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Because what you think, multiplied by action plus time, will create what you get.
One of the quickest and most direct routes to getting yourself up and onto the success curve is to get out of the past. Review the past, but only for the purpose of making a better plan. Review it, understand and take responsibility for the errors you’ve made, and use it as a tool to do differently in the future.
Life is not a practice session; there’s no dress rehearsal. This is it. This is for real. So play it straight and be real with yourself. Take a look at your life and tell the truth about where you really are at.
The key is, start somewhere. Wherever you can take action and begin creating little successes, do it. Don’t wait. The rest of your life is waiting.
People who live with huge, vivid, clearly articulated dreams are pulled along toward those dreams with such force, they become practically unstoppable.
The universe is curved, and everything is constantly changing. There are only two possibilities. Either you let go of where you are and get to where you could be, or you hang onto where you are and give up where you could be.
Do the thing, and you shall have the power. The only way to have the power is to do the thing. Just do it. Learn by doing.
You’re thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure—or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that’s where you’ll find success. On the other side of failure.
Your gyroscope is your vision of where you’re going—in other words, your dream.
On the path to a goal you will be off-course most of the time. Which means the only way to reach a goal is through constant and continuous course correction. Most of your life—99.99 percent—is made up of things you do an automatic pilot. Which means it’s essential that you take charge of your automatic pilot’s training.
Look at the people around you. Are they more successful than you are? Are they people who live the kinds of lives you aspire to live, or the kinds of lives you hope to leave behind?
There are two kinds of people in the world. There are those who brighten the room the moment they enter with their positive energy and excitement for life. I call them givers. And then there are the takers, those who seem to actually dim the room with their lack of excitement and depressing outlook on life.
surround yourself with people of like mind and different talents and temperaments with the purpose of serving the goals of every member of the group. Associate with these people on a regular basis.
Form and use a mastermind: two minds are better than one, and five are even better.
Steady wins the race. That’s the truth of it. Because steady is what taps into the power of the slight edge.
Here’s the unfortunate and powerfully destructive truth of being incomplete: it keeps the past alive.
Take on any one of your “incomplete” projects, one at a time. And if even that one project seems like too huge a mountain to climb, rummage around its foothills until you find an initial step you can
Doing things won’t create your success; doing the right things will.
It’s tough to get rid of the habit you don’t want by facing it head on. The way to accomplish it is to replace the unwanted habit with another habit that you do want.
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers,
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.
Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest,
The price of neglect is much worse than the price of the discipline. In fact, no matter what price you pay for success, the price for failure is brutal by comparison.
The truth is, living a life is being an entrepreneur.
you are solely in charge of the steadily unfolding course of your life.
Show up: be the frog who jumps off the lily pad. Show up consistently: keep showing up when others fade out. Cultivate a positive outlook: see the glass as overflowing. Be committed for the long haul: remember the 10,000-hour rule. Cultivate a burning desire backed by faith: not hoping or wishing—knowing. Be willing to pay the price: sometimes you have to quit the softball team. Practice slight edge integrity: do the things you’ve committed to doing, even when no one else is watching.
For a goal to come true: You must make it specific, give it a deadline, and write it down. You must look at it every day. You must have a plan to start with.
What we can do—and need to do—is surround ourselves with our own yeses. Surround yourself with messages that tell you that your dreams are real, your dreams are real, your dreams are real. Not only are they possible: they are inevitable.
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.
Don’t try to figure out the whole race. Just figure out where to put your foot for the starting line. Just start. Take a bold step onto the path of mastery.
Start with a plan: make the plan simple. The point of the plan is not that it will get you there, but that it will get you started.
What one simple, single, easy-to-do activity can you do, day in and day out, that will have the greatest impact on your health, your happiness, your relationships, your personal development, your finances, your career, and your impact on the world?
What do I want my life to mean?
Successful people focus on having a positive outlook. They understand that the funk gets everyone, and when it comes for them they embrace it, knowing it is refining them and deepening their appreciation of the rhythm of life. They take baby steps out of the funk and step back into positivity.
