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Alignment • Being Present • Commitment • Consistency • Continuous Improvement • Eliminate Distractions • Evening Routine • Exercise • Fitness • Focus • Goal Achievement • Goals • Gratitude • Habits • Happiness • Inspiration • Integrity • Manifesting • Meditation • Mindfulness • Mindset • Mission • Morning Routine • No Multitasking • Nutrition • Optimism • Overcoming Fear • Perfectionism • Personal Growth • Personal Responsibility • Planning • Positive Attitude • Prioritization • Productivity • Purpose • Self Discipline • Systems, Routines & Structure • Taking Action • Time-Blocking • Time Management • Values • Vision • Visualization • Willpower
Authors: Brian Tracy • Craig Ballantyne • Darren Hardy • Hal Elrod • James Clear • Jim Rohn
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“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.”
- From Atomic Habits by James Clear
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“Your values and vision drive every decision.”
-Craig Ballantyne
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“We already have everything we could ever need to be the happiest we could ever be. It’s simply up to us to remember that truth in each moment. We must realize that our happiness doesn’t come from building wealth or collecting things but from being present to all that we have, all that we are, and all that we can become.“
- From The Miracle Morning for Real Estate Agents by Hal Elrod
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“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.”
-From Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
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“Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.”
- From Focal Point by Brian Tracy
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“You should be more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.”
- From Atomic Habits by James Clear
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“Compare what you say you want against what you actually do. Do they match? If not, it’s time to change and figure out what really matters. Once you do, line up your priority with the actions you need to achieve it, and then embrace the pain, pay the price, and earn the prize.”
- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne
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“No matter what it is you want to change -- your marriage, your financial situation, your weight -- you’ll never achieve lasting change until YOU change. Once YOU improve, everything else around you will improve. It’s important to understand that you don’t get in life what you want; you get in life what you are. You will only achieve the level of success in your life that equals your level of self-worth. When it comes to achieving your goals, remember that it is not your goals that need to be worked on; it is YOU. You can only have, be or do what you feel you are worthy of. The key is to raise your set point, or self worth, self-esteem, mindset, attitude, philosophy, and character. When those get raised, everything in your life will be raised with them.”
- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy
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“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right either way.”
-Henry Ford
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“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
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"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
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“First you see it, then you believe it, and then you create it. But it starts with creating your vision.”
- From The Miracle Morning for Real Estate Agents by Hal Elrod
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“The life we end up with is simply an accumulation of all the choices we make. Choices are at the root of every one of your results. Each choice starts a behavior that over time becomes a habit. In essence, you make your choices, and then your choices make you.”
- Darren Hardy
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“Success is something you attract by the person you become. For things to improve, you have to improve. For things to get better, you have to get better. For things to change, you have to change. When you change, everything changes for you.”
-Jim Rohn
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“Don’t downgrade your dream to fit your present reality. Upgrade your attitude, discipline and skills to match your destiny. We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our skills and training.”
-Jim Kwik
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“One of the most amazing things you will ever realize is that the moment in front of you is not bothering you – you are bothering yourself about the moment in front of you.”
-From Living Untethered by Michael Singer
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“Dreams + Reality + Determination = A Successful Life.”
- From Principles by Ray Dalio
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“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
- Jim Rohn
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"The myth is that there isn't enough time. There is plenty of time. There isn't enough focus with the time you have. You win by directing your attention toward better things."
- James Clear
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“To achieve something you have never achieved before you must become someone you have never been.”
-Les Brown
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“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out."
-Robert Collier
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“Set into motion the actions necessary to achieve the things you currently claim are important, yet keep being put off.”
- From Harris Rules by Tim and Julie Harris
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“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.”
-Tony Robbins
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“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
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“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. NOW is the best time to start.”
- Napoleon Hill
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“Whatever you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.”
- Goethe
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“You can dramatically improve the overall quality of your life far faster than you might think possible. All you need is the desire to change, the decision to take action, the discipline to practice the new behaviors you have chosen, and the determination to persist until you get the results you want.”
-From Focal Point by Brian Tracy
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“Your life gets better only after you get better. Your outer world improves only after you’ve invested countless hours improving yourself. Being who you need to be and doing what you need to do are prerequisites for having what you want to have. Get clear on who you need to be, are committed to being, in order to take your life, business, health, marriage, etc. to the next level and beyond. Which actions will you need to take, on a consistent basis - commit to - to make your vision for your ideal life a reality?”
-From The Miracle Morning for Real Estate Agents by Hal Elrod
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“Every time you check your email or another message service, you’re basically saying “Does any random person need my time right now?” And if you respond right away, you’re sending another signal to both them and to yourself: ‘I’ll stop what I’m doing to put other people’s priorities ahead of mine no matter who they are or what they want.’ Spelled out, this sounds insane. But instant-response insanity is our culture’s default behavior.”
- From Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky
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"The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill set that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It's just like building muscles."
- Naval Ravikant podcast
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“The people who are successful decide they are going to be successful. They make that choice. And they make other choices. They decide to study hard. They decide to work hard. They decide to be the first person to get to work and the last to go home. They decide they are going to take on the hard jobs. Take on the challenges. They decide they are going to lead when no one else will. They choose who they are going to hang around and they choose who they will emulate. They choose to become who they want to become—they aren’t inhibited by nature or nurture. They overcome both. And I will tell you something else: It is never too late to make that choice. You are never too old to decide where you are going to focus your efforts and push to make the most out of every situation. So. Think not about what you’ve been through and where you were. Think about where you are going, and choose. Choose to make yourself smarter and stronger and healthier. Choose to work out and study and eat good food and keep your mind clean. Don’t let nature or nurture make you. Choose to MAKE. YOUR. SELF.”
- From Discipline Equals Freedom by Jocko Willink
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“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
- Paulo Coelho
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"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule but to schedule your priorities."
- From The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
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“Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way towards a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.”
- From Happier by Tal Ben-Shahar
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“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
-Thomas Jefferson
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“Remember: you are what you decide you will be; you do what you decide you will do; you have what you decide you will have. Take a look at your life. All you are, all you do, and all you presently have result from the decisions you’ve made -- or not made -- in the past. To become confident, persistent, creative, successful, happy, and wealthy, you must first decide to be. The quality of your life today represents the quality of all your past decisions. Ask yourself this question: Am I happy with the present results in my life -- in my finances, health, career, relationships, social life, peace of mind, and recreation? Consciously or unconsciously, you’ve made the choices, or decisions that brought you to this place. Notice the gap between how you’re living now and how you would like to live. Decide to bridge that gap. The key to success is habitually making decisions that move you in that direction.”
- From The Winner’s Mindset by Peter Nicado
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"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."
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“Living without clear goals is like driving in a thick fog. No matter how powerful or well engineered your car, you drive slowly, hesitantly, making little progress on even the smoothest road. Deciding upon your goals clears the fog immediately and allows you to focus and channel your energies and abilities. Clear goals enable you to step on the accelerator of your own life and race ahead rapidly toward achieving more of what you really want.”
