Your decisions and actions are always based on your philosophies for life.
Be sure you know the source and credibility of your philosophies for life. They are the building blocks of your decision making process which determine your choices and therefore your life.
Day and night, summer and winter, effective people know how to manage these.
Having lived a few years and made a lot of mistakes myself I now understand and am convicted by what Charles Swindoll said “life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it”.
To see who you are becoming, look at who you are following.
The great Jewish Rabbi, Jesus of Nazareth said this “it is enough for students to be as their teachers”
You have to struggle to keep what you get but you don’t need to apply any effort to keep what you attract.
The only sustainable way to keep things in your life is to attract them. You know you have attracted it when it becomes effortless.
Don’t pack you day with doing. Make lots of room for learning and growing.
If your entire day is filled with production, where is the time to build capacity?
To remain relevant, you must continue to learn and grow. Stop applying yesterday’s solutions to today’s problem.
How you deal with your experiences today is a playbook for how you will deal with them tomorrow.
Evaluated experience is the best teacher. John C. Maxwell
Pay attention to your experiences, what you do with them shape how your life turns out.
Whatever you give your attention to, you will respond to.
Ever felt hungry and get distracted by something else and suddenly forget you were hungry before?
Every feeling gets stronger the more you focus on it.
Your mind is a powerful tool. More powerful than most realise.
The ability to learn what not to do is as critical as the ability to learn what to do.
Learn to document your errors so you can at least consciously learn not to do them again.
Failure is an investment not a cost to the one who is focused on achieving something.
If you have been comfortable where you are for some time now then please note - you have stopped growing.
In case you don’t know, after growth comes decline. So get uncomfortable now and start growing again.
Until you truly know what your true worth is, you may never fully grasp the importance of this question.
Your true value is not what you are now but what you could be.
Our generation is used to having things quickly. Everything is fast paced. Now, although technology has made this possible for most products and services, we must understand and accept that there is no such technology when it comes to things that really matter in life.
If you are not motivated you don’t need more motivation you need a change of mindset
External motivation may get you started and that’s great for the short run. However, it will require intrinsic motivation to go the distance and sustain the discipline to get through hard-times
Your concerns reveal your heart’s desires.
Pay attention to your concerns. They slowly grow to desires and desires compel action.
Positive concerns should be watered. Negative concerns must be uprooted with speed.
Your sense of identity, points you in the direction of your responsibility.
True sense of responsibility always stems from a correct understanding of one’s sense of identity.
When desire is backed by diligence, success is guaranteed.
Desire is great but until work is diligently done there can be no results.
You must be willing to back your desire with consistent action otherwise you will remain in the realm of mere fantasies.
You must work hard to get what you want.
You must work harder to keep what you’ve got.
The core difference between a one hit wonder and an all time star is this right here.