The Wisdom of Seth Godin

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Don’t try to please everyone. There are countless people who don’t want one, haven’t heard of one or actively hate it. So what?”

“Go ahead, do something impossible. “

“Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death.”

“If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?”

“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from.”

“Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It’s to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.”

“Why waste a sentence saying nothing? “

“You can’t shrink your way to greatness! “

Business

• “As an organization grows and succeeds, it sows the seeds of its own demise by getting boring.”
• “Choose your customers, choose your future.”
• “Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.”
• “Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you’re just a middleman. “
• “Don’t try to be the ‘next’. Instead, try to be the other, the changer, the new. “
• “Everyone is not your customer. “
• “Fire the committee. No great website in history has been conceived of by more than three people. Not one. This is a deal breaker.”
• “Give up control and give it away … The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth. “
• “If your organization requires success before commitment, it will never have either. “
• “In a world of free, everyone can play.”
• “It’s better to make a decision, even the wrong one, than to be in limbo.”
• “Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven’t done well. It’s that simple.”
• “Make a decision. It doesn’t have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.”
• “Once you have permission to talk to someone, finding new products or services for them is a smart way to grow.”
• “One way to think about running a successful business is to figure out what the least you can do is, and do that. “
• “Playing safe is very risky. “
• “The application process changes the list of who applies. Your applicants reflect your methods.”
• “The best time to do great customer service is when a customer is upset.”
• “The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.”
• “Your best customers are worth far more than your average customers.”

Change

• “Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late.”
• “Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.”
• “If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.”
• “Knowing what to do is very, very different than actually doing it.”
• “Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.”
• “No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn’t okay now. Change, by definition, changes things”
• “Sometimes we spend more time than we should defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing.”

Choice

• “If religion comprises rules you follow, faith is demonstrated by the actions you take.”
• “If there’s time for an emergency, why isn’t there time for brilliance, generosity or learning? “
• “If you could do tomorrow over again, would you? “
• “If you’re not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else. “
• “Just saying yes because you can’t bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.”
• “Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities. “
• “We notice what we choose to notice.”
• “Who gets to decide what you want?”

Greatness

• “Art is what we’re doing when we do our best work.”
• “Be personal. Be relevant. Be specific.”
• “Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work.”
• “Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record. “
• “Go ahead, do something impossible.”
• “If there isn’t a good reason, go home. If there is, then do something … loud, now, and memorable.”
• “Positive thinking is hard. Worth it, though.”
• “Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all. “
• “When kids grow up wanting to be you, you matter.”
• “When the legacy you leave behind lasts for hours, days or a lifetime, you matter.”
• “When the room brightens when you walk in, you matter.”
• “When you see the world as it is, but insist on making it more like it could be, you matter.”
• “You are not your resume, you are your work. “
• “You can’t shrink your way to greatness! “

Ideas

• “Are you a serial idea-starting person? The goal is to be an idea-shipping person. “
• “Big ideas are little ideas that no-one killed too soon. “
• “Ideas in secret die. They need light and air or they starve to death. “
• “No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.”
• “There’s no correlation between how good your idea is and how likely your organization will be to embrace it. “
• “You can’t have good ideas unless you’re willing to generate a lot of bad ones.”

Leadership / Management

• “Are you a serial idea-starting person? The goal is to be an idea-shipping person. “
• “If you’re not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it’s almost certain you’re not reaching your potential as a leader. “
• “Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead.”
• “Leadership on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.”
• “’Teamwork’ is the word that bosses use when they actually mean ‘Do what I say’”
• “The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate. – When people ask you to tell them what to do, resist.”

Marketing

• “Advertising is just a symptom, a tactic. Marketing is about far more than that.”
• “Bullhorns are overrated: having ten times as many Twitter followers generates approximately zero times as much value. “
• “But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about. “
• “Good marketers measure. “
• “Good marketers tell stories. “
• “If you can’t make money from attention, you should do something else for a living. “
• “If you can’t sell to 1 in 1000, why market to a million? “
• “If you’re a marketer who doesn’t know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you’re no longer a marketer. You’re deadwood.“
• “Low price is a great way to sell a commodity. That’s not marketing though, that’s efficiency.”
• “Market-driven design builds the success of the product’s marketing into the product itself.”
• “Marketing is the way your people answer the phone, the typesetting on your bills and your return policy.”
• “Marketing management is now tribal leadership. “
• “Most of the time, creative entrepreneurs lose interest long before their marketing message loses its power. “
• “People don’t believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves. “
• “People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.”
• “Perhaps marketing is about to transition to a new kind of profession, one that requires insight, dedication and smarts. “
• “Relying too much on proof distracts you from the real mission–which is emotional connection.”
• “Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t. “
• “The best marketing strategy is to destroy your industry before your competition does. “
• “The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven’t given them anything else to care about. “
• “Why waste a sentence saying nothing? “
• “You can win with consistent benefits, delivered over time. You win by incrementally earning share, attention and trust.”

