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SUCCESS TIPS and SUCCESS QUOTES
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Jerry Bruckner Quotes
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There is no one definition of success that everyone can agree on but that doesn't mean that we can't do our best, to become our best and achieve our best to provide the best we can for ourselves and our loved ones. |
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The way to be successful is to figure out how you can provide results or value for people, and then develop your ability to do that, and profits will come your way. |
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Success is enlightened self-interest. By taking care of yourself you acquire the resources to take care of your family and the larger community. |
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Success is not a destination; it is a continuous journey of striving toward your important goals that never ends. |
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Success is a process - a way of living, not a result. But remember, results count. |
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Success is measured by the accumulation of wealth, power, status, and property; but remember, happiness does not come from just having more things. |
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Success does not happen by accident. It is the result of a determined process to decide what you want to achieve and do in your life, what the steps are that you need to do to achieve and accomplish it, and to constantly learn, and to keep trying, till you get what you want. |
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Hang around successful people and learn from them. |
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Do whatever you can to associate yourself with successful people in whatever field you want to succeed in. |
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Find a mentor who has succeeded in the field you want to do. |
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A successful person will give you confidence to pursue your goal and will not tell you something you want to do can not be done or laugh at your ideas because successful people are attracted to big ideas and big challenges. |
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Watch what unsuccessful people do and make sure you don't do it. |
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Today, you have 100% of the rest of your life to live to its fullest! |
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No matter how difficult your life may be now you can turn it around and learn how to succeed if you are willing to work hard for it. |
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You are not a rock -- you are a person. You have the power to change, improve and succeed in any area of your life if you really want to. |
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If you are somewhat successful now you can learn to become much more successful. |
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You are in the driver's seat of your life and you can decide to keep driving down the road you're on, or you can turn and go a new direction whenever you want to. |
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Regardless of your past or present circumstances you can set a better direction today and become successful. |
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You are never too young or old to change and improve. |
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A little change in your thoughts and actions can make a big difference in your life. |
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Forgive yourself for all of your past mistakes and vow to change and improve yourself. |
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You must believe with all your spirit that what you have done in life so far and what you are doing now is not as important as what you now want to accomplish. |
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To change your life is really very simple; all you have to do is ask yourself: 'What can I do right now to improve my life?' And then start to do it -- NOW! |
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If you only had one minute left to live would you be content with what you have accomplished in life? |
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If you only had six months to live what would you spend the last six months of your life doing? |
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Live your life to the fullest so you will have no regrets of wishing you failed to try to do or accomplish something. |
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If you want to be well remembered when you are gone, lead a memorable life. |
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Commit to yourself right now that you will lead your life so that you will have no regrets and that it will be memorable. |
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If what you are doing is not working to make you successful, you must do something different. |
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If you keep doing the same thing, it's silly to expect you'll get a different result. |
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To have something different and more than you have now, you have to 'do different' and 'become more.' |
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What you do in life and 99.9% of what happens to you in life is a direct result of what you feel, think, say, and do. To improve your life you must feel, think, say or do something different than you are now. |
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No one is responsible for your life and success except you. |
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To accomplish anything in life you must take responsibility for your own live, decide what you want to do and then do it. |
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Be accountable to yourself. Are you moving closer to or further away from success? |
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It's your life. If you want it to turn out right, take responsibility for it and make it the life you truly want and deserve. |
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Stop wallowing in your self-pity and feeling sorry for your current circumstances. It's a waste of time and won't get you anywhere. Take responsibility for yourself and 'do' something to change and improve your life. |
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Be responsible for yourself and those you are responsible for! |
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Never settle for ordinary. You must always feel that you are extraordinary. |
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Stop avoiding reality and begin to consciously live your life. |
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There have always been successful people, you just need to decide you want to be one and plan for it. |
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If you sit around all day and do nothing to significantly advance your future your spirit will rust out and you'll live at best an average or mediocre life. |
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Take conscious control over your life. |
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Declare to yourself 'right now' that you can and will improve your life! |
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Win or lose, only you hold the key to your own destiny, and you must put it in the lock and turn it to open the door to your success. |
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Don't make excuses, whine, complain, or blame anyone. |
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You can't excuse your way to accomplish anything. Only doing something produces results. |
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When you make an excuse you reduce your self-esteem and confidence. By admitting to your mistakes you increase your power to take responsibility for your life and make it a success. |
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When you are supposed to do something and you don't accomplish it because something 'out of your control' prevented it that's a logical 'reason' why you couldn't get it done.
But if you didn't do it because you decided to do something else instead that you preferred to do, or didn't try hard enough, or you attempt to shift the blame to someone who is not actually at fault, and you are asking to be relieved of your 'personal responsibility' for not having done what you were supposed to do -- that's an 'excuse!' |
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An excuse is your irresponsible attempt to shift blame or accountability from yourself to someone or something else for something that otherwise would be considered your personal responsibility for happening or not happening depending upon the circumstances. |
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You have 'the power to choose' what you do and that gives you the power to control your life and to make it a success or failure. |
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Every choice you make has consequences. |
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You have the choice to control and improve your life or to just drift along. |
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If you don't make conscious decisions and choose to guide your life it will always feel out-of-control. |
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Your life up until today is the result of all of your past choices. You can choose now to act to improve your life today and in future. |
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It's your choice to live up or down to your expectations. |
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Frequently people don't realize they have a choice to do or not do something. Look out for choices you can make to improve your life. |
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Ask anyone and they will say they want to have a happy, successful and fulfilled life. But, you can't get there by words alone. You must choose to do something to create that life for yourself -- and then go out and do it. |
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Choose right now that you will invest your time to improve your life! |
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A habit is something you do regularly and consistently that satisfies a need such as brushing your teeth after every meal, reading a book every week to learn something new, or drinking whiskey every day. |
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What you do habitually determines whether you will become successful, be ordinary, or be a failure.
Good habits lead you to success.
