Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. – Brian Tracy
The rudder of a sailboat doesn’t control the sea, but it does make a huge difference in where the boat goes.
Goals are much the same.
Without goals, one is rudder-less, blown about by the sea.
But, with goals, one has a direction and a means of managing forward progress – a way to steer one’s ship.
Like success, failure is many things to many people. With a positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again. – W. Clement Stone One of my defining beliefs on failure comes from Tony Robbins: there’s…
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope…
If you’re even willing to believe it’s possible, how do you transform negative interpretations about a situation, that you seem to keep holding? The answer, or at least part of the answer, is to uncover the story you have about how, somehow or another, holding on to that interpretation serves you (generally, serves your emotions)….
We all have a Personal Religion (PR). A PR is the system of beliefs and practices we use feel safe and get what we have. Our PR is (generally) so powerful that it is hidden to us and cannot see it in everyday consciousness. I use the word “religion” purposefully because this system is more…
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. – C.S. Lewis Each move forward requires letting go of a bar to reach forward to the next one. So it is with life. To move forward we must let go…
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. – Og Mandino Of course you can never fail, because every action produces a result (even if only to teach you a difficult lesson). When your determination to succeed is strong enough whatever happens – good or bad – is just part of the…