-From Goals! by Brian Tracy
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“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”
-Jim Rohn
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“We need to realize that the direction of our lives is controlled by the magnetic pull of our values. They are the force in front of us, consistently leading us to make decisions that create the direction and ultimate destination of our lives.”
- From Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins
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“...the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meeting and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.”
- W. H. Murray
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“Clarity is power.”
- Tony Robbins
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“Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
- Alexander Graham Bell
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“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.”
- W. P. Kinsella
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“One of the most important questions in goal setting is this: What do I really want to do with my life? If you could do or be or have anything at all in life, what would it be? You should return to this question over and over again in the months and years ahead.”
-From Goals! by Brian Tracy
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“To be successful, you must be willing to do the things today others won't do in order to have the things tomorrow others won't have.”
-Les Brown
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“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
- Benjamin Franklin
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“All change occurs outside your comfort zone. This is true physically, mentally, spiritually and financially. No change can occur inside your comfort zone. Push your body past the weight it is comfortable lifting and it will grow stronger. Push your self past its own comfort zone and you will grow stronger.”
-From Wealth Warrior by Steve Chandler
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“In twelve months from now, you will be one year older. But if you also want to be better, then you must accept that your life is your personal responsibility. If you want to change, it is up to YOU and you alone.”
- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne
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“Your programming leads to your thoughts; your thoughts lead to your feelings; your feelings lead to your actions; your actions lead to your results. Therefore, just as is done with a personal computer, by changing your programming, you take the first essential step to changing your results.”
-From Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker
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“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
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“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”
- From The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
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“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less of a challenge, wish for more wisdom.”
-Earl Shoaff
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“Your decisions shape your destiny. The future is what you make of it. Little, everyday decisions will either take you to the life you desire or to disaster by default. In fact, it’s the littlest decisions that shape our lives. From what you eat and where to work, to the people you spend your time with, to how you spend your afternoon, every choice shapes how you live today, but more important, how you live the rest of your life.”
- Tony Robbins
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“What’s the ONE Thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”
- From The ONE Thing by Gary Keller
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“Ask yourself: is what I’m doing today getting me closer to where I want to be tomorrow?”
- Zig Ziglar
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“Personal success is built on the foundation of character, and character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are at any given moment into who you want to be.”
- From Leading an Inspired Life by Jim Rohn
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“Gratitude is the attitude that changes everything. An attitude of gratitude adjusts your mind to focus on the positive. Thus you’ll see, discover and create more of the same, experiencing more abundance, prosperity, well-being, love, joy, and happiness.”
- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy
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“Be happy with what you have while pursuing what you want.”
- From 7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness by Jim Rohn
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“Your core values are your internal compass, your guiding beacon, your personal GPS. They act as the filter through which you run all of life’s demands, requests, and temptations, making sure they are leading you toward your intended destination. Getting your core values defined and properly calibrated is one of the most important steps in redirecting your life toward your grandest vision. If you haven’t already clearly defined your values, you may find yourself making choices that conflict with what you want. Defining your core values also helps make life simpler and more efficient. Decision-making is also easier when you are certain of your core values. When faced with a choice, ask yourself, ‘Does this align with my core values?’ If it does, do it. If not, don’t, and don’t look back. All fretting and indecisions are eliminated.”
- From The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
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“Growth doesn’t happen by accident. It’s the result of intentional effort and consistent progress. You must define how you want to grow, then establish a plan to help you get there.”
- From Die Empty by Todd Henry
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“You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. That means developing great habits. Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments, and that bridge must be crossed every day. Over time that daily crossing becomes a habit. And ultimately, people do not decide their future; they decide their habits and their habits decide their future. …”
- From 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth by John Maxwell
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“The common denominator of success – the secret of success of every person who has ever been successful – lies in the fact that he or she formed the habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do.”
-Albert E. N. Gray
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“It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful.”
- David Steindl-Rast
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“Busy is a decision. We do the things we want to do, period. If we say we are too busy, it is shorthand for “not important enough”. It means you would rather be doing something else that you consider more important. You don’t find the time to do something; you make the time to do things. Make the time to do the things you want to do and then do them.”
- Debbie Millman
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“An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.”
-Goi Nasu
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“The books you read, the actions you take, the disciplines you engage in on a daily basis, those are the activities that are taking you somewhere, and all of us need to take a look at where our daily activities are taking us.”
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“What is the one thing that you need to do now that you have put off or resisted doing? Whatever it is, do it now. By taking the actions you need to take when you need to take them, you build the discipline necessary to succeed.”
- From The Only Sales Guide You’ll Ever Need by Anthony Iannarino
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“A year from now you may wish you had started today.”
-Karen Lamb
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“You cannot pursue greatness and comfort at the same time. Commit today to stepping outside your comfort zone and set some goals to help you get there. In short, grow.”
-From Die Empty by Todd Henry
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“Growth comes when you get comfortable being uncomfortable.”
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"Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan."
- From The Path to Power by Margaret Thatcher
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"Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor."
- From The Miracle of Self-Discipline by Brian Tracy
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“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
-Earl Nightingale
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“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.”
- Eckhart Tolle
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“The first discipline is to focus your finest efforts on the one or two goals that will make all the difference, instead of giving mediocre effort to dozens of goals. Execution starts with focus.“
- From The Four Disciplines of Execution by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling
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“If a person is living a successful life, then that person simply has the habits in place that are creating and sustaining their levels of success…There is arguably no single skill that is more important for you to master than controlling your habits. You must identify, implement, and maintain the habits necessary for creating the results you want in your life, while learning how to let go of or replace any negative habits which are holding you back from achieving your true potential. Habits are behaviors that are repeated regularly and tend to occur subconsciously. Whether you realize it or not, your life has been, and will continue to be, created by your habits. If you don’t control your habits, your habits will control you.”
- From The Miracle Morning for Real Estate Agents by Hal Elrod
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"Weekly planning is the key to deliberate living."
- From Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
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“Inspiration and motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
- Jim Rohn
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“Be wary of letting random emails chip away at your productivity—life is too short to let strangers dictate what you do with your day.”
- From Unsubscribe by Jocelyn K. Glei
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“Replacing just a few key negative habits with a few positive habits can easily be the difference between being mostly unhappy and being happy almost all of the time.”
- From Superhuman by Habit by Tynan
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“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
- Peter Drucker
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“Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever done without enthusiasm.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A goal without a plan is just a wish."
- From The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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“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
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“Massive action is the key to productivity. Massive action means you take action until you get the results you want.”
- Natalie Bacon
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“20% of what we do leads to 80% of the results; but 80% of what we do leads to only 20%. We are wasting 80% of our time on low-value outcomes….calm down, work less and target a limited number of very valuable goals where the 80/20 Principle will work for us.”
