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Think ‘improvement’ in everything you do and think ‘high standards’ in everything you do. Believe it can be done. Believing something can be done sets the mind in motion to find a way of doing it.
Also constantly remind yourself that you are not doing as much as you can; so you can do more of everything than what you are already doing.
Capability is the ability to better what you are already doing. Capacity is about doing more of what you are already doing.
Your own value is determined not by what you are, but by what you are able to make of yourself.
If you are not happy with what you have, no matter how much more you have, you will still not be happy.
Love is like meditation. It may seem like nothing is happening and yet everything about you will change. Crave to be loved and to be created, and not to be pampered and allowed to stagnate.
it is not ‘something’ or ‘someone’ who is making me feel positive or negative, but it is my ‘acceptance’ or ‘non-acceptance’ of something or someone that is making me feel positive or negative.
I will replace resistance (non-acceptance) with acceptance, and the negative emotion will turn into a positive one.
No knowledge ever comes to you late … it comes to you when it has to come … when you are ready for it.
Quality consciousness is expecting more from yourself than what anyone else expects of you. Quality consciousness is setting higher standards for yourself than what the world has set for you. Quality consciousness is the belief that everything can and must be improved.
Urgency is the most dangerous of all addictions. It forces us to take decisions that we’d rather not take. It forces us to act in ways that we’d rather not. It cheats us by making us believe that the situation is at fault, and not us. Urgency becomes an excuse for shoddy work and sloppy decision-making. It creates an atmosphere in which we tend to justify everything we do - from jumping queues to running like fools to catch a flight.
Self-consolation for lack of excellence will hurt you very badly in life.
