Denis Waitley (quotes) - Wisdom Trove

Real power comes by empowering others.
You can only do good if you feel good.
Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow.
The two most important words are – ‘Thank You’
Winning is a feeling you have no ceiling.
The winner’s edge is all in the attitude,
When you visualize, then you materialize.
Precious Stones, Elements, Time Management
Losers take chances; winners make choices.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Life is like a field of newly fallen snow.
Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.
Inspirational, Relationship, Helping Others
Where I choose to walk every step will show.
Losers let it happen; winners make it happen!
When you speak, ask questions. Don’t lecture.
You become that to which you are most exposed.
The three most important are – ‘If you please’
A good life is a collection of happy memories.
View life as a continuous learning experience.
What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
One person’s ceiling is another person’s floor.
Don’t be a time manager, be a priority manager.
Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
Your habits will determine your quality of life.
The world needs role models, instead of critics.
Real success comes in small portions day by day.
There never was a winner, who wasn’t a beginner.
There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes.
If you’re not networking, you’re not networking.
Time is the ultimate equal opportunity employer.
Discipline is doing within, while you do without.
Your best friend should bring out the best in you
We don’t get what we want, we get what we expect.
Opportunities are problems in search of solutions.
Winners are people with definite purpose in life.
We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.
Inspirational, Wild Imagination, Vivid Imagination
You must feel love within, before you can share it.
The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.
Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior.
Life is a do-it-for-others, do-it-yourself project.
Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.
Denis Waitley quote: Don’t dwell on what went wrong.
Don’t let negative people determine your self-worth.
And the most important single word of all is – ‘You’
Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.
The four most important are – ‘What is your opinion?’
Time is the most precious element of human existence.
We sing because we’re happy and happy because we sing
Success is not the destination; it’s a way to travel.
The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action
The first step toward success will be the biggest one.
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives.
Don’t tell people how to live, demonstrate by example.
The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed.
Great individuals make great successes out of failure.
The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.
Success is not a resting-place – it is a launching pad.
Law Of Attraction, Secret Law Of Attraction, Attraction
The greatest achievements are those that benefit others.
First we make our attitudes. Then our attitudes make us.
Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear
Start edifying the flowers. Stop pointing out the weeds.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned or worn.
The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.
I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.
Losers fix the blame; winners fix what caused the problem.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
People who seek attention, need all the help they can get.
Put up the dream. Put in the knowledge. Put out the effort.
The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.
Come through for others and they will come through for you.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
You must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.
No gift can ever replace the value of being there in person.
When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.
Unless what you say benefits the other person, don’t say it.
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future.
Contentment is for cows; a challenging purpose is for people.
You always project on the outside how you feel on the inside.
Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.
Touch is the magic wand of intimacy. Love is keeping in touch.
Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.
There never was a winner that didn’t expect to win in advance.
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence.
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
Winners believe in their worth in advance of their performance.
Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Virtually nothing can stop a man who has a goal clearly in sight.
Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Denis Waitley (1987). “Being the Best”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated
The most important three words you can say to yourself: Yes I can!
You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.
Winning is beginning. And just by beginning, your game is half won.
We’ve got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Each week set 1 day aside to do something you’ve always wanted to do.
It’s not so much what the job gives you, it’s what you give to the job.
You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.
Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.
Instead of just letting life happen, I’m going to make it happen for me.
As long as we persist in our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow.
If we succeed without sacrifice, it’s because someone sacrificed for us.
If you are not doing what your passion is, you are putting it on layaway.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am.
The five most important words a leader can speak are – ‘I am proud of you’
The truth is, you don’t break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.
Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others
Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing.
When you are able to applaud yourself, it is much easier to applaud others.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.
The most important opinion you’ll ever have is the one you hold of yourself.
Your attitude is either the lock on, or the key to the door of your success.
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
If you have real, internal value, you don’t need a loud, expensive imitation.
Success always has a price; success, with integrity, is the real bottom line.
What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them
Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.
Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called ‘Someday I’ll.’
Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.
Face up to those areas that are weak in your life and seek to make them strong.
Be willing to wait longer for you goals to bear fruit than you had anticipated.
The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.
Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.
You know you’re a success when people tell you, “I like me best when I’m with you.”
Love is one of the few experiences in life that we can best keep by giving it away.
Psychology of Motivation. Book by Denis Waitley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1993.
Denis Waitley (1986). “The Winner’s Edge: The Critical Attitude of Success”, Berkley
The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself.
A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.
Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.
Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.
The world is a mirror and reflects back your expectations. What you get is what you see.
Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted but excited, because you came in fifth last time.
Habits are like comfortable beds. They are easy to get into, but difficult to get out of.
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.
You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
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No one is born with self confidence. Self confidence is learned and earned with experience.
The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t, you most assuredly won’t.
Commitment is that turning point in your life when you seize the moment to alter your destiny.
One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.
Don’t ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.
Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.
It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.
Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who’ve been great in their service to others.
If you don’t know where you’re going, it doesn’t matter if your alarm doesn’t go off in the morning.
Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.
Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to your door.
When you visualize, then you materialize. If you’ve been there in the mind you’ll go there in the body
The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves.
Integrity means you do what you do because it is right and not just fashionable or politically correct.
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
Self-esteem is felt even though you may not have done anything yet, but just feel the capability for it.
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goals clearly in sight.
Empires of the Mind: Lessons to Lead and Succeed in a Knowledge-based World. Book by Denis Waitley, 1995.
The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.
Winners live each day as if their last. Not in the future, nor in the past, and someday . . . becomes now!
Focus all your attention and energy on the achievement of the objectives you are involved with right now.
You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Time And health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
The stretch of the limousine usually is inversely proportional to the self esteem of the person riding in it.
Decide to be happy, knowing it’s an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.
Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.
Identify with excellence, put your name on your work, and both your work and name will stand the test of time.
People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now.
Commitment doesn’t guarantee success, but lack of commitment guarantees you’ll fall far short of your potential.
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
Never follow the crowd in what you do; the crowd has never produced anything of lasting quality, value or beauty.
Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
Time And well being are two valuable belongings that we do not acknowledge and respect till they’ve been depleted.
Successful people believe in the validity of their own dreams and goals, even if dreams are all they have to go on.
Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks.
Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.
When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.
You are truly successful when you can extend a strong hand to someone who is reaching out or just trying to hang on.
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
The keys of a fulfilling life – Denis Waitley. Interview with David Laroche, davidlarocheworld.com. October 24, 2016.
Don’t tell people they can do the impossible. Tell people that they can do the possible that they think is impossible.
What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answers lie inside of you.
The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.
How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.
The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place
The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.
By thinking and acting affirmatively in this minute, you will influence the hour, the day, and in time, your entire life.
We can’t afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.
Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others.
Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
A dream is what you would like your life to become. A goal is what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want.
A dream is a vision, a goal is a promise. You can keep your promises to yourself by remaining flexible, focused, and committed.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Don’t wait for an employer, friend, or mentor to show appreciation for your work. Take pride in your own efforts on a daily basis.
Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
The truly liberated human being is not always fighting against something, but more frequently is fighting for something or someone.
There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future,and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.
God’s Law of Cause and Effect: Your rewards in life will always be equal to the amount and quality of service rendered, in the long run.
Individuals with a good self esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what’s happening out there. It’s how you take it that counts.
By focusing on positive, healthy motivations and letting the more negative ones pass, you can purify the source of you imaginative power.
Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.
Find a positive lesson and positive reason for all of your personal relationships. Accentuate the blessings and knowledge gained from each.
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place – it is a launching pad
Highly motivated achievers are looking not to receive but to contribute. They are looking for problems that are personally satisfying to solve.
Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.
Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.
Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire – you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Of all the judgments we make through life, none are more important than the estimate we place on ourselves according to our own internal standards.
Real motivation is that drive from within: You know where you are going because you have a compelling image inside, not a travel poster on the wall.
