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The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
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Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful)
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When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.
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Stephen Richards
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Happy people produce. Bored people consume.
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Stephen Richards
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Doing the tough things sets winners apart from losers.
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Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful)
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If you think you can then you can.
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Stephen Richards
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What is it that inspires you? What do you love to do? What would you do for free? At the beginning of my busi-ness career, my why was to become a millionaire, not a good why! And why not? Because that is an aspiration rather than a why. Aspirations, I have found, wonβt fuel me when the going gets tough. But a true βwhyβ will.
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Richard Polak
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Blaming others is an act of refusing to take responsibility. When a person canβt accept the fact or the reality, they blamed another person or the situation instead of taking accountability.
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Dee Dee Artner
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If you have time to whine then you have time to find solution.
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Dee Dee Artner
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Wealth File
1. Rich people believe "I create my life." Poor people believe "Life happens to me."
2. Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose.
3. Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich.
4. Rich people think big. Poor people think small.
5. Rich people focus on opportunities. Poor people focus on obstacles.
6. Rich people admire other rich and successful people. Poor people resent rich and successful people.
7. Rich people associate with positive, successful people. Poor people associate with negative or unsuccessful people.
8. Rich people are willing to promote themselves and their value. Poor people think negatively about selling and promotion.
9. Rich people are bigger than their problems. Poor people are smaller than their problems.
10. Rich people are excellent receivers. Poor people are poor receivers.
11. Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time.
12. Rich people think "both". Poor people think "either/or".
13. Rich people focus on their net worth. Poor people focus on their working income.
14. Rich people manage their money well. Poor people mismanage their money well.
15. Rich people have their money work hard for them. Poor people work hard for their money.
16. Rich people act in spite of fear. Poor people let fear stop them.
17. Rich people constantly learn and grow. Poor people think they already know.
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T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
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If your motivation for acquiring money or success comes from a nonsupportive root such as fear, anger, or the need to βproveβ yourself, your money will never bring you happiness.
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T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
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One of the reasons that millionaires are economically successful is that they think differently.
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Thomas J. Stanley (The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy)
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Don't interpret anything too much. This is time waster number 1.
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Dee Dee Artner
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Without enthusiasm then what we have surrounded ourselves with becomes worthless.
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Stephen Richards
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you can have all the knowledge and skills in the world, but if your ΒβblueprintΒβ isnΒβt set for success, youΒβre financially doomed.
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T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
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To control your life, control your mind. To control your mind, control your breath.
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Stephen Richards
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Once again, I donβt quite know where Iβm headed Steph. It seems that
every few years Iβm shoveling up the pieces of my life and starting from
scratch all over. No matter what I do or how hard I try I canβt seem to reach
the dizzy heights of happiness, success, and security, like so many people do.
And Iβm not talking about becoming a millionaire and living happily ever
after. I just mean reaching a point in my life that I can stop what Iβm doing,
take a look around me, breathe a sigh of relief, and think βIβm where I want
to be now.
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Cecelia Ahern (Love, Rosie)
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The only secret of wealth creation is knowing how to use Cosmic Ordering.
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Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering Guide)
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While many ethnic and religious groups are mainly focused on the afterlife and downplaying this world, Jews view wealth and success as a blessing and gift from God.
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H.W. Charles (The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code)
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Willful blindness sees no end of damage done.
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Stephen Richards
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No matter what your wishes, they are not crazy so long as they are not crazy to you!
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Stephen Richards
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Run and hide or rise and shine ...
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Stephen Richards
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Human beings are incredibly slow, Cosmic Ordering is incredibly fast!
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Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering Connection: Change your life within minutes!)
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It has taken me a lot of years, but I find silence is sometimes the best answer.
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Stephen Richards
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Become your own success story, not someone else's.
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Stephen Richards
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It doesn't matter how fast you can go, it doesn't matter how much passion you have, and it doesn't matter how much energy you put into something. If you don't have a vision and clarity on the destination you want to reach, you'll simply never get there.
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Dean Graziosi (Millionaire Success Habits: The Gateway To Wealth & Prosperity)
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Stop harboring grudges against those who have wronged you, it just holds you back when you really want to be in the NOW.
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Stephen Richards
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Remove whatever you no longer need in your life, to make room for what you do need in your life.
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Avis J. Williams
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The key to success is to raise your own energy; when you do, people will naturally be attracted to you. And when they show up, bill βem!