Bad habits lead you away from success. |
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Successful people have the habit of setting goals and taking relentless action to achieve their goals. Not setting goals and working hard to achieve them is also a habit. |
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It's extremely difficult to try to stop doing a bad habit because you will be left with the unsatisfied need that the bad habit fulfilled and the bad habit will eventually return to satisfy it. What you need to do is figure out how to replace your bad habit with a good habit that satisfies the same need. |
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Everything you do begins with a thought. |
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Everything in our world was created by a thought; radio, TV, computers, the Internet, clothes, cars, music, medicine, etc. |
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We become and attract what we think about most of the time. |
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Your past thoughts have brought you to where you are today; your present and future thoughts will take you to where you go tomorrow. |
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Your ability to focus and control your own thoughts will enable you to plan and achieve your goals. |
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We have no limitations except those that we place in our own minds. |
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Good thoughts produce good action, bad thoughts produce bad action. |
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Positive thoughts lead to positive results, negative thoughts lead to negative results. |
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If you change your thoughts, you will change your life. It's as simple as that. |
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Think big thoughts to make big changes and big improvements in your life. |
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Beliefs are what we think are possible. |
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Always think that your goals are possible. Believe you can accomplish them. |
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Never think or say 'I can't' do or have something that you want to do or have. Instead, think and say 'I can' and figure out 'how' to do or have it. |
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Your beliefs are effected by how you interpret the world around you. |
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Believe that the world is a good place and that good things will happen to you if you make the most of yourself -- and they will. |
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Events in your life only have the meaning you attach to them. Don't attach negative meaning to events. Just learn from them and move forward. |
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Do not allow yourself to believe that you might fail at something. If you believe you might fail at something you plant the seed of failure which grows very quickly. |
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To truly believe you can do something it's not enough to just say the words in your mind or out loud that you believe it. You must pack emotional content into your beliefs for them to be accepted by your mind and affect your actions. Learn to feel your beliefs not just know them. |
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You can accomplish anything within your ability if you believe with all your heart and mind that you can. |
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To live your life with passion means to love doing what you do. |
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You never get tired or bored doing what you love to do. |
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Doing what you love to do is energizing. |
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When you truly love your work you won't mind the struggle, obstacles and hard work needed to succeed. |
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When you truly love your work you won't mind the struggle, obstacles and hard work needed to succeed. |
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If you search hard enough you will find something that you are or can be very good at and enjoy doing. Doing it will give you a happy, successful and fulfilled life. |
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Life is short; don't end up regretting and looking back that you wish you could have spent your life doing what you loved. Figure out what you love to do and find a way to make it a major part of your life. Do it NOW! |
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You only live once. Why not get the most out of your life? |
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You cannot be very successful by looking down or by going after mediocre goals. Look up, higher, and higher still, that is where your dreams and sights should be focused to find success. |
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You can't get more out of your life than the amount of your ambition. |
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You are put here to live your greatest dreams - not to simply exist. |
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Open your mind to big ambition, big dreams and big thoughts. |
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If you were not meant to think big you would have been born a fly. |
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Whether it's called personal development, self-improvement or self-help, the principle is that by spending time to develop and improve yourself to your maximum potential you will be able to achieve success in whatever you want to do. |
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Successful athletes, sportsman, business people, entertainers, artists, musicians, parents and students know that the key to their success is to spend time everyday to work on their personal development to improve themselves and reduce their weaknesses. |
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Choosing to vigorously and constantly work on their personal development is what separates successful people from people who muddle through life. |
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Personal development adds value to your life by giving you the ability to provide service or value to other people's lives. |
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Become the best you can be by working on your personal development. |
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There is no greater use of your time than to improve yourself everyday in areas that will lead to being successful. |
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Deeply believe that you can improve yourself everyday and you will find a way. |
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Small, constant daily progress will transform you from unskilled, to skilled, to a highly skilled expert. |
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Always focus on improvement and high standards in everything you think and do. |
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Once-a-week ask yourself 'What do I need to know to reach my goals?' Or, 'How can I improve my life?' Or, 'What am I doing wrong?' And then find a way to spend some time each day to learn and improve and take action to do it. |
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At the end of each day look back at what you did that day and consider how you could have done it better, or not do certain things that were unproductive and plan how to improve. |
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Even if you are now the best in something, unless you aspire to improve, someone will eventually surpass you. |
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It is true that 'process' improvement is important. However, at the end of the day processes are performed by people and unless you figure out how to improve the people involved in the process and how they inter-relate you'll only get marginal improvement. |
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The more you learn and know the further in life you'll go. |
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Learn to read faster. |
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Self-control and self-discipline is training yourself to have the patience to control your conduct by following principles and sound judgment instead of impulses or rash desires to act instantly to seek immediate pleasure. |
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Self-control and self-discipline is developing the habit to delay your gratification to see and think through the bigger picture and do what needs to be done to bring you long lasting success and not just doing what feels good now or is easy. |
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Developing your self-control and self-discipline to habitually set goals, establish priorities, implement long term solutions to problems and not just quick-fixes, and to focus on the things you need to do to accomplish your goals and ignore distracting thoughts and negative emotions is the way to success. |
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Develop the self-discipline and self-control to do things correctly when no one is watching you. |
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You cannot be a master of everything. Figure out what your talents, skills and desires can fuel you to being an expert in one area and then focus all of your attention and concentration every day to become the best you can be. |
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Focus on details, but don't get stuck looking in the weeds; keep the big picture in sight. |
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Don't do one thing and think about something else at the same time. Give 100% attention to whatever action you are performing. If you want to think about something else stop what you are doing and think about it. |
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Focus all of your energy to succeed with your Plan A. Having a Plan B is for people who don't believe 100% in their Plan A. |
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You must prepare today and plan ahead to succeed tomorrow -- there is no other method. |
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Sharpening your saw is one hundred times more important than rushing off to cut down a tree with a dull saw. |
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We do the way we practice. That means if you want to be successful at something, you must practice it with all the intensity and desire as if you were doing it for real because your 'real' performance is a 'reflection' of your 'practiced' actions. |
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Remember, learning is indifferent to direction. If you practice something incorrectly or sloppily you will develop the habit of doing it incorrectly and that's how you will do it when you want to do it for real. That's why you must give 100% effort to your practice. |
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If you learn from all of your preparation you will be ready for any challenge. |
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The first step to improving anything, especially yourself, is to know where you are currently at. |
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Recognize the great gifts and uniqueness that you have and don't worry about what you currently don't have. |
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Be aware of your personal strengths and talents |
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What interests you? What do you like to do? What would you like to be very good at? |
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What do you have now? What do you need to achieve your goals? |
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Figure out how to maximize your strengths and talents; they are your competitive advantage. |
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Be honest about what's not working well, or needs improvement in your life, and how to improve it. |
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Know and work on your weaknesses; but realize you can't do everything perfectly. |
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Close your eyes and imagine how you would like your life to be when it comes to an end. What would make you content and fulfilled to have accomplished and provided for your loved ones? Now open your eyes and look around. If what you are doing now is not going to get you there change what you are doing to achieve that vision. |
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Vision is what you desire as the big picture of your life; it's your life's purpose. |
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Create your vision and determine your life's purpose. |
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The meaning of life is to fulfill your purpose. |
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Without a clear purpose you will end up following someone else's purpose for you. And they probably don't have anything good in mind for you. |
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Don't live your life by throwing dice. Know your purpose, what you want to accomplish in life and start working to get it. |
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Align your thoughts, feelings and actions with your values to achieve your goals and create your vision. |
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A goal is an objective you want to achieve and by when. Another word for an objective is a result. |
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Your current situation in life is the result of your current goals or lack of goals. If you want to change your circumstances, change your goals. |
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Football, soccer, hockey and water polo have goal posts so the teams know where to aim to win. You too need goals, without them you don't know where to focus your energies to achieve what you want. |
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We are all on a personal journey and we need to know where we want to go or else we will never get there. |
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If you live your life without goals and plans to reach them, you will drift like a ship without a rudder and never reach a happy destination. |
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The successful person can answer the questions: what are your ambitions, aspirations, goals, plans, and vision? |
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Successful people have major goals that get them what they want out of life and think everyday how to achieve them. |
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Desire to improve your life and then creating a plan to accomplish your goals are the most powerful ingredients to make yourself successful. |
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A goal without a deadline is nothing more than a dream or wish. |
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Learn to set goals with self-imposed deadlines and targets and reward yourself whenever you achieve one. |
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Progress is made one step at a time. Don't think about how large a goal is; keep taking one small step after another and you will get there. |
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Do not be discouraged by the difficulty to accomplish a large goal; break it into smaller goals and tasks and create a timeline for finishing them. |
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The only way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. Break your goals into smaller goals and steps, and then into bite size tasks. |
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Objectives a/k/a tasks are planed steps to reach your goals. |
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When you align your dreams, to your goals, actions and desire, success is the result. |
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Goals provide meaning to your life. People are meant to pursue challenges, not to just exist and eat cake. |
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To be happy and not bored make sure you always have a personally important goal you are working towards. |
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An important goal gives you a reason to jump out of bed when you wake up each day! |
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Focusing on your goals prevents you from wasting time on unproductive and unhealthy distractions. |
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as the type of person you become by achieving your goals. |
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In order to improve, you must set goals that you need to stretch a bit to reach. |
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A plan is your specific steps to accomplish your goal. |
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A goal that is not written down is just an idea that might fade away. Writing it down makes it permanent. |
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Write your goals down to breath life into them. |
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Having a written goal is not enough. You must write it down in detail and assign deadlines to complete them. |
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The plans and goals of most people and businesses fail and are not accomplished unless they have specific written realty based execution steps to get you from where you are to where you want to go. |
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Written plans improve the likelihood of a successful outcome.
