The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Self-awareness involves deep personal honesty. It comes from asking and answering hard questions.
Highly proactive people don’t blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.
Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.
Focus does not mean saying yes, it means saying no.
We are what our thoughts have made us.
Where attention goes, energy flows and results show.
Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.
Keep your eye on the goal, keep moving toward your target.
Focus on what you want, not on what you don’t want.
Your inner world reflects your outer world.
Focus on being productive instead of busy.
Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.
Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.
Where focus goes, energy flows. And if you don’t take the time to focus on what matters, then you’re living a life of someone else’s design.
All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.
Whatever you focus on is what you get.
Self-awareness is one of the rarest of human commodities. I don’t mean self-consciousn ess where you’re limiting and evaluating yourself. I mean being aware of your own patterns.
We read books to find out who we are.
Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.