[Achievement] – Awareness, Acceptance and Alteration
With Awareness, Acceptance, and Alteration comes Achievement.
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1st A: Awareness. Be aware that your results are never caused by something outside of yourself; results are always an inside job.
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Your behaviour is causing your results . . . and your conditioning is causing your behaviour. (Conditioning -> Behaviour -> Results) (To change result, change behaviour. To change behaviour, change conditioning)
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2nd A: Acceptance. Accept responsibility for your results.
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3rd A: Alteration. Alter the conditioning in your subconscious mind.
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Conclusion: To ACHIEVE any goal you set, become Aware of the cause of your results. Accept responsibility for your results. Alter your conditioned subconscious mind.
[Action] – Discouragement Is Devil’s Most Prized Possession
Satan was having a sale of his wares. Jealousy, hatred, fear, etc. DISCOURAGEMENT was his most prized possession, and it was not for sale.
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All other ‘wares’ may lead immature people to act unwisely, to fight, or to run. But at least they act. Discouragement hurts people more than any of these, and it causes them to sit down, pity themselves, and do nothing.
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The answer to discouragement is intelligent action. Get rid of discouragement before it gets rid of you.
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“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than
the long-range risks of comfortable inaction.”
~ John F. Kennedy
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“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence.
Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear . . .
any action is better than no action at all.”
~ Norman Vincent Peale
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“Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.”
~ Thomas Carlyle
[Action] – Thought Plus Action
Successful living consists of knowing and being. Knowing all about the right way to live and not acting on what you know, on a daily basis, can prove to be very destructive for anyone.
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Half-truths are more elusive than lies.
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Positive thinking as a medium to the good life is just that: half-truth. Positive thinking alone does not deliver, it does not fulfill. In fact, it frustrates.
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The power of positive thought lies in its being expressed in a positive act.
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Faith without action is dead. Nothing can result so negatively as thinking positively without the action that fulfills that thinking.
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Schools should award diplomas for what we do rather than what we know.
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Nothing is more powerful than a positive thought joined with positive action.
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“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection
will come even more effective action.”
~ Peter Drucker
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“Action is the real measure of intelligence.”
~ Napoleon Hill
[Action] – Wake Up
Winners are wide awake; they are alive. Every day you will find them in the marketplace making things happen. The real winners are not just dreamers. Although they have dreams, they are doers: They realise their dreams.
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If you are not presently living the way you really want to live, don’t feel bad about it or have any regrets about the past. Today can be the beginning of a new life.
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The winners are openly rewarded for the help they provide.
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Winners are easy to spot; they very rarely hide. They drive nice vehicles, wear good clothes, live in beautiful homes, take interesting vacations, have happy families, and live in healthy bodies. They have dynamic, creative personalities and are almost always involved in executing a big idea.
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Winners do not permit the criticism of the losers to distract or slow them down. They are too busy turning their dreams into reality and helping others do the same thing.
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“Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”
~ Vince Lombardi
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“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached,
don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
~ Confucius
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“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
[Ambition] – You Are a Natural Goal Achiever
Too many of us were told at an early stage that we should be satisfied with what we had. Goals and their importance were lost.
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You should never be satisfied. Happy, but not satisfied. Dissatisfaction is a creative state. It took you out of the cave and put you into the condominium.
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Develop a healthy dissatisfaction with your life. Set new goals – big, exciting goals. That is called living. Everything else is dying.
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“Big results require big ambitions.”
~ Heraclitus
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“You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.”
~ E. O. Wilson
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“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
[Attitude] – Our Gift of Creative Ability
When you change or improve as a person, your environment and surroundings change to reflect this improvement.
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Environment is a reflection of the people. Change the people for the better, and the environment will change for the better as well.
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Watch one person change, and that person will leave his or her old environment and seek out a new one.
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Our attitude is the environment we carry with us during the day.
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“Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.”
~ Earl Nightingale
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“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”
~ Kahlil Gibran
[Attitude] – Are You Really Right?