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T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
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A study of over seven hundred American millionaires showed their average college GPA was 2.9.
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Eric Barker (Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong)
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Your reality is a reflection of yourself
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Avis J. Williams
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Trustworthy is earned not bought.
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Dee Dee Artner
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Maybe youβve always been happy, but the world, social media and external comparisons have convinced you that you canβt possibly be.
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Steven Bartlett (Happy Sexy Millionaire: Unexpected Truths about Fulfilment, Love and Success)
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Successful people, whether they're working for somebody else or working for themselves, do whatever they do to the best of their ability β as if the boss is watching them every minute of every day.
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Dean Graziosi (Millionaire Success Habits: The Gateway To Wealth & Prosperity)
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The future never takes care of itself; it is taken car of, shaped, molded, and colored by the present. Our todays are what our yesterdays made them; our tomorrows must inevitably be the product of our todays.
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Dennis Kimbro (The Wealth Choice: Success Secrets of Black Millionaires)
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In partnership, the result is harmony, respect, love, and an explosion of creativity and joy.
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Marc Allen (The Millionaire Course: A Visionary Plan for Creating the Life of Your Dreams)
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No other ethnic group has even come close to matching the abilities and accomplishments of Jews.
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H.W. Charles (The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code)
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Jews have been the most successful and productive nation in history.
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H.W. Charles (The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code)
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Follow your heart. It will lead you to where you need to be.
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Avis J. Williams
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Stop Blaming. Take responsibility for your thoughts and your actions.
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Dee Dee Artner
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I am neither the mind not the thought, I am its Creator.
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Rajasaraswathii
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WEALTH PRINCIPLE: You can choose to think in ways that will support you in your happiness and success instead of ways that donβt.
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T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
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Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone elseβs hands, but not you.β And remember the four things that never return: the spoken word, the speeding arrow, the wasted life, and the neglected opportunity.
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Dennis Kimbro (The Wealth Choice: Success Secrets of Black Millionaires)
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Thoughts create emotions, emotions create feelings and feelings create behaviour. So itβs very important that our thoughts are positive, to attract the right people, events and circumstances into our lives.
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Avis J. Williams (The Psychic Mind: A Practical Guide to Psychic Development & Spiritual Growth)
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if you go through life believing that happiness is somewhere in your future, it always will be β it will never be where you are now.
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Steven Bartlett (Happy Sexy Millionaire: Unexpected Truths about Fulfilment, Love and Success)
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One successful writer said he would never be a millionaire because he liked living like one too much.
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David Halberstam (The Powers That Be)
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When it's about your life, it's time to be selfish.
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Dee Dee Artner
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It doesn't matter where you come from. It only matters where you are and where you want to go.
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Dean Graziosi (Millionaire Success Habits: The Gateway To Wealth & Prosperity)
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Los Angeles is a town where status is all and status is only given to success. Dukes and millionaires and playboys by the dozen may arrive and be glad-handed for a time, but they are unwise if they choose to live there because the town is, perhaps even creditably, committed to recognising only professional success, and nothing else, to be of lasting value. The burdensome obligation imposed on all its inhabitants is therefore to present themselves as successes, because otherwise they forfeit their right to respect in that environment ... There is no place in that town for the "interesting failure" or for anyone who is not determined on a life that will be shaped in a upward-heading curve.
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Julian Fellowes (Past Imperfect)
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They trap you in the toxic narrative that quitting is a weakness, an easy way out or, worse yet, that quitting is failure. I assure you β quitting is for winners and quitting is a skill.
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Steven Bartlett (Happy Sexy Millionaire: Unexpected Truths about Fulfilment, Love and Success)
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The idea that the millionaire finds nothing but a sad, empty place at the top of this society; the idea that the rich do not know what to do with their
money; the idea that the successful become filled up with futility, and that
those born successful are poor and little as well as rich - the idea, in short,
of the disconsolateness of the rich - is, in the main, merely a way by which
those who are not rich reconcile themselves to the fact. Wealth in America is
directly gratifying and directly leads to many further gratifications. To be
truly rich is to possess the means of realizing in big ways one's little whims
and fantasies and sicknesses....
