When you start taking consistent action, you will see results.
Opportunity cost is no joke. Every choice has a price. Everything you say yes to means you’re saying no to something else. Translation? Each time you pick up your brain-draining gadget and say YES to watching another cat video, you’re saying NOPE to ever reaching your biggest and most important long-term goals.
Create before you consume.
What can I learn from this? How can this work for me?
Simple is elegant and extremely efficient.
Knowing something intellectually is very different from doing something consistently, mastering it, and benefiting from it.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. Eleanor Roosevelt.
You make time for what matters most.
Putting pen to paper is a mystical way to access your most profound truths.
Repetition is a key principle in neuroplasticity. It’s how we rewire our brains and turn good ideas into permanent new ways of being and behaving.
The fastest way out of our fear is through it.
It’s never about the lack of money or time or anything else. It’s about your internal game, your commitment to do whatever it takes to be creative, get resourceful, and figure it out. To find or make a way ahead, no matter what.
If you had to find the time, you would.
The art of eliminating excuses means embracing the fact that your dreams aren’t made or broken by anyone but you.
Beliefs create behaviors. The cumulation of those behaviors adds up to your entire life. Know what else? Every belief has a consequence. Your beliefs either heal you or harm you. They either support your aspirations or thwart them. Belief becomes the source of your limitation or your liberation. It doesn’t matter what’s true, it matters what you believe.
What holds us back from consistently performing at the levels we’re capable of? To find the answer, we have to look inside. No matter what we’re trying to figure out, the biggest barriers are often in our own minds:.
A key to success is to start before you are ready.
No matter what you’re facing, you have what it takes to figure anything out and become the person you’re meant to be.
No matter what you want to figure out, one thing is for sure: writing it down is a fundamental step to making it real.
Speaking of taking responsibility, a quick reminder about an essential universal principle: You are 100 percent responsible for your life. Always and in all ways. It’s not your parents. It’s not the economy. It’s not your husband or your wife or your family. It’s not your boss. It’s not the schools you went to. It’s not the government or society or institutions or your age. You are responsible for what you believe, how you feel, and how you behave.
Look around. There’s no shortage of people hungry for a moment of connection. There’s always someone who could use a little assistance. A little attention. A little comfort. A little love. Next time you catch yourself feeling like a fraud, check yourself. Chances are, you’re shining your flashlight on yourself rather than directing it where it can make its greatest impact – caring for others.