An architect would not start to build a building without written blueprints; a ship's captain would not start an ocean voyage without a map, an airline's pilot would not start a flight without a written flight plan and a movie producer would not start filming a film without a written script.
In the same way, you must have a written plan that shows the steps of how you will achieve your goals. |
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A written plan increases your motivation to work on your goal because it reminds you of your goal. |
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A written plan lets you see how you are going to get from where you are to completing your goal. It will let you see if you missed a step. |
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A written plan gives us a way to mark and measure your progress toward completing a goal. |
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Each time you mark a step completed in your plan to achieve a goal you will feel more confident and energized that you will accomplish your goal. |
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Commitment is not just saying 'yes' to something; it's mentally buying shares of stock in whatever you do and pledging yourself to do whatever is required to make them worth something by accomplishing your goal. |
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Until you commit to something you think you can back out. After you commit there's no turning back! |
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Commitment comes after your decision to do something and before you take action to achieve it. |
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Once you are committed to something you will find a way to make it happen. |
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Renew your commitment to your goals each day by reminding yourself of the benefits you will have when you achieve them. |
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Expectations prime-the-pump to produce desired results. |
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Carry a deep feeling that your great success is inevitable because you are committed to work as hard as you can to achieve your goals. |
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High expectations lead to high achievement. |
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Successful people know that it's not enough to simply follow their beautiful looking written plan to achieve their goal. |
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Successful people know you need to work your plan, which means to continually adjust it as needed based on events to reach your goal. |
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Never think you have failed simply because your progress does not match the perfect picture in your plan. |
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A plan is not guaranteed to be perfect. It's like life, live, learn and adjust on a daily basis. |
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Don't fall into the trap of thinking that a plan is guaranteed to be perfect. Plans are like life: live it, work it, continually learn and adjust on a daily basis. The key is to keep your eye on your goals and expect to make constant adjustments to make progress in their general direction. |
Jerry Bruckner
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A plan set in cement is guaranteed to sink and not produce success. |
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A plan should not be viewed as a guarantee of what will occur when you execute it. |
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A plan always shows your path to achieve a goal as a straight line. But that's not how life works. |
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Like a ship at sea, plans and achievements do not always go in a straight direction. They zig zag and encounter setbacks and obstacles -- just keep adjusting to keep them headed in the intended direction. Make sure that despite any detours in your life or your plans that you focus on heading in the direction of your goals and you are guaranteed to reach them. |
Jerry Bruckner
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In life, you will always encounter problems and obstacles that will cause your progress to zig zag and sometimes go backwards before moving forward again. |
Jerry Bruckner
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The skill of a successful person is not in the impossible ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise. |
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Problems and delays are part of life. Be ready to respond to them and you will achieve your goal. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Strategic planning, adopting specific steps to achieve your short and long term goals is very important; but then, executing constant, focused daily action in service to your goals will determine if you succeed or fail to achieve them. |
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Creating your strategic plan is extremely important but making the plan work is an even bigger challenge than creating the plan. |
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All plan and little or no action is a recipe for failure. You must learn to plan and execute your plan to achieve your goals. |
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Planning never ends; at first you plan to create your plan and then you must continue to plan as you execute your plan and adjust to circumstances. |
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If you don't start you can't succeed. |
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Don't focus so much on planning your success that you never get around to executing on your plan. |
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Once you have decided what you want to do, you must then start to do it and not keep thinking about it. |
Jerry Bruckner
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There will never be the perfect time to take action to succeed. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Don't wait for inspiration to take action to achieve your goals. |
Jerry Bruckner
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You may know in every molecule of your mind and body what to do to succeed but until you actually get out there and do the work you're just dreaming. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Thought is not enough, planning is not enough. Only taking action will produce results that achieve your goal. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Your vision, ideas, goals and plans are useless unless you take action to implement them. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Don't put off taking action to achieve your goals because you are trying to create a perfect plan. Start today and keep getting better. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Right now is always the best time to start anything. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Do today what you are thinking about doing tomorrow. |
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Don't wait for tomorrow to do something, because when tomorrow arrives it will be today again and you'll want to put it off. |
Jerry Bruckner
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When you catch yourself being lazy immediately snap yourself out of it by thinking positive thoughts. Remind yourself of the benefits you'll get by not being lazy, and take action to accomplish something. |
Jerry Bruckner
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To start to break your procrastination habit pick something you have been putting off and start doing a very small amount of it so you know it will be easy to do. Accomplishing that small amount will motivate you to continue and do more... and more. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Don't put doing something off because you think you will not do it well. Successful people know the key is that it's more important that you 'start' and then you will improve. |
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For a successful life, or successful business, measure what you want to improve. |
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Measure your progress towards achieving your goals. |
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The lessons from business and sports apply to your life; you can't succeed unless you measure the right things and do something about what you learn from the measurement to bring you closer to achieving your goal. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Once you know your goals you should measure your progress to achieve them. Seeing your favorable progress will serve as positive reinforcement to continue your hard work and seeing negative progress will alert you to something you should change to get you back on track. |
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Measure the quality of your life. You can define quality any way you want but you should have a definition of what it means for 'you' to have a quality life. |
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There is no one right way to measure your progress. Any way you decide to do it will work. The important point is that you do some type of measurement. |
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Always give 100% effort and enthusiasm to think, plan and take whatever action is required to achieve your goals and it will produce a tidal wave of positive attitude and unstoppable confidence that will propel you forward in life. |
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When you are working on any task always push yourself to do a little more before stopping to take a break or end for the day. By getting in the habit to always do this you will build your mental strength and get you closer to achieving your goal. This is similar to doing one more repetition of lifting weights after a good workout to build your physical strength. |
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Be a high performing person. |
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The successful mindset is to focus 100% of your energies to be the best you can be. Excellent people excel at whatever they do. |
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Whether you are an employee or run your own business to be successful you need to stand out from your competition, and the person who stands out is the person who consistently produces excellent results by giving their best effort to accomplish their goal. |
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Nothing catches a more favorable eye of an employer or a customer than a person who gives 100% effort and achieves the goal of the employer or customer. |
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We expect firemen, police and life guards to exert 100% effort to 'rescue' us, shouldn't we expect at least that much effort from 'ourselves' to rescue us from an unsuccessful life and create a successful life? |
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Enthusiasm lights your fire and the fire of those around you. |
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People enjoy being around enthusiastic people. |
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Enthusiasm produces creativity that overcomes obstacles and solves problems. |
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Enthusiasm produces results. |
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You must be enthusiastic, inspired and motivated to truly inspire and motivate someone else. |
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Enthusiasm turns ordinary people and results into extraordinary people and results. |
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To increase your enthusiasm think about your goals everyday and the benefit you will achieve and how good you will feel when you accomplish them. |
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Initiative, being a self-starter, is taking the time to think or act to accomplish something worthwhile without someone asking you to do so. |
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No person ever achieved success by waiting for someone to hand it to them. Successful people decide they want something and take action to get it. If you seek you will find. Get going--Now! |
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Be an initiator, someone who makes things happen. Not someone who has things happen to them. |
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Seek to be active not reactive. |
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Do what you need to do without being told. |
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Create your own successful future. |
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If you encounter setbacks or a door closes in your life don't waste time dwelling on what was, take action and create your next success. |
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If you want to achieve something important you must get out there and go for it. Success won't come to you while you're lying down. |
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One of the biggest risks in life is to never take a calculated risk to achieve something you want. |
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It is not written anywhere that always playing it safe leads to success. |
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Taking a calculated risk does not mean to be foolish. Take smart risks. |