- From The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch
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“You have the power to change your beliefs about yourself. Your identity is not set in stone. You have a choice in every moment. You can choose the identity you want to reinforce today with habits you choose today.” “The more you repeat a behavior, the more you reinforce the identity associated with that behavior.”
- From Atomic Habits by James Clear
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“Time is the most precious commodity we have. Therefore, how we manage it has the most profound effect on how our lives turn out. Either you run your day or your day will run you. It’s really a matter of deciding to be in charge. When you work, work; and when you play; play.”
- From 7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness by Jim Rohn
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"A well-organized week creates a well-organized life."
- From Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
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“Among the most important personal choices you can make is to accept complete responsibility for everything you are and everything you will ever be. This is the great turning point in life. The acceptance of personal responsibility is what separates the superior person from the average person. Personal responsibility is the preeminent trait of leadership and the wellspring of high performance in every person in every situation. Accepting complete responsibility for your life means that you refuse to make excuses or blame others for anything in your life that you’re not happy about. You refuse, from this moment forward, to criticize others for any reason. You refuse to complain about your situation or about what has happened in the past. You eliminate all your if-onlys and what-ifs and focus instead on what you really want and where you are going. This decision to accept complete responsibility for yourself, your life, and your results, with no excuses, is absolutely essential if you want to double your income and double your time off. From now on, no matter what happens, say to yourself, ‘I am responsible.’”
- From Focal Point by Brian Tracy
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“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
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“You have to decide that your goals are more important than push notifications. It’s that simple.”
-From The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins
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“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. If you want success in your personal and professional life, create habits that bring you closer to your goals and get rid of those that are pushing you away from them.”
- From The Winner’s Mindset by Peter Nicado
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“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
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"Plan your week, and then work your plan."
- From See You at the Top by Zig Ziglar
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“You must become the person you need to become in order to achieve the big goals and dreams that you want to achieve. You must do the right planning, take the right actions, make the right decisions, and eliminate the wrong obstacles that tempt you into wrong behaviors.”
-From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne
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“The “magic” is becoming the person you should be in order to attract the people or results you want to achieve.”
-From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy
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“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
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“Discipline is the foundation on which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure. Discipline is the master key. It unlocks the door to wealth and happiness, culture and sophistication, high self-esteem and high accomplishment, and the accompanying feelings of pride, satisfaction, and success. Even the smallest discipline can have an incredible effect on your attitude.”
- From 7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness by Jim Rohn
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“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of.”
- Benjamin Franklin
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"Invest time each week to reflect, strategize, and set your priorities for the next seven days."
- From Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy
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“Information is not inconsequential or simply benign. It consumes our attention…our precious and valuable attention. We become prosperous when we learn to fix attention on our purpose, on service-oriented activities and on useful information. Our attention will be the source of our wealth, so if we allow the poisoned, random waters of everything that poses as “news” or “edgy new entertainment” to wash in, we have nothing left to work with.”
- From Wealth Warrior by Steve Chandler
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“Gratitude is a choice. It can become a positive habit -- but only with discipline. With continued exercise, practicing gratitude will create more abundance, prosperity, well-being, and happiness than you ever thought possible. In order to create abundance you must first acknowledge and appreciate the abundance you already have.”
- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy
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“Here’s the key formula for success: a few disciplines practiced every day. Those disciplines have to be well-thought out. What should you spend your time doing? You don’t want to waste your time on things that aren’t going to matter. But a few simple disciplines can change your whole economic future. A few simple disciplines can change your future with your family, your business, your enterprise, your career. Success is a few simple habits—good habits—repeated every day…Here’s the formula for failure: errors in judgment repeated every day. All you’ve got to do is have a few errors in your judgment and repeat them every day, and I’m telling you, they’ll spin out of control in ten years.”
- Jim Rohn
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“Life consists of what a man is thinking about all day.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“We all say that we want to succeed, but sooner or later our level of activity must equal our level of intent. Talking about achievement is one thing; making it happen is something altogether different. Some people seem to take more joy in talking about success than they do in achieving it. It is as though their ritualistic chant about someday lulls them into a false sense of security, and all the things that they should be doing and could be doing on any given day never seem to get done. The consequences of this self-delusion have their own inevitable price. Sooner or later the day will arrive when they will look back with regret at all those things they could have done, and meant to do, but left undone. That is why we must push ourselves in the present to experience the milder pain of discipline. We will all experience one pain or the other—the pain of discipline or the pain of regret—but the difference is that the pain of discipline weighs only ounces while the pain of regret weighs tons.”
- Jim Rohn
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"A weekly plan is your compass for staying on track with your goals."
- From 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think by Laura Vanderkam
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“How would the superhero version of you act? Visualize that super version of you. See yourself wearing that cape and performing at a level 10 in all areas of your life. Like any goal you are striving to achieve, you need to have a clear picture of what a level 10 looks like.”
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“Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.”
- From The Enchiridion by Epictetus
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“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
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“Most people are trying to get through the day. I’ve got a better objective for you. Learn to get from the day. Not just get through it, get from it. Soak it up. Each day is a piece of the mosaic of your life. Don’t waste any! Treat it with care. See how much you can get from a day — how much advice, how much information, how much color, how much sight and sound to add to your worth and your wealth and your equity of mind.
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“Considering that our habits create our life, there is arguably no single skill that is more important for you to learn and master than controlling your habits. You must identify, implement, and maintain the habits necessary for creating the results you want in your life, while learning how to let go of any negative habits which are holding you back from achieving your true potential.”
- From The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
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"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."
- Albert Einstein
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“A constant awareness and never-ending commitment to growth and continual improvement is what will catapult you forward, enabling you to achieve what before seemed impossible goals. To achieve what you have never been able to achieve before you have to grow and improve yourself to levels beyond where you are now. Your commitment to ongoing improvement is what will get you there.”
-From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy
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“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
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“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
-Marcus Aurelius
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“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.”
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"It's hard to build momentum if you're dividing your attention."
- James Clear
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"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."
- General George S. Patton
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“Optimism enables you to confront and overcome all obstacles and challenges. It gives you the power to persist. To meet any challenge, you must first believe that you can. Every challenge successfully met begins with a vision, and that vision is driven by optimism. You get what you expect.”
-From The Only Sales Guide You’ll Ever Need by Anthony Iannarino
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“If you want to be wealthy and happy, learn this lesson well: Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. What you become is far more important than what you get. The important question to ask on the job is not “What am I getting ?” Instead, you should ask, “What am I becoming?” What you become directly influences what you get. Think of it this way: Most of what you have today, you have attracted by becoming the person you are today. Income rarely exceeds personal development. To have more than you’ve got, become more than you are. Life is all about creating skills and value and taking those skills and value to the marketplace and seeing what it will return for you.”
