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The past doesn't equal the future. All great leaders, all people who have achieved in any area of life, know the power of continuously pursuing their vision, even if all the details of how to achieve it aren't yet available
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I always believe leaders are readers, so you've got to read 30 minutes a day of something that's going to inspire you.
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I'm always loading my brain with new ways of looking at something.
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If you are driven by certainty you can't grow. If you are driven by certainty if somebody messes with you, you can get very intense, even violent, depending upon the person's personality.
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If you want anything to change, you've got to change it. If you want things to get better, you've got to get better. And the only way to really do well in life is to find more value than anybody.
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Often people talk about how they feel 'stuck' in a situation. You're never stuck! You may be a little frustrated, you may not have clear answers, but you're not stuck. The minute you represent the situation to yourself as being stuck, though, that's exactly how you'll feel. We must be very careful about the metaphors we allow ourselves to use.
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We don't get our shoulds, we get our musts.
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Personal power involves producing success through modeling what works and taking consistent action towards your goals. At the same time, you have to internalize behavioral and belief changes in order to take the necessary action to produce the results. It's been said that successful people do what others won't, and that if you believe you can or you believe you can't, you're right. Both of those statements are true.
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Make your goal to do a tremendous amount to improve your audience's lives.
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The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
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Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, and my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
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The power of reading a great book is that you start thinking like the author. For those magical moments while you are immersed in the forests of Arden, you are William Shakespeare; while you are shipwrecked on Treasure Island, you are Robert Louis Stevenson; while you are communing with nature at Walden, you are Henry David Thoreau. You start to think like they think, feel like they feel, and use imagination as they would. Their references become your own, and you carry these with you long after you've turned the last page.
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You can't influence somebody when you're judging them.
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Success without happiness is failure.
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The kind of person other people perceive you to be controls their responses to you.
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Everybody has a different strategy, but everybody agrees that active management does not beat the market.
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We're all unique and individual biochemically, but there are certain rules that if you violate them, you're going to have disease in the body. If you're aligned with them, you're going to have an abundance of energy and vitality and health.
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There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible.
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If you lose 50%, it takes 100% to get back to where you started-and that takes something you can never get back: time.
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It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute ... that gives meaning to our lives.
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Begin to live as though your prayers are already answered.
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Pain is part of life. Suffering is an option.
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Success comes from taking the initiative and following up or persisting.
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If people maintain the belief systems that empower them, they'll keep coming back with enough action and enough resourcefulness to succeed eventually.