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C. Wright Mills (The Power Elite)
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The amount of money you earn is the measure of the value that others place on your contributionβ¦. To increase the value of the money you are getting out, you must increase the value of the work that you are putting in. To earn more money, you must add more value.β6
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Michael Ellsberg (The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful)
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Once again, I don't quite know where I'm headed, Steph. It seems that every few years I'm shoveling up the pieces of my life and starting from scratch all over. No matter what I do or how hard I try I can;t seem to reach the dizzy heights of happiness, success, and security. like so many people do. And I'm not talking about becoming a millionaire and living happily ever after. I just mean reaching a point in my life that I can stop what I;m doing, take a look around me, breathe a sigh of relief and think: I'm where I want to be now.
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Cecelia Ahern (Where Rainbows End)
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Time is both free and priceless. The person you are now is a consequence of how you used your time in the past. The person youβll become in the future is a consequence of how you use your time in the present. Spend your time wisely, gamble it intrinsically and save it diligently.
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Steven Bartlett (Happy Sexy Millionaire: Unexpected Truths about Fulfilment, Love and Success)
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Showing up is important and it is a big part of becoming successful.
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Andy Albright (Millionaire Maker Manual)
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To change your life, you need to become aware of yourself
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Avis J. Williams
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Getting wealthy may not cure every problem, but it sure can cure a lot of them.
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Dean Graziosi (Millionaire Success Habits: The Gateway To Wealth & Prosperity)
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what if I told you itβs true, you are going faster than ever before, but you may be on a treadmill and not a ladder.
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Dean Graziosi (Millionaire Success Habits: The Gateway To Wealth & Prosperity)
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We canβt control everything that happens to us, but we can control how we respond to things we canβt control.
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Avis J. Williams
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Epictetus, a Greek philosopher, once wrote, βCircumstances do not make the man. They merely reveal him to himself.
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Brian Tracy (The 21 Success Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires: How to Achieve Financial Independence Faster and Easier Than You Ever Thought Possible (The Laws of Success Series))
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Failure when analyzed will provide the building blocks for future successes that will be far greater than the failure itself.
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Steven K. Scott (Mentored by a Millionaire: Master Strategies of Super Achievers)
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The universe only exist within us. All of what is outside of us is also within us.
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Avis J. Williams
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Everybody talks about being rich, Cosmic Ordering does something about it.
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Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful)
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Often the only difference between success and failure is not using Cosmic Ordering.
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Stephen Richards (Cosmic Ordering Guide)
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Quality is not for compromise.
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Dee Dee Artner
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Time, energy and money. These should never be compromised.
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Dee Dee Artner
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what you don't know will cost you.
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Dee Dee Artner
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Millionaires don't play the blame game but the gain game.
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Dee Dee Artner
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If you do not completely accept yourself, you can not love yourself fully. It would be hard to love anything unconditionally.
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Avis J. Williams
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Ignite the light within you, it will make your world brighter.
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Avis J. Williams
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Focus on what you can do right now, not what you can't do right now
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Avis J. Williams
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The real winners I've met in life weren't necessarily skilled or perfect. They just had the tenacity to never, ever give up.
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Curtis Rivers (Seven Paths to Freedom)
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Everyone should have something in their life that when it comes alive, you lose track of time.
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Jeff Lerner (The Millionaire Shortcut)
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The secret to success is not to try to avoid or get rid of or shrink from your problems; the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than any problem.
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T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
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Fundamentally weβre all the by-product of not what has happened to us, but how we chose to handle it.
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Steven Bartlett (Happy Sexy Millionaire: Unexpected Truths about Fulfilment, Love and Success)
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If everything came easy in business everyone would have a business and be millionaires. It takes hard work, consistent effort and courage to keeping fighting the monster of failure.
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Delaine Robins
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Traditional publishers spend hundreds of thousands of dollars marketing and promoting a single book. With that kind of budget, as opposed to the budget of indie publishers, every single traditionally published book should be a #1 bestseller on all lists. Every traditionally published author should be millionaires with that kind of marketing budget. But they're not, so...it isn't how much you spend on marketing the book that determines the success of the book, it is how really good it is, and what is loved by the people as a whole, not by the editors. - Kailin Gow on Economy of Book Publishing, Authors Voice
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Kailin Gow
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It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying through the stratosphere or landing on the moon.
First-rate pursuits - involving, as they must, trying to understand what life is about and trying to convey that understanding - inevitably result in a sense of failure. A Napoleon, a Churchill, a Roosevelt can feel themselves to be successful, but never a Socrates, a Pascal, a Blake.
