Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them.
What we have to get straight in our heads is that owning the money doesn’t mean ANYTHING. “It’s the DOING with money that develops us – it’s not in the having. And when you have more, you’re enabled to DO more.”
High self-esteem isn’t a luxury. It’s a necessity for anyone who has important goals to achieve.
When you’re connected to a source and to each other through conversation, through making love, through meditation, playing games with your kids, all that stuff, then your self-esteem’s going to go up.
If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn’t matter if it’s an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It’s since sold millions of copies.
When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don’t worry if your presentation isn’t perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you.
Don’t kid yourself. Be honest with yourself. Take your own inventory.
Trust your gut feeling about things, listen to what others are saying, and look at the results of your actions. Once you know the truth, you can set about taking action to improve. Everyone will be better for it.
What if you, too, were to greet every interaction in your life with the question ‘What’s the potential opportunity that this is?’
Love and fear are the two opposite ends of the continuum, as far as I’m concerned. When we are not in love, we are in fear.
You can’t change anyone else but people do change in relationship to your change. All relationships are a system, and when any one part of a system changes, it affects the other part.
Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life. It is each little thing that you do that day – whether it be spending time with your friends, running in a cross-country meet or just simply staring at the crashing ocean- that holds the key to discovering the meaning of life. I would rather be out enjoying these things than pondering them. We may never really discover the meaning of life, but the knowledge we gain in our quest to discover it is truly more valuable.
SWSWSWSW Whenever you ask anyone for anything, remember the following: SWSWSWSW, which stands for “some will, some won’t; so what – someone’s waiting.” Some people are going to say yes, and some are going to say no. So what! Out there somewhere, someone is waiting for you and your ideas. It is simply a numbers game. You have to keep asking until you get a yes.
We have an innate desire to endlessly learn, grow, and develop. We want to become more than what we already are. Once we yield to this inclination for continuous and never-ending improvement, we lead a life of endless accomplishments and satisfaction.
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed.
The dynamics that are required to make any relationship work: Just keep putting your love out there.
If you give your mind a $10,000 problem, it will come up with a $10,000 solution. If you give your mind a $1 million problem, it will come up with a $1 million solution.
When you do something you love with passion and perseverance, you are already a success. Even if you never hit the big time, who cares?
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. ROBERT FRITZ.