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“Research has proven that practicing gratitude improves our emotional and physical well-being; reduces stress, worry, fear, anxiety and the conditions closely associated with these emotions such as high blood pressure, depression, heart disease, and immune system deficiencies. Gratitude can save and prolong your life.”
- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy
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“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
- From Atomic Habits by James Clear
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“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
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"If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else."
- Yogi Berra
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“You only have one shot at leaving a legacy for your life. How you use your time and who you spend your time with are the most important decisions you’ll make in life. Choose wisely. You cannot soar with eagles if all you do is hang around turkeys. Ask the big question: What do you really want to achieve in life? Then think, are the people I’m spending time with helping me achieve this?”
- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne
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“But the true question is: ‘Are you becoming the type of person you want to become?’ The first step is not what or how, but who. You need to know who you want to be.”
- From Atomic Habits by James Clear
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“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”
- Brian Tracy
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“Happiness is not the belief that we don’t need to change; it is the realization that we can.”
- From The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor
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“You have the power to change your beliefs about yourself. Your identity is not set in stone. You have a choice in every moment. You can choose the identity you want to reinforce today with habits you choose today.”
- From Atomic Habits by James Clear
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“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
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“Working toward a meaningful life goal is one of the most important strategies for becoming lastingly happier.”
- From The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky
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“3 Keys to Living Your Perfect Life: To live your perfect life and achieve the income, impact, and lifestyle you desire you must follow only three keys. And they go like this: Build Massive Self Discipline. Without the DISCIPLINE to wake up every single day and do what must be done, you will never create the life you want. You must identify those important habits and behaviors required to bring you to the next level and achieve your goals...and then DO those things. Create the structure and rituals you need to make success automatic and achieve the goals you’ve set. ELIMINATE Self-Sabotage. No matter how hard working or disciplined you are, you can’t achieve the income or the life you deserve without first ELIMINATING those self-sabotaging patterns and behaviors that are holding you back. You can do EVERYTHING right. But if you undermine your progress with procrastination, apathy, distraction, or addiction, you’ll never reach the potential of which you’re capable. Eliminate self-sabotage and it’ll be like putting nitrous in your success engine. You’ll move so much faster and achieve those big goals and dreams that much sooner. Commit to Becoming 1% Better Everyday. Every day, try to be just 1% better than you were the day before. Commit to what Tony Robbins calls “Constant and Never Ending Improvement”. Success rarely happens in huge leaps. It happens one day, one hour, and one percent at a time. So commit to improving yourself just 1% a day. Commit to becoming 1% kinder, more knowledgeable, more skilled, more disciplined, more persistent, and more caring. If you will do this over a long enough timeline...You WILL achieve your perfect life.”
- Craig Ballantyne, Instagram
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“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
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“You want to know what your life will look like a year from now? Listen to what you’re saying when you talk to yourself. Your self-talk determines your future.”
-From Relentless Optimism by Darrin Donnelly
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“We can ALL become a “genius” and reach mastery in any area of our life, if we commit to a process of deliberate and purposeful improvement. Deliberate improvement requires a mindset of never, ever, being satisfied with your current ability. It requires a constant self-critique, a capacity for daily disappointment and failure and a never-ending resolve to dust oneself off and to try again and again and again.”
-From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy
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“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
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“You must say ‘No’ to unexpected opportunities in order to say ‘Yes’ to your priorities.”
- From Unsubscribe by Jocelyn K. Glei
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“Productivity can be boiled down to one word - FOCUS. There are two types of focus you need to master productivity. First the ability to manage distractions so that you can focus moment-to-moment on the task at hand, and second, the skill of focusing on what’s truly important to you in the big picture, so you don’t waste your day on stupid stuff.”
- From The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins
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“Positive thinking leads to positive outcomes. Study after study proves this. Researchers have found that optimistic people live longer, live healthier, have more energy, have more successful careers, make better decisions, are more productive, are less stressed, have healthier relationships, and (not surprisingly) are much happier than pessimists.”
-From Relentless Optimism by Darrin Donnelly
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“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!”
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“Imagine for a moment that you will have a guest accompanying you throughout your day tomorrow. This person’s task will be to follow you around from the moment you wake up until the moment you fall asleep. They will take copious notes about your schedule, how you interact with your family and friends, how you engage in your tasks and projects, and your mind-set through it all. Once the day is over, this person will spend the next few days processing their observations, draw conclusions about your motivations, and compile their notes into a book about you that will stand as the definitive record of your life and work. How would you act differently tomorrow if you knew that your actions and attitude on that one day were going to be a permanent testament to your life? If you’re like many people to whom I’ve posted this question, you would probably get up a little earlier, pay extra attention to your family and the barista at Starbucks, be fully vested in every meeting, be meticulous in every task, call up an old friend for lunch, reconcile with an alienated colleague, and generally wrap up loose ends. Next I ask, ‘How does your imagined behavior compare with how you are actually living your life today?’”
- From Die Empty by Todd Henry
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"Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning."
- Thomas Edison
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“What kind of person will you have to become to get all you want? Write down the kinds of skills you’ll need to develop and the knowledge you’ll need to gain. The answers will give you some new goals for personal development. What you become is far more important than what you get. Most of what you have today, you have attracted by becoming the person you are today. Here’s the great axiom of life: to have more than you’ve got, become more than you are. Remember this rule: Income rarely exceeds personal development. You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better. ”
-From 7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness by Jim Rohn
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“If you want to become mentally fit -- positive, poised, and centered -- decide to monitor the messages coming into your conscious mind so they’re consistent with the ideal life you want to live. Consider the TV you watch, the books you read, the people with whom you associate. Do they drag you down, or do they support your vision?”
- From The Winner’s Mindset by Peter Nicado
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“Your level of optimism is the very best predictor of how happy, healthy, wealthy, and long-lived you will be. The more optimistic and positive you are, the more energy and enthusiasm you will have. Your immune system will be stronger and more resistant to disease and infection. You will seldom be sick. You will get along with less sleep, and you will have more mental and physical energy throughout the day.”
-From Focal Point by Brian Tracy
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“There is no value in worrying, being anxious, or wasting energy thinking about all the things we cannot influence. It does not serve you. We can’t control whether someone else is wealthier, prettier, or happier than we are. But we can control how we act and, crucially, how we choose to spend our days. The good news is that you have a lot more control over your life—and happiness—than you might think.”
-From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne
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“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.”
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“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?”
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“If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.”
- From Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
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“You can control what time you wake up, what habits you start the day with, what temptations enter your life, and what systems you have in place for dealing with those. You can control your belief in yourself. You can take more control over your schedule and energy than you might believe right now. And most importantly, you can control your morning, and in doing so, win your day.”
- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne
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“The people who achieve extraordinary results don’t achieve them by working more hours. They achieve them by getting more done in the hours they work.”