Understanding is forever unattainable. Therein lies the inevitability of failure in embarking upon its quest, which is none the less the only one worthy of serious attention.
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Malcolm Muggeridge
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If you truly care about being happy in your life and successful in your work, you have little choice. You have to become the author of your own βscriptβ, one written by your heart, not one directed by your society.
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Steven Bartlett (Happy Sexy Millionaire: Unexpected Truths about Fulfilment, Love and Success)
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The fairy tale is accused of giving children a false impression of the world they live in. But I think no literature that children could read gives them less of a false impression. I think what profess to be realistic stories for children are far more likely to deceive them. I never expected the real world to be like the fairy tales. I think that I did expect school to be like the school stories. The fantasies did not deceive me: the school stories did. All stories in which children have adventures and successes which are possible, in the sense that they do not break the laws of nature, but almost infinitely improbable, are in more danger than the fairy tales of raising false expectationsβ¦
This distinction holds for adult reading too. The dangerous fantasy is always superficially realistic. The real victim of wishful reverie does not batten on the Odyssey, The Tempest, or The Worm Ouroboros: he (or she) prefers stories about millionaires, irresistible beauties, posh hotels, palm beaches and bedroom scenesβthings that really might happen, that ought to happen, that would have happened if the reader had had a fair chance. For, as I say, there are two kinds of longing. The one is an askesis, a spiritual exercise, and the other is a disease.
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C.S. Lewis (Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories)
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The Art of Earning a Living requires a great deal of self-inquiry into what, exactly, the difference you want to make is, and also a lot of creative, entrepreneurial problem solving to figure out how you could make decent money while making that difference.
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Michael Ellsberg (The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful)
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Wisdom is really the key to wealth. With great wisdom, comes great wealth and success. Rather than pursuing wealth, pursue wisdom. The aggressive pursuit of wealth can lead to disappointment.
Wisdom is defined as the quality of having experience, and being able to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting. Wisdom is basically the practical application of knowledge.
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.
Become completely focused on one subject and study the subject for a long period of time. Don't skip around from one subject to the next.
The problem is generally not money. Jesus taught that the problem was attachment to possessions and dependence on money rather than dependence on God.
Those who love people, acquire wealth so they can give generously. After all, money feeds, shelters, and clothes people.
They key is to work extremely hard for a short period of time (1-5 years), create abundant wealth, and then make money work hard for you through wise investments that yield a passive income for life.
Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand.
Failure is success if we learn from it. Continuing failure eventually leads to success. Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
Whenever you pursue a goal, it should be with complete focus. This means no interruptions.
Only when one loves his career and is skilled at it can he truly succeed.
Never rush into an investment without prior research and deliberation.
With preferred shares, investors are guaranteed a dividend forever, while common stocks have variable dividends.
Some regions with very low or no income taxes include the following: Nevada, Texas, Wyoming, Delaware, South Dakota, Cyprus, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Panama, San Marino, Seychelles, Isle of Man, Channel Islands, Curaçao, Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Monaco, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Bermuda, Kuwait, Oman, Andorra, Cayman Islands, Belize, Vanuatu, and Campione d'Italia.
There is only one God who is infinite and supreme above all things. Do not replace that infinite one with finite idols. As frustrated as you may feel due to your life circumstances, do not vent it by cursing God or unnecessarily uttering his name.
Greed leads to poverty. Greed inclines people to act impulsively in hopes of gaining more.
The benefit of giving to the poor is so great that a beggar is actually doing the giver a favor by allowing the person to give. The more I give away, the more that comes back.
Earn as much as you can. Save as much as you can. Invest as much as you can. Give as much as you can.
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H.W. Charles (The Money Code: Become a Millionaire With the Ancient Jewish Code)
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Itβs quite possible that the most important contributor to your ultimate success will be your ability to keep moving, to make progress, and to learn as you go. So jump out there and enter the real estate sales race with confidence. And remember, you canβt get anywhere if you never start!
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Gary Keller (The millionaire real estate agent)
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no thought lives in your head rent-free.β Each thought you have will either be an investment or a cost. It will either move you toward happiness and success or away from it. It will either empower you or disempower you. Thatβs why it is imperative you choose your thoughts and beliefs wisely.
