It's hard enough being alive, trying to survive in the world and find your place in it, to do the things you need to do to get by, without wondering if the thing you just did, whatever it was, was worth someone having.
~ Neil Gaiman
Happiness is in all of us and it comes from progress. The root cause of a multiplier effect or a destroyer effect lies inside of us. The multiplication of the happiness in us on a daily basis makes us unique and powerful and gives us the reason for our existence. --Bimal Shah.
~ Bimal Shah
The most important thinganyone who is looking at a career, especially students, can do is toremember that strengthening and developing your employ-abilityis your personal responsibility.
~ Derric Yuh Ndim
If you don’t take control of yourcareer development, it’s highly unlikely that anyone else will!
The best way to prepare for life is acombination of formal traditional education, reading, seminars,and workshops, coupled with experience as well as tapping into the knowledge of experienced people.
Many self-help teachers say that our schools only focus on “preparing today’s youths to get good jobs by developing scholastic skills.” They think that’s a bad thing. It’s probably the right thing. Not everyone is suited for entrepreneurship, as statistics seem to suggest. Even future entrepreneurs usuallyneed to begin as employees to get their starting capital and tolearn while they work.
The difference between successful and unsuccessful people isn’t really aboutresources that were available to them when they started out, Instead its their resourcefulness or personal initiative that makes the difference.
Your self-esteem and emotional strength relies solely onhow you think and how you see things around you.
A client of mine once joked, “If youremployer likes you, the rest is history, the raise and everythingelse will come.” That intangible attitude in the workplace is whatsets apart those who get promoted and those who don’t.
Work and Life are not separate spheres. They are integratedmoments in life that happen throughout the day.
The idea that “work” competes with “life” ignores that “life” is actually the intersection and interaction of four major domains: work, home, community, and the private self.
Our life is an odd mixture of different moments of action andinaction, work and rest.
Personal growth is the most powerful force for change on earth. I believe that personal growth can help anyone change anything.
As someone said, inthe School of Hard Knocks they give the test first, then thelesson. That is a slow, costly and surely painful way to learn.Unfortunately, it’s the only “school” that teaches many thingsyou need to know.
always keep in mind the paramount importance of living a balanced life with emphasis on nurturing strong friendships and family ties, while still doing the things that you find rewarding for reasons other than mere monetary income.
Only once you believe that success is possible,then success becomes possible
First, it is essential to determine precisely what you wantto achieve. Just wanting to be “successful” is too general.
I have learned its the most difficult thing to become financially free from earning the minimum wage. So even if employees increase the minimum wage its the same thing. But once employees improve on their skills and personal value their wages go up and then financial freedom is posible.
Our perceptions of reality are only a relationship to what is actually out there. Perceptions are influenced by context, by previous life experience, and by our tendency to seek outevidence to confirm our expectations. This drive to confirm, asargued by social physiologists, results in what is known as self fulfilling prophecy.
when you are a child you unconsciously adopt certain beliefs. Yet, there comesthe necessity to upgrade these beliefs as you grow older.
Unbelief in the supernatural is a belief in its own nature.
If you want to live an exceptional life, you must move beyond probability into the realm of possibility
It’s our decisions, not our conditions, that ultimately shape the quality of our lives.
Many of us have allowed well-meaning parents,teachers, religious leaders and peers to tell us that there issomething fundamentally wrong with us if we don’t believe as they do. Simply put, we have forgotten how to think for ourselves.
Every day you make certain decisions and take specific actions that come about as a result of how you think, feel and the habits you tend to indulge
I don’t understand why people are always putting us down, instead of encouraging us to become great. Because, when you do become great, you will give me a world that I would not have any other way. We all havesomething to give one another.
if you are using probability arguments wit yourself, you are saying: “I want to live a life like everybody else!” By definition, an exceptional life is a life of low probability.
Material poverty doesn’t causemurder, rape or terror.Mental poverty does.
Each child is a new being, a potentialprophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light.... Whoare we to decide that it is hopeless (impossible)?
If you decide to do anything and follow throughwith actions with the same intensity as your decision, you willdefinitely end up with an excellent result.
your goals are as good as your actions.No action taken, no goals achieved
Always take massive imperfect action towards your goals because the timemight never be “just right”.
I’m a witness to personal development being the best investment you could ever make by improving yourselfproactively, working on your awareness, improving your skillsand knowledge about how you can get to the edge of yourpotential
The only way to watch paid TV from the comfort of your room isby subscribing to a paid TV service. In the same way, the only wayto change your level of financial success ‘permanently’ is to subscribeand keep upgrading your financial mind-set. But it is your decisionwhether you choose to change or not.
My view is that, if you think that money brings problems, you have a problem with money. The money itself is innocent.
whats the point to spend money you haven’t earned, to buy thingsyou don’t need,to impress people you don’t like
I have learned its very difficult to become financially free by earning the minimum wage. Even if employers increased the minimum wage like the always do its the same thing. But once employees improve on their skills and self development, their wages inevitably go up and then financial independence is possible.
If your actions don’t reflect your goals… and your behavior doesn’t reflect your company’s vision… then you’re not a leader, regardless of what your title indicates.
~ Steve Maraboli
Winning and losing is not an external game. It is an internal battle over telling yourself the truth vs. lies regarding why you haven’t stepped into the life you dreamed of.
~ Shannon L. Alder
When what you value and dream about doesn’t match the life you are living, you have pain.