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When you take a calculated risk make sure you know all of the risks and the likelihood you can succeed. |
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Never risk everything you have unless you have no other choice. |
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Having Self-Respect and Self-Esteem means you have unshakeable personal beliefs that:
1. You're a good person regardless of what other people
may think of you,
2. You are comfortable in-your-own-skin,
3. You are worthy of success,
4. You are an important person and worthy of respect
and consideration,
5. You can influence other people, and
6. You trust and have faith in your abilities to meet and
overcome any challenge or setback to achieve your
desired goals. |
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Believe in yourself and believe you can achieve your goals, and you will! |
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To accomplish anything significant in life you must always believe you can do it and believe you deserve it. |
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What is behind you or ahead of you is far less important than what is inside of you. |
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Believing in your own self-worth is priceless. |
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Hold yourself in high regard and your abilities will shine. |
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Self-Confidence is a rock solid feeling of certainty and trust that you can achieve what you want and handle specific skills and circumstances. |
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Believe that you are important. Feel important. |
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Be confident -- not arrogant; confidence is believing in your abilities and trusting yourself that you can handle any situation. Arrogance is thinking you are better than someone else. |
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Whatever confidence you believe and display in yourself, you should also believe exists in everyone you meet. Then they won't think you're arrogant, they will respect you. |
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Always believe that you can solve any problem. The solution is out there. You know you just have to find it. |
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To be confident focus on your desired outcome not on the difficulty to get there. |
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To build confidence set small goals and achieve them. Achieving any goal builds confidence. Setting goals and achieving them is the #1 way to develop confidence. |
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Intensely practice imagining yourself as confident and you will become confident. |
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Act confident and you will become confident. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Try to limit your exposure to advertisements. Their purpose is to make you feel dissatisfied, that you have unmet needs and that only by having whatever they are pushing will you feel good and be respected by other people. |
Jerry Bruckner
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To improve your self-esteem and be comfortable in your own skin realize that your life is a priceless gift to yourself and your loved ones and friends. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Maintain positive thoughts, positive attitudes and positive actions throughout the day and you will have a positive day. |
Jerry Bruckner
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How far you can go and succeed tomorrow is determined by your attitude today. |
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Having a positive attitude enables you to do everything you do better than if you have a negative attitude. |
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Think that you died and just came back to life. Think how great you would feel; you'd be extremely happy, excited, energized, eager to enjoy life and you would see the best in everything. When you have a positive attitude like that you will want to set goals and work hard to achieve them to be successful. This is the attitude you should always maintain. |
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Don't let other people destroy your positive attitude. When other people gossip about something depressing or negative that really has no impact to your life or theirs and they are on Channel N (Negative), you should politely change your conversation topic to Channel P (Positive), or say you have to leave to do something else. |
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Every night before you go to sleep and when you wake up in the morning fill your mind with thoughts that you are very lucky and grateful for all of the things you have and tell yourself that you know that you will have a great day and will be successful working on your goals. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Having a positive attitude is not something you do once in a while. Like car headlights when driving at night on an unlit road, your positive attitude must always be turned on bright or you will only see darkness. |
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Whenever you catch yourself thinking about worry, doubt or fear, quickly change your thoughts and think about something in your life that you are very proud of and remind yourself that you have tremendous abilities and can accomplish anything you decide to do. |
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Everything that's ever been accomplished was done by a human being. And what are you? That's right, a human being. You can achieve anything you want so long as you have the determination and tenacity to get off your but and do what it takes to accomplish it. |
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Attack your goals each day with the mindset that you are relentlessly advancing step by step to complete them and will overcome all obstacles. |
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Desire what you want to achieve with every fiber of your being, and with unshakable belief that you will accomplish it -- and You Will! |
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Have an Iron Will. |
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Willpower is the unflinching purpose to see a task through to completion. |
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Persistence breaks down resistance. |
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Hard work towards achieving your goals does not take something out of you. It puts something in... The mindset that you can achieve whatever you want to! |
Jerry Bruckner
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Think big thoughts that give you strength and make you resilient. |
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Be unstoppable, be tenacious, be indomitable! |
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The difference between a loser and a winner is very simple: a loser quits when things get tough and a winner never quits. Learn this lesson and live it and you will be successful. |
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Resourcefulness is the ability to do a lot with a little. |
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Resourcefulness is the ability to act effectively or imaginatively, especially in difficult situations. |
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Resourceful people can make things happen when the chips are down. |
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Resourcefulness develops in response to scarcity and the need to be an active, inquisitive problem solver. |
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Being resourceful means knowing how to get the information and results you want. |
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Resourcefulness = Necessity + Creativity + Intelligence + Efficiency + Persistence. |
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Resourcefulness is figuring out and taking action to get things done when the path is not clear. It is focusing on solutions rather than problems. |
Jerry Bruckner
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A resourceful person steps up to the plate and solves unexpected problems. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Figure out what motivates you and why, and keep doing it till you succeed. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Don't rely on anyone to provide your motivation; because they may not be around when you need motivation. |
Jerry Bruckner
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A self-motivated person will always find the road to success even without a map. A person without self-motivation can't find success even if it's right in front of them. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Remind yourself often that you can succeed -- and you will. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Self-motivation is more powerful than talent. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Write down a list of the benefits you will get by achieving your goals and read it several times each day. This will remind you why you are working on these goals and will encourage you to do your best. |
Jerry Bruckner
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A friend is someone who encourages you and can raise your spirits and wants you to succeed. |
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A friend makes life more enjoyable by spending time together on common interests. |
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A friend will be honest with you about your flaws and suggest how to improve them. |
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The value of a good friend is priceless. No amount of money can buy a true friend. |
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To have a good friend, be a good friend. |
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If you don't have a good friend figure out why and do something to find someone you can be good friends with. |
Jerry Bruckner
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There is no shortage of people who want to be good friends with other good people. You just need to have the courage to be yourself around others. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Negative people are like two ton anchors. They weigh you down and prevent you from going anywhere. |
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If you have a dream to do something don't listen to other people who tell you it can't be done if they have never attempted to do what you want to do. |
Jerry Bruckner
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The hottest fire can be extinguished by water. In the same way, your burning desire to accomplish your goals will be extinguished if you absorb the constant complaining, laziness, pessimism, lack of self-confidence and lack of self-esteem of people around you. |
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Making a decisive decision means to be able to quickly make a decision to do something, or not to do something, even if the choices are ambiguous and all of the facts are not yet known. |
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An example of being decisive in ordinary life is that a decisive person can order a meal quickly even if the menu is very long while others sit and read the menu again and again and can't make up their mind. |
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Successful people are very good at making decisive decisions. It allows them to act and do while others would only think and do nothing. |
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A decisive person is not an impulsive decision maker. They do not oppose thinking through the various choices. But when they decide the time is right to make their decision they decide quickly. |
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You can start to become a decisive person by making a decisive decision right now to stop being indecisive. |
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Decisive people balance reason and their emotions in their decisions. |
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To be decisive, be informed, get clarity, understand the problem, consider the pros and cons of alternative choices, and trust your gut to make the right decision. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Problems are part of life. Accept that fact and you will instantly become more confident and less worried about your future. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Don't put off solving a problem. Problems are like weeds, they grow if ignored. |
Jerry Bruckner
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When you have a problem don't focus on why something cannot be done, think how you can do it. |
Jerry Bruckner
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There is a solution to every problem. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Your greatest learning and improvement comes from trying to solve your problems. |
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Successful people enjoy solving problems. |
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Ask lots of questions to solve problems. |