- From The ONE Thing by Gary Keller
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“How you wake up each day and your morning routine (or lack thereof) dramatically affects your levels of success in every single area of your life. Focused, productive, successful mornings generate focused, productive, successful days -- which inevitably create a successful life -- in the same way that unfocused, unproductive, and mediocre mornings generate unfocused, unproductive, and mediocre days, and ultimately a mediocre quality of life. By simply changing the way you wake up in the morning, you can transform any area of your life, faster than you ever thought possible.”
- From The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
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"A consistent morning routine is the key to unlocking your full potential."
- From Atomic Habits by James Clear
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“Self-image is essentially how you view yourself—what strengths and weaknesses you believe you possess and what you believe you are capable of achieving…The self-image governs how successful any individual becomes because it motivates and shapes work ethic and effort. In this way, self-image is like a thermostat. If you set the thermostat at 72 degrees Fahrenheit and the room drops to 71 degrees, the thermostat then sends a message to the heater to get to work. Warm air rushes into the room, and the room warms up to 72 degrees. When the room reaches 73 degrees, the thermostat tells the heater to stop working. All day long, the thermostat governs the temperature in the room and won’t allow the room temperature to rise or drop from the desired temperature for long. Human beings are the same way: we neither outperform nor underperform our self-image for long. That’s why it is so important to set your self-image gauge high enough to achieve your life goals. Set your self-image gauge too low, and by definition, you’ll underachieve, because your mind won’t call for the motivation to achieve more…CREATE YOUR VISION OF SELF-IMAGE: Take 30 seconds every day to visualize who you want to be and how you want life to turn out, and dramatically increase the likelihood of achieving your win.”
- From Executive Toughness by Jason Selk
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“Habits are like financial capital -- forming one today is an investment that will automatically give out returns for years to come.”
- From The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor
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“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
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"Ending your day with planning sets you up for a purposeful and productive tomorrow."
- From High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way by Brendon Burchard
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“The influence of those around us is so powerful, so subtle, so gradual that often we don’t even realize how it can affect us. Ask yourself this one final question: ‘Are my present associations helping me grow in the direction I have chosen through goal-setting?’ It’s easy to remain mediocre. All you need to do is spend major time on minor things with minor people.”
-From 7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness by Jim Rohn
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“You become what you do on a daily basis. You don’t rise to the occasion, you sink to the levels of training and habits.”
- From The 10 Pillars of Mental Performance Mastery by Brian Cain
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“Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself. You’ll rise together.”
- From Atomic Habits by James Clear
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“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
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“Time management is really life management, personal management, management of yourself. People who value themselves highly allocate their time carefully. They give their time usage a lot of thought. When you love your life, you love every minute of it. You are very careful about misusing or wasting any of the precious minutes and hours of each day.”
- From Focal Point by Brian Tracy
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“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Success requires us to do the first things first. Choose to use your time wisely. Figure out what really matters to you and then use the rest of the steps to build habits that allow you to focus your time on it.”
- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne
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“The average person lives a reactive life. They get up. They fight to make it to work on time. That’s the extent of their planning. They haven’t looked any further ahead. They figure that when they get to work, then they’ll figure out something to do, or worse, a way to simply get through the day. They wait to be told what to do or react to whatever emergencies are thrown their way.”
- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne
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“The good thing about principles is that they make life easy. I have heard it said that when someone bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.”
- From The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey
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"Structure and routine are essential for productivity and success. They create a framework that allows you to focus and thrive."
- From Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time by Brian Tracy
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“Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. The same way that money multiplies through compound interest, the effects of your habits multiply as you repeat them. They seem to make little difference on any given day and yet the impact they deliver over the months and years can be enormous. It is only when looking back two, five, or perhaps ten years later that the value of good habits and the cost of bad ones becomes strikingly apparent.”
- From Atomic Habits by James Clear
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“Your success starts in the morning. Plan your day. Get up early. Work on your number one priority in life before anything else. Add more structure to your day and you will have more freedom in your life for your family, friends, and hobbies.”
- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne
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“One of the most profound benefits of organizing your life into daily routines is that it’s much easier to reach your goals. Because when you predetermine which routines will enable you to reach your goals, success is as simple as doing things at the same times each day.”
- Hal Elrod
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“Making a choice that is 1 percent better or 1 percent worse seems insignificant in the moment, but over the span of moments that make up a lifetime these choices determine the difference between who you are and who you could be. Success is the product of daily habits- -not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.”
- From Atomic Habits by James Clear
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“Success has always gone to those who could apply their talents in a single-minded manner over an extended period of time to achieve a given outcome.”
- From Unsubscribe by Jocelyn K. Glei
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“20% of what we do leads to 80% of the results; but 80% of what we do leads to only 20%. We are wasting 80% of our time on low-value outcomes.”
- From The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch
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“You have a finite amount of focus, time, and energy to offer the world, and it can never be reclaimed once it’s spent. There’s no use in wasting your time lamenting the past, because you cannot change or control it. Rather, I urge you to focus on what’s next. Ultimately, your life will be measured by what you gave, not what you received. Don’t hold out on the rest of us—we need you to contribute. Spend your life building a body of work you will be proud of. Engage today with urgency and diligence. Plant seeds every day that will yield a harvest later. Tomorrow is only an unfulfilled wish, so live and work as if today is all you have. If you do, you will be able to lay your head down each night satisfied with your work, and in the end, you will die empty of regret, but full of satisfaction for a life well lived.”
- From Die Empty by Todd Henry
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“Decide how the person you want to become would act and then act that way.”
-Tom Bilyeu
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“Here’s one way to approach it: Push the ultimate desired outcome off into an unknowable future horizon then break the big goal down into smaller chunks. Identify THE next most important little domino that needs to get knocked over. Set a challenging but realistic target for THAT goal, then figure out the PROCESS you need to engage in on a daily basis to hit that goal and voila! You’re an instant success as you show up and take the next baby step, remembering to celebrate the small wins as you create a feeling of continuous achievement. Remember: We want that inspiring, jumbo-huge goal to serve as a RUDDER pointing us in the right direction as we practice staying fully engaged in one moment after the other. That’s much better than using our unrealistic goal as a measuring stick that depletes our energy as we worry about why we’re not already at our goal.”
- Brian Johnson, Heroic.us
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“To enjoy the kind of experience you want rather than enduring the kind that you feel stuck with, you have to take charge of your attention. Far more than you may realize, your experience, your world, and even your self are the creations of what you focus on. From distressing sights to soothing sounds, protean thoughts to roiling emotions, the targets of your attention are the building blocks of your life.”
- From Rapt by Winifred Gallagher
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“Every minute you spend in planning will save you as many as ten minutes in execution. It takes only 10-12 minutes for you to plan your entire day. But you will get back two hours of productive time, 120 minutes, just by planning your work before you begin. That is more than a 1,000 percent return on energy.”
