None of the people I’ve helped on my television show has had a written-down plan.  Not even a 3×5 card with one sentence on it.  Not a Post-It note. Nothing.
 
And they wonder why their lives are such disasters.  Isn’t it obvious?  They don’t have a plan for their life to be anything other than a […]

Comfortable means you don’t feel bad but you don’t feel all that great, either.  Most people are comfortable.  That’s the problem.  Comfortable people don’t feel bad enough to change but don’t feel good enough to really be able to enjoy their lives.  Either way, their future is doomed.
 
People never make changes when they are comfortable.  […]

Many people have not learned to delay gratification and want in their twenties for what took their parents 40 years to earn and acquire.  Many fall into the trap of focusing on what they want now instead of what matters most long term.  …One of the biggest mistakes we make in life is that we […]

Every choice carries a consequence.  For better or worse, each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor.  There are not exceptions.  If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment, why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?
— Gary Ryan Blair

If you travel ten miles left when you should have gone ten miles right, you’ve made a thirty-mile mistake:  the ten miles you went in the wrong direction, the ten miles you have to go back to get to where you started from, and then the ten miles you have to go to get to […]

Just because you have believed something for a long time or have convinced yourself that you just “are” a certain way doesn’t even almost make it true.  You have to be willing to challenge virtually every single thing you have ever believed about yourself. …Remember:  A lie unchallenged becomes the truth.
— Phil McGraw, Ph.D., Self […]

You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever: the very next person you stand behind in line or sit next to on an airplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or […]

Life pushes us all around.  Some give up.  Others fight.  A few learn the lesson and move on.  They welcome life pushing them around.  To these few people, it means they need and want to learn something.  They learn and move on.
— Robert Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad

I don’t believe in luck and I don’t believe in randomness in life.  I believe that what works in your life works because you make it work.  I believe that things work in your life because you choose the right attitude and behavior to generate the right results.  Only by studying those successful situations can […]

If you have courage, you can win. You don’t have to be the fastest, the smartest.  You have to have tenacity.
— William Gilmore, Jr.

My national surveys of millionaires have taught me that if you believe you can succeed, the probabilities are greatly enhanced that you will reach or even exceed your goals.  The millionaires often indicated that “believing in myself” is a proactive tactic or thought process that works when they employ it.  They utilize this process when fear […]

Think about it:  Your life, behind closed doors, can totally suck.  It can be a major train wreck, yet you will get up in the morning and instead of working on your mind and your heart for even five minutes, you will obsess around for two hours, focusing totally on your appearance instead of your […]

I want you to realize that whether all of this takes a week, a month, or a year, that precious and limited time is going to pass whether you are doing something about your life or not.  I promise you that at this precise moment next year, your life will be better or worse than […]

Learning is, after all, not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before to apply to other games.  Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
— Richard Bach

Do you ever get the sense that you don’t have time to deal with the secondary things, because you have to deal with so many consistently demanding fires and crises? Well, guess where most of those fires and crises come from? Correct — from secondary things that were ignored because of all the fires and […]