Mediocrity / Status Quo

• “Expectations are the engines of our perceptions.”
• “’Good enough’ stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great? “
• “If you make a difference, people will gravitate to you. They want to engage, to interact and to get you more involved.”
• “It’s uncomfortable to challenge the status quo.”
• “It’s uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.”
• “In our desire to please everyone, it’s very easy to end up being invisible or mediocre.”
• “Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it’s a lot easier to launch work that matters.”
• “Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules. “
• “The reason they want you to fit in… is that once you do, then they can ignore you.
• “The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.”
• “You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it’s getting raised regardless. “
• “You don’t have to settle. It’s a choice you get to make every day.”

Passion

• “If there was ever a moment to follow your passion and do work that matters, this is it.”
• “If you have no wish, how can it possibly come true? “

Relationships

• “A long walk and calm conversation are an incredible combination if you want to build a bridge.”
• “Be with the ones you love (and the ones that love you.) Ignore everyone else.”
• “You can be right or you can have empathy. You can’t do both.”

Strategy

• “Don’t have any meetings about your web strategy. Just do stuff. First you have to fail, then you can improve. “
• “Put aside your need for a step-by-step manual and instead realize that analogies are your best friend.“
• “The scalable, profitable strategy is to change the game, not to become the most average.”

Pursuing your why changes everything

In Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor suggests three ways for finding meaning in our lives:

1. By creating a work or doing a deed
2. By experiencing something or encountering someone
3. By the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering

Finding (and doing) what makes you come alive changes everything

“Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.” — Tim O’Reilly

GREAT IDEA!

"Surround yourself with old magazines, and start cutting and pasting. Make a collage that illustrates the life you have now, and one that illustrates the life you want. The contrasts will astound you, and perhaps show you an interesting new path." - Loretta LaRoche

Be somebody. Do something.

My favorite excerpt from the Power of Positive Thinking: "Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon. Get out of yourself. Be somebody. Do something." -

You can buy this book for fairly cheap on eBay. I highly recommend!

Study: People Who Curse Have Better Vocabularies

Psychologists presented research suggesting that people well-versed in curse words are more likely to have higher overall fluency.

Okay, finally we have good evidence that cursing isn’t some classless, primitive behavior that most think is indicative of barbarism and heathenism. Alright, maybe it’s not that extreme, but there are people out there who think that cursing is unattractive and unnecessary. If you’ve ever been accused of sounding less intelligent because you swear too much, now you can at least cite evidence that quite the contrary is true.

A recent study found that those who have an arsenal of curse words at their command are much more likely to possess a richer vocabulary than those who do not. This challenges a long-held stereotype that people used curse words only because they could not think of more intelligent words with which to express themselves.

Psychologists Kristin Jay and Timothy Jay of Marist College and the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts came up with the hypothesis that people who are well-versed in curse words are more likely to have greater overall language fluency a well.

Their study had participants say aloud as many swear words or taboo words that they could think of in 60 seconds. Then, they had to recite as many animal names they could think of in 60 seconds; using animal names as an indication of a person’s overall vocabulary and interest in language. The participants were also asked to submit FAS tasks, or standardized verbal fluency tests.

The participants came up with 533 taboo words, including “c*m dumpster” and “*ss pirate.”  They found that ability to generate curse words was not an index of overall language poverty, but that taboo fluency is positively correlated with other measures of verbal fluency. As the researchers explain, “a voluminous taboo lexicon may better be considered an indicator of healthy verbal abilities rather than a cover for their deficiencies.”

While the sample size for the study was quite small, it is solid evidence until a larger cohort can be analyzed. Stephen Fry, one of the greatest masters of the English language, gives his take on swearing in the video below. (WARNING: Explicit Language):

This blog post has been reproduced with the permission of Expanded Consciousness. The original blog post can be found here. The views expressed by the author are not necessarily endorsed by this organization and are simply provided as food for thought. 

