Brendon Burchard Quotes
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Everybody says, 'I want to change,' but they're not willing to pay the price of it. That was the metaphor of 'Life's Golden Ticket'... Life is some kind of a ride, and if you want that ride to be exhilarating and amazing, you've got to pay to get in. And the price is a willingness to change above and beyond what most people will do.
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Raise your ambition beyond where you're capable of now. There's nothing about my hometown that said I'd be working with Fortune 50 CEO's, Olympians, at the highest level.
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In your life, where are you not making mistakes? Sometimes if there's no mess, there's no change happening.
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People who label themselves as 'realists' are usually accurate - they see to the real edge of what they know, understand, or believe. At best, these folks tend to be caring worriers.
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What makes us really, truly successful over the long term has a ton to do with our social interactions and the influence we do or don't have with other people.
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The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.
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If you create incredible value and information for others that can change their lives - and you always stay focused on that service - the financial success will follow.
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We all have a life story and a message that can inspire others to live a better life or run a better business. Why not use that story and message to serve others and grow a real business doing it?
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I have to laugh when I receive newsletters from major personalities and when you hit reply, you get a 'do-not-reply' address. It's ridiculous! Don't you want your customers to reply to you?
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At the end of our lives we all ask, 'Did I live? Did I love? Did I matter?'
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High performers obsessively research their dreams from a multitude of sources. To become world-class, you have to know who has already cracked the struggle you face ahead.
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Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today.
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People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.
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We should not seek to tune out the realists' whines or taunts, as they may provide good instruction.
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My dad lived a good life. He was a simple guy. His family had been poor, and he joined the Marines to be able to send money home to his mom and dad and brothers and sisters. He genuinely had the intention to live a good life and to respect other people.
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To inspire a singularity of focus, a challenge must be important to you and it must be something you feel you should do now in this moment. If it's trivial or not time-bound, you won't engage. So in selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.
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To me, meditation is simply silencing or focusing the mind.
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Our challenge isn't that we can't be motivated. It's not that we aren't smart, excitable, or that we lack passion - what we don't have is the ability to sustain motivation over time.
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Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction.
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The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success.
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Figure out what questions you'd ask to see if you were happy with your life. Then wake up every day and live intentionally, so you're happy with the answers at the end.
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At 19, you're not really thinking about the habits you have. I wasn't. Maybe your study habits? But not your life habits.
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We lost my dad in 2009 to leukemia. He taught me everything I know, and I love him very much.
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Let us not alter our course simply because it leads into a dark thicket of work.