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Marc Reklau
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February 26 - September 4, 2025
The beginning is the most important part of the work. —Plato
If you think you can, you’re right, if you think you can’t, you’re right. —Henry Ford
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. —Wayne W. Dyer
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action and discipline that enabled us to follow through. —Zig Ziglar
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. —Napoleon Hill
THOUGHT EMOTION BEHAVIOR ACTION
Perseverance is more important than talent, intelligence and strategy.
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
Success is the result of right decisions. Right decisions are the result of experience, and experience is the result of wrong decisions.
If you keep doing what you are doing, you will keep getting the results you are getting?
When your goals are aligned with your values, you will notice that you achieve them much quicker and hit a lot less resistance.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. —Oprah Winfrey
Most people overestimate what they can do in a month and under-estimate what they can do in a year.
When pursuing your goals, reward yourself for the effort put in, and not just for the results. Self-punishment is not allowed!
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat. —Sylvester Stallone
The most successful salesmen’s goal is to hear 100 “No’s” a day, because they know that if they hear 100 “No’s”, there will also be some “Yes’s”.
When somebody tells you “No, thanks” you think “NEXT”.
For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned.
“the ignorant is the happiest person in the village”.
The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. —Paulo Coelho
“In the right tone you can say everything, in the wrong tone nothing, the art is to find the right tone.”
“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown your own inner voice.”
Live the life you want and not the life other people expect of you.
Paulo Coelho reminds us, “If someone isn’t what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. —Eleanor Roosevelt
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. —Benjamin Franklin
Henry Ford said, “You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
Eckart Tolle wrote an entire book about “The power of NOW”
Bill Cosby puts it, “The past is a ghost, the future a dream. All we ever have is now.”
Choose your suffering wisely!