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T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
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One of the principles we teach in our programs is βIf you shoot for the stars, youβll at least hit the moon.β Poor people donβt even shoot for the ceiling in their house, and then they wonder why theyβre not successful. Well, they just found out. You get what you truly intend to get. If you want to get rich, your goal has to be rich. Not to have enough to pay the bills, and not just to have enough to be comfortable. Rich means rich!
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T. Harv Eker (Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth)
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The average American watches more than four hours of TV each day. In a 65-year life, that person will have spent nine years glued to the tube. Why? Simple. Life sucks. Life needs an escape. Life is no good.
Show me someone who spends hours online playing Mafia Wars or Farmville, and I'll show you someone who probably isn't very successful. When life sucks, escapes are sought. I don't need television because I invested my time into a real life worth living, not a fictitious escape that airs every Tuesday night at 8 p.m.
Again, majority thinking yields mediocrity, and for that majority, time is an asset that is undervalued and mindlessly squandered.
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M.J. DeMarco (The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime!)
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Now take a look at the cemetery. It is quite difficult to do so because people who fail do not seem to write memoirs, and, if they did, those business publishers I know would not even consider giving them the courtesy of a returned phone call (as to returned e-mail, fuhgedit). Readers would not pay $26.95 for a story of failure, even if you convinced them that it had more useful tricks than a story of success.* The entire notion of biography is grounded in the arbitrary ascription of a causal relation between specified traits and subsequent events. Now consider the cemetery. The graveyard of failed persons will be full of people who shared the following traits: courage, risk taking, optimism, et cetera. Just like the population of millionaires. There may be some differences in skills, but what truly separates the two is for the most part a single factor: luck. Plain luck.
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Incerto, #2))
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I got into heated arguments with brothers and sisters who claimed that the oppression of black people was only a question of race. I argued that there were Black oppressors as well as white ones. Black folks with money have always tended to support candidates who they believed would protect their financial interests. As far as i was concerned, it didn't take too much to figure that black people are oppressed because of class as well as race, because we are poor and because we are Black. It would burn me every time some body talked about Black people climbing the ladder of success. Anytime you're talking about a ladder, you're talking about a top and a bottom, an upper class and a lower class, a rich class and a poor class. As long as you got a system with a top and bottom, Black people are always going to end up at the bottom because we're easiest to discriminate against. That's why i couldn't see fighting within the system. Both the Democratic and Republican party are controlled by millionaires. They are interested in holding on to their power while i was interested in taking it away. They were interested in supporting fascist dictatorships in South and Central America, while i was interested in seeing them overthrown. They were interested in seeing racist, fascist regimes in Africa while i was interested in seeing them overthrown. They were interested in defeating the Viet Cong and i was interested in seeing their liberation.
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Assata Shakur (Assata: An Autobiography)
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The potential of controlling and living a successful life according to your terms depends on how you think. Your perception is your world. You can create the life you want and in fact, you can even shape the way you want it.
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Dee Dee Artner
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There has appeared in our time a particular class of books and articles which I sincerely and solemnly think may be called the silliest ever known among men... these things are about nothing; they are about what is called Success. On every bookstall, in every magazine, you may find works telling people how to succeed. They are books showing men how to succeed in everything; they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books. To begin with, of course, there is no such thing as Success. Or, if you like to put it so, there is nothing that is not successful. That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey... I really think that the people who buy these books (if any people do buy them) have a moral, if not a legal, right to ask for their money back.
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G.K. Chesterton (All Things Considered)
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Itβs a bit like asking the audience in Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? A room full of strangers will be right more often than the cleverest person you know. (The βask the audienceβ lifeline had a 91 per cent success rate compared to just 65 per cent for βphone a friendβ.?)21 The errors made by many can cancel each other out and result in a crowd thatβs wiser than the individual.
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Hannah Fry (Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine)
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Over against those who laud the present state of Society, with its unjustly rich and its unjustly poor, with its palaces and its slums, its millionaires and its paupers, be it ours to proclaim that there is a higher ideal in life than that of being first in the race for wealth, most successful in the scramble for gold. Be it ours to declare steadfastly that health, comfort, leisure, culture, plenty for every individual are far more desirable than breathless struggle for existence, furious trampling down of the weak by the strong, huge fortunes accumulated out of the toil of others, to be handed down to those who had done nothing to earn them.
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Annie Besant (Annie Besant An Autobiography)
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Leadership is like a fountain. Imagine the leaders are the water near the top, ready to burst out of the fountain. The water about to burst out is being pushed up by water below it. If you want to succeed, find leaders who are doing amazing things in the world, and push them up. Find powerful people and help them reach their goals. If youβre of service to them, they will be of service back.
