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Live your life in such a way that when you die the world cries while you rejoice.
One of the lessons I have learned in my own life is that if you don’t act on life, life has a habit of acting on you.
Mahatma Gandhi noted: “Be the change that you wish to see most in your world.” And once you do, your life will change.
A meaningful life is made up of a series of daily acts of decency and kindness, which, ironically, add up to something truly great over the course of a lifetime.
Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.
The golden thread of a highly successful and meaningful life is self-discipline. Discipline allows you to do all those things you know in your heart you should do but never feel like doing. Without self-discipline, you will not set clear goals, manage your time
effectively, treat people well, persist through the tough times, care for your health or think positive thoughts.
the tougher you are on yourself, the easier life will be on you. The quality of your life ultimately is shaped by the quality
of your choices and decisions, ones that range from the career you choose to pursue to the books you read, the time that you wake up every morning and the thoughts you think during the hours of your days. When you consistently flex your willpower by making those choices that you
know are the right ones (rather than the easy ones), you take back ...
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“The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do,”
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.”
Maintaining a daily journal is one of the best personal growth initiatives you will ever take.
In addition, it provides a central place where you can record your insights on important issues, note key success strategies that have worked for you and commit to all those things you
know are important to achieve for a high-quality professional, personal and spiritual life.
A journal is not a diary. A diary is a place where you record events while a journal is a place
where you analyze
Keeping a journal encourages you to consider what you do, why you do it and what you have lea...
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Remember, if your life is worth thinking about, it is worth writing about.
becomes a habit when we practice it long enough.
As Mother Teresa said, “there should be less talk;
Every second you dwell on the past you steal from your future. Every minute you spend focusing on your problems you take away from finding your solutions.
Life’s greatest setbacks reveal life’s biggest opportunities.
If you have suffered more than your fair share of difficulties
in life, perhaps you are being prepared to serve some greater purpose that will require you to be equipped with the wisdom you have acquired through your trials.
And understand that if you have failed more than others, there is a very good chance you are living more completely than others.
“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
I call the first thirty minutes after you wake up “The Platinum 30” since they are truly the most valuable moments of your day and have a profound influence on the quality of