The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.
Recognize when your peak energy occurs during the day. Allocate the most difficult projects to that period. Work on easy projects at low-energy times
Perseverance does not always mean sticking to the same thing forever. It means giving full concentration and effort to whatever you are doing right now.
Live each day as if was your last, not in the future, not in the past. You may not get what you want, but, in the long run, you will get what you expect.
Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals.
A life lived with integrity – even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
The most important conversations, briefings, meeting, and lectures you will ever have will be those you hold with yourself in the privacy of your own mind.
The single most outwardly identifiable trait demonstrated by a winning human being is that of positive self-expectation- which is pure and simple optimism.
Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life’s daily little treasures. It is the most important thing in measuring success.
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
The winner’s edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner’s edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.
Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it’s easier.
Don’t assume that money, shelter and creature comforts are enough to demonstrate your love. Nothing can replace your presence, your hug, your smile, your touch – you!
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
One of the wonderful aspects of the human imagination is its power to break through the barriers of time and space. It can see things not as they are but as the can be.
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art – an individual masterpiece.
Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or strengthen our lives.
Achievers can almost literally taste success because they imagine their goals in such vivid detail. Setbacks only seem to add spice and favor to the final taste of victory.
The easiest thing is to make sure you feel happy and satisfied in this moment. Setting long term goals is much more effort taking, but at the same time much more fulfilling.
Darren Hardy proves with The Compound Effect that common sense-when applied-yields amazingly uncommon results. Follow these simple steps and become who you were meant to be!
It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive.
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don’t spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
Champions never brag, never shout, never have to go to extremes to build themselves up for others or put others down. They let their actions, deeds, and results speak for them.
All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they’re not learning, they’re not growing and not moving toward excellence.
The majority of people consider their work a means to an end. People who work for money only come to the end faster than people who are involved in their life’s purpose every day.
Persistence means giving full concentration to whatever you are doing right now. … Persistence is success through trial, error, resetting your goals, and moving toward the target.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
A passion for life is one of the most attractive qualities in a human being. If you want a teammate or a life mate who loves to be around you, all you need to do is love to be around.
Denis Waitley, Dayna Waitley, Deborah Waitley (1999). “The Psychology of Winning for Women: What Every Woman Needs to Know, what Every Man Needs to Understand”, Executive Excellence Pub
Don’t be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.
The patient person accepts a certain amount of failure knowing that it is as important a thread in the fabric of life as is success. Great individuals make great successes out of failure.
Don’t wait for mentors to seek you out. Don’t ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.
The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we’ve
Success in life isn’t only for the gifted or the privileged or those with a high IQ. Success is totally dependent on three things: persistence, determination and a positive mental attitude.
The season for enjoying the fullness of life – partaking of the harvest, sharing the harvest with others, and reinvesting and saving portions of the harvest for yet another season of growth.
The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you’ve got the real thing, you don’t have to flaunt a loud imitation.
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.
Every Child Has a Thinking Style: A Guide to Recognizing and Fostering Each Child’s Natural Gifts and Preferences – to Help Them Learn, Thrive, and Achieve. Book by Lanna Nakone, April 4, 2006.
Everyone is motivated a little or a lot to do something or nothing. Motivation is the internalized drive toward the dominant thought of the moment. By definition, motivation is “motive in action.”
The greatest choice we have is to think before we act and then take action toward our life goals every day. Our problems result not only from our lack of action, but from our action without thought.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Time changes everything, but with patience we can keep our desires relatively constant. If we can just hang on long enough, time will eventually create for us the conditions in which we can succeed.
Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when you achieve it. Look at this list often throughout the day and before retiring at night.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can’t do.
SMILE! In every language, in every culture – it is the light in your window that tells people there’s a caring, sharing individual inside and it’s the universal code for “I’m O. K. – You’re O. K., too!”
Close your eyes and visualize the person you really want to be, who fits your own concepts of self-respect. If you can see the person clearly in the mirror of you mind, you surely will become that person.