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Michael Ellsberg (The Education of Millionaires: Everything You Won't Learn in College About How to Be Successful)
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Once again, I donβt quite know where Iβm headed Steph. It seems that every few years Iβm shoveling up the pieces of my life and starting from scratch all over. No matter what I do or how hard I try I canβt seem to reach the dizzy heights of happiness, success, and security, like so many people do. And Iβm not talking about becoming a millionaire and living happily ever after. I just mean reaching a point in my life that I can stop what Iβm doing, take a look around me, breathe a sigh of relief, and think βIβm where I want to be now.
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Cecelia Ahern (Love, Rosie)
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Some people just canβt seem to deal with any uncertainty in their lives, and time and time again they find themselves imprisoned in situations that kill their happiness, push them towards despair and gradually disintegrate their self-esteem. They donβt realise that in their attempt to avoid uncertainty and the short-term discomfort it might bring, theyβre actually inadvertently opting for long-term misery. I believe that the happiness youβll find across all areas of your life β your work, your relationships and everything in between β will positively correlate to your ability to deal with uncertainty.
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Steven Bartlett (Happy Sexy Millionaire: Unexpected Truths about Fulfilment, Love and Success)
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Cora, the daughter of Isidore Levinson, a dry goods millionaire from Cincinnati, arrived in England in 1888, when she was 20 years old, with her mother as chaperone. By this time, even respectable rich American girls preferred to find their husbands amongst the nobility. Thanks to the successes of the earlier Buccaneers and a fashion for all things European, from interiors to dress designers such as the House of Worth, pursuing an English marriage had now become desirable. For these families, the many years in which Americans had fought to escape the clutches of colonial rule and create their own republic appeared to have been forgotten.
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Jessica Fellowes (The World of Downton Abbey)
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Every republic runs its greatest risk not so much from discontented soldiers as from discontented multi-millionaires. They are very rarely, if ever, content with a position of equality, and the larger the population which is said to be equal with them, the less content they are. Their natural desire is to be a class apart, and if they cannot have titles at home, they wish to be received as equals by titled people abroad. That is exactly our present position, and would be the end of the American dream. All past republics have been overthrown by rich men, or nobles, and we have plenty of Sons of the Revolution ready for the job, and plenty of successful soldiers deriding the Constitution, unrebuked by the Executive or by public opinion.
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Kory Stamper (Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries)
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Improvising, I participated in the discussion, and questioned another woman in the group. I asked her how old she was and she answered, βThirty.β I replied, βNo, you are not thirty but instead eighty and lying on your deathbed. And now you are looking back on your life, a life which was childless but full of financial success and social prestige.β And then I invited her to imagine what she would feel in this situation. βWhat will you think of it? What will you say to yourself?β Let me quote what she actually said from a tape which was recorded during that session. βOh, I married a millionaire, I had an easy life full of wealth, and I lived it up! I flirted with men; I teased them! But now I am eighty; I have no children of my own. Looking back as an old woman, I cannot see what all that was for; actually, I must say, my life was a failure!
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Viktor E. Frankl (Man's Search for Meaning)
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New Rule: Americans must realize what makes NFL football so great: socialism. That's right, the NFL takes money from the rich teams and gives it to the poorer one...just like President Obama wants to do with his secret army of ACORN volunteers. Green Bay, Wisconsin, has a population of one hundred thousand. Yet this sleepy little town on the banks of the Fuck-if-I-know River has just as much of a chance of making it to the Super Bowl as the New York Jets--who next year need to just shut the hell up and play.
Now, me personally, I haven't watched a Super Bowl since 2004, when Janet Jackson's nipple popped out during halftime. and that split-second glimpse of an unrestrained black titty burned by eyes and offended me as a Christian. But I get it--who doesn't love the spectacle of juiced-up millionaires giving one another brain damage on a giant flatscreen TV with a picture so real it feels like Ben Roethlisberger is in your living room, grabbing your sister?
It's no surprise that some one hundred million Americans will watch the Super Bowl--that's forty million more than go to church on Christmas--suck on that, Jesus! It's also eighty-five million more than watched the last game of the World Series, and in that is an economic lesson for America. Because football is built on an economic model of fairness and opportunity, and baseball is built on a model where the rich almost always win and the poor usually have no chance. The World Series is like The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. You have to be a rich bitch just to play. The Super Bowl is like Tila Tequila. Anyone can get in.