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Make sure you clearly know what the problem is before you move on to thinking about ways to solve it by getting into the habit to always ask this crucial question when you start to consider a problem: 'what is the problem you are trying to solve?' |
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Each time you confront a problem and think through its solution you learn a lot and become better skilled at solving problems. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Solving problems is like exercising with weights to build strength or running to improve your endurance. The more problems you solve the stronger you become to confront and focus on any problem to solve it. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Failing at something is an 'event,' it does not mean 'you' are a failure. |
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The successful person's mindset is that when they encounter a setback or make a mistake they view the situation as an opportunity for them to learn from the situation and improve themselves so they will be prepared to do better next time. |
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There is no such thing as failure; only results. If your results are not good learn from them and change what you're doing to get better results. |
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When you have a setback or make a mistake honestly ask yourself: 'Is there anything I could have done differently to avoid this situation?' and apply that knowledge going forward. |
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It is very good for you to use Self-Criticism to identify what you may have done wrong following a setback, mistake or failure so you learn from the experience. It helps you grow! But don't confuse self-criticism with putting yourself down for the situation. |
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When you learn from setbacks, mistakes and failure you learn what not to do again. |
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It's ok to try something and fail. But you must analyze and learn from the failure so you won't repeat it next time. |
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You must work to learn from each failure what not to do to avoid repeating the mistake. |
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You need to scrutinize your failures with a laser beam to honestly figure out why you did not succeed so you can learn and improve and not make the same mistake or have the same outcome next time. |
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Successful people bounce back from failure, setbacks, opposition, hardship, defeat, discouragement and personal misfortune. |
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Failure is a quitter's word -- don't refer to what you've ever done as a failure. Instead use the word setback or mistake to remind yourself you can overcome it. |
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We can only learn to walk and run by falling down a lot. |
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Enjoy falling down. It means you are learning something new. |
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To succeed you must fail so that you'll know what doesn't work and what not to do the next time. |
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Don't view your failures, setbacks or mistakes as permanent. They present opportunities to learn and have greater success. |
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Many famous people failed over and over before they succeeded. This proves you can succeed no matter how many times you fail if you don't quit and keep improving. |
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Don't just do things right, do the right things. |
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If you know it's not right, don't do it. |
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The most successful people and organizations recognize change quickly, embrace and adapt to the changes, and implement it into their daily routine. |
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Nothing stands still. Even if you are currently successful you must change to remain successful. |
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Keep a sharp eye peeled to see change coming before it arrives. |
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Limiting beliefs such as 'I can't be rich,' or 'I can't have a happy marriage' hold you back and set a ceiling of what is possible or not possible for you. |
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Listen to your inner thoughts. Are you leading yourself to happiness and success or to unhappiness and failure? |
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Conquer you limiting beliefs and nothing can prevent you from achieving success in anything you want. |
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Examine your negative thoughts for false assumptions or beliefs, and change them. |
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Think of why you are not successful. It's so easy to come up with a long list. Now think of how you can become successful -- How come you now have very few or no ideas? The answer is you have been conditioned to think you cannot be successful. But successful people don't think like that. They can come up with a list of ways to be a success because they are conditioned and taught by their parents, teachers and friends that they can, and more importantly, will be, very successful. |
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We're afraid we can't be successful and we're afraid we can.
If we know what we want to accomplish in life but we belief we can't have it, we're left to deal with all the feelings of undeservability, disappointment and limitation with which we surround ourselves.
If we decide we can have it, we're forced to face up to actually doing what it would take to make it happen.
Rather than deal with these two hard choices we subconsciously make a third choice - we pretend not to know what we want out |
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Break through your fear of knowing what you really want to do in your life. |
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It's hard for people to consider what their purpose is in life and what they want out of life. |
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Instead of focusing on why something cannot be done think how you can do it. |
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If you have an attitude of 'Okay, I'll give it a try, but I don't think it will work' you have failed before you start. |
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Become aware of your self talk; what is that voice inside your head saying to you all day? |
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Your negative self-talk is like a virus that infects your self-esteem and self-confidence. |
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Don't listen to the voice of negativity. Listen to your voice of possibility! |
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Be your own best friend, not your own worst enemy. |
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Build yourself up, don't put yourself down. |
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Transform your negative self-talk into positive praise. |
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Don't psych yourself out, psych yourself up! |
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If you are afraid to do something, prepare to do it, and then do it -- your fear will be gone and you will feel great! |
Jerry Bruckner
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You build confidence and courage each time you do what you fear to do. |
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Conquer fear and worry by doing what you fear and worry about. |
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Don't waste time thinking and being afraid of your fear. Instead, spend your time taking action to overcome your fear. |
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When you are fearful immediately snap yourself out of it by thinking positive thoughts and taking action to conquer your fear. |
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Anxiety before a big event is normal. It prepares you to do your best. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Fear of failure and fear of rejection only have power if you give it to them. |
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To overcome your fears develop a mindset that you can accomplish anything and that you always learn and become stronger from experiences that challenge you. |
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If someone rejects you, instead of thinking they don't like you say to yourself: 'How can I change my approach to get what I want?' |
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Rejection can only impact your self-worth if you let it. |
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Never take rejection personally. |
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Learn and improve from any rejection. |
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Rejection does not bother a majestic mountain or an ocean. You should be friendly on the outside and like a mountain and ocean in the inside. This means that your ability to love yourself and respect yourself should not come from whether other people approve or disapprove of you. |
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Stop doing things that don't get you where you want to go! |
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For everything you may do in life you must get into the habit to ask yourself: 'Will this get me closer to my goals?' If not, don't do it or do it only for a brief time to give you some relaxation. |
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No car race has ever been won by a team that puts the wrong gas in the tank and then has to take time to refill it with the right gas. To win you must eliminate everything that does not put you closer to achieving your goals. |
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If you adopt the mindset all day long that you look forward to challenging yourself and growing from the experience you will no longer feel pressure; you will simply do your best in any situation and enjoy it. |
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Pressure is created by how we look at it a particular situation or encounter with a person. It is not the situation or the other person that makes us tense, it is us! We create pressure by imagining a negative outcome. The solution is to train your mind to always perform naturally without thinking about what it needs to do next and what the possible consequences are of your actions. Be in the moment. |
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The objective under pressure is not to be able to perform superbly because that is an unreasonable goal; your objective in very important situations should be to perform the same way you would if you didn't think a lot was on the line. |
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If you think about failing you probably will fail. So don't think about it. Instead, think about how good you will feel after you accomplish what you are trying to do. |
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Go outside your Comfort Zone to bring more success inside your life. |
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If you are too comfortable in life you are not growing as an individual. |
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All activity that develops and improves you is uncomfortable because it is something you are not used to. |
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Lifting weights for exercise is uncomfortable but it makes you strong -- This is a great life lesson. |
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Appreciate doing things that make you feel uncomfortable because it's a sign you are developing. |
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When a mother gives birth she is very uncomfortable but through that painful experience she brings forth the greatest accomplishment -- the birth of a human being. It's the same with your life. If you step outside your Comfort Zone you will give birth to great new abilities in yourself! |
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Meditation allows you to recharge your motivational batteries. When you are feeling down or depressed take a break and recharge yourself by meditating for a while to calm your busy mind, center yourself and energize yourself. |
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It is not enough to only be able to reach a state of complete relaxation meditating at the top of a mountain or being the wise man in a cave where the surroundings are calm. You need to be able to have a calm mind when the surroundings are stormy and throughout your daily life. |
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Meditation develops in you the power to remain calm, centered, focused, and to perform at your peak level of performance. |
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We can become what we imagine. |
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Visualization is mental rehearsal for whatever you want to do or accomplish in life. |
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When you visualize and imagine anything in your mind with sufficient emotional content and vivid detail you plant the seeds in your mind that will grow into the reality you desire. |
