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Standing objects tend to remain stationary. Moving objects tend to stay in motion.
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TNT = Today Not Tomorrow
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Mistakes mean extra work. Planting is a time for all of your energy to count, not for you to spend your time mending mistakes. Frequently mistakes happen because we fail to take sufficient time for planting.
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The joy of success must be evident along the way – as part of the process of planting and cultivating – not simply lie at the end of the road as the by – product of your success. If you can’t experience fulfillment, feel satisfaction, or enjoy a deep sense of purpose and joy as you work, you are probably in the wrong line of work. You’re planting the wrong kind of seeds. You’re growing the wrong crop – for you.
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Sow what you intend to reap. That way you will always enjoy a good harvest, regardless of the quantity your field yields.
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Opportunity is a mind-set. Opportunities are literally everywhere. But you won’t see any of them unless you first choose within yourself to see them, embrace them, and pursue them. Once you begin to look for opportunities, you’ll see them with increasing frequency. The more you look for them, the more you’ll find them all around you.
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Face the inertia of your own spring-fever laziness.
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Time wasted is time lost. Time lost means opportunities and growth lost. Opportunities lost mean less success down the road.
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Enjoy the process, not just the result.
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Don’t wallow in your mistakes. Keep moving.
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Don’t demand perfection of yourself. Give your best effort, and continue to move forward. Perfection is not only unrealistic to expect and virtually impossible to achieve, but it greatly deters your ability to move forward. The person who is constantly looking over his or her shoulder at what might have been done better can’t possibly be focused on the future. Drive with your eyes ahead; don’t drive by concentrating on the rearview mirror.
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Adaptability is the key. Don’t get stuck by refusing to check out alternatives. Don’t get bogged down in just one way of doing something. Change is just as predicable as taxes and death. It’s something you can count on. Adapt!
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One of the best places to find opportunities is within problems.
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Is an opportunity lurking in my problem?
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Crisis = opportunity.
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Failure is as much a part of life as risk taking and winning.
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View mistakes as only a learning experience to climb out of holes to higher than ever heights.
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Most habits are difficult to change. Habits start off as harmless thoughts – flimsy cobwebs with very little substance. The thoughts turn into behavior. Behavior is repeated, reinforced, and repeated again. Pretty soon the flimsy cobwebs have become steel cables.
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A series of fused steel cables can be either a bridge or a cage.
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Good habits will help you get across the chasm of changes and difficulties. Bad ones will box you in.
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A change meant temporary failure. Perseverance brought an even higher level of success.
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One can be so busy playing King of the mountain that he loses the sense of joy in climbing.
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More than 90% of our confrontations in life are with imaginary predators and demons.
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A preoccupation with instant gratification and a policy of forever delaying gratification are at the extreme opposite ends of the success continuum. The truly successful person finds a happy medium.
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The only time for happiness is now. Happiness should always be in season.
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What you get is what you set.
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It’s not the experience of today that causes us the most stress, it’s the regret for something we didn’t do yesterday.
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Motivation is motive in action.
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The most important opinion you’ll ever have is the one you hold of yourself.
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I’ve travelled the world to the seven seas. I’ve been up at the top and down on my knees.
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I’ve been blessed with abundance and plenty of weeds. But I’ve never stopped caring about others’ needs.
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As you ten your own garden, unlike any other, Remember the words of my lovely grandmother.
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“If you’re hoping to harvest a life of great deeds, remember you first have to plant some great seeds.”
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It’s not your talent or the gifted birth, It’s not your bank book that determines worth, It isn’t in your gender or the color of your skin, It’s your attitude that lets you win!
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Life is a do-it-for-others, do-it-yourself project.
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Stop stewing and start doing! Take action TNT. Today, Not Tomorrow.
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Life is not accountable to us for meaning; we are accountable to life!
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Don’t put success and happiness on layaway. Do it now!
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Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.
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You have been given the greatest power in the world, the power to choose.
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