- From Focal Point by Brian Tracy
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“Research shows that beginning your day with a victory puts you in a positive mood. This morning momentum leads to more victories and continued progress throughout the day. You also win your health battles early in the morning. Making time to exercise and choosing the right foods for the first meal of the day will help you make better decisions all day long. The right decisions will give you more energy so that you will be more productive, mentally sharp, and free from fatigue—and even pain—all day long. Your first victory sets the proverbial ball rolling. This first win is also the biggest win and one that no one can take away from you. That’s why you must start early and control your morning, so that (barring external emergencies) your day will go exactly as planned.”
- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne
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“The key to becoming world-class in your endeavors is to build your performance around world-class routines. It can be difficult, even futile, to predict or control what will show up in the middle of your workday. But you can almost always control how your day starts and ends.”
- From The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
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"Live the Pareto Principle lifestyle: Relationships. Who are the few people that have the most positive impact on my life? Spend more time with them. Priorities. What are the few actions that have the most positive impact on my day? Prioritize them. Learning. What are the few information sources I learn the most from? Focus on them. Stress. What are the few sources that cause most of the stress and friction in my life? Eliminate them."
- James Clear
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“Scientists are finding that even on the days when you don’t feel like you have anything to be thankful for, just asking the question ‘What am I grateful for?’ is enough to change the chemistry of your brain. This simple practice trains you to look for everything that is going right in your life so you can start to more effectively water the flowers and not the weeds.” “The more you stimulate the neural pathways through practicing gratitude, the stronger and more automatic they become.”
- From Stress Less, Accomplish More by Emily Fletcher
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“Some of our best intentions fail because we don’t have a system of execution. When it comes down to it, your new attitudes and behaviors must be incorporated into your monthly, weekly, and daily routines to affect any real, positive change. A routine is something you do every day without fail, so that eventually, like brushing your teeth or putting on your seatbelt, you do it without conscious thought. These routines ease life’s stresses by making our actions automatic and effective. To reach new goals and develop new habits, it’s necessary to create new routines to support your objective. The greater the challenge, the more rigorous our routines need to be….A daily routine built on good habits and disciplines separates the most successful among us from everyone else.”
- From The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
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“Creating a daily schedule and a consistent routine is a surefire way to go from unmotivated to motivated and aimless to amazing. It holds you accountable to yourself. It keeps your day from being upended by passing feelings, cravings, and wants.”
- From 10 Rules for Resilience by Joe De Sena
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“Whether at work or at home, the quality of your attention determines the quality of your life. At work, the more attention you give to what’s in front of you, the more productive you become. At home, the more attention you devote to what’s in front of you, the more meaningful your life becomes.”
- From Hyperfocus by Chris Bailey
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“Founders of wildly successful businesses are, almost always, among the most disciplined people you’ll ever meet. There is no “gene” for this. Discipline is not something you inherit from your parents. What separates top performers from everyone else… is they choose to design their lives in such a way that following through on their goals becomes automatic. They install habits, routines, and systems which allow them to execute consistently with minimal friction.”
- From Craig Ballantyne email
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“You don’t just owe it to yourself to be an optimist; you owe it to everyone around you. A pessimist sucks the energy out of the room. Nobody wants to put up with somebody who’s bitter and cynical all of the time. Not your friends, not your teammates, not your boss, and certainly not your spouse.”
-From Relentless Optimism by Darrin Donnelly
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“The top 3 percent have clear, written goals and plans that they work on every day. They know exactly who they are, what they want, and where they are going. They have a blueprint, a road map, that guides them faster and with ever-greater accuracy toward achieving the health, happiness, wealth, and prosperity that most people strive for all of their lives. As a result of having clear, written goals, they waste far less time than the average person. People with written goals and plans earn and accumulate, on average, ten times as much as other people with the same levels of intelligence and education…Setting goals, making plans, and organizing your life around the things you really want to do and have are the greatest time management tools of all.”
- From Master Your Time, Master Your Life by Brian Tracy
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“Aim to reduce the variability of your behavior day to day. View every choice you make as a commitment to all future choices. So instead of asking, “Do I want to eat this candy bar now?” ask yourself, “Do I want the consequences of eating a candy bar every afternoon for the next year?” Or if you’ve been putting something off that you know you should do, instead of asking “Would I rather do this today or tomorrow?” ask yourself, “Do I really want the consequences of always putting this off?””
-From The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal
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"By setting boundaries with technology and disconnecting at the end of the workday, we give ourselves the gift of uninterrupted presence and the chance to connect deeply with our loved ones."
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“Go on a Negativity Fast. For the next thirty days, do not watch, listen to, or read the news. Avoid negative and sensationalized media. Ignore all gossip about misbehaving reality stars and their ilk; there is nothing positive there. Avoid all negative people whenever possible. Refuse to say anything negative or engage in conversation with a negative slant. Think only positive thoughts. Optimistic thoughts lead to optimistic action, while pessimistic thoughts lead to self-defeating action or none at all. You can choose your own thoughts and replace those that don’t serve your purpose.”
- From The Only Sales Guide You’ll Ever Need by Anthony Iannarino
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“To simplify your life, zero-based thinking is one of the most powerful strategies you can learn and apply on a regular basis. Here’s how it works. Ask yourself, ‘Is there anything I am doing right now that, knowing what I now know, I wouldn’t get into again if I were starting over today?’”
- From Focal Point by Brian Tracy
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“High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus). To produce at your peak level you need to work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from distraction.”
- From Deep Work by Cal Newport
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“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
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“Early morning is the most critical time of each day. How you spend the beginning hours of your day sets the stage for the remaining hours. If you purposefully establish a routine for spending your early morning as you want to, you will have taken a giant step toward spending the rest of your life the way you want to. How we spend our mornings is the litmus test for our degree of self-mastery. Do we wake up with a plan for the day or are we scrambling, wasting time figuring out what we must do? If we have a plan for the day, do we consistently follow it? Do we follow a purposefully predetermined, set routine which makes us more efficient and productive, and allows more time to think and relax? Or do we haphazardly scramble to get ready and out the door to make it to work just in time? Our mornings expose the power of our routines. Whether our routines are made up of good habits or bad habits is most evident in how we spend our early morning hours. If we are to get the most out of life and come closer to reaching our potential, it’s crucial that we establish good morning habits that allow us to more effectively utilize our early morning hours.”
- From The Power of Habit by Jack D. Hodge
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“When you switch from Task A to Task B, your attention doesn’t immediately follow – a residue of your attention remains stuck thinking about the original task. People experiencing attention residue after switching tasks are likely to demonstrate poor performance on that next task.” So even if you don’t try to multi-task and focus on just one thing at a time, each time you switch to a new task you are getting sub-optimal performance on the new task.”