Once we decide we are right, an abundance of energy goes into defending our rightness. However, if we look at the situation objectively, we will quickly become aware that we are never right.
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The minute you believe your way is the right way, all other ways will be wrong. That attitude will quickly paralyze progress and shut down the creative juices.
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The next time you hear yourself saying, “I’m right,” correct yourself immediately by repeating, “That is a good way . . . However, there is a better way, and I will look for it.”
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Your way could be the right way. It may be effective . . . but it’s never right. There is always a better way. Find it!
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“Our attitude toward others determines their attitude toward us.”
~ Earl Nightingale
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“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right;
a single experiment can prove me wrong.”
~ Albert Einstein
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“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.”
~ Mahatma Gandhi
[Attitude] – Rise Above It
One of the most direct and common reactions to frustration is aggression . . . and this reaction itself often leads to additional sources of frustration.
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“Rise above it.” Put this phrase to the test today. If we all faced our problems in that frame of mind, many of those troubles would vanish, and frustration would disappear.
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“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
~ Thomas Jefferson
[Awareness] – Room of Mirrors
If a person’s mind was like a room with mirrored walls, it wouldn’t matter which way he looked, all he was ever able to see was himself and his situation. This down-and-out attitude was caused by thinking only for himself. His problems would be solved if he replaced the mirrored walls of his mind with windows.
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By replacing the mirrors with windows, the high level of sensitivity can be converted into awareness.
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“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”
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“In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision.”
~ Dalai Lama
[Change] – Leave The Cage
The starting point of all change is when we change the dominant beliefs that have been limiting our awareness.
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It’s a false belief that some people have greater potential than others. This has caused many to live like a bird in a cage, which has no idea of how much vast space exists outside.
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“An old error is always more popular than a new truth.”
~ German proverb
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You cannot get improved results in your life with the same old behavior.
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One small change in your actions often produces a tremendous change in your results.
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“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”
~ Pablo Picasso
[Choice] – Only You Can Decide
“Prerequisite of success: hard word, keen intelligence and unflinching will.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt
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Only you can decide to be your very best, to use your intelligence, to think positive, progressive, constructive thoughts, to develop an unflinching will, to concentrate, to stay focused on your chosen objective until the task is successfully completed.
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Happiness and success are gifts you give yourself.
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“The will to do it.”
~ Werner von Braun
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“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
~ Simone de Beauvoir
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“It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.”
~ Aesop
[Choice] – Problems Are Mental in Nature
“It ain’t what a person don’t know that hurts them,
it’s what they know that ain’t so that hurts them.”
~ Mark Twain
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Most of us buy into false concepts. Jobs and money are never the primary cause of stress. Thinking, negative thinking, causes stress. The real cause of all problems lies in our thoughts, not in things or circumstances.
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Exercise the power of choose. If you are feeling stressed, choose to relax. Look at your problems as a stranger might. Then do something about them . . . NOW!
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“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”
~ Napoleon Hill
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[Balanced Life: Begin in your imagination -> Thought -> Organize it into ideas and plans -> Transform it into reality.]
[Choice] – You Can Choose
How many times in a single day do you suppose you say, “I have to”? There is nothing you “have to” do. Everything you do, you choose to do.
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The ability to choose is your greatest power.
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The word “no” can be a complete sentence. You can say no!
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Life is too short to be spent doing something you have not chosen to do.
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Many people stay in jobs they detest. Another short, complete statement, “I quit,” could change their lives.
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“Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.”
~ Samuel Johnson
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“The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!”
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.”
~ Vernon Howard
[Circumstances] – Call Your Own Shots
Where we have been, where we are now, and where we are going. These are three important phases in everyone’s life.
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You can mentally mix exciting experiences from your past and present that will prepare you to develop an interesting vision for your future.
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Our past experiences and our present circumstances have absolutely no power other than that which we choose to give them.