Teacher: Forget the Homework, Spend Time with Family

Teacher: Forget the Homework, Spend Time with Family

In recent weeks, a report on the value of homework has been making the rounds. In a nutshell? Homework for elementary school children is not beneficial.

Texas teacher Brandy Young has apparently taken these homework findings to heart. As USA Today reports:

“Last week, mom Samantha Gallagher posted a note on Facebook from her daughter's teacher reading: ‘After much research this summer, I'm trying something new. Homework will only consist of work that your student did not finish during the school day. There will be no formally assigned homework this year.’”

But the no homework policy does not come without strings. Instead of filling up the extra free time with sports or extracurricular activities, Mrs. Young requested that parents take time to be with their children:

“I ask that you spend your evenings doing things that are proven to correlate with student success. Eat dinner as a family, read together, play outside, and get your child to bed early.”  

The fact that Mrs. Young’s note has taken the internet by firestorm suggests just how unusual – and appreciated – her advice is.

But while her advice is rare, it corresponds with one of the three elements that medical doctor Leonard Sax believes is a forgotten aspect of parenting, namely, enjoying your children.

In his book, The Collapse of Parenting, Sax notes that so many parents are occupied with checking their emails, running the soccer carpool, and making sure that their child doesn’t miss out on opportunities, that they often miss out on the biggest opportunity of all: time together. Sax writes:

“Enjoy the time you have with your kids. That means no devices at mealtime. When you are sitting at the table together, the focus should be on interaction. Listen to your child and talk with your child.”

Those who fail to do so, Sax writes, send an “unintended message… that relaxed time together as a family is the lowest priority of all.”

In modern America, the family unit has fallen into deeper and deeper disarray. The public education system has stepped in to pick up the slack by becoming a substitute “expert” parent who will guide children to success and a functional future.

But if the recent chaos and low academic scores in the schools are any indication, such a tactic isn’t working there either.

If we want to see improved academic and behavioral success coming out of our schools, are we going to need more teachers and experts like Mrs. Young and Dr. Sax encourage and enable families to spend more time with one another? Will such efforts be effective, or will they fall on deaf ears?  

This post Teacher: Forget the Homework, Spend Time with Family was originally published on Intellectual Takeout by Annie Holmquist.

Entry #29 - The Shadow Side of Our Personality

We are all born as microcosms of the universe with an infinite number of different archetypal qualities or energies within us. One of our most important tasks in life is to develop and express as many of these energies as possible so that we can be well-rounded and experience the full range of our potential. In a way it's as if there are many different characters living inside of us, each with its own task and purpose. Each of us has developed a certain of our inner selves very highly. These are the ones that we present to the world. These are our primary selves. There are certain other selves that we are afraid of, ashamed of, or in some way uncomfortable about, and we try to keep them hidden. These are called disowned selves, and they make up what Carl Jung called the "shadow side" of our personality."

This is from the book Developing Intuition by Shakti Gawain, which is available on eBay for under $5 dollars!  4 out of 5 stars! :)

Entry #28 - Memes Edition

Entry #27 - If You Forget Me - Poem by Pablo Neruda

“If You Forget Me

I want you to know

one thing.

You know how this is:

if I look

at the crystal moon, at the red branch

of the slow autumn at my window,

if I touch

near the fire

the impalpable ash

or the wrinkled body of the log,

everything carries me to you,

as if everything that exists,

aromas, light, metals,

were little boats

that sail

toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,

if little by little you stop loving me

I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly

you forget me

do not look for me,

for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,

the wind of banners

that passes through my life,

and you decide

to leave me at the shore

of the heart where I have roots,

remember

that on that day,

at that hour,

I shall lift my arms

and my roots will set off

to seek another land.

But

if each day,

each hour,

you feel that you are destined for me

with implacable sweetness,

if each day a flower

climbs up to your lips to seek me,

ah my love, ah my own,

in me all that fire is repeated,

in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,

my love feeds on your love, beloved,

and as long as you live it will be in your arms

without leaving mine.” 

― Pablo Neruda

Entry #26 Conor McGregor Quotes

"I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them." 

― Conor McGregor

Life is about growing and improving and getting better. ― Conor McGregor

I have a self-defense mind. I've had it all my life. ― Conor McGregor

That's what I do this for, to secure my family's future. I don't care about anything else. I'm able to spoil people, and that's the best thing. ― Conor McGregor

"I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I'm confidently cocky, you might say." ― Conor McGregor

Entry #25 [Quotes by Wayne Dyer]

“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.” 