Or to put it another way, football is more like the Democratic philosophy. Democrats don't want to eliminate capitalism or competition, but they'd like it if some kids didn't have to go to a crummy school in a rotten neighborhood while others get to go to a great school and their dad gets them into Harvard. Because when that happens, "achieving the American dream" is easy for some and just a fantasy for others.
That's why the NFL literally shares the wealth--TV is their biggest source of revenue, and they put all of it in a big commie pot and split it thirty-two ways. Because they don't want anyone to fall too far behind. That's why the team that wins the Super Bowl picks last in the next draft. Or what the Republicans would call "punishing success."
Baseball, on the other hand, is exactly like the Republicans, and I don't just mean it's incredibly boring. I mean their economic theory is every man for himself. The small-market Pittsburgh Steelers go to the Super Bowl more than anybody--but the Pittsburgh Pirates? Levi Johnston has sperm that will not grow and live long enough to see the Pirates in a World Series. Their payroll is $40 million; the Yankees' is $206 million. The Pirates have about as much chance as getting in the playoffs as a poor black teenager from Newark has of becoming the CEO of Halliburton.
So you kind of have to laugh--the same angry white males who hate Obama because he's "redistributing wealth" just love football, a sport that succeeds economically because it does just that. To them, the NFL is as American as hot dogs, Chevrolet, apple pie, and a second, giant helping of apple pie.
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Bill Maher (The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass)
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But the launching had been a great success and now that the Space Hotel was safely in orbit, there was a tremendous hustle and bustle to send up the first guests. It was rumored that the President of the United States himself was going to be among the first to stay in the hotel, and of course there was a mad rush by all sorts of other people across the world to book rooms. Several kings and queens had cabled the White House in Washington for reservations, and a Texas millionaire called Orson Cart, who was about to marry a Hollywood starlet called Helen Highwater, was offering one hundred thousand dollars a day for the honeymoon suite. But you cannot send guests to a hotel unless there are lots of people there to look after them, and that explains why there was yet another interesting object orbiting the earth at that moment. This was the large Commuter Capsule containing the entire staff for Space Hotel βU.S.A.β There were managers, assistant managers, desk clerks, waitresses, bellhops, chambermaids, pastry chefs and hall porters. The capsule they were traveling in was manned by the three famous astronauts, Shuckworth, Shanks and Showler, all of them handsome, clever and brave. βIn exactly one hour,β said Shuckworth,
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Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2))
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One way to get a life and keep it is to put energy into being an S&M (success and money) queen. I first heard this term in Karen Salmansohnβs fabulous book The 30-Day Plan to Whip Your Career Into Submission. Hereβs how to do it: be a star at work. I donβt care if you flip burgers at McDonaldβs or run a Fortune 500 company. Do everything with totality and excellence. Show up on time, all the time. Do what you say you will do. Contribute ideas. Take care of the people around you. Solve problems. Be an agent for change. Invest in being the best in your industry or the best in the world!
If youβve been thinking about changing professions, thatβs even more reason to be a star at your current job. Operating with excellence now will get you back up to speed mentally and energetically so you can hit the ground running in your new position. It will also create good karma. When and if you finally do leave, your current employers will be happy to support you with a great reference and often leave an open door for additional work in the future.
If youβre an entrepreneur, look at ways to enhance your business. Is there a new product or service youβve wanted to offer? How can you create raving fans by making your customer service sparkle? How can you reach more people with your product or service? Can you impact thousands or even millions more?
Letβs not forget the M in S&M. Getting a life and keeping it includes having strong financial health as well. This area is crucial because many women delay taking charge of their financial lives as they believe (or have been culturally conditioned to believe) that a man will come along and take care of it for them. This is a setup for disaster. You are an intelligent and capable woman. If you want to fully unleash your irresistibility, invest in your financial health now and donβt stop once you get involved in a relationship.
If money management is a challenge for you, I highly recommend my favorite financial coach: David Bach. He is the bestselling author of many books, including The Automatic Millionaire, Smart Women Finish Rich, and Smart Couples Finish Rich. His advice is clear-cut and straightforward, and, most important, it works.
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Marie Forleo (Make Every Man Want You: How to Be So Irresistible You'll Barely Keep from Dating Yourself!)