- From Deep Work by Cal Newport
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“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
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“In fact, a 2014 study titled ‘The iPhone Effect’ shows how the mere presence of a smartphone can ruin a conversation. In an experiment with 200 participants, researchers found that simply placing a mobile communication device on the table or having participants hold it in their hand was a detriment to their conversations. Any time the phone was visible, the quality of the conversation was rated as less fulfilling when compared with conversations that took place in the absence of mobile devices. People reported having higher levels of empathetic concern when phones were not visible.”
- From Are You Fully Charged? by Tom Rath
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“Imagine the following: You buy a ticket to an NBA game… let’s say a Lakers game at Staples Center. You fight traffic, land a $40 parking spot, grab some snacks and drinks, and finally get to your seat. The game starts, and you look up in the rafters, and the scoreboard is… missing! There’s nothing there. The players are dribbling, passing and shooting, but no one’s keeping score. After some arbitrary amount of time, they decide to stop playing, and everyone goes home. Tell me… Would that be the same experience as attending a game where the teams are battling for every important point as the clock counts down to the final buzzer? No, of course not! If you take away the scoreboard and the clock, all the drama, tension, urgency, and excitement vanishes as well. So here’s my question to you: Are you playing your game with or without a scoreboard? Track & Measure Everything!”
- From TomFerry.com, Tom Ferry
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"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."
- From Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin
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“My favorite word in goal setting, and in success in general, is ‘clarity.’ There is a direct relationship between the level of clarity you have about who you are and what you want and virtually everything you accomplish in life. Successful men and women invest the time necessary to develop absolute clarity about themselves and what they really want, like designing a detailed blueprint for a building before they begin construction.”
-From Goals! by Brian Tracy
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“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
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“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”
- Jim Rohn
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"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
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"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
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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
- Aristotle
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"Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change."
- Wayne Dyer
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"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
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"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
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"Misery might love company, but so does joy. And joy throws much better parties."
- Bill Ivey
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"People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us."
- Albert Ellis
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"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
- Albert Einstein
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“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”
- T. S. Eliot
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“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.”
- From Wooden on Leadership by John Wooden
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“Action beats Anxiety. Motion beats Meditation. Work beats Worry. Success Loves Speed.”
- Craig Ballantyne
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“Every one of us is the sum total of all of our thoughts.”
- Earl Nightingale
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“Never be satisfied. Work consistently to improve. Perfection is a goal that can never be reached, but it must be the objective. The uphill climb is slow, but the downhill road is fast.”
- From Wooden on Leadership by John Wooden
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“Passion gives you superhuman strength and unlimited energy.”
- Gino Wickman
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“The easiest way for us to gain happiness is to learn how to want the things we already have.”
- William B. Irvine
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“Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.”
- Anais Nin
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“You can do nothing about yesterday, and the only way to improve tomorrow is by what you do right now.”
- From Wooden on Leadership by John Wooden
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“You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”
- Zig Ziglar
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“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“When climbing a mountain, define each step in the right direction as success. Many small successes add up.”
- Dan Millman
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“If you talk about it, it’s a dream, if you envision it, it’s possible, but if you schedule it, it’s real.”
- Tony Robbins
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“Things turn out best for those who make the best of how things turn out.”
- From Wooden on Leadership by John Wooden
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“We cannot start over, but we can begin now and make a new ending.”
- Zig Ziglar
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“To do great things, you must do fewer things.”
- Sharran Srivatsaa
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“If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.”
- Rob Dial, The Mindset Mentor Podcast
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“Every adversity is an opportunity for us to learn, grow, and become better than we’ve ever been before.”
- Hal Elrod
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“Questions control what you focus on. What you focus on is what you feel. What you feel is what you experience of life.”
- Tony Robbins
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“Courage is contagious.”
- Craig Ballantyne
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“The true test of a person’s character is what they do when no one is watching.”
- John Wooden
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“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
- Napoleon Hill
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“He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.”
- Socrates
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"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
- Warren Buffett
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“Progress equals happiness.”
- Tony Robbins
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“Perspective shapes reality.”
- Darren Hardy
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“Control what you can, cope with what you can’t, and concentrate on what really matters in your life.”
- Craig Ballantyne
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“Your current circumstances in your life are the lagging results of your habits, of your character traits, of your behaviors. All of the things that you did at one point of time in your life.”
- Rob Dial, The Mindset Mentor Podcast
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“Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The quality of your life will always be equal to the difference between your positive habits and negative habits.”
- Craig Ballantyne
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“If you're in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%."
- Warren Buffett
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“Who are you when no one is looking? You need to act like you have a camera on you 24 hours a day.”
- Craig Ballantyne
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“If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus; and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”
- Bruce Lee
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"When you choose your friends today, you are choosing your habits tomorrow."
- James Clear
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“You get and continue to receive in life what you tolerate. The world will form around the standards that you keep in your life.”
- Darren Hardy
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“Either you control your brain or others will do it for you.”
- David Perlmutter MD
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“Find the beauty and joy in your daily rituals and you will find beauty and joy in your daily life. To love your habits is to love your days, and to love your days is to love your life."
- James Clear
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“The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.”
- Richard Branson
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“What's the one action that moves the needle more than 100 other actions? What's the one choice that renders 1000 other choices irrelevant?”
- James Clear
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“Success begins with figuring out what you want, then making the choices that will get you there.”
- Shellye Archambeau
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“The quality of the ideas and people you expose yourself to on a consistent basis…will dictate the degree to which you succeed, and therefore the quality of your life.”
- Craig Ballantyne
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“Your life is the product of your moment-to-moment choices.”
- Darren Hardy
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“We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.”
- Henry David Thoreau
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“The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.”
- Gandhi
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“Fear is keeping you from reaching your potential. Conquering fear should be your primary goal in life.”
- Stan Beecham
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“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
- Theodore Roosevelt
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“Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”
- Albert Einstein
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“Your fears hold you back from living the life you were born to live. If you’re ever going to achieve success, happiness, and peace of mind, you must first defeat your fears.”
- Darrin Donnelly
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“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
- Marcus Aurelius
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“Does your calendar reflect your values? To be the person you want to be, you have to make time to live your values.”
- Nir Eyal
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“Fear is your real opponent. …It’s all about fear. If you kill fear, you win. If you kill fear, you have your best year ever.”
- Stan Beecham
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"Everything is hard before it’s easy."
- Goethe
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“Are you willing to sacrifice who you are for who you could be?”
- From The Power of One More by Ed Mylett
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“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
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“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
- Charles Darwin
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“You will never outperform your inner circle.”
- John Wooden
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“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.”
- Benjamin Franklin
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“If you plant the wrong things, you'll harvest the wrong results.”
- From The Power of One More by Ed Mylett
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“We do not quit playing because we grow old. We grow old because we quit playing.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right.”
- Confucius
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“We can’t control the fact that we will die. But we can control whether we actually live.”
- From The Power of Fun by Catherine Price
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“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
- Abraham Lincoln
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“When you're in the habit of keeping promises you make with yourself, you're on the pathway to self‐confidence.”
