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Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.
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Bohdi Sanders (The Secrets of Worldly Wisdom: Your Key to Unlocking Success)
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The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.
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Moss Hart (Act One)
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There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. Those who are lucky enough to find it ease like water over a stone, onto its fluid contours, and are home. Some find it in the place of their birth; others may leave a seaside town, parched, and find themselves refreshed in the desert. There are those born in rolling countryside who are really only at ease in the intense and busy loneliness of the city. For some, the search is for the imprint of another; a child or a mother, a grandfather or a brother, a lover, a husband, a wife, or a foe. We may go through our lives happy or unhappy, successful or unfulfilled, loved or unloved, without ever standing cold with the shock of recognition, without ever feeling the agony as the twisted iron in our soul unlocks itself and we slip at last into place.
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Josephine Hart
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You become what you think about most of the time
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Brian Tracy (Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement)
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The greatest hunger in life is not for food, money, success, status, security, sex, or even love from the opposite sex. Time and again people have achieved all these things and wound up still feeling dissatisfied- indeed, often more dissatisfied than when they began. The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part of the self. In the ancient traditions of wisdom, this quest has been likened to diving for the most precious pearl in existence, a poetic way of saying that you have to swim far out beyond shallow waters, plunge deep into yourself, and search patiently until the pearl beyond price is found. The pearl is also called essence, the breath of god, the water of life…labels for what we, in our more prosaic scientific age, would simply call TRANSFORMATION.
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Deepak Chopra (The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life)
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By harnessing the power of collective intelligence and mutual support, mastermind alliances can unlock new levels of creativity, innovation, and success.
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Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr. (Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance)
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Patience and persistence are the keys... The keys to unlock doors of success... With these two virtues, you grow in reasoning and experience.
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Ogwo David Emenike
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In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is—I will form good habits and become their slave.
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Og Mandino (The Greatest Salesman In The World)
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Don’t put off your adventures while you wait for available friends to join.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Whatever you believe, with conviction, becomes your reality.
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Brian Tracy (Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement)
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Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.
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Og Mandino
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If you're trying to do something where you will inevitably fail and be rejected repeatedly before you achieve your goal, then you will need a nonstandard relationship with winning, focusing on incremental goals.
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Emily Nagoski (Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle)
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My faith is as strong as it’s ever been—not because Christianity tells me the right way to live or unlocks some “key to success” but because I can find no one more compelling, more lovely, more hopeful than Jesus.
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Jinger Duggar Vuolo (Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear)
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You don’t need to doubt yourself – plenty of people will do that for free!
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Your gift will unlock doors that you prayed for God to open.
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Yvonne Pierre (The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir)
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It’s not how much you make each month that matters — it’s how much you save along with the flexibility and time outside work that you have.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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For every day we don't unlock our own value, we remain plugged into our other identity.
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Chris Brogan (Social Media 101: Tactics and Tips to Develop Your Business Online)
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Help someone smile and laugh today.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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If You Want To Reach An Agreement, Move From a Competitive Mindset to A Cooperative One
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Ludovic Tendron (The Master Key: Unlock Your Influence and Succeed in Negotiation)
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The true impact of innovation isn’t in its disruptiveness; rather, it lies in its ability to ignite hope, unlock new possibilities and catalyse positive transformations across systems.
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Roger Spitz (Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World)
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We each have a unique path to walk in this life, and there is a reason that yours is unfolding the way that it is. Embrace your journey and look for the lessons. Believe in divine timing and know that what’s for you will not pass you.
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Alwill Leyba Cara (Girl Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Success, Sanity, and Happiness for the Female Entrepreneur)
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Wisdom is meant to be shared, so let’s start sharing what we’ve learned to make each other better. Let’s start building each other up. Let’s live up to our potential and start ruling the world.
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Alwill Leyba Cara (Girl Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Success, Sanity, and Happiness for the Female Entrepreneur)
“
We assume success is about being famous, rich
and owning expensive things. But if you’ve pulled
yourself out of a dark place, that’s a great success in
itself. Don’t forget that you’re winning each day you
don’t give up and you make it through to the next.
