There are only two ways to live your life.

One is Your level of success will rarely exceed your level

as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.—Albert Einstein
Miracles do not happen in contradiction with
nature, but in contradiction with what we know
about nature.—Saint Augustine
Life begins each morning.—Joel Olsteen
Everything happens for a reason—but that it is
our responsibility to choose the more
empowering reasons for the challenges, events
and circumstances of our lives.
of personal development, because success is
something you attract by the person you
become.
Our outer world will always be a reflection of our
inner world. Our level of success is always going
to parallel our level of personal development.
On the one hand, we all want to be happy. On
the other hand, we all know the things that make
us happy. But we don’t do those things. Why?
Simple. We are too busy. Too busy doing what?
Too busy trying to be happy?—Matthew Kelly

There is no point in dwelling on or feeling bad It’s been said that the first hour is the rudder of
about the aspects of our lives that we can’t the day. If I’m lazy or haphazard in my actions
change. during the first hour after I wake up, I tend to
have a fairly lazy and unfocused day. But if I
There is always a way… when you’re
strive to make that first hour optimally
commited.—Romacio Fulcher
productive, the rest of the day tends to follow the
suit.—Steve Pavlina
Responsibility is not the same as blame. While
blame determines who is at fault for something,
If you want your life to be different, you have to
responsibility determines who is committed to
be willing to do something different at first.
improving things.
Motion creates emotion.—Tony Robbins
The bigger the challenges, the better the story.
One of the saddest things in life is to get to the
“Life’s too short“ is repeated often enough to be
end and look back in regret, knowing that you
cliché, but this time it’s true. You don’t have
could have been, done, and had so much more.—
enough time to be both unhappy and mediocre.
Robin Sharma
It’s not just pointless; it’s painful.—Seth Godin
The story of the human race is the story of men
You’ve got to wake up every morning with the
and women selling themselves short.—Abraham
determination if you’re going to go bed with
Maslow
satisfaction.—George Lorimer
Rearview Mirror Syndrome (RMS) – we
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live
continuously relive and recreate our past. We
the life of your dreams.—Oprah
mistakenly believe that who we were is who we
are, thus limiting our true potential in the
It there a difference between average and
present, based on the limitations of the our past.
mediocre? Not so much.—Seth Godin
My past does not equal my future.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic
change. Only those who can leave behind
Always remember that where you are is a result
everything they have ever believed in can hope to
of who you were, but where you go depends
escape.—Williams S. Burroughs
entirely on who you choose to be, from this
moment on.
To make profound changes in your life, you need
either inspiration or desperation.—Anthony
The secret to overcoming mediocrity: live a life of
Robbins
purpose.
Suicide is not only one of the most selfish
To become the person I need to be to create the
decisions someone can make (as it hurts so many
success, freedom, and quality of life that I truly
other people), but deep down, I knew that no
want and to selflessly add value to the lives of
matter how bad life gets, there is always a way
others.
to turn it around.
You’re not supposed to ‘figure out’ what your
purpose is, you get to make it up, create it,
decide what you want it to be.
Every single thought, choice, and action is
determining who we are becoming, which will
ultimately determine the quality of our lives.
How you do anything is how you
everything.—T. Harv Eker
Discipline creates lifestyle.—Peter Voogd
Who you’re becoming is far more important than
what you’re doing, and yet it is what you’re
doing that is determining who you’re becoming.
We virtually become like the average of the five
people we spend the most time with.
Misery loves company but so does mediocrity.
Now matters more than any other time in your
life, because it’s what you’re becoming, and who
you’re becoming will always determine the
quality and direction of your life.
Mediocrity – the result of not making the
commitment to continuously learn, grow, and
improve yourself.
Live your definition of extraordinary life.
Your first ritual that you do during the day is the
highest leveraged ritual, by far, because it has
the effect of setting your mind, and the setting
the context, for the rest of your day.—Eben
Pagan
You snooze, you lose.
How we feel in the morning when we wake up is
not based on how many hours of sleep we got, as
much as it’s based on how we told ourselves we
were going to feel when we woke up.
If you really think about it, hitting the snooze
button in the morning doesn’t even make sense.
It’s like saying, ‘I hate getting up in the
morning—so I do it over… and over… and over
again.’—Demetrius Martin
An extraordinary life is all about daily,
continuous improvements in the areas that
matter the most.—Robin Sharma
What’s the most important? Our life.
Your life is who you are at the deepest level.
Your life is made up of physical, intellectual,
emotional, and spiritual parts that make up
every human being—or P. I. E. S. for short.
Our outer world is a reflection of our inner world.
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path
