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January 13 - February 1, 2025
Emotions—Controlling your emotions so your emotions don’t control you.
When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. —dale carnegie
Each second you spend commiserating with coworkers about how unfair your boss is, you are giving your boss more power. Every time you tell your friends how controlling your mother-in-law is, you give her a little more power over you. Resolve to stop giving people your time and energy if you don’t want them to play a big role in your life.
everyone has an opinion, but successful people don’t allow one person’s opinion to define them.
When you decide that no one else has the power to control how you feel, you’ll experience empowerment.
He also kept a list of all the reasons why going to the gym was a good idea in the car. On the days when he began thinking that he should just go home instead of going to the gym, he read over his list as a reminder about why going to the gym was the best choice, even if he didn’t feel like it.
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
Be on the alert for these types of thoughts that will tempt you to shy away from change: •This will never work. •I can’t handle doing something different. •It will be too hard. •It’ll be too stressful to give up the things I like. •What I’m doing now isn’t that bad. •There’s no sense in trying because I tried something like that before and it didn’t help. •I don’t deal with change well.
•Listen first, speak second. Other people are often less defensive when they feel like you’ve taken the time to hear what they have to say.
Share your opinion and concerns, but only share it once. Repeating your unease over and over again won’t make your words any more effective. In fact, it can backfire.
We incorrectly assume there’s a direct correlation between our fear level and the risk level.
The truth is, most of us don’t really invest much time calculating which risks to take and which risks to avoid. Instead, we base our decisions on emotions or habit. If it sounds too scary, we avoid the risk. If we’re excited about the possible benefits, we’re more likely to overlook the risk.
rejection wasn’t the worst thing in the world and decided to face his fears.
Some of the best life lessons can be learned from the toughest times you’ve endured.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. —john powell
“Write your own book instead of reading someone else’s book about success,”
Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.
a young assistant once commented that it was a shame that they had been working for weeks without seeing any results, and Edison replied by saying, “Results! No results? Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results! I know several thousand things that won’t work.”
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. —napoleon hill
The ability to delay getting what you want now so you can get more later is instrumental to success.