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Vex King (Good Vibes, Good Life: How Self-Love Is the Key to Unlocking Your Greatness: OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD)
“
So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts. That is the process under way - not a drama of victimization but of empowerment, the kind that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen.
This is a story of transformation. It is change that is already taking place, and change that can accelerate if you'll just open your heart and join in.
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Nicholas D. Kristof (Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide)
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when you have learned to control yourself you will have found the “World Within” which controls the world without; you will have become irresistible; men and things will respond to your every wish without any apparent effort on your
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Charles F. Haanel (The Master Key System: Unlocking Your Inner Potential for Success and Abundance by Charles F. Haanel: The Master Key System is a personal development book ... Personal Development (Design Your Life)))
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Douglas Adams’s character Dirk Gently puts it, “I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere that I needed to be.” Widen your focus to see the inadvertent benefits you stumble across along the way. This sort of reframing makes failing almost (almost) impossible, since it acknowledges that there’s more to success than winning.
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Emily Nagoski (Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle)
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Don’t waste a good idea or allow it to die inside you.
One idea can bring you to the top, make your day or spark
off chains of success chain reactions.-
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Ikechukwu Joseph (Unlocking Closed Doors)
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I’ve learned more from discomfort than I could ever have learned from pleasure.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Ordinary people achieve extraordinary goals when they put “Extra” first.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Your priorities determine your happiness — place them in order and act on them.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Always take massive imperfect action towards your goals because the time
might never be “just right”.
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Derric Yuh Ndim
“
You know a woman is strong, beautiful, and secure by the way she empowers and inspires others.
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Alwill Leyba Cara (Girl Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Success, Sanity, and Happiness for the Female Entrepreneur)
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يتم الوصول الى السعادة بطريقة من ثلاث:الأولى :وجود شيء تتطلع إليه أو تترقبه , الثانية :بالمشاركة ,الثالثة : جعل شخص آخر سعيدا.
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Richard Denny (Succeed for Yourself: Unlock Your Potential for Success and Happiness)
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Success lasts a lifetime but stops at the end of your life. Significance lasts many lifetimes and continues long after you’re gone.
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Mensah Oteh (Unlocking Life's Treasure Chest: Wisdom keys to keep you inspired, encouraged, motivated and focused)
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It’s all about persevering and letting your passion drive you. When you have passion, you cannot fail. The world simply cannot reject anyone or anything that comes from a place of passion. Stay focused on what you love, keep going, and trust that those who are meant to get your message will.
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Alwill Leyba Cara (Girl Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Success, Sanity, and Happiness for the Female Entrepreneur)
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Anything you might want to accomplish—executing a project at work, getting a new job, learning a new skill, starting a business—requires finding and putting to use the right information. Your professional success and quality of life depend directly on your ability to manage information effectively. According to the New York Times, the average person’s daily consumption of information now adds up to a remarkable 34 gigabytes.1 A separate study cited by the Times estimates that we consume the equivalent of 174 full newspapers’ worth of content each and every day, five times higher than in 1986.2 Instead of empowering us, this deluge of information often overwhelms us. Information Overload has become Information Exhaustion, taxing our mental resources and leaving us constantly anxious that we’re forgetting something.
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Tiago Forte (Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential)
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We assume success is about being famous, rich and owning expensive things.
But if you’ve pulled yourself out of a dark place, that’s a great success in itself.
Don’t forget that you’re winning each day you don’t give up and you make it through to the next.
”
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Vex King (Good Vibes, Good Life: How Self-Love Is the Key to Unlocking Your Greatness: OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD)
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There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul: we search for its outlines all over our lives. Those who are lucky enough to find it ease like water over stone, onto its fluid contours, and are home.
Some find it in a place of their birth; others may leave a seaside town, parched, and find themselves refreshed in the desert. there are those born in rolling countryside who are really only at ease in the intense and busy loneliness of the city.
For some, the search is for the imprint of another; a child or a mother, a grandfather or a brother, a lover, a husband, a wife, or a foe.
We may go through our lives happy or unhappy, successful or unfulfilled, loved, or unloved, without ever standing cold with the shock or recognition, without ever feeling the agony as the twisted iron in our soul unlocks itself and we slip at last into place.
