“To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you.”

- Jim Rohn

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us."

- Albert Ellis

"Misery might love company, but so does joy. And joy throws much better parties."

- Bill Ivey

"There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly live."

- Dalai Lama XIV

"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known."

- Garrison Keillor

"Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change."

- Wayne Dyer

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

- Aristotle

"The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

- William Jennings Bryan

"The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same."

- Carlos Castaneda

“Make sure that you have a clear goal in mind and prioritize your actions around achieving the goal. What do I need to be doing more of? What do I need to be doing less of? What habits do I need to start? What is one habit you could start tomorrow that would improve how you performed in your personal and your professional life? What habits do I need to stop?”

- From Tom Ferry: Mindset, Model, and Marketing

“Listen, your Perfect Week doesn’t begin Monday morning when your alarm goes off. It doesn’t even begin on Sunday night when you’re planning for the following day. It begins about 60-minutes after you wake up on Sunday morning. By blocking off the first 30-60 minutes of every Sunday and planning your week, either by yourself or with your spouse, you begin your week from a place of power and clarity. Your discipline, intention, and willpower are as high as they’re going to be all week and you are using this to your advantage by carefully crafting exactly how you want your week to unfold. By doing this in the morning, you’ll no longer stress about having to prepare for your week on Sunday evening after the kids have been put to bed and you’re exhausted from a busy weekend. You won’t forget to do it or decide that there are other more important priorities (like the GOT finale). When you implement a beautiful planning session, you’ll wake up every Monday morning knowing exactly what to do to dominate your days--and have a perfect week.”

- From The Perfect Week Formula by Craig Ballantyne

“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

"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."

- General George S. Patton

"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."

- Albert Einstein

"I tell this story to illustrate the truth of the statement I heard long ago in the Army: Plans are worthless, but planning is everything."

- President Dwight D. Eisenhower

"A goal without a plan is just a wish."

- From The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry