You either get it, or you don’t. In almost every situation, there are people who get it, and there are people who don’t — and it’s really easy to tell them apart. Those who get it are enjoying the fruits of their knowledge. Those who don’t spend a lot of time looking puzzled, frustrated, and [...]

Bottom line: You are not a victim. You are creating the situations you are in; you are creating the emotions that flow from those situations. This is not a theory; it is life. You must be willing to move your position, and, however difficult or unusual it may seem, embrace the fact that you own [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’m not saying that the unsuccessful behaviors or unsuccessful choices you’ve made in your life make you blameworthy.  I’m just challenging you to recognize that you did make the choices and you did engage in the behaviors, and that therefore you and only you are responsible for the results.  Recall Maya Angelou’s comment on past [...]