Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. – Oprah Winfrey
What you focus on is everything.
Imagine your “focus” is a steering wheel in a car.
Where you steer towards is what you get.
Of course, sometimes you hit an icy patch or something similar and go off course, but, by and large, where you steer is where you go.
Steer towards what you want.*
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* What you truly, deeply want.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. – Dale Carnegie One of the most important skills in life is knowing the difference. And knowing the difference for you.
He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. – Dutch proverb The hardest thing about anything is starting. Not because the first step is the hardest of the steps, compared to the others. But because there is Safety and anything (and everything) else. It’s kinda like going swimming…
Some people have to do things. They “have to go to work.” They “have to pick their kids up.” They “have to [insert the onerous, terrible task].” There’s two levels of dysfunction here: 1) What about people who don’t have jobs? What about people that would love to have kids? Does anyone think they would say…
Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought. – Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi I love how this sentiment democratizes discovery. It becomes something anyone can do, in regards to anything. You could be a discoverer. Anyone can. How does that shift you? How does change how you look at the world?…
Character is much easier kept than recovered. – Thomas Paine Just as it’s easier to keep an existing customer than to acquire a new one, character and trust is much, much, much harder to recover once it’s is lost than it is to maintain. Therefore, resolve to live in such a way: That you don’t…
Had to include this one: A definition of a leader… Leaders lead. Is that too simple? Writers write. If you want to be a writer, write. And be sure to have people read what you write. And leaders? Leaders lead. If you want to be a leader, go lead. From one of my mentors: Seth Godin.