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Josephine Hart
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Don’t get discouraged or compare yourself to people. Focus on improving yourself each day, slowly but surely.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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The questions you ask determine the reality you create for yourself and others.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Success is only rented, and you pay the rent daily.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Lions don't worry about what lambs think.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Three golden keys that unlock the door to excellence are determination, hard work and practice.
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Mark F. LaMoure
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If you don’t take control of your
career development, it’s highly unlikely that anyone else will!
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Derric Yuh Ndim
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You must envision your world through the eyes of positivity and possibility. The moment you do that, you open up a world of endless abundance.
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Alwill Leyba Cara (Girl Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Success, Sanity, and Happiness for the Female Entrepreneur)
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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?” – Danielle LaPorte
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Alwill Leyba Cara (Girl Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Success, Sanity, and Happiness for the Female Entrepreneur)
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If there is no solution, there is no problem.
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Brian Tracy (Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement)
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Make a decision today that, from now on, you are going to eliminate all the “if only’s” from your life.
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Brian Tracy (Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement)
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The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.” – Barbara Corcoran
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Alwill Leyba Cara (Girl Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Success, Sanity, and Happiness for the Female Entrepreneur)
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You unlock the door to greater levels of excellence and success when you accept who you are. It is from the point of acceptance that we can create a masterful life.
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Steve Maraboli (Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience)
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The emptiest people are full of themselves.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Live life king size and serve others.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Comfort zones are overrated. When you embrace the unfamiliar and uncomfortable in all areas of life, your progress will start soaring.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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We’re born to pilot our own plane and explore the world, not sit in the airport.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Don’t just cautiously step through life to reach death safely.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Not everything has to have a reason. You can do things simply because it’s fun or out of curiosity.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Be smart by being alert.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Let’s do life together – it’s far better.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Invest your time and money in connecting yourself and others.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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There is absolutely no shame in having desires, and the sooner you own them, the sooner they will flow to you.
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Cara Alwill Leyba (Girl Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Success, Sanity, and Happiness for the Female Entrepreneur)
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Physical activity is what tells your brain you have successfully survived the threat and now your body is a safe place to live. Physical activity is the single most efficient strategy for completing the stress response cycle.
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Emily Nagoski (Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle)
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There are absolutely no limits on what you can achieve. Your possibilities are truly endless, and you have the power to create the life and business of your dreams. You must find the place inside of you where everything is possible.
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Cara Alwill Leyba (Girl Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Success, Sanity, and Happiness for the Female Entrepreneur)
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reached our absolute limit, we still have 60 percent more to give! That’s the governor in action! Once you know that to be true, it’s simply a matter of stretching your pain tolerance, letting go of your identity and all your self-limiting stories, so you can get to 60 percent, then 80 percent and beyond without giving up. I call this The 40% Rule, and the reason it’s so powerful is that if you follow it, you will unlock your mind to new levels of performance and excellence in sports and in life, and your rewards will run far deeper than mere material success. The 40% Rule can be applied to everything
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David Goggins (Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds)
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That's how a team works. You help the people around you, and everybody's better off for it. The crazy thing is that most of those guys wanted to be astronauts, too, but they never saw it as a competition. We were on the same team, where you want everyone around you to be as successful as possible, because in some way or another their success will become your success. It's good karma - what goes around comes around.
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Mike Massimino (Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe)
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Robert Cialdini, author of one of my favorite books, Influence, the Psychology of Persuasion, writes: “A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they
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Lior Suchard (Mind Reader: Unlocking the Power of Your Mind to Get What You Want)
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The activity which seems unthinkable today can become your warm-up in the future!
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Having the right mindset is paramount for success.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Learn how to lead, with your body and actions, not words.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Putting people in boxes is either valuable or wicked depending on your end goal.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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If your inner voice is giving you the negative message “She won’t like me” or “She’s too cool for me,” look at where it stems from. Over
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Porter Gale (Your Network Is Your Net Worth: Unlock the Hidden Power of Connections for Wealth, Success, and Happiness in the Digital Age)
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The goal of agility measure is to keep track of the most value-driven factors to lead business success.