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The greatest successes in business, sports, and other human activities that reward success all involved people who deeply imagined their success in their mind and then brought it to life. |
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An affirmation is a strong positive phrase you repeat to yourself that describes something you sincerely desire as already existing. |
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An example of a short affirmation is: 'I am confident, I have a calm and alert mind, I radiate positive vibrations and people enjoy to be around me and to speak with me'. |
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Affirmations are an important tool used for thousands of years to help people change negative aspects in their mind to become positive, and to boost their self-esteem and confidence. |
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If you don't believe repetitive personal affirmations work as a way to get yourself to do something, remember that billions are spent on advertising and marketing to target your subconscious through repetition to 'sell you' to take action to buy or use their products and services. Why not learn how to 'sell yourself to yourself' to get what you want? |
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Repeating affirmations provides positive vitamins for your mind. |
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You can read an affirmation, but it's much more effective if you say it out loud because your voice infuses positive emotion into the affirmation. |
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Saying an affirmation out loud plants the seed of a positive message in your mind which grows into positive thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, feelings and behaviors that counteract your negative self-talk. |
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An affirmation works if its message is believable to you, and you value the message and put emotional content and feeling in it when you repeat it. |
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Like physical exercise, affirmations must be consistently used to produce maximum results. |
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A good time to use an affirmation is when you wake up and before you go to sleep, and whenever you are feeling down or need a mental boost. |
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Create a list of the experiences and accomplishments in your life that you greatly enjoyed and are very proud of. Carry that list with you and read it whenever you are feeling down. Vividly recall the feelings of happiness and success and remind yourself that you have been a winner before and you have the power to win again! |
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Remind yourself of past happiness and accomplishments to fire up your passion to accomplish, improve and be successful today and tomorrow. |
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Go beyond merely communicating to 'connecting' with people. |
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TRUST is the most important element for effective communication. |
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Be likeable. People like to be with people they like. |
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You don't get a second chance to make a first impression. |
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Make a great first impression. |
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Smile big -- it instantly creates a positive relationship. |
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Learn how to properly shake hands. |
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Learn how to introduce yourself and others. |
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People love to hear their own name. Learn to use it in conversation and treat it with respect. |
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Call people by their names. When you call a person by their name they know you respect and value them. |
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Be clear, brief, succinct, and to the point. |
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Learn to trade minds with other people. Always try to see through the eyes of the other person. What motivates them? What are they thinking about? What do they want? What would the other person think about what I am going to say or do? How would they react? |
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Target your message for your particular audience. |
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Put yourself in the other person's shoes. |
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The biggest problem in communication is thinking you have clearly communicated without confirming it. |
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Always make sure you have clearly communicated. Don't assume anything you said was clear. Ask for the other side to repeat it so both of you are sure. |
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What you do speaks louder about who you are than what you say. |
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The meaning of your communication is the response you get from the person you communicated with. |
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Be empathetic, understand what people are feeling. |
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Pause before you speak to show you are thinking about what the other person has said. |
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Understand the use of verbal and non-verbal communication. |
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Learn to really listen to what people say - verbally and non-verbally. |
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We have two ears and one mouth because it's more important to listen than talk. |
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Use reflective listening to confirm your understanding of what someone has said. |
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Listen for what interests the person you are talking with and talk about it. |
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Never interrupt anyone while they are speaking. |
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Vary the speed of your voice. |
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Learn how to tell a joke. People love to talk with people who can make them laugh. |
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If you must disagree, disagree without being disagreeable. |
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When someone says something you disagree with tell them you value their point of view before you say anything contrary to it. This will make them receptive to what you say. |
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When you give negative criticism wrap it in two slices of praise. First tell the person why you value them. Then explain what you think they did wrong or needs improvement. Then tell them you have confidence they will improve and be very successful. |
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Don't hijack people's conversations. When you join a conversation talk about what they are talking about. Don't abruptly change the subject to what you want to talk about. |
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Don't participate in negative gossip about people. |
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Everyone is a salesperson whether they realize it or not. You may not be selling a product or service for money, but in our daily lives each of us are in situations where we need to influence and persuade other people and affect their decisions in favor of our position. |
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Before someone will be persuaded by you they must trust you, respect you, believe you are very knowledgeable in the subject and that you are interested in finding out what their interests and needs are, and are suggesting to them -- not selling -- the best solution to get the result they want or solve their need or problem. |
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Do not view yourself as a salesperson or project to others that you are a salesperson when pitching anything. Instead, see and project yourself as a trusted advisor. |
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Before you can persuade someone you must learn what they need, want or like and why. |
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To be successful when you speak to persuade someone to do something you must convey to the other person 'what's in it for them.' Explain the benefits to them of what you are presenting. |
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Don't think of making a one time sale to someone. Instead, think how you can create a long term relationship with them which will result in repeat business and referrals. |
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Get the other person comfortable with saying 'yes' a few times to unimportant things before you ask them to commit to your main idea, proposal or what you are selling. |
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The main ingredient to sell anything is to be enthusiastic about what you are selling! Your goal is to transfer your enthusiasm into the other person so they also feel enthusiastic to agree with you. |
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In life you rarely get what you don't ask for. |
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There is nothing wrong with asking for what you want or saying what you don't want. |
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If you don't tell people what you want they won't know. |
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Don't let anyone bully you into submission or silence. Find the power within you and stick up for yourself. |
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Your personal success is tied to your ability to build a network of people who you can look to for help and advice. |
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To build a network, always think of how you can help other people in your network. People like to help people who help them. |
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If you don't have a network of contacts ask yourself why? And ask yourself what you may be doing wrong and make a plan and take action to start building your network. |
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Don't think it's enough to just do your job at work. Attend company events and join industry associations -- make it your job to meet and create a positive relationship with as many people as you can who can help you in your career. |
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Practice how to introduce yourself and how to succinctly explain what you do to put your best foot forward and capture the interest of the person you are talking with. |
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If you attend a networking event stand where people can see and meet you. Don't hide in the corners. |
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The better you treat people the more they will want to help you achieve your goals. |
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Customers don't expect you and your product or service to be perfect. But they do expect you to quickly fix things when they have a problem. |
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No one says a bad word about the person who gives them great service. |
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Successful businesses know that lasting success requires providing great service to their customers so they stick with you and provide referrals. Apply this same lesson to your life. Value everyone you meet. You never know when they can help you or say something good or bad about you to other people that can help or hurt your ability to achieve a goal and succeed. |
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If you sell anything on the Internet, you must remember that your competitor is only a mouse click away. |
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Treat your current customers so good that they will never become someone else's new customers. |
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It's not enough to 'satisfy' your customers. You must provide exceptional service so they provide repeat referrals. |
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Never take your friends, co-workers, loved ones or customers for granted. Thank them often, let them know they are valued and appreciated, and make them believe you are sincere. |
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Treat each customer as if they are your only customer. |
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Your 'Elevator Pitch' is an expression that represents how, in 30 to 60 seconds, you can verbally present yourself and whatever product or service you personally provide or represent to someone with the goal to get them interested and excited to learn more about you and your product or service. |
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To be effective your 'Elevator Pitch' should contain the following:
1. What is the product or service you provide?
2. Why does it exist?
3. Who does it exist for?
4. How do you have the expertise to provide this product or
Service?
