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The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have, or do.
You can have success or excuses, but you can’t have them both.
If you believe your limits, your life will be very limited.
A belief is a sense of being certain; what you believe, you become.
Every single thought we have is creative: Each one has the power to build and the power to destroy.
remember that 80 percent of changing anything is about why you want to change and only 20 percent is about how you do it.
“Do not tolerate for a minute the idea that you are prohibited from any achievement by the absence of inborn talent or ability. This is a lie of the grandest order, an excuse of the saddest kind.”
Consider living without your memory for one week. You wouldn’t be able to do anything.
“If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.”
We live in an activity illusion and think that “busyness” is equal to good business, but it’s often just procrastination in disguise.
“Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb,” said Pythagoras. We fill our minds with all kinds of conflict, which takes us away from the moment. Have you ever had a fight with someone at home, then spent the whole work day trying to concentrate? Conflict pulls your mind in many directions; it is the opposite of concentration.
“Multitasking is known to slow people down by 50 percent and add 50 percent more mistakes.”
Sharpen your intellect by making it a habit to do one thing at a time.
Exceptional work is always associated with periods of deep concentration.
you want, how are you going to know when you get it? Learning with a purpose increases your attention, comprehension, and retention; it also helps organize your thoughts.
Your mind never wanders; it moves toward more interesting things.
“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.” So get interested!
“If you want to cure boredom, be curious. If you’re curious, nothing is a chore; it’s automatic—you want to study. Cultivate curiosity, and life becomes an unending study of joy.”
“I could only find three kinds of business in the world—mine, yours, and God’s. Whose business are you in?”
Learn to practice peace, because if you have no attention you have no retention.
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Habit 1: Be proactive. Take responsibility, and don’t wait for problems to happen before taking action. Habit 2: Begin with the end in mind. Envision your future so you can create a plan and work toward your goal. Habit 3: Put first things first. Prioritize the things that are important (have long-term impacts) but not urgent. Habit 4: Think win/win. Strive for mutually beneficial solutions. Habit 5: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. Listen empathetically to promote positive problem solving. Habit 6: Synergize. Teamwork will allow you to achieve goals you couldn’t have
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“Habits can be learned and unlearned. But I also know it isn’t a quick fix. It involves a process and a tremendous commitment.”
Howard Gardner’s Frames of Mind,
Most of us have been taught to think that we are either intelligent or we are not. But the definitions of intelligence we learned at school were built around the specific types of intelligence that are most valued at school—verbal intelligence and numerical intelligence. —Paul McKenna
Tony Robbins’s life-changing book Awaken the Giant Within lists the “10 emotions of power.”
“You are the source of all your emotions; you are the one who creates them. Plant these emotions daily, and watch your whole life grow with vitality that you’ve never dreamed of before.”
Whatever you think about, that’s what you remember. Memory is the residue of thought. —Daniel T. Willingham
John C. Maxwell’s books.
Today Matters, Maxwell shares
12 keys in Maxwell’s book Today Matters,
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is a natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.
Memory ... is the diary that we all carry about with us. —Oscar Wilde
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working as soon as you are born and doesn’t stop until you get up to deliver a speech.
Great presenters know that audiences tend to remember: F—First things L—Last things O—Outstanding information O—Own links R—Repeated information
Is the object lost or are you lost? —Anonymous
Learning new information isn’t helpful unless it can be recalled later. Anything that increases one’s memory power increases access to everything learned.
PIC (purpose, interest, and curiosity) in mind.
Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas, and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives. —Denis Waitley
We all love to win but how many people love to train? —Mark Spitz
Self-discipline is not self-deprivation. It is about raising your standards, going for and being more.
People don’t do it because they think that the future will be a better place than the present without doing anything to make it better.
“Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”
“The more we struggle and debate, the more we reconsider and delay, the less likely we are to act.”
If you’re hoping to harvest a life of great deeds, remember you first have to plant some great seeds.
May you never forget what is worth remembering, nor ever remember what is best forgotten. —Irish blessing