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Pearl Zhu (Performance Master: Take a Holistic Approach to Unlock Digital Performance)
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Practice is a great contributor to success, but you have to be careful what you practice.
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Don Crosby (The Why You Do: Unlocking Our Behavior to Prevent Misunderstandings)
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As you increase the number of people you are able to communicate with, your value rises.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Rather than wither away, I wish for you to grow and flourish in all aspects of life.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Avoid arguing with cynics and pessimists as they will only drain your energy and time.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Change your perspective of yourself, and you will experience a personal transformation.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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When you give without needing anything in return, it provides you infinite flexibility and power.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Perseverance is the key that unlocks the door to success. When you keep pushing forward through challenges, you will eventually reach your goals.
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Enamul Haque (The Ultimate Modern Guide to Artificial Intelligence)
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Dr. Seuss so eloquently put it, “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
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Alwill Leyba Cara (Girl Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Success, Sanity, and Happiness for the Female Entrepreneur)
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If you love someone you would do anything for them right?
Now imagine you are that someone. Give yourself the gift of everything you want
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Derric Yuh Ndim
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Personal growth is the most powerful force for change on earth. I believe that personal growth can help anyone change anything.
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Derric Yuh Ndim
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In all of these examples, it’s not just the change of environment or seeking of quiet that enables more depth. The dominant force is the psychology of committing so seriously to the task at hand. To put yourself in an exotic location to focus on a writing project, or to take a week off from work just to think, or to lock yourself in a hotel room until you complete an important invention: These gestures push your deep goal to a level of mental priority that helps unlock the needed mental resources. Sometimes to go deep, you must first go big.
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Cal Newport (Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World)
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Having a mind-set of being a producer will help you focus when generating content or developing products or services to increase your visibility, build your network, or increase your reach.
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Porter Gale (Your Network Is Your Net Worth: Unlock the Hidden Power of Connections for Wealth, Success, and Happiness in the Digital Age)
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Greater success and happiness are only possible for you when you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable during the process of creating a new comfort zone at a higher level of effectiveness.
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Brian Tracy (Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills that Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed)
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Many self-help teachers say that our schools only focus on “preparing today’s youths to get good jobs by developing scholastic skills.” They think that’s a bad thing. It’s probably the right thing. Not everyone is suited for entrepreneurship, as statistics seem to suggest. Even future entrepreneurs usually
need to begin as employees to get their starting capital and to
learn while they work.
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Derric Yuh Ndim
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The best way to prepare for life is a
combination of formal traditional education, reading, seminars,
and workshops, coupled with experience as well as tapping into the knowledge of experienced people.
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Derric Yuh Ndim
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To be truly successful you have to break away from the crowds, popularity and your ego for a while. Somewhere you can work towards achieving your goals, say no to distractions and concentrate on studying and practicing.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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I’m a witness to personal development being the best investment you could ever make by improving yourself
proactively, working on your awareness, improving your skills
and knowledge about how you can get to the edge of your
potential
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Derric Yuh Ndim
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Many of us have allowed well-meaning parents,teachers, religious leaders and peers to tell us that there is
something fundamentally wrong with us if we don’t believe as they do. Simply put, we have forgotten how to think for ourselves.
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Derric Yuh Ndim
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I’m convinced that parents are the most essential key to unlocking the next generation’s curiosity, creativity, and innovation. So much can be said for providing a home full of books, art supplies, open-ended toys, and freedom to wander outdoors. Being stingy with screen time and generous with our attention to a child’s natural interests can translate the message to him or her that learning matters better than any standardized test. And for parents like myself, this may require questioning the same method by which they were educated. Not only has our modern method of education continually declined in its success since we ourselves went through the system; it has left us wanting more—more education for ourselves, and definitely more for our kids.
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Tsh Oxenreider (Notes from a Blue Bike: The Art of Living Intentionally in a Chaotic World)
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For what is hard work without opportunity, and what is opportunity without hard work? When one knows when to venture out and when to limit, when to believe and when to doubt, and when to keep trying and when to move on, he has unlocked the secret of success.
