If you want great mentors, you have to become a great mentee. If you want to lead, you have to first learn to follow. Ben
If you want an average, successful life, it doesn’t take much planning. Just stay out of trouble, go to school, and apply for jobs you might like. But if you want something extraordinary, you have two...
If you telescope out 10 years and know with 100% certainty that it is a path of disappointment and regret, and if we define risk as the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome, inaction is the...
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success. —James Cameron
If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.
If you need 15 minutes in the sun to trigger a melanin response, 15 minutes is your MED for tanning. More than 15 minutes is redundant and will just result in burning and a forced break from the beach...
If you had a second heart attack and had to work two hours per week, what would you do? 3. If you had a gun to your head and had to stop doing ⅘ of different time-consuming activities, what would you...
If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. Unreasonable and unrealistic goals are ea...
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. —Lao Tzu
If the commitment is to a long-term goal and not to a series of smaller intermediate goals, then only one decision needs to be made and adhered to. Clear, simple, straightforward. Much easier to maint...
If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment- now and not later. By using money as the scapegoat and...
I'm often asked how I define success. It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things - achievement and appreciation. One isn't enough: Achievement wi...
I think we go about desiring things all day long, and then wondering why we’re unhappy.
I realized that I had to let people leave my life, never to return. Every relationship I have in my life, from family and friends to business partners, must be a voluntary relationship. My wife can le...
I do want to live a brave life. I do want to live in the arena. And if you’re going to live in the arena, the only guarantee is you will get your ass kicked. . . . Daring greatly is being vulnerable....
I can’t offer a single answer that will fit all people, but, based on the dozens of fulfilled NR I’ve interviewed, there are two components that are fundamental: continual learning and service.
How to Stay Motivated y Secrets of Closing the Sale, de Zig Ziglar:
How can I possibly explain that what I do with my time and what I do for money are completely different things?
His friends, drunk to the point of speaking in tongues, were asleep.