You really can change the world if you care enough.
– Marian Wright Edelman
– Marian Wright Edelman
Willpower & Change
It's not that some people have willpower and some don't.
It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.
– Heraclitus
– Heraclitus
More clearly
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
– Norman Vincent Peale
1440 opportunities
"In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact."
– Les Brown
Begin Today
"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
– Mother Teresa
No & Yes
Your capacity to say No determines your capacity to say Yes to greater things.
-Stanley Jones
Talking than Doing
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
-Jawaharlal Nehru
Results Cultivated
If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.
- John Paul Jones
Mother forgives...
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss, at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
-Honore de Balzac, novelist (1799-1850)
Attitude toward
"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us." ~ Earl Nightingale
Action and thoughts
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
-John Locke, philosopher (29 Aug 1632-1704)
Hard and Easy
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (28 Aug 1749-1832)
Be.... when you're ....
Be strong when you are weak,
brave when you are scared, and
humble when you are victorious.
Responding to people
'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting,
its inspirational, and
people respond to that.
It's what they want.
-George Lucas
24 x 7 Secret Power
"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."
~ Tom Blandi
Duty of patriots
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
-Barbara Ehrenreich, journalist and author (b. 26 Aug 1941)
Urgent Vs Important
"Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important."
— Stephen Covey
Combination of 2
"A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty."
- Nadia Boulanger
Clear it of..?
A few cobras in your home will soon clear it of rats and mice. Of course, you will still have the cobras.
-Will Cuppy, journalist (23 Aug 1884-1949)
True entrepreneur is a ...
"The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer."
- Nolan Bushnell
Life: Get ahead of....
"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."
~ Stewart B. Johnson
Prefer to...
I'd prefer to die on my feet than to live on my knees.
-Charb (pen name of Stephane Charbonnier), caricaturist and journalist (21 Aug 1967-2015)
Common deficiency
Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.
-William Feather
Tired of resting...
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
-Mortimer Caplan
Activist Vs.
Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn't make a corporation a terrorist.
-Winona LaDuke, activist, environmentalist, economist, and writer (b. 18 Aug 1959)
Primary choices
There are two primary choices of life: To accept conditions as they exist, or to accept the responsibility of changing them.
-Denis Waitley
-Denis Waitley
Terrible excuses
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
-Russell Baker (b. 14 Aug 1925)
The 35 Lessons of the Great Masters
1. What's the point of having a great mindset if your heart is broken from suffering in the past? A strong mental game with a weak emotional life will never get you to iconic results. Only self-sabotage.
2. Ideation that isn't executed is ideation wasted. You get paid to get gargantuan results done. And easy is never the route to legendary. Talk less. Deliver more.
3. Winning starts with beginning. Today's a fine day to begin your best life. There's tremendous power in a start.
4. You've been built for world-class. But how can you expect greatness if you don't know and fail to run the rituals and routines of the great ones? Learn them. Then do them.
5. The bigger the dream, the more important the team. You can't rise to epic alone. Get brilliant at surrounding yourself with "a band of Picassos". And then, mentor them, challenge them and help them believe in the heroic. The job of a leader is to grow more leaders.
6. Your personal story becomes your self-fulfilling prophecy. Your income reflects your identity and your impact on the world is determined by the psychology of your mind. Do big work here.
7. Your genetics do not determine your genius. Your mindsets, heartsets, healthsets and soulsets do [note: I taught these terms and the models explaining why these "4 Interior Empires" are the absolute foundations of massive success at PMA. Please learn and apply them]. Install the right ones and you'll be guaranteed rare-air results.
8. Last year's world-record is this year's starting point. For the A-Player.
9. Energy is more valuable than intelligence. Run my Twin Cycles of Elite Performance model to have the fire to get more done in a day than your competition gets done in a month. Try intermittent fasting. The energy spent on digestion gets freed up for production. And remember Simon, the person who helps the most people wins.
10. With better awareness, you will see better choices; with better daily choices, you will see better daily results [this PMAmodel is called The 3 Step Success Formula].
11. Be otherworldly good at what you do. And sustain it.
12. Granularity breeds superficiality over time, if not optimized.
13. Only misfits and oddballs change the world. It's cool to be different.
14. What you now find easy, you once found difficult. Stay consistent. Do not stop.
15. All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.
16. World-class is a lonely sport. The only person you'll have your whole life with is you. Approve of yourself. Love yourself.
17. You can be addicted to your phone, or you can be world-class. You can't do both.
18. When you're inspired, your body moves differently because you restructure your neural architecture. Set up your victory move. And practice it daily.
19. There are 2 economies: Income and Impact. Both matter. Because prosperity without philanthropy will leave you empty.
20. Replace the psychology of can't with the mentality of can. Every epic performer + legendary leader is a possibilitarian. They just are.
21. It's a sign of high honor to become the best in the world at what you do. Work matters. You invest most of your life at it. Be genius in it.
22. The great ones outprepare, outstudy, outpractice and outwork everyone around them. And so, in a world of average players caught up in trivial pursuits, you'll win.
23. You have to do the things the 95% won't do to get the results only 5% get.
24. Every distraction costs you your fortune.
25. Your greatest growth lives on the jagged edges of your darkest pain.
26. Use your suffering as a purification process, to install the strengths of the great masters. Gifts like undefeatability, monomaniacal focus, elevating others, leading mightily and standing for love in the presence of hate.
27. Micro-wins are key to being BIW after 10 years of practice.
28. Consistency is the DNA to mastery. What you do every day matters so much more than what you do once a quarter.
29. The greatest gift you can give is the present of presence.
30. Life is too short to play small. Go big for the benefit of the world.
31. Rest. Elite performance without deep recovery leads to depletion.
32. When people throw rocks at you, use them to construct monuments to your mastery.
33. Until your mission becomes your obsession, your craft will never become your genius.
34. Your days are your life in miniature. Dial in your days to exceptional and you'll receive an exceptional life.
35. True power is being an instrument of service. And seeing your work as a ministry for the benefit of humanity. Watches and handbags, titles and cars, social standing and public applause won't matter. At the end.
Mood of the society
"One of the primary tests of the mood of a society at any given time is whether its comfortable people tend to identify, psychologically, with the power and achievements of the very successful or with the needs and sufferings of the underprivileged."
-Richard Hofstadter, historian (6 Aug 1916-1970)
To be an American...
To be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
-Barack Obama, 44th US President (b. 4 Aug 1961)
Give it back
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
-P.D. James, novelist (3 Aug 1920-2014)
One reason
"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."
~ Willis Whitney
Losing effectiveness
Flying off the handle sometimes causes hammers and humans to lose their heads, as well as their effectiveness.
-William Al Ward
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