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Get into the habit of giving your mental energy to your past accomplishments, yours successes, the experiences that brought great joy into your life. You would then only see all of the opportunities that surround you. Positive circumstances will pop up one after another. Where you are now suddenly becomes very exciting.
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Keep a win list, a record of your accomplishments. Carry it with you and read it periodically.
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“Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.”
~ William Wordsworth
[Communication] – Develop Your Intuition
Vibrations never lie. Use your “sixth sense”. Trust your “gut feel”.
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“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
~ Steve Jobs
[Communication] – Listening – The Great Compliment
Our ability to listen is the greatest asset for successful communication.
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The friends who listen to us are those we find ourselves moving toward, wanting to be with them, to be close to them.
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When people are listened to, it stimulates them, enabling them to unfold and expand. Ideas grow within them and come to life. It makes people happy and free when they are listened to.
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When people ask us to listen to them and we start giving advice, we have not done as they have asked.
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Effective listening has been known to solve more ills than a truckload of pills.
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Become a better listener today!
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There is a difference between hearing and listening. Your hear with your ears; you listen with your emotional mind. [Wisening: Some say “You hear with your ears; you listen with your heart.”]
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When you actively listen to other people, you are paying them a compliment. You actively listen with your eyes as well as your ears. You listen with your intuitive factor. Even your body posture is an expression of active listening.
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Active listening to someone is a sincere compliment.
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“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.”
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
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“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
~ Ernest Hemingway
[Compensation] – More Than You’re Being Paid For
Q: “Are you presently doing more than you are being paid for?”
A: (a) “Absolutely.” or (b) “Absolutely not.”
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If your answer is (b), you belong to the “Give me the money and then I will do the job.” group.
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The system that drives our economy clearly states, “Do the job and then you get the money.”
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The worker or business that is always rewarded by the employer and customer alike is the one that delivers more than they were paid for.
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The salespeople who give extra service are the top salespeople. The employees who do not watch the clock, but put their heart and soul into their job and are never too busy to do more, are the ones who move ahead and are handsomely rewarded – if not by the company they work for, then by the companies that are waiting in the winds to get them.
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Where do you stand? Review your behavior. Give a little more. You will be amazed and delighted with the rewards.
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“One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But . . . I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.”
~ Thomas A. Edison
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[Management] – Manage Yourself and Others
We are all two people. First, we are the person we present to those around us. Second, we are our real selves.
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Ideally, in the person who reaches total maturity and fulfillment . . . he or she becomes unified, totally one person inside and out. For this person, the war is over; he or she has achieved peach within him- or herself and is totally free.
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The effective manager, or parent, often leads the person to completely remove or partially remove some of the fears that represent blocks to fulfillment, peace of mind, and a more successful, productive person.
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“Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control;
these three alone lead one to sovereign power.”
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
[Mentor] – Do You Need a Mentor?
“No horse gets anywhere until it is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is channeled. And, no life ever grows great until it it focused, dedicated, and disciplined.”
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else . . .
[Mind] – The Magnificent Machine
You can use your brain to think, to build ideas, to solve any problem. You can use it to literally transform your life. It is there, finely tuned, self-maintained, all ready to drive you wherever you choose to go.
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See your brain as a toy compared to your Mind. Your brain is an electronic switching station; it is an instrument of the Mind. Mind is the greatest power in all creation.
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“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”
~ Winston Churchill
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“All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.”
~ Napoleon Hill
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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”
~ Plutarch
[Money] – Become a Millionaire
Every one of these new millionaires started out with the self-image of a millionaire before they became one . . . They consciously made a serious decision to become a millionaire.
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“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”
~ Woody Allen
[Money] – Don’t Let Wealth Escape You
The good life is expensive. There is another way to live that doesn’t cost as much, but it isn’t any good.
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Remember . . . money will definitely make your life more comfortable.
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“If you want to do good, get rich first.”
~ Wallace D. Wattles
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If wealth is something that has escaped you up to this point in your life, you are not unusual . . . What would be unusual would be your decision to do something about it.