― Wayne W. Dyer, The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way

“With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with

another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change

you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you

are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or

frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about

something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it

is about you that is making you unhappy. ” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.”

― Wayne W. Dyer

“I am realistic – I expect miracles.” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“Conflict cannot survive without your participation” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“The more you see yourself as what you'd like to become, and act as if

what you want is already there, the more you'll activate those dormant

forces that will collaborate to transform your dream into your reality.” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“You'll see it when you believe it.” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“You don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“Heaven on Earth is a choice you 

must make, not a place you must find.” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings emersed in a human experience.” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“Loving people live in a loving world.hostile people live in a hostile world.same world.”
― Wayne W. Dyer

“In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“Each experience in your lifewas absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

“When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.” 

― Wayne W. Dyer

Entry #24 [Quotes by Eckhart Tolle]

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“The past has no power over the present moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“To love is to recognize yourself in another.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Anything that you resent and strongly react to in another is also in you.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening To Your Life's Purpose

“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Love is not selective, just as the light of the sun is not selective. It does not make one person special. It is not exclusive. Exclusivity is not the love of God but the "love" of
ego. However, the intensity with which true love is felt can vary. There may be one person who reflects your love back to you more clearly and more intensely than others, and if that person feels the same toward you, it can be said that you are in a love relationship with him or her. The bond that connects you with that person is the same bond that connects you with the person sitting next to you on a bus, or with a bird, a tree, a flower. Only the degree of intensity with which it is felt differs.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.”

“Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Accept - then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”
― Eckhart Tolle

“This, too, will pass.”
― Eckhart Tolle

Entry #23 - FEAR IS A LIE.

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”Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” –Audrey Hepburn

NEVER GIVE-UP: “So many people can be responsible for your Success.
but only you are responsible for your failure.” – Unknown

There are two types of Pain in this world: Pain that hurts you, and Pain that changes you!  – Unknown
Sometimes the wrong choices bring us to the right places.  – Unknown

‎”You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.” – Neale Donald Walsch

‎”Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.” – Ruth E. Renkel
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”Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.” – Lance Armstrong

“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” –Thomas Jefferson

its not up to you how you fall. Its up to you how far you let yourself fall and how long it takes you to get back up and stand on your own two feet” – Sr. Tac Jeffrey Mitchell

‎”Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” – Charles F. Kettering

If you can’t be criticized for it, it’s probably not remarkable. Are you devoting yourself to something devoid of criticism? – Unknown

“It’s human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn’t banging loudly on the door.” –David Hackworth

“You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” –Walt Disney

Push through the pain, and conquer the obstacles. Regardless of what you think today, it wont matter 5 years from now. SO DON’T BE AFRAID!  – Unknown

Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.  – Unknown

Do you give as much energy to your dreams as you do to your fears?  – Unknown

Think outside of the box, create your own path in life. “You laugh at me because I am different; I laugh because you are all the same.”
~ Daniel Knode

‎”The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” …so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success. – Leo Tolstoy

NO EXCUSES: 99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.  – Unknown

You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one. Every successful person did, what no one else was willing to do!  – Unknown

The so called negative feedback is often love in disguise. Take full advantage!  – Unknown

Many fear competition from others. But the biggest critic should be the person in the mirror.  – Unknown

‎”Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Waiting to develop courage is just another form of procrastination. The most successful people take action while they’re afraid!  – Unknown

The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow.  – Unknown

Life is short, fragile and does not wait for anyone. There will NEVER be a perfect time to pursue your dreams & goals.  – Unknown

‎”When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you’ll be successful.” – Eric Thomas

You will get what you want, when you stop making excuses on why you don’t have it.  – Unknown

Why have you not broken from the pack? You’re playing it safe. Safe aint gonna get you sh!t in this world” –Stone Cold Steve Austin (WWE Superstar)

Don’t always scrape & search for compliments. Criticism is what builds character & strength!  – Unknown

There’s a thin line between losing & winning. Losing breeds winners. The main recipe to success is through failures & hardships! – Unknown

Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Bill Gates, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.  – Unknown

Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.  – Unknown

A heart is a muscle..and what do muscles do when they are torn? They grow back STRONGER!  – Unknown

Remember that guy that gave up? Neither does no one else.  – Unknown