Success is a matter of understanding and religiously practicing specific, simple habits that always lead to success. ROBERT J. RINGER Your habits determine your outcomes. Successful people don’t just drift to the top. Getting there requires focused action, personal discipline, and lots of energy every day to make things happen. The habits you develop from …
Your subconscious mind does not argue with you. It accepts what your conscious mind decrees. If you say, “I can’t afford it,” your subconscious mind works to make it true. Select a better thought. Decree, “I’ll buy it. I accept it in my mind.” DR. JOSEPH MURPHY Many of us have beliefs that limit our …
“Always think extra hard before crossing over to a bad side, if you were weak enough to cross over, you may not be strong enough to cross back!” Victoria Addino We also know from polygraph (lie-detector) tests that your body reacts to your thoughts—changingy your temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate, muscle tension, and …
A man is literally what he thinks. JAMES ALLEN Research indicates that the average person—that means you!—talks to himself or herself about 50,000 times a day. And most of that self-talk is about yourself, and according to the psychological researchers, it is 80% negative—things such as I shouldn’t have said that…. They don’t like me….I’m …
None of us can change our yesterdays, but all of us can change our tomorrows. COLIN POWELL Does this sound familiar? Some people go through life as if they have a big anchor behind them, weighing them down. If they could release it, they would be able to move faster and succeed more easily. Perhaps …
The life of a winner is the result of an unswerving commitment to a never-ending process of self-completion . Terry Bradshaw One way to take care of to-do items is something we’ve all seen in time management courses: Do it, delegate it, delay it, or dump it. When you pick up a piece of paper, …
“Good , better , best . Never let it rest . ‘ Til your good is better and your better is best.” St . Jerome When you start a project or make an agreement or identify a change you need to make, it goes into your present memory bank and takes up what I call …
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If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? LAURENCE J. PETER Take a look at the diagram above. It’s called the Cycle of Completion. Each of these steps—Decide, Plan, Start, Continue, Finish, and Complete—is required to succeed at anything, to get a desired result, …
“Plan your work and work your plan.” Napoleon Hill Another powerful tool to keep you focused on creating your life exactly as you want it to be is to take a few minutes after you have planned your next day’s schedule and visualize the entire day going exactly as you want it. Visualize everyone being …
“Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.” John Wooden Sit with your eyes closed, breathe deeply, and give yourself one of the following directions: • Show me where I could have been more effective today. • Show me where I could have been more conscious today. • Show me where I could have been a better …