Empowerment Basics Quotes

“Success is not attained when the goal is reached; success is attained from the time when the first step is taken towards that goal.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Empowerment Basics: Becoming a Better Version of YOU without Competing with Others

“Dreams seem to generate a special kind of passion and willpower, both of which help people navigate the seas of life.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Empowerment Basics: Becoming a Better Version of YOU without Competing with Others

“Life is not only measured by what happens to us. It is measured by the way in which we interpret what happens to us.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Empowerment Basics: Becoming a Better Version of YOU without Competing with Others

“Being a good parent is not an obligation, it is a choice. Plenty of people fall short in the parent category and quite a few refuse to accept it. You will do a much better job if you understand that taking care of your children is a choice not an obligation.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Empowerment Basics: Becoming a Better Version of YOU without Competing with Others

“Self-confidence is not a fixed way of being. People are not born with certain levels of self-confidence, it can be acquired, and it can be lost.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Empowerment Basics: Becoming a Better Version of YOU without Competing with Others

“Self-confidence can be defined in two sentences. (1) I trust myself to face life’s challenges and (2) I trust myself to follow my dreams and goals.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Empowerment Basics: Becoming a Better Version of YOU without Competing with Others

“Many people say that time heals all wounds, but that simply is not true. People can become more bitter, arrogant and spiteful with age.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Empowerment Basics: Becoming a Better Version of YOU without Competing with Others

“The word constructive means ‘carefully constructed, meant to be helpful’. Constructive thinking is therefore the process of carefully thinking or responding in a helpful and solution oriented manner.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Empowerment Basics: Becoming a Better Version of YOU without Competing with Others

“We can learn from the ad agencies and start forming our own personal and internal marketing campaigns in the first person singular with strong emotional components, thusly promoting the new ideas and habits that we want to incorporate.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Empowerment Basics: Becoming a Better Version of YOU without Competing with Others

“Instead of pitting nature against nurture, we must understand that both work in harmony. We can influence our nature through nurture.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Empowerment Basics: Becoming a Better Version of YOU without Competing with Others

“Forgiveness is probably the most important self-esteem building process anyone can undertake. Forgiveness is an internal response to the fact that we cannot, under any circumstances, change the past. The only things we can change are our thoughts about the past. Forgiveness happens when we stop wishing for a better past and understand that we are carrying hatred, anger and resentment within us.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Empowerment Basics: Becoming a Better Version of YOU without Competing with Others

“The most important principle in your relationship with time is that time is perishable. No one can save time. It’s not like money. You can’t deposit the time you don’t use into an account and use it later. Time passes. Time is a constantly depleting resource. Once it’s gone, it’s gone, and you will never get it back.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Empowerment Basics: Becoming a Better Version of YOU without Competing with Others

“Being positive all the time is such a catchy idea, and it’s easy to preach. I guess that’s why it is popular. But life reveals itself in successions of up’s and down’s and if you plan to be positive all the time you will definitely fail.”
― Gudjon Bergmann, Empowerment Basics: Becoming a Better Version of YOU without Competing with Others