You’ve got more potential than you could use in a thousand lifetimes, I see world class potential in you? But one of the secrets, is you’re as good as the best ? you don’t have to be better than the rest.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Life is based on growth and finding new challenges to face and overcome, new contributions to make to society, and constantly coming to a better understanding of yourself and the universe in which you live.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns.
On our track to success, we have to fight the tendency to look at others and see how far they’ve come. The only thing that counts is how we use the potential we possess and that we run our race to the best of our abilities.
A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.
Attitude is the criterion for success. But you can’t buy an attitude for a million dollars. Attitudes are not for sale. …Your attitude towards your potential is either the key to or the lock in the door of personal fulfillment.
Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn’t sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter – but without it, leadership is a facade.
Since most of our fears are based on dark imaginings, it is vital for us to dwell on our magnificent obsessions and desired results – to look at where we want to go, as opposed to that troubled place where we may have been or may still be hiding.
Expect to succeed even before you start. All winners, no matter what their game, start with the expectations that they are going to succeed. Winners say, “I want to do this and I CAN do this”, not “I would like to do this, but I don’t think I can.”
Be a role model not a critic. Don’t tell your children, your peers, or your subordinates what to do – show them. And when the lesson is over, keep showing them by demonstrating that your actions are part of your character, not part of their curriculum.
No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have all of tomorrow. Success depends upon using it wisely by planning and setting priorities. The fact is, time is worth more than money, and by killing time we are killing our own chances for success.
Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!
The confidence you need is belief in your potential. If you see world-class potential in yourself, you’ll put in the effort. If you don’t see the potential, you won’t put in the effort and you’ll wait for the performance, and the performance always follows the belief in self.
Learn how to grow out of yourself and into the world of others: Plant a shade tree under which you know you will never sit. Set some goals that may benefit your children or an orphanage or the employees of your company or future generations or your own city, fifty years from now.
With knowledge now the key raw material for creating all economic wealth, the new power struggles will reach deep into our minds and our personal lives. That’s why we believe the only empire that will survive in the 21st century will be the empire you build within your own mind.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the “someday I’ll” philosophy.
Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you’re coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it’s an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.
Tomorrow’s leaders not only have dreams, goals and plans. They are willing to work hard and to take responsibility for turning their plans into energy, perspiration and effort. They don’t sit back and wait for someone else to turn their dreams into action. They take charge of executing their own plan.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can’t buy more hours. Scientists can’t invent new minutes. And you can’t save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life – purpose – is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
There is an island fantasy A “Someday I’ll,” we’ll never see When recession stops, inflation ceases Our mortgage is paid, our pay increases That Someday I’ll where problems end Where every piece of mail is from a friend Where the children are sweet and already grown . . . . Most unhappy people . . . put happiness on “law away” And struggle through a blue today . . . . Life’s most important revelation Is that the journey means more than the destination . . .
Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for everything you do… [while] expecting the most favorable result from your own actions. There never was a winner who didn’t expect to win in advance. Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And they know that you usually get what you expect in the long run.
One of the best ways to properly evaluate and adapt to the many environmental stresses of life is to simply view them as normal. The adversity and failures in our lives, if adapted to and viewed as normal corrective feedback to use to get back on target, serve to develop in us an immunity against anxiety, depression, and the adverse responses to stress. Instead of tackling the most important priorities that would make us successful and effective in life, we prefer the path of least resistance and do things simply that will relieve our tension, such as shuffling papers and majoring in minors.
Habits start out as off-hand remarks, magazine advertisements, friendly hints, experiments – like flimsy cobwebs with little substance. They grow with practice, layer by layer – thought on thought – fused with imagination and emotion until they become like steel cables – unbreakable. Habits are attitudes which grow from cobwebs into cables that control your everyday life. Self-discipline alone can make or break a habit. Self discipline alone can effect a permanent change in your self image and in you. Self-discipline achieves goals. Self discipline is not ‘doing without,’ it is ‘doing within.’

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