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Cate East (Success Astrology: Your Celestial Map of Success)
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There is a fine line deep within the mind that makes self-belief and confidence, the defining elements of success and failure in any circumstance. How we learn to activate them without running the risk of lying to ourselves is the key that unlocks the superhuman lying dormant within us.
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David Amerland (The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions)
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I have learned its the most difficult thing to become financially free from earning the minimum wage. So even if employees increase the minimum wage its the same thing. But once employees improve on their skills and personal value their wages go up and then financial freedom is posible.
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Derric Yuh Ndim
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1. Resolve today to “switch on” your success mechanism and unlock your goal-achieving mechanism by deciding exactly what you really want in life. 2. Make a list of ten goals that you want to achieve in the foreseeable future. Write them down in the present tense, as if you have already achieved them. 3. Select the one goal that could have the greatest positive impact on your life if you were to achieve it, and write it down at the top of another piece of paper. 4. Make a list of everything you could do to achieve this goal, organize it by sequence and priority, and then take action on it immediately. 5. Practice mindstorming by writing out twenty ideas that could help you achieve your most important goal, and then take action on at least one of those ideas.
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Brian Tracy (No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline)
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Meditation is the practice of silent contemplation. The practice of mediation eradicates deeply rooted negative thoughts to allow positive ones to gradually make your mind their permanent abode. Meditation calms you down. This allows you moments of non-interrupted contemplation of what’s going on inside your body as well as your surroundings. It illuminates the purpose you have in life and increases your memory, focus, and productivity.
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Matthew Barton (Mindset: Unlock The Miracles Of Your Mind: A Powerful Approach To Build A Positive Mindset And Achieve Success In Life And Business - MASTER YOUR EMOTIONS)
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Under the seeming disorder of the old city, wherever the old city is working successfully, is a marvelous order for maintaining the safety of the streets and the freedom of the city. It is a complex order. Its essence is intricacy of sidewalk use, bringing with it a constant succession of eyes. This order is all composed of movement and change, and although it is life, not art, we may fancifully call it the art form of the city and liken it to the dance — not to a simple-minded precision dance with everyone kicking up at the same time, twirling in unison and bowing off en masse, but to an intricate ballet in which the individual dancers and ensembles all have distinctive parts which miraculously reinforce each other and compose an orderly whole. The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any once place is always replete with new improvisations.
The stretch of Hudson Street where I live is each day the scene of an intricate sidewalk ballet. I make my own first entrance into it a little after eight when I put out my garbage gcan, surely a prosaic occupation, but I enjoy my part, my little clang, as the junior droves of junior high school students walk by the center of the stage dropping candy wrapper. (How do they eat so much candy so early in the morning?)
While I sweep up the wrappers I watch the other rituals of the morning: Mr Halpert unlocking the laundry's handcart from its mooring to a cellar door, Joe Cornacchia's son-in-law stacking out the empty crates from the delicatessen, the barber bringing out his sidewalk folding chair, Mr. Goldstein arranging the coils of wire which proclaim the hardware store is open, the wife of the tenement's super intendent depositing her chunky three-year-old with a toy mandolin on the stoop, the vantage point from which he is learning English his mother cannot speak. Now the primary childrren, heading for St. Luke's, dribble through the south; the children from St. Veronica\s cross, heading to the west, and the children from P.S 41, heading toward the east. Two new entrances are made from the wings: well-dressed and even elegant women and men with brief cases emerge from doorways and side streets. Most of these are heading for the bus and subways, but some hover on the curbs, stopping taxis which have miraculously appeared at the right moment, for the taxis are part of a wider morning ritual: having dropped passengers from midtown in the downtown financial district, they are now bringing downtowners up tow midtown. Simultaneously, numbers of women in housedresses have emerged and as they crisscross with one another they pause for quick conversations that sound with laughter or joint indignation, never, it seems, anything in between. It is time for me to hurry to work too, and I exchange my ritual farewell with Mr. Lofaro, the short, thick bodied, white-aproned fruit man who stands outside his doorway a little up the street, his arms folded, his feet planted, looking solid as the earth itself. We nod; we each glance quickly up and down the street, then look back at eachother and smile. We have done this many a morning for more than ten years, and we both know what it means: all is well.