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“It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong,
but the love of money for its own sake.”
~ Margaret Thatcher
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“Give, give, give – what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don’t give it away? Of having stories if I don’t tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don’t share it? I don’t intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.”
~ Isabel Allende
[Motivation] – Trophies, Plaques, and Certificates
Check our wall of achievement (the trophies, plaques and certificates) . . . Positive reinforcement is good for us. It reminds us to make our next performance another award-winning one.
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“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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“I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.”
~ Charles Schwab
[Motivation] – Your Cheering Squad
Keep going! Your cheering squad may be just around the corner. you will find people like you who want to better themselves and who are willing to help you improve and grow. You will ultimately attract a more positive, more supportive group of people into your life and you will win.
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“It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”
~ Epicurus
[Obstacles] – Conquer The Obstacles
Returned tired, but enthused.
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Conquer the obstacles, and you will see yourself as a stronger, wiser, and happier person.
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“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.”
~ Booker T. Washington
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“Action is character.”
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
[Opportunity] – Look Where You Are
“People are always blaming circumstances for what they are; I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, they make them.”
~ George Bernard Shaw
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Whenever you find yourself saying or thinking, “I would like to do this or that but I can’t, because . . .” understand that whatever follows the “because” is a circumstance, and the moment you say those words, you have given circumstance control over you.
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“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Greener pastures” . . . succeeding always looks easier in the other person’s line of work. Many people spend so much time thinking of other pastures that they never properly appraise their own.
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Napoleon Hill said that we should not go searching for opportunity but reach out and embrace it right where we are.
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Chances are, what you’re doing is loaded with opportunities that someone else will benefit from if you don’t.
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“You are, at this moment, standing right in the middle of your own ‘acres of diamonds.'”
~ Earl Nightingale
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“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”
~ Demosthenes
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“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.”
~ Katherine Mansfield
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“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger, the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger, but recognise the opportunity.”
~ John F. Kennedy
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Crises represent opportunities to grow in wisdom.
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To the personality that has high goals and a strong desire to reach them, the public criticism is viewed as unpleasant but a necessary part of the experience they require.
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Don’t shy away from crises. You will become a stronger person.
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“Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.”
~ Napoleon Hill
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“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
~ Milton Berle
[Vision] – Build The Picture
Helen Keller was asked if she thought there was anything worse than being blind. She said,
“The most pathetic person in the world is a person who has their sight but no vision.”
~ Helen Keller
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When people have no vision of a better way of life, they have automatically shut themselves into a prison; they have limited themselves to a life without hope.
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Repeated failures can damage people’s self-image and cause them to lose sight of their potential. They give up and resign themselves to their fate.
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Vernon Howard wrote that you cannot escape from a prison if you do not know that you are in one.
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Without a vision of a better life, there can be no hope.
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If you happen to be caught in this type of negative cycle, take the first step in predicting your own prosperous future. Build a mental picture of exactly how you would like to live. Hold on to that vision, and positive ways to improve everything will begin to flow into your mind.
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Your vision is a mental picture of the actual lifestyle of many people you either know or know of. Realize this simple truth. If they can do it, you most certainly can.
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All people have the same potential to live their dream. It is simply a matter of utilizing the unlimited potential we all have.
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“A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it;
action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.”
~ Ayn Rand
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“I imagine that yes is the only living thing.”
~ E. E. Cummings
[Vision] – Be a Visionary
“Who is crazy? Am I crazy because I see the world as it could become? Or is the world crazy because it only sees itself as it is?”
~ Don Quixote, in Man of La Mancha
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Ask yourself: “Who is crazy, the realist or the idealist?
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Bringing all of your conscious attention to bear on your present results will produce more of the same results. This is why unhappy people tend to remain unhappy, lonely people tend to remain lonely, poor people tend to remain poor.
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“The visionaries are the saviors of the world.”
