We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.
Don’t labor forever over the question of how or if you can do it. Studies have shown that the most successful people make decisions rapidly because they are clear on their values and what they really want for their lives.
You can make a lot of money. You can rule kingdoms or run huge businesses or control vast terrain. But if you’re just doing it for yourself, you’re not really a success.
The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.
If you learn to condition yourself you can change anything you want in your life.
The quality of your life is directly related to how much uncertainty you can comfortably handle.
When you know what’s most important to you, making a decision is quite simple.
If you’re aware when it’s going on, you can deal with it and change it. If you’re not aware of it, you’ll be mystified at the states that come and go seemingly without reason.
We’re not happy unless we feel like we’re growing.
My teacher Jim Rohn taught me a simple principle: every day, stand guard at the door of your mind, and you alone decide what thoughts and beliefs you let into your life. For they will shape whether you feel rich or poor, cursed or blessed.
Most fears in life rarely come to fruition.
Focus equals feeling.
There is no greatness without passion to be great, whether it’s the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
All goal setting must be immediately followed by both the development of a plan, and massive and consistent action toward its fulfillment.
It’s important to realize that words shape our beliefs and impact our actions.
As we develop new beliefs about who we are, our behavior will change to support the new identity.
You can use your story, or your story can use you.
You become what you do most of the time.
Execution will trump knowledge every day of the week.
You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.