- From The Power of One More by Ed Mylett
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“Now is the most important time in your life, because it’s the choices you make today that are determining who you’re becoming.”
- From The Miracle Morning for Real Estate Agents by Hal Elrod
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“In order to be happy, we need to find both meaning and pleasure - to have both a sense of purpose and the experience of positive emotions.”
- From Happier by Tal Ben-Shahar
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“Your experience of being alive consists of nothing other than the sum of everything to which you pay attention.”
- From Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
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"Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds."
- From Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
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“When you act and do the same things as everyone else, you'll get the same results as everyone else.”
- From The Power of One More by Ed Mylett
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“What would happen if babies never tried to walk because they were too worried about falling down?”
- From The Power of Fun by Catherine Price
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“Happiness is not merely contingent on what we do or where we are but on what we choose to perceive.”
- From Happier by Tal Ben-Shahar
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“Who you’re becoming will always determine both the direction and the quality of your life.”
- From The Miracle Morning for Real Estate Agents by Hal Elrod
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“When you pay attention to something you don’t especially value, it’s not an exaggeration to say that you’re paying with your life.”
- From Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
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“One of the strange things about human beings is that they value only that which has a price.”
- From Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
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“The past is gone forever, but until you let go of it, the past is a thief and steals your ability to dream and imagine.”
- From The Power of One More by Ed Mylett
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“We all must suffer one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. What we suggest to everybody is to consider the disciplines because disciplines weigh ounces; regrets weigh tons.”
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“The world without reflects the circumstances and the conditions of the consciousness within.”
- From The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
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“We all will create habits in either direction in life. The establishment of our habits is inevitable. We are the ultimate arbiters of what those habits will be. First, we will create our habits, and then our habits will create us.”
- From Success Habits For Dummies by Dirk Zeller
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“We become what we think about.”
- From The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale
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“Like it or not, you are the sum of your relationships, and you are judged for it. Your relationships are a big part of how the world sees you. That can either work in your favor or against you.”
- From The Power of One More by Ed Mylett
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“Your fears hold you back from living the life you were born to live. If you’re ever going to achieve success, happiness, and peace of mind, you must first defeat your fears.”
- Darrin Donnelly
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“The more attention you pay to the delights in your life, the more delights will reveal themselves to you. It’s almost like tuning in to a frequency on a radio dial.”
- From The Power of Fun by Catherine Price
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"You must wake up and decide that each day is the most important day of your life, and then live it like your life depends on it… because it does.”
- From The Miracle Morning for Real Estate Agents by Hal Elrod
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“Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT!”
- From Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
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“Either you run the day or it runs you.”
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“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
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“Our lives are what we pay attention to.”
- From The Power of Fun by Catherine Price
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“We set goals to become the person we need to become to accomplish the goal.”
- From Success Habits For Dummies by Dirk Zeller
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“Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can grow only as long as we are interested.”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Our quality of life is created by the quality of our habits.”
- From The Miracle Morning for Real Estate Agents by Hal Elrod
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“It’s not the hours you put in; it’s what you put in the hours that count.”
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“Those who talk too much do little else.”
- From Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
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“Better questions lead to better answers. Better answers lead to a better life.”
- From The Power of One More by Ed Mylett
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“Here's a big one on time management. When you work, work. When you play, play. Don’t mix the two.”
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“Thought concentrated on a definite purpose becomes power.”
- From The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
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“Always, always, always, always, always do what you are afraid to do.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Goals are all about change. That's why your goals need to challenge you. If they aren't challenging, then they won't change you.”
- From The Power of One More by Ed Mylett
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“Will-power and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.”
- From Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
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“Success is the pursuit of living out your goals in each category of life that is important to you.”
- From Success Habits For Dummies by Dirk Zeller
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“We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, and grow more.”
- Jocelyn Glei
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“To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.”
- Epictetus
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“You'll never produce a result greater than what you think you are worthy of.”
- From The Power of One More by Ed Mylett
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“The mind is a creature of habit. It thrives upon the dominating thoughts fed it.”
- From Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
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“Success is created through consistency turned into repetition.”
- From Success Habits For Dummies by Dirk Zeller
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“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
- Marcus Aurelius
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“The only way to make your present better is by making your future bigger.”
- From Who Not How by Dan Sullivan
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“Show me your habits, and I’ll show you your life.”
- From The Power of One More by Ed Mylett
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“It is our attitude of mind toward life which determines the experiences with which we are to meet; if we expect nothing, we shall have nothing; if we demand much, we shall receive the greater portion.”
- From The Master Key System by Charles Haanel
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“Convenience and greatness cannot co‐exist. They are diametrically opposed forces.”
- From The Power of One More by Ed Mylett
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“The more good you do, the more good you get.”
- From What's in It for Them? by Joe Polish
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“One moment of courage can change your day. One day can change your life. And one life can change the world.”
- From The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins
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“Success is simple once you accept how hard it is.”
- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne
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“The truth is, we don’t see what is there. We see what we are prepared to see, what we are conditioned to see.”
- From The Answer by John Assaraf and Murray Smith
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“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
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"You can have anything you want as long as you understand what it is and find or create a recipe to get it.”
- From Success Habits For Dummies by Dirk Zeller
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“What you believe about yourself and your world is the primary determinant of what you do and, ultimately, how well you do it.”
- From Elite Minds by Stan Beecham
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“You get in life what you tolerate.”
- From Who Not How by Dan Sullivan
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“You must be willing to match your level of desire with the same level of action and commitment to success.”
- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne
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“Thought is the most powerful force in the universe. Our thoughts are the controlling factor in what we manifest and create in our lives.”
- From The Answer by John Assaraf and Murray Smith
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“Success is simply solving problems.”
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“Discover your courage, and you will be capable of accomplishing and experiencing anything you dream about.”
- From The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins
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“If you have enough money to solve a problem then you don’t have a problem.”
- From Who Not How by Dan Sullivan
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“Self-discipline is the magic habit of successful people.”
- From Success Habits For Dummies by Dirk Zeller
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“Every wasteful activity in life robs you of moments you could spend focusing on your family, friends, and health.”
- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne
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“In order to solve any problem or achieve any dream, we must first make a change at the level of belief. Because when you change a belief, you change everything.”
- From Everything is Figureoutable by Marie Forleo
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“Success is attracted to you because of the person you become.”
- From Success Habits For Dummies by Dirk Zeller
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“We remain young to the degree that our ambitions are greater than our memories.”
- From Who Not How by Dan Sullivan
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“Your attitude in life will determine your altitude in life.”
- Zig Ziglar
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“If you want to be productive and successful, you can’t let your worst behaviors become your habits.”
- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne
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“Disciplined activity is the most demanding of arts to take you where you want to go.”
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“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or worthy ideal.”
- Earl Nightingale
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“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
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“The great truth in life throughout history is this: People with goals succeed and people without goals then fail.”
- From Success Habits For Dummies by Dirk Zeller