Personal growth requires continuous investment

• Deep continuous investment over time brings real, sustaining change. Cramming or quick fix solutions do nothing. Stephen Covey
• We live in a world that’s addicted to the concept of maximum return for minimum investment—it’s an epidemic. Let that not be you. James Arthur Ray
• To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you’ll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind. Stephen Covey
• As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives. Buddha
• This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life— investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute. Stephen Covey
• The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine. Byron Katie
• There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. Beverly Sills
• Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. Jim Rohn
• Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. it will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you. Robin S. Sharma
• Growth,  Learning

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Personal growth requires great persistence

• The master is the one who stays on the path day after day, year after year. The master is the one who is willing to try, and fail, and try again, for as long as he or she lives. George Leonard
• It’s easy to get on the path of mastery. The real challenge lies in staying on it. George Leonard
• Mastery is not persistence when you see a light at the end of the tunnel. True mastery is persistence when you don’t yet see the light. James Arthur Ray
• Everything is hard before it is easyJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
• At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path. George Leonard
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Personal growth requires time

• • Personal evolution takes time and work. Bill Harris
  • There’s no race to the finish line; we all evolve according to our own unique pattern of unfoldment and, although it can be accelerated, it cannot be forced. Michael Bernard Beckwith
  • He who would learn to fly one day must learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Step by step is the law of growth. God does not expect the acorn to be a mighty oak before it has become a sapling. George E. Carpenter
  • As much as we would love to achieve great things quickly, it is not the way our world works. Genius is a process. Robin Sharma
  • Good things take time, as they should. We shouldn’t expect good things to happen overnight. Actually, getting something too easily or too soon can cheapen the outcome.  John Wooden
  • The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. Moliere
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  Personal growth requires plenty of patience…

  • Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, refecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud. Vernon Howard
  • The desire of most people today for quick, sure, and highly visible results is perhaps the deadliest enemy of mastery. George Leonard
  • There are many strong beliefs in the mind that can make this process look hopeless. This is why you need to go step- by- step and be patient with yourself because this is a slow process. The way you are living now is the result of many years of domestication. You cannot expect to break the domestication in one day. Don Miguel Ruiz
  • There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. Jean De La Bruyere
  • Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Francis de Sales
  • Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground.  Stephen Covey
  • I think that one’s art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.  Emily Carr
  • Change is not a process for the impatient. Barbara Reinhold
  • You cannot expect miracles to happen overnight. Be patient, be loving, and little by little the change you seek will come.  Leon Brown
  • Slow down you’re doing fine. You can’t be everything you want to be before your time.  Billy Joel
  • Patience

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  … and being gentle with yourself

  • Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self- criticism only holds the pattern in place, creating a stubborn and defensive Basic Self. Be gentle with yourself as you would with a child. Be gentle but firm. Give yourself the space to grow. But remember that the timing is in god’s hands, not yours. Dan Millman
  • If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping, ‘Aarggh! Screwed up again!’ Fortunately, babies are free of self-criticism. They just keep practicing. Dan Millman
  • Gentleness,  Self-acceptance

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  Personal growth requires commitment

  • Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do—learn, commit, and do—and learn, commit, and do again. Stephen Covey
  • It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow. Ralph Ellison
  • Commitment

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  Personal growth requires courage, confidence and taking risks…

  • It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. E. E. Cummings
  • If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone. John C. Maxwell
  • One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. Abraham Maslow
  • Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life. Herbert Otto
  • If you play it safe in life you’ve decided that you don’t want to grow any more. Shirley Hufstedler
  • To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness? Sarah Patton Boyle
  • It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn – which is what life is all about. Oprah Winfrey
  • Courage,  Commitment,  Risk taking

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  … because all growth is a leap into the unknown

  • All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. Henry Miller
  • Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown. George Shinn
  • Face new challenges, seize new opportunities, test your resources against the unknown and in the process, discover your own unique potential. John Amatt
  • The unknown

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  Personal growth requires embracing change

  • Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. Karen Kaiser Clark
  • To be able to look at change as an opportunity to grow–that is the secret to being happy. Joan Lunden
  • We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. Max Depree
  • Change is inevitable, growth is intentional. Glenda Cloud
  • If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. Gail Sheehy
  • We can go confidently into the future and accept the change that growth demands only if we have firm roots in the past, in a living tradition. Leonard Foley
  • Change is the end result of all true learning. Leo Buscaglia
  • The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. JoyBell C.
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  Personal growth requires focus

  • Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives. Tony Robbins
  • If you set more than one self-improvement goal, you may succeed for a while by drawing on reserves to power through, but that just leaves you more depleted and more prone to serious mistakes later. Roy Baumeister & John Tierney
  • Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel. Orison Swett Marden
  • Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies on a limited set of targets. Nido Qubein
  • To do two things at once is to do neither. Publius Syrus
  • He who attempts too much seldom succeeds. Dutch proverb
  • Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor. John Haggai
  • Focus,  Concentration

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  Personal growth requires asking good questions

  • The question for the true student of growth is: What has to happen for the stuff that strengthens you and moves you forward in life to be considered fun? James Arthur Ray
  • Always take a few minutes to stand back from your situation and analyze it objectively, as though you were a consultant who had been called in from the outside. Then ask, “What is it in me that is holding me back?”  Brian Tracy
  • What are you NOT doing today that were doing when you were most on fire with your life? What daily or weekly practices have fallen by the wayside? Tim Sanders
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