~ James Allen
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If you happen to get a little down today, develop the Quixote attitude. See your position at work or at business, your relationships, your marks at school, or your sales as they could become.
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Build a beautiful picture of the improved results in your mind. Don’t permit the naysayers to sway you. You’ll be amazed at what you can accomplish.
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“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks inside, awakes.”
~ Carl Jung
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“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”
~ Gloria Steinem
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“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
[Winning] – Separate Winning From Losing
The line that separates winning from losing is as fine as a razor’s edge.
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There wasn’t a big difference among people; there was only a big difference in the things they accomplished.
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One person almost start (complete) a project; the other person starts (completes) it.
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In 1947, the highest-earning racehorse had earnings of $761,500. Yet the horse that finished second in earnings that same year, a horse that often lost races a mile long by only a nose, won only $75,000.
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It’s the little things you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective?
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You are probably only one step away from greatness.
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“Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.”
~ Walt Disney
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“A winner never stops trying.”
~ Tom Landry
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“He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul.”
~ Henry Fielding
[Winning] – Rhythm and Winning
The Law of Rhythm – Tide goes out, tide comes in. Summer follows winter. Night follows day. Bad economy is followed by a good economy. You laugh and you cry.
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In every economy – good and bad – some win and some lose. Doing the same things you did when the economy was good is not good enough. You will have to put more coals on the fire in a poor economy to get the same heat you received in a good economy. You must give more energy, more thought, more service.
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There are many ways to win. THINK and you will find them. You may not find all of them, but you will find enough answers to move you over with the winners.
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You don’t have to ride that roller coaster. You can progressively move on an upward path toward any goal. The choice is yours!
- Listen to positive-thinking programs more frequently
- Refer to your inspirational books more often
- Become more selective about whom you spend time with
- Love a little more, hate a little less
- Change the subject to what’s good or walk away when an associate begins complaining
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“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.”
~ Winston Churchill
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“Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.”
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.”
~ Plato
[Work] – Do What You Love
Self-actualized people (that tiny portion of the population who made the most of their human potential):
- did work they felt was worthwhile and important.
- found work a pleasure.
- found there was little distinction between work and play.
- not only did work they considered important, but also did it well and enjoyed it.
- had values and qualities in their personalities they considered to be worthwhile and important.
- chose and developed their values themselves.
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Changing jobs or letting go is a scary proposition even for a confident person. However, you must agree that the alternative is much worse.
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You have the potential to do anything you choose, and to do it well. Today would be an excellent time to start.
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“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
~ Nelson Mandela
[Work] – The Work’s Never Completed
Have you ever noticed that you never seem to get your work completed? In fact, you shouldn’t – if you are moving in the right direction. The task you are presently working on should cause your business to become more successful, which, in time, creates more work or more business.
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One such person was always harried, hurried, and explosive because of the amount of work he thought he had to do. He was told by a psychiatrist to plan to do only six hours of work in an eight-hour day and spend one day a week at the cemetery.
Patient: “What am I supposed to do in a cemetery?”
Psychiatrist: “Nothing much. Just look around, get acquainted with some of the people who are in there permanently. And remember that they didn’t finish their work either.”
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Quit rushing, work steady, and be effective. There is always tomorrow. If you plan to be effective and you have your priorities straight, you will complete the important tasks, and the others can wait.
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The graveyard is full of people who never got everything done.
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“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.”
~ Margaret Fuller
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“Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.”
~ George Sand
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“It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.”
~ Federico Fellini
[Worry] – Worry Is A Psychic Disease
Worry is a psychic disease that has become a national pastime . . . it is very contagious. It causes you to become very lethargic and irritable. It is the forerunner to fear, which causes anxiety and, ultimately, physical disease.
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You will never witness any truly productive behaviour expressed from a worrisome mind.
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Ninety-two percent of what you worry about never happens.
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“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it
with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”
~ Henry Ward Beecher
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“Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.”
~ George Washington
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“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up,
this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done
does away with fear.”
~ Rosa Parks
