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Engage in brick-by-brick thinking:  “All success is built and sustained just like a building is built, one brick at a time.” Henry Cloud, Ph.D. Amplify the reward : Envision your end result and keep it in the forefront of your mind. Build structure and systems around your goals:  The only way to stay disciplined and keep focus. Surround yourself with support: Surround yourself with people who will help you and encourage you if you want to succeed. Quitting isn’t an option: If you plant the seeds, but if you don’t water, fertilize and cultivate,  then you wasted your time by planting the crop and you will have no change to get the harvest.

  Focus on your strengths: you have potential to become great if you put your time and effort to develop your strengths rather than worried about your weakness. Focus on today: you can’t change the past nor the future, so give the present day your full attention and best effort. Focus on your priorities: Zig Ziglar said " Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have 24-hour days.” Choose your priorities and use your time to achieve your goals. Focus on your results: Remind yourself of your purpose and keep focused on the big picture which drive to succeed. Focus on your contribution: Use your potential to make the world a better place for everyone.

They know their strengths and weaknesses and accept themselves for who they are. They set goals and align them with their personality, values, interests, strengths, skills, and purpose. They understand and accept that they can’t control what the world throws in their path, but they can control how they react to those obstacles. They accept that they will repeatedly go through tough times since nothing worth achieving without a struggle. They know that once they get to their destination, they will find another, so the journey is the destination.

The best speeches include a clear, relevant message and a few great stories to illustrate it. Be relevant to your audience. Ask yourself what problem the audience wants to solve, and talk about that problem first. Your job is to answer your audience question and then address the how.” Forget about fancy PowerPoint:  Make your speech simple from start to end because people don’t remember much of what they hear. Use anecdotes: If you’ve lived a story, you can tell it from memory and with genuine feeling.  And stories stick in people’s minds. In other words, if you make people feel what you are talking about, they won’t forget it.” Be relevant to your audience: Ask yourself what problem the audience wants to solve, and talk about that problem first. Then talk about your area of expertise as the solution to that problem. Jump right to the topic: Jump right in with a framing story, a statistic, a question or some kind of interaction with the audience that ...

VICTIMS are people who focus on the past and who concern themselves with how things “should have been.” Victims feel helpless and spend much of their time blaming others for what has happened and continues to happen to them. They view themselves as pawns in the game of life, believing they have no control over their past, present, or future. They feel they are always in the wrong place at the wrong time. Usually, they are preoccupied with problems that are totally out of their control. SUSTAINERS, on the other hand, are people who are so focused on their present condition that they stay right where they are. Sustainers go through life as if they were running in place. Sustainers resist change. Their primary goals are safety and security. They seldom plan for the future, and spend most of their time fighting anything that threatens to change their immediate situation. Their major  objective is to maintain the status quo. In other words, they are not inclined to rock the boat. D...

1. Take positive action 2. Define your objectives 3. Give more than you take 4. Learn from adversity 5. Become involved 6. Remain true to your goals 7. Remain optimistic 8. Be confident and enthusiastic 9. Persist! Persist! Persist! Learn to separate what you do from who you are. Never confuse the two. What you do can fail, but who you are can never fail. You’ll undoubtedly make mistakes, but you’ll also learn from them and in the end you will reach your goal.

Success is no longer a possibility, unless you begin to realize what success really is. Success is a voyage to a planned destination. It is not a matter of good luck. Success happens when opportunity meets preparation, and opportunity is always at hand for the achiever.

Imagination gives you the ability to step outside of your self-imposed limitations and create new and unlimited possibilities. When you think about what you want to achieve, try to picture the best  possible outcome to the situation. To increase your ability to turn your desires into reality, push yourself to imagine an even better outcome than the one you originally perceived. Every time you imagine something, see if you can make it even bigger and better! Dare to go beyond the boundaries you have always set for yourself. Enlarge the picture and play with new ideas.

Enthusiasm is the one of the most powerful motivating forces for change. You can build your enthusiasm by thinking about achieving your long-range goals instead of the many complex steps along the way. Think about the people you can help with your product or service, and all the money you will earn for doing what you love to do. Such thoughts will generate enthusiastic feelings and cause you to ACT enthusiastic! Others will quickly respond to your enthusiasm, and soon it becomes a self-perpetuating cycle. Whatever you give out will always come back to you.

Hope in an illusion. The problem with hope is that we are dependent on someone or something outside of ourselves to change before our life will improve. And if that something or someone doesn’t bring us the hope we desire, we lose a little more hope. Each one of us has the power within to solve our own problems and reach our own goals without hoping that someone or something will “save” us. All we need to do is to listen to the voice within, known as our intuition, to find the answers we need.

Every challenge you willingly accept will bring about some quantity of knowledge and fulfillment. It’s a game you cannot lose! Knowing this, you are ready to accept the challenge. A happy and healthy life is one that is constantly challenged. Challenge offers us opportunities to risk openness and spontaneity, which are the opposites of rigid, inflexibly thinking. Rigid, inflexible thinking is the enemy of challenge and change.

"Being truly alive means living each moment of each day. In the course of living, you may notice that there are days when it seems very difficult to live life to the fullest. Sometimes these days even stretch into weeks or months. During these times, something inside you turns off. You may find yourself living to get through each moment as you become more discouraged with life. This is the time you need to remind yourself that each day counts! Each moment counts! Each day is a vital part of your entire life."

"Your mission in life is about YOU, about your willingness to serve others while serving yourself. This is the way that everyone would like to live. You are no exception. What are you waiting for? What are you trying to avoid? Sometimes people believe they must sacrifice their true calling because of family responsibilities. Or perhaps they feel that they have little, if anything, to contribute. It is a fact that your calling will, at times, require you to stand alone, without the support of family or friends. It will require you to search inside yourself, to make independent decisions on what is best for you. If there is a test to indicate a calling, it is undoubtedly the following question: Is this best for me? In other words, will it bring out the best in you, and will it satisfy your desire to create the thing you most want?"