TransForm Quotes

“Ideas without action aren’t ideas. They’re regrets.”
― Jeff Haden, TransForm: Dramatically Improve Your Career, Business, Relationships, and Life: One Simple Step at a Time

“Failure isn’t defeating; failure is motivating. Failure provides a healthy dose of perspective, makes us more tolerant and patient, and makes us realize we’re a lot like the people around us. When you realize you aren’t so different or special after all, it’s a lot easier to be happy with the people around you—and with yourself.”
― Jeff Haden, TransForm: Dramatically Improve Your Career, Business, Relationships, and Life: One Simple Step at a Time

“Your head is for having ideas, not holding ideas, and it’s certainly not for filing them away. Without exception you will feel better if you get stuff out of your head.”
― Jeff Haden, TransForm: Dramatically Improve Your Career, Business, Relationships, and Life: One Simple Step at a Time

“No matter how it looks from the outside, no one is given opportunities they don’t deserve. Opportunities are earned.”
― Jeff Haden, TransForm: Dramatically Improve Your Career, Business, Relationships, and Life: One Simple Step at a Time

“Losses come in a variety of forms, but the worst thing we can lose is faith in ourselves: in our ideas, in our skills and talents, and in our willingness and ability to overcome challenges and achieve our dreams.”
― Jeff Haden, TransForm: Dramatically Improve Your Career, Business, Relationships, and Life: One Simple Step at a Time

“Pick one source of frustration and decide what you will do differently, including, possibly, walking away.”
― Jeff Haden, TransForm: Dramatically Improve Your Career, Business, Relationships, and Life: One Simple Step at a Time

“Pick a worthwhile mission and excel at that mission.”
― Jeff Haden, TransForm: Dramatically Improve Your Career, Business, Relationships, and Life: One Simple Step at a Time

“Yes, you can help a few people who really need help—just like, somewhere along the way, someone went out of his way to help you. You remember how that felt. Pass it on.”
― Jeff Haden, TransForm: Dramatically Improve Your Career, Business, Relationships, and Life: One Simple Step at a Time

“Either way, remember that while the only person who really cares how you look is you, plenty of people care about the things you do.”
― Jeff Haden, TransForm: Dramatically Improve Your Career, Business, Relationships, and Life: One Simple Step at a Time

“What you achieve isn’t nearly as important as the fact you achieve something. Pick a goal you’re suited for and go after it. Doing something—in fact, doing anything—most other people cannot or will not do will make you proud, fulfilled, and a lot happier.”
― Jeff Haden, TransForm: Dramatically Improve Your Career, Business, Relationships, and Life: One Simple Step at a Time

“To be happy, only compare yourself to the person you were yesterday—and to the person you hope someday to become. You may never be the best, but you will gain incredible satisfaction from being the best you that you can possibly be.”
― Jeff Haden, TransForm: Dramatically Improve Your Career, Business, Relationships, and Life: One Simple Step at a Time

“You can be the next you.”
― Jeff Haden, TransForm: Dramatically Improve Your Career, Business, Relationships, and Life: One Simple Step at a Time

“The best way to stand out is to try to out-work everyone else.”
― Jeff Haden, TransForm: Dramatically Improve Your Career, Business, Relationships, and Life: One Simple Step at a Time

“Ask yourself if you’re happy. If you are, you’re successful. The happier you are, the more successful you are.”
― Jeff Haden, TransForm: Dramatically Improve Your Career, Business, Relationships, and Life: One Simple Step at a Time

“The only way to keep people from being snide, disparaging, or judgmental is to say and do what everyone else does. Then, of course, you live their lives and not yours. And you won’t be happy.”
― Jeff Haden, TransForm: Dramatically Improve Your Career, Business, Relationships, and Life: One Simple Step at a Time

“None of us really likes how we look. So we try to hide who we really are with the right makeup and the right clothes and the occasional BMW. In the right setting and the right light, we’re happy.”
― Jeff Haden, TransForm: Dramatically Improve Your Career, Business, Relationships, and Life: One Simple Step at a Time

“We can have a lot but . . . we can’t have everything.”
― Jeff Haden, TransForm: Dramatically Improve Your Career, Business, Relationships, and Life: One Simple Step at a Time

“isn’t defeating; failure is motivating. Failure provides a healthy dose of perspective, makes us more tolerant and patient, and makes us realize we’re a lot like the people around us. When you realize you aren’t so different or special after all, it’s a lot easier to be happy with the people around you—and with yourself.”
― Jeff Haden, TransForm: Dramatically Improve Your Career, Business, Relationships, and Life: One Simple Step at a Time