Wisdom comes at a price. But the price you have to pay shouldn’t guide your decision to invest – the expected return should.
~ Mensah Oteh
To gain wisdom you must be willing to invest time, energy, and money in your personal development.
Feed your mind with thoughts that inspire, motivate, encourage, empower, educate and instruct you by deliberately choosing the information you allow into your world through sight, sound and people.
Positive thoughts are the birthing ground for making your dreams, goals, and desires come true.
Change in thinking + shift in perspective = change in your life
Everything starts as a thought. Whether you feel happy or sad, calm or anxious, content or unfulfilled is a function of your thoughts.
You can’t always control your external environment, but you can manage your micro environment by intentionally choosing what you allow to influence you – by sight, sound, and presence.
Make the tough choice, decide you will not be a garbage ground for other people’s trash. Protect your mind.
You don’t have to allow the drama and events of the economy, others people’s lives, and external circumstances to limit your potential and rob you of the life you deserve.
You have absolute control over your thoughts, and guarding your mind is a choice.
Renew your mind by flooding it with inspiring, empowering, educational and edifying thoughts and words.
You have a shot at success if you can discipline yourself to eliminate the limiting thoughts from within and the disempowering words from without.
Discipline yourself to shut the door of your mind on people, events, or things that pull you down, drain your mental or emotional energy, and try to rob you of your promise of the future.
Your external world is a mirror of your internal world, and if you can discipline yourself to change your thoughts, your external world will change.
There’s no secret to success, but if there were one, it would be that your decisions create your success or lack of it and the quality of your decisions will determine the quality of your life.
If you had all the time in the world but your knowledge, wisdom and understanding remained unchanged, your life would remain the same.
Indecision is a decision not to use life’s first gift to you – the power of choice.
The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the quality of the decisions you make each day.
There are no victims in life, we are all volunteers. Our decisions create our experiences.
Time doesn’t create change. The changes in your life will be in proportion to the decisions you make.
Awareness is the starting place for all changes in life, you must become aware of what needs to change to effectively make a change.
The best decisions are often those made from the creative part of your mind and not the emotional part of your heart.
Give yourself permission to dream, to choose, to decide.
Avoid making important or long-term decisions when you are fatigued mentally, emotionally or physically.
Time does not create changes, wisdom does. Your wisdom decides the quality of your decisions.
Most of us make decisions without thinking about their impact on our future.
Your decisions are influenced by your beliefs, philosophy, wisdom, environment, relationships, goals or dreams and state of mind.
The quality of your decisions can only be improved if you improve all these factors.
Decisions create success, and the quality of your decisions will determine the quality of your life.
Making good decisions is a skill anyone can develop with effort.
Personal experience is the slowest way of learning. Combine your personal experience with other people’s experiences.
Your wisdom decides the quality of your decisions.
Take control of your life and future and become the master of your destiny by making one good decision at a time.
Your life is a picture of the decisions and choices you have made in the past, and your future depends on the quality of the decisions you make today and tomorrow.
One thing guaranteed in life is that you’ll experience twists and turns, obstacles, roadblocks, and battles.
The key to triumph is the art of choosing your battles – staying focused on your vision and avoiding distraction.
You have to master the art of selectivity in everything you do. Otherwise, you could be side-tracked by secondary events and opportunities.
All battles are not created equal; a few offer good rewards and are worthy of your attention but most are a waste of your time, energy and focus.
Get your ego in check and half your battles in life will disappear.
If you can manage your thoughts and mind, and choose your battles wisely, you can manage your life.