5. What value does it provide? What problem is solved by your
product or service? |
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Your Personal Brand is what people associate with you when they think about you. For instance, do they think you are an excellent salesperson, or accountant? Is your reputation that you are very reliable and always keep your appointments? You must work to develop a personal brand and reputation that defines you in people's minds the way you want to be known. |
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At some point, no matter what you do you will need to work with other people to accomplish some part of your goals. Your ability to work effectively with other people will determine whether you succeed or fail. |
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Our attitudes are infectious. If we work with people we must transmit positive attitudes to have a positive working relationship. |
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Develop effective relationships with other people. |
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Teamwork is the ability for two or more people to think 'we' instead of 'me' when they work toward a common goal. |
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Teamwork works best when people like each other, respect each other and they share a common interest that what they do together must and will succeed. |
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Investing effort and time to improving teamwork is one of the best ways to improve a team's effectiveness and their likelihood to succeed with their individual and common goals. |
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The skills of an effective leader to lead other people can be used to operate a successful business, and you can use the same skills to lead and create a successful personal life. |
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When you think about individual business skills think how they can be applied in your own life, for example, planning and goal setting, marketing and team building. |
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You must be the captain of your own ship to lead yourself and others to success. |
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Leadership is performed by two types of leaders: those who have a leadership title and everyone else in the world. |
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Self-Leadership is having an internal compass that sets your direction for every move you make each day. |
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We are all leaders of our own lives. |
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Don't be a run-of-the-mill manager of your life; Be a visionary leader with goals and a plan to achieve them. |
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Think like a CEO to lead your life. Think return on investment (ROI) of your time and resources, increase your capacity, skills and productivity, and market your personal brand. |
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Top notch leaders know that effective leaders are likeable; though that doesn't mean they are soft. |
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Don't be a dictator that rules people by force or fear. People follow dictators but they will never give them 100% of their support and probably none of their creativity. |
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The authoritative command leader is never as effective as the coach leader. A leader who always blames people under their supervision for mistakes, or tells other leaders in the organization or their own boss that those under their supervision are stupid for making so many mistakes, has missed the point that a leader is supposed to take personal responsibility for all mistakes and blame only themselves. |
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The most important skills to be a leader are: Lead by example, know how to recruit and get the best from each person, know how to build high performing teams, have an open mind, and know how to teach people to think in new directions. |
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Great leaders know how to instill pride in the people who work for them to be proud of the work they do. |
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Don't ever refer to people working with or for you as 'human resources.' People like to be treated like 'people,' not 'resources' such as a desk, chair or a computer. |
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An excellent leader makes people feel valued and empowered. |
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Some leaders never say a sincere 'thank you'. A real leader knows that saying 'thank you' and making those under their supervision feel appreciated, valued and empowered are the most important things a leader can do. Otherwise, given the opportunity people will eventually leave. |
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Unfortunately, many leaders don't have people skills and are not real coaches even if they think they are. Talk about metrics and process all day long (they are important), however, in the end 'people' perform the processes and a leader better know how to make people feel appreciated or the process will not be effective. |
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A brilliant business process cannot truly succeed unless you inspire the people who perform it to get along and think about the value of helping each other like family. That's real leadership. |
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A leader must be quick to spot problems and take action to find solutions. |
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Lay the law down that everyone in your company must be fully prepared to attend all of their meetings, arrive on time, not waste time in meetings, and perform their responsibilities and assignments when due. |
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Great leaders don't hoard knowledge. They know that knowledge is like peanut butter, it works best when spread around. |
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Excellent leaders know that you can't do everything yourself - delegate, delegate, delegate. |
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For leaders to be most useful to their company and to the productivity of the people they supervise, leaders must make the people they supervise feel that they are approachable and welcome new ideas, criticism and questions from them. |
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Time is life. When you run out of time you run out of life. |
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Stop living your life as if you have a thousand years to live and become successful -- You don't! Hurry up and make something of your life before you run out of time! |
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Treasure and use each precious minute of your time as if it were the last minute you have. |
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The value of your time is priceless but unfortunately it's not until you have reached your end that you realize its worth. |
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The biggest mistake you can make in life is to waste your time. |
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Having a happy and enjoyable life where you are able to provide for yourself, your family and loved ones, help your friends and the larger community requires you to become the best you can be in life. You must use your time as effectively and efficiently to develop yourself into a person with a successful life, or else you might run out of time to do so. |
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It's easy to sleep all day. You must get up and take positive action in service of your goals to be successful. |
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Do not sleep your way through life. Wake up! Live the time you have! Make something out of yourself with your time here or get used to big disappointments in life. |
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Invest your time, don't just use it. |
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Before you start to spend time doing something ask yourself 'What benefit are you going to get from doing that activity? Is there a better use of your time?' |
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Get in the habit of asking yourself: 'Is what I am doing, this minute, moving me closer to my major goals?' |
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The reason so many people are not successful is because they spend too much time on their secondary activities, time wasters and hobbies, that they don't have time to perform work that will get them where they want to go in life. |
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You must manage your time and not just use it. |
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First things first, everything you do is done better when it's organized. |
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You must prioritize what you do because there are always more things to do than there is time to do them. |
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Make a prioritized To-Do list and always keep it with you. |
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Always know what your top three priorities are and do something every day to accomplish them. |
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Prioritize your most important tasks and work on your higher priority tasks before working on your lower priority tasks. |
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Focus on 'important' tasks and do not get caught up spending too much time on any 'urgent' tasks that are not important. |
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Have a sense of last minute urgency all the time. This means focus and work as hard on a task at the beginning of the task and whenever you work on it as if you were running out of time to complete it. |
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Invest some time to prevent future problems. |
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Spend some time everyday on a task to accomplish your goal, this chips away at it and keeps it fresh in your mind. Don't skip days working on a goal or you may stop working on the task. |
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Focus on one thing at a time and give it your best effort. |
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Multitasking is evil. But know how to chew gum and walk at the same time. |
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It is preferable to do one thing at a time and do it superbly, with all your concentration and skill. However, there are times when we must know how to do more than one thing at a time, such as walking and talking or driving a car while tuning its radio. |
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Unless required for your work, never say 'Yes' to spending your time with someone or doing something they ask you to do unless you really want to do it. Learn to say 'No' to activities and people that will waste your time. |
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Most people get fatigued and cannot work effectively for long periods of time. Use 'timeboxing' which means to work in short controlled bursts to perform your tasks at a sustained optimal level. |
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Work in short blocks of time, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, take a break, continue... Whatever tempo works best for you. |
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Use a timer to make sure you don't work too long or too short. |
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Be punctual. Never be late. 1 hour early is better than 5 minutes late for an appointment with someone. Being on time shows respect for yourself and others. Don't steal other people's time by being late. |
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Turn off the TV and turn on your life! |
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Maximize your time. Einstein worked on his breakthrough theories while working as a clerk in the Patent Office. |
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Don't confuse rushing or being busy with being productive or effective. Many people are very frantically busy but don't accomplish much that is really important. |
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Spend as much time as you can with your children and use that time to let them know they are loved and important, and that they can learn to do and become anything they want to if they are willing to work hard for it. |
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Don't allow your present and future success to be consumed by your past. |
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Don't hold onto the past so tightly that you don't have a free hand to embrace your future. |
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Whether it is 10 years ago or yesterday, the past is gone and you only have right now to live. Live in the moment. |
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Don't carry around past disappointments and grudges. Let them go so you can live your life in the present to its fullest. |
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If you keep looking back with one eye to an unhappy past you won't have two eyes to be able to see your bright future ahead. |
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Make peace with your past. |
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You must understand and learn from your past to live your best now and be able to plan for your future. |
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Whatever you are doing right now, do it with all the attention, awareness and presence that you can muster. Don't let your life pass you by while you are thinking about something else that is a past shadow of your life. |
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Think like an entrepreneur -- always be on the lookout for opportunity and how to exploit it. |
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Opportunities are all around you if you have the courage and take the time to look and pursue them. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Most people don't recognize opportunity because it's frequently masked in failure, seems impossible to achieve, or looks like work. |
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There is always a hidden opportunity in a problem if you look for it. |
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You must have a mindset to always look for and create new opportunities. If a door closes look for another door that opens. |
Jerry Bruckner
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If you lose a job make sure you consider whether it might be a blessing in disguise and an opportunity to work at something you really want to do. |
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The successful person recognizes opportunity, evaluates thier choices and makes decisive decisions that bring them closer to achieving their goals. |
