about and talk about solutions to the inevitable and unavoidable problems that they face every single day. What do unhappy, unsuccessful people think and talk about? They think and talk about their problems, and who is to blame. The rule is, ‘What you think about, you bring about.’ Whatever you dwell on grows in your reality. If you think and talk about your problems, they increase and multiply. But when you think and talk about solutions, you continuously discover more and better solutions.”

- From Master Your Time, Master Your Life by Brian Tracy

“The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.”

- From Loving What Is by Byron Katie

“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.”

- Eckhart Tolle