The heart of the day ballet I seldom see, because part off the nature of it is that working people who live there, like me, are mostly gone, filling the roles of strangers on other sidewalks. But from days off, I know enough to know that it becomes more and more intricate. Longshoremen who are not working that day gather at the White Horse or the Ideal or the International for beer and conversation. The executives and business lunchers from the industries just to the west throng the Dorgene restaurant and the Lion's Head coffee house; meat market workers and communication scientists fill the bakery lunchroom.
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Jane Jacobs (The Death and Life of Great American Cities)
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Agile coach: The individual is an agile expert who provides guidance for new agile implementations as well as existing agile teams. The agile coach is experienced in employing agile techniques in different environments and has successfully run diverse agile projects. The individual builds and maintains relationships with everyone involved, coaches individuals, trains groups, and facilitates interactive workshops. The agile coach is typically from outside the organization, and the role may be temporary or permanent.
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Scott M. Graffius (Agile Transformation: A Brief Story of How an Entertainment Company Developed New Capabilities and Unlocked Business Agility to Thrive in an Era of Rapid Change)
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Romans, 10:9 states the basic requirements for salvation, “That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Did you know that believing in your heart and confessing with your mouth are, also, the only two requirements to begin working on your successful business? These two actions seem so simple, yet are so powerful. God wants us to have complete faith in Him, so our hearts and mouths are tools we can use to unlock God’s miraculous blessings.
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V.L. Thompson
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It was one of those perfect nights, listening to the waves crash, feeling the warm summer breeze, watching the sun set over the ocean as the moon rose up in the sky. I looked out over the cliffs and I thought about the explorers who had sailed from places like this, what they'd accomplished, mapping the unknown world, charting our place in the universe. How many times had they failed and fallen down only to get back up and try again? How many times had they sailed out on an impossible voyage and made a successful return home? I sat there with Carola looking out over the endless horizon. It was strange, but I felt like everything was going to be okay. The end of my story was not yet written, and I still had the chance to make it extraordinary.
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Mike Massimino (Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe)
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The Portal Potion Success! After weeks and weeks of trying, I’ve finally discovered the correct ingredients for the potion I’d hoped to create for my son! With just a few drops, the potion turns any written work into a portal to the world it describes. Even with my ability to create portals to and from the Otherworld, I never thought it would be possible to create a substance that allowed me passage to any world I wished. My son will get to see the places and meet the characters he’s spent his whole childhood dreaming about! And best of all, I’ll get to watch his happiness soar as it happens! The ingredients are much simpler than I imagined, but difficult to obtain. Their purposes are more metaphysical than practical, so it took some imagination to get the concoction right. The first requirement is a branch from the oldest tree in the woods. To bring the pages to life, I figured the potion would need the very thing that brought the paper to life in the first place. And what else has more life than an ancient tree? The second ingredient is a feather from the finest pheasant in the sky. This will guarantee your potion has no limits, like a bird in flight. It will ensure you can travel to lands far and wide, beyond your imagination. The third component is a liquefied lock and key that belonged to a true love. Just as this person unlocked your heart to a life of love, it will open the door of the literary dimensions your heart desires to experience. The fourth ingredient is two weeks of moonlight. Just as the moon causes waves in the ocean, the moonlight will stir your potion to life. Last, but most important, give the potion a spark of magic to activate all the ingredients. Send it a beam of joy straight from your heart. The potion does not work on any biographies or history books, but purely on works that have been imagined. Now, I must warn about the dangers of entering a fictional world: 1. Time only exists as long as the story continues. Be sure to leave the book before the story ends, or you may disappear as the story concludes. 2. Each world is made of only what the author describes. Do not expect the characters to have any knowledge of our world or the Otherworld. 3. Beware of the story’s villains. Unlike people in our world or the Otherworld, most literary villains are created to be heartless and stripped of all morals, so do not expect any mercy should you cross paths with one. 4. The book you choose to enter will act as your entrance and exit. Be certain nothing happens to it; it is your only way out. The
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Chris Colfer (Beyond the Kingdoms (The Land of Stories, #4))