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“You get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not to compete for what is already created. You do not have to take anything away from any one.”
If You Can’t Find The Right Career, Create One
There’s enough opportunity for everyone in the world. The problem is that most people don’t use the opportunities. If you want to have a specific career, go out there and create it. The same is true for your business. And don’t focus on limited resources, naysayers, or any other reason you should not do it. Adopt an abundance mindset. Before you know it, you’ll have so much opportunity that you don’t know what to do with it.
Netherlands,
“luxury problem.”
“You don’t get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.”
Everything starts with the mind.
“Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn’t just skills like computer technology. It’s the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.”
Stay A Beginner
we have to remind ourselves is that the people who think they know everything are the biggest losers in life.
“It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”
When you repeat the basics, you don’t only become great; you will stay great.
Without repetition, we forget things easily.
always look at myself as a beginner.
Figure out what the basics are in your field. And repeat them. Keep it simple. There’s no bigger waste of time than repeating bad, wrong, or negative things. That’s the only thing you should be mindful of. Don’t take advice from people who haven’t successfully done something themselves.
Be Great. Stay Great.
you must never underestimate the power of repetition. Never think you’ve made it or that you’re smart enough. Because that mindset is what keeps you great.
Energy Work Relationships
Real relationships take a long time to grow. And they are also unconditional.
Exercise every day
Eat well
don’t consume more calories than I burn.
Have you reached your full learning potential?
keep learning.
Without action, knowledge is useless.
Avoid the biggest mistake most of us make: We look at what others do for us.
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
you make time for the people that matter to you, the relationships improve. And if they do not, the relationship was probably not meant to be. We simply have to move on.
we always must focus on what we can control.
All you have to do now is to improve it.
Start living like you’re immortal.
You have all the time in the world to build something. You can make mistakes and learn from them. There’s no pressure to make things happen fast. You treat people with respect because other people will also be around forever.
Good because it gives us urgency. Bad because we lose sight of the big picture.
I achieve much more when I give my attention to one thing.
“Where I’d had huge success, I had narrowed my concentration to one thing, and where my success varied, my focus had too.”
You might fail if you try to achieve many things at the same time
“Success is sequential, not simultaneous.”
combine patience with compounding, you achieve the biggest results.
years of consistent effort.
compounding in your own life, it requires you to focus on one thing at a time (for every aspect of your life) and always look at the bigger picture.