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Grasp quickly at an opportunity. It will not sit around and wait for you. |
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Don't ignore small opportunities. They often lead to larger opportunities. |
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To breakthrough or get to the next level look around for opportunities - then climb the high board and take the jump. After you do you will be changed for life and it will be easier after you take the plunge. |
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Just because you know a way that works that doesn't mean there isn't a better way. |
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It's impossible for a person to learn something if they already think they know it. |
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Don't think you know everything. |
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Be open minded, seek out and be receptive to new ideas. |
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Good ideas can come from anyone, not just those with an impressive job title. Never ignore or discount an idea because the person who raises it does not have a lot of experience or a fancy job title. |
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Ideas are lighter than helium. Capture ideas before they float away. |
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When you have an idea, immediately write it down or save it somehow before it floats away and you can't remember it. |
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Knowledge plus the creativity to use that knowledge in new and different ways is a formula for success. |
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Doing what everyone else does may keep you in the game, but you'll only achieve great success if you are creative and figure out how to do something new or better. |
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Creativity is a state of mind. You can choose to think creatively. |
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To be creative, think how different concepts or existing products or services can relate to each other and compliment each other to produce something of value. |
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Creativity is seeing how one of this plus one of that can equal three. |
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There's value in looking for new and improved ways to do things. |
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Look for synergies between things. |
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Creativity is not just for artists. Everyone can be creative in whatever they do. |
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Your Mother said it best when she told you: 'Treat people the way you would want them to treat you.' |
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If you live your life by treating people good you will feel good. |
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Courage is being afraid to do something and doing it anyway because you have decided it's more important to do it than to be afraid. |
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Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes it's just a quiet voice inside of you that says 'you can do it'. |
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Spend as much time with your spouse and children as possible. Enjoy every minute you spend with them and make them worthwhile for them and you. |
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Hug your spouse and children every day and tell them you love them; you never know when it will be the last time. If you don't have a spouse or children then do this with your primary personal relationship. |
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For people to trust you your word and must be impeccable. If you promise to do something you must do it. |
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Once your word is broken you don't have much to say for yourself. |
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Promise what you'll do, then do what you promise. |
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Happiness is a choice. Why not be happy all the time? Being unhappy doesn't get you anywhere. |
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Look at how young children laugh. They never pretend to laugh. When they are happy they laugh with all their soul and radiate happiness. That's how you should feel when you laugh. |
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Having all the riches in the world will not make you feel better than personally helping someone who is desperately struggling with a hardship. If you don't believe this try it sometime. It will change your life for the better. |
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Your words of kindness cost you nothing and are worth so much to those who receive them. |
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Never mistake being kind with being a push over. The former is a virtue the later is a weakness. |
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When you respect other people you respect yourself. |
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The poorest and weakest people need our respect the most. |
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You demonstrate gratitude when you are thankful and appreciative for something in your life. |
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When you wake up each day be grateful for your life. |
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Don't hesitate to thank and compliment people. |
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If you do something great people will find out. Don't cheapen your accomplishment by bragging or boasting about it. |
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Just because you are humble doesn't mean you can't politely tell people that you are a winner and very good at what you do. |
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Being humble does not mean you need to be a sheep. |
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Many of the strongest, hard hitting and fierce athletes are very humble people when they are outside of where they compete and do not brag about themselves or their accomplishments. |
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When you forgive anyone including yourself you are saying I know you did something wrong but I believe you can change and improve and not do the same thing again. |
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When you forgive someone you free yourself from having to carry around your negative emotion towards them. |
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It's good to forgive; but don't ever forget what they did and why they did it. |
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When you forgive someone you do not change the past but you do enlarge your future with him or her. |
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You poison your own ambition by being envious of other people's accomplishments or possessions. Instead of envying them consider it proof that, with hard work, you too can obtain what they have. |
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Never envy someone; it elevates them in your mind to being superior to you. You should always believe that you are just as good as anyone else and that with hard work you can be the best you can be. |
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Unfulfilled expectations produce anger, and if not released anger will turn to bitterness. Bitterness leads to resentment, which leads to revenge, that leads to not being grateful, which leads to hopelessness and despair. |
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Anger is a fire that burns inside of you that if it is not extinguished will consume everything good about you. |
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Being angry at someone does no one any good. You must release your anger and take action to deal with the underlying cause. |
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If you have a strong body to carry around your strong mind and take strong action you will be more successful than someone who is physically very weak and always tired. |
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When you exercise your body your mind gets a better house to live in. |
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Exercising today is a long term investment in your health. |
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To be successful you need a flexible, strong and quick mind and a flexible, strong and quick body. |
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There is an inseparable connection between your mind and body. If one of them is weak the other cannot reach its full potential. |
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I'm a spiritual person as well as a realist. The fact is that unless you live in a cave you need money to live and the more money you have the better you can provide for yourself and your family. |
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No matter how much you want to earn, you must learn how to earn, save and invest it or else you want have much of it when you need it. |
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Live below your means. |
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Limit your personal debt as much as possible and use it to purchase assets, not merely things you consume, wear or use up. |
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Save 10% of what you earn and invest it in low risk investments so it will grow and provide you income when you are old. |
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Only take investment advice from someone who is an expert. |
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Luck is the Universe taking deliberate action as part of its plan to achieve its goal for you! |
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There's no magic to becoming lucky. If you want to be lucky develop expertise in something and look for ways to apply it. |
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Most good luck is the result of a person's hard work and good judgment making choices in their life. Most bad luck is the result of the lack of these actions. |
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Bad luck happens to people who are lazy, have a negative attitude, don't have any valuable skills, don't learn from their mistakes, don't get along well with other people, and don't set goals or don't take sufficient action to achieve their goals.
Do you want to guess how to have good luck? |
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No one but you truly knows the great effort you have put in to achieve what others think was obtained through pure luck. Even buying a lottery ticket every week for years before you win takes effort. |
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People confuse luck with chance. Chance is gambling at a casino where you have no control over the outcome. Luck is about probabilities and you do have control over your outcomes in life because you can increase your ability to be prepared and ready to take advantage of an opportunity that comes your way. |
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Don't worry how hard it is to start working toward a personal goal. Starting anything that will pay off for you will always require hard work. Keep in mind that once you get it going you don't have to work as hard to keep it going. |
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The greatest effort is to go from nothing to something. Once you decide on a goal, figure out how to achieve it and start taking massive action to accomplish it, your peddling on the road to success will get much easier. |
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Never work with so little effort that you accomplish nothing or work too hard that you burn out. For long lasting success learn what your optimum momentum is and try to maintain it in everything you do. |
Jerry Bruckner
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Working at a constant momentum keeps your motivation up and your productivity high. |
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Always be grateful for what you have now, and where you are at in your life because no matter what you currently have many people are far worse off than you; But also remember, that feeling a little restless and discontented to be better than you are today will spur you on to make you improve. |
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Whether you are presently successful or not, if you get too comfortable with your life you will stagnate and deteriorate. |
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Complacency leads to poor performance and poor results because its friends are smugness, apathy and inaction, and its enemies are concern, desire and taking decisive determined action to accomplish your goals. |
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It sounds simple but the truth is that successful people ask themselves and other success oriented people lots of questions about how to succeed in life, which gives them answers and knowledge, which allows them to construct a good plan for their personal success - unsuccessful people don't ask these types of questions. |
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If you don't ask a question about something you don't presently know it's likely you will never know the answer. |
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When you ask a question you focus thought on a choice or problem. |
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If you ask a question you will get an answer. The answer may or not be something you like but you will get an answer and you can then devise a plan and take action to get you where you need to go. |
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Look at very young children, they ask questions all day long, it's programmed into their DNA to ask questions so they can learn and develop. |
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If you want to be successful start asking yourself lots of questions such as 'What skill do I have or want to develop that I enjoy doing and can provide value to or solve people's problems that I can earn a good living doing?' |
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A successful Entrepreneur asks: 'What can I do differently from my competitors to provide extra value to my customers?' In the same way an employee or student can adopt this mindset and figure out how to stand out to get ahead. |
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At the end of the day ask yourself questions about what you did that day such as: 'What did I do today that I am proud of?
What did I do today that I didn't do well and need to improve?' Asking questions like these force you to see where your life is going, and they help you to stay motivated while working on your goals, and to make corrections when needed. |
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If you have a question never be embarrassed or afraid to ask it. |
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