Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become. – Jim Rohn
Trying to be “successful” is like trying be at your destination while on the journey.
You can’t be anywhere other than where you are.
You don’t get to successful, you do the things that create success.
And you keep doing them.
Success then finds you . . . .
Hurt people, hurt people. That’s how pain patterns get passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion and cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future. – Yehuda Berg [Note: what follows might…
I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But, I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan People fear failure. They worry that things won’t turn out just like they want, so they do little, or nothing And it hurts. It really, really hurts. Not getting-punched-in-the-mouth-by-Mike-Tyson-hurt, but a hurt just as bad. What doesn’t actually hurt…
Imagine I offered to give you $5 each day, for a year, beginning on January 1. The 1st comes and I give you five dollars, and the next day, and the next and I was consistent in giving you the five dollars for say, three weeks. But ’round the 20th of the month I miss…
Formal education will earn you a living, self education will earn you fortune. – Jim Rohn You know the quickest way to irrelevancy in the 21st Century? Stop learning. * * * The world is extremely connected and competitive and the pace of change is accelerating. You simply can’t finish school (whether it be undergraduate,…
Inertia is the reason I can say the following with absolute certainty about your immediate future: the most reliable predictor of what you will be doing five minutes from now is what you are doing now. – Marshall Goldsmith Inertia can either work for you, or against you. Because of this you must choose your actions, and…
One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything – and one’s last is to come to terms with everything. – George C. Lichtenberg These are not steps, in the traditional sense, to be taken in sequence. Ideally one takes both steps simultaneously, throughout their lives. I don’t mean to say you question “everything” in the…