in a clearer light, and hat is elusive and deceptive
do resolves itself into crystal clearness.—Mahatma
Ghandi
You can learn more in an hour silence than you
can in a year from books.—Matthew Kelly
Meditation. Prayer. Reflection. Deep breathing.
Gratitude.
For me, it’s a practice that not only burns off
stress, but gives me fresh eyes to clarify what’s
reality going on and what really matters.—Oprah
Be fully present in this moment.
Just be.
It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to
belief. Once that becomes a deep conviction,
things began to happen.—Muhammad Ali
You will be a failure, until you impress the
subconscious with the conviction you are a
success. This is done by making an affirmation,
which clicks.—Florence Scovel Shinn
Whether you think you can, or you think you
can’t, you’re right either way.—Henry Ford
The wise begins with the whys.—Adam Stock
Your life gets better only after you get better.
The #1 skill of influencers is the sincere effort to
make a person feel that he or she is the most
important in the world.—Marshal Goldsmith
To maximize productivity, schedule 3-5- hour
blocks or half-days of singularly focused
attention on ONE single activity or project, rather
than trying to switch tasks for every 60 minutes.
Ordinary people believe only in the possible.
Extraordinary people visualize not what is
possible or probable, but rather what is
impossible. And by visualizing the impossible,
they begin to see it as possible. – Cherie Scott
See things as you would have them be instead of
what they are.—Robert Collier
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond
measure. It is our light, not our darkness that
most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to
be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?—Marriane
Williamson
When you visualize daily, you align your thoughts
and feelings with your vision.
Vision boards are for dreaming, action boards
are for achieving.—Neil Farber
If you don’t make time for exercise, you’ll
probably have to make time for illness.—Robin
Sharma
The only exercise most people get is jumping to
conclusions, running down their friends,
sidestepping responsibility, and pushing their
luck.—Unknown
Start every morning off with a personal ritual
success ritual. That is the most important key to
success.—Eben Pagan
Every morning, you’ve got to get your heart rate
up and get your blood flowing and fill your lungs
with oxygen.—Eben Pagan
A person who won’t read has no advantage over
the one who can’t read.—Mark Twain
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the
body and prayer is to the soul. We become the
books we read.—Matthew Kelly
Begin with end in mind.
Whatever it is that you write, putting words on
the page is a form of therapy that doesn’t cost a
dime.—Diana Raab
Ideas can come from anywhere and at any time.
The problem with making mental notes is that
the ink fades rapidly.—Rolf Smith
I am doing the best that I can in this moment,
and at the same time, I can and will do better.
Everything is difficult before it’s easy.
Most people eat the foods they do based mainly
on the taste, and at a deeper level, based on our
emotional attachment to the foods we like the
taste of.
Waking up early on Saturday gives me an edge in
finishing my work with a very relaxed state of
mind. There is a feeling of time pressure on
weekdays that aren’t there on weekends. If I
wake up early in the morning, before anybody
else, I can plan the day or at least my activities
with a relaxed mind.—Oprah Winfrey
Humans need variety.
Whose fault is it that it is boring? And whose
responsibility is it to make it fun again?
It’s our responsibility to actively and continuously
make them the way we want them to be.
The moment you accept total responsibility for
everything in your life is the moment you claim
the power to change anything in your life.
Successful people aren’t born that way. They
become successful by establishing the habit of
doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do.
The successful people don’t always like doing
these things themselves; they just get on and do
them.—Don Marquis
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is
what keeps you going.—Jim Rohn
The first few days of any new habit are often
exciting.
Do what’s right, not what’s easy.
it was at that moment I realized that this is a gift
of freedom not reserved for the chosen few, but
one that is available to each and every one of us
the moment we make the choice on the
challenges that our out of our comfort zone,
forcing us to grow, to expand our capacity, to be
and do more than we have been and done in the
past. This is true freedom.
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.—
Neale Donald Walsh
Every day, think as you wake up, ‘Today I am
fortunate to have woken up, I am alive. I have a
precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I
am going to use all my energies to develop
myself, to expand my heart out to others. I am
going to benefit others as much as I can.’—Dalai
Lama
Things do not change. We change.—Henry David
Thoreau
Where you are is a result of who you were, but
where you end up depends entirely on who you
choose to be from this moment forward.
Don’t wait to be great.—Kevin Bracy
Everybody needs feedback, and it’s heck of a lot
cheaper than paying a trainer.—Doug
Lowenstein

Ask for feedback from people with diverse

backgrounds. Each one will tell you one useful
thing.—Steve Jobs

Most people don’t enjoy negative feedback, so

they completely avoid asking for feedback.

Soul of the