100 Days

Done and Done!!!

I made it 100 days on a strict Vegan diet, without eating anything produced from, or by an animal. I had no sweets, no candy, no soda, no alcohol, no refined foods, and no other chemicals/toxins. I engaged in a extremely intense workout program and compiled a vast array of wisdom packed quotes from 100 of the most important books ever written. It has been a very empowering experience.

At the beginning of this endeavor I thought 100 days seemed like a LONG time. Looking back now it seems very short. You can grow and accomplish a lot in 100 days, but what you could do with this kind of focus, and persistence, over years, and decades, would be amazing. I plan on doing just that, and this was a great starting point to get me focused on my higher priorities in life.

Over these past 100 days, I've really focused on what I truly want out of life. I merged my love of Photography with the starting of a new business. Although I had been practicing photography for years, I've finally decided to align my passion and create, A Frame Forward, and do what I love, to support my family, as opposed to trying to find the time to do what I love, when I wasn't 'working'. It is so much more inspiring, rewarding and it doesn't even feel like 'work'.

I rewarded myself with some Cossetta's Cheese Pizza and some French Silk Pie. It was awesome. I plan on taking about two weeks off and dabbling with treats and such, before embarking on a new 100 day journey. I'll be setting some new goals and developing some new daily rituals. If anyone wants to hop on board for the next round and could use some company in achieving their own goals, be in touch.

Here is the final rundown of my last 10 days... :-)

1. PhilosophersNotes: Again, this has been a hugely empowering part of my growth, focus, and determination over the past 100 days. With all my being, I highly suggest these awesome tools for life, for each and every person on this planet. Check them out please! PhilosophersNotes.

Here are the final 10 books (out of 100) that I covered over the final 10 days...

"Thresholds of the Mind" - Bill Harris
"Thus Spoke Zarathustra" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Tony Robbins Summary" - Brian Johnson
"Trust your Vibes" - Sonia Choquette
"The Way of the Superior Man" - David Deida
"The Wheel of Time" - Carlos Castaneda
"You Can Heal your Life" - Louise Hay
"Your Erroneous Zones" - Wayne Dyer
"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" - Stephen Covey
"The 80/20 Principle" - Richard Koch

Here are my favorite quotes from the last 10 days...

“The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come for man to plant the seed of his highest hope.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.”” – Stephen Covey

“You have enormous untapped power you’ll probably never tap, because most people never run far enough on their first wind to ever find they have a second.” – William James

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.” - George Bernard Shaw

“Ten years from now you’ll laugh at whatever’s stressing you out today. So why not laugh now?” – Tony Robbins


2. Jump Attack: I still have 2 more weeks left of the program and will report back upon completion. Still no dunking yet, but getting stronger and quicker with each workout.


Thanks for reading, caring and for being you. I hope this personal challenge of mine brought some inspiration your way. Here's to ongoing forward movement in the direction of our hopes, goals and dreams.

Sending heaps of love, inspiration, motivation, persistence, and determination...to you and yours!

:-)

Jackson



***Here are the rest, and final, awesome quotes from the 'last' ten days of PhilosophersNotes...

“It isn’t that change is painful; it’s our resistance to the process that creates the pain… End the resistance and the discomfort ends.” – Bill Harris

“Transformation doesn’t necessarily reward watchfulness. It does, however, reward daily practice.” - Bill Harris

“Problems fall away, not because they are “solved” or understood, but rather because they become irrelevant.” – Bill Harris

“Instead of trying to get rid of experiences that happened in the past, instead of trying to get rid of emotional ‘stuff’ supposedly buried inside you, all you really need to do is raise your threshold. Then, what used to derail you can’t do so anymore. Raising the threshold attacks the problem—sensitivity to stress—at the root, and bypasses the treatment of symptoms, the results of which are almost always temporary. Then the symptoms—depression, anxiety, fear, anger, substance abuse, self-sabotage, confusion, and many others—evaporate of their own accord.” – Bill Harris

“People with a high threshold for what they can handle remain happy, peaceful, and centered even when around difficult people or in difficult situations. Because raising your personal threshold for what happens treats the root cause, it offers the possibility for ending all dysfunction—and doing so permanently.” – Bill Harris

“When people realize, at least theoretically, that the chaos they fear is the prelude to positive change, it sometimes helps them to relax. When they’re able to look at the process as a continual cycle of death and rebirth, and remember that the cycle is painful only when they identify with what is dying, it often eases their distress.” - Bill Harris

“Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is… The only problem in your life is your mind’s resistance to life as it unfolds.” – Dan Millman

“Not resisting what is does not mean that you cannot want to change what is, and the difference is one of attachment to the outcome. A person who is attached to the outcome suffers if he does not get the outcome he wants, whereas the happy, peaceful person prefers the outcome he wants but is not attached to it. If he gets a different outcome, he remains just as happy and peaceful as he was to begin with. His happiness comes from within, and does not depend on what goes on around him.” – Bill Harris

“Resilience… can be learned but it can’t be taught. Paradoxically, if you teach someone ‘the rules’ for being resilient, and they attempt to follow them, they cannot become resilient. Resilient people are not rule bound. Instead, they deal with each situation with a flexible approach that allows them to choose the most resourceful way to be or behave in that situation. They respond to the world based on the outcomes they want, rather than on whatever rules they were taught by parents, teachers, friends, the media, and the general culture.” – Bill Harris

“The time has come for man to set himself a goal. The time has come for man to plant the seed of his highest hope.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whoever does not believe himself always lies.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“You have enormous untapped power you’ll probably never tap, because most people never run far enough on their first wind to ever find they have a second.” – William James

“‘This is my way; where is yours?’—Thus I answered those who asked me ‘the way.’ For the way—that does not exist.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return… One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“Who will you have to become to achieve all you want?” - Tony Robbins

“Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.” - Buddha

“You don’t get depressed, you do it!” - Tony Robbins

“The only people without problems are in cemeteries. If you don’t have problems, get on your knees and pray.” - Tony Robbins

“The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.” - Tony Robbins

“Ten years from now you’ll laugh at whatever’s stressing you out today. So why not laugh now?” – Tony Robbins

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” - Jim Rohn

“It’s not ‘Can you?’ It’s ‘Will you? – Tony Robbins

“The Universe has a pulse and rhythm of its own, and it wants to carry you with it—so if you dance with Spirit, just remember to let it lead.” - Sonia Choquette

“Amazing things happen when you get enough sleep, eat properly, and take it easy. Your nerve endings relax, and your spirit, or the six-sensory part of you, rejuvenates and begins to shine light on your path. This is what happens when we say that a person shines or radiates; and it’s why we draw a lightbulb over a person’s head to demonstrate inspiration. There’s a marvelous French saying that describes this centered and solid spiritual state of awareness: Je me sens bien dans ma peau, or I feel good in my skin. We create a desirable state for all psychic systems by giving our body optimum care.” - Sonia Choquette

“Your heart pumps enough blood through your body every day to fill a railway tank car. It exerts enough energy every twenty-four hours to shovel twenty tons of coal onto a platform three feet high. It does this incredible amount of work for fifty, seventy, or maybe ninety years. How can it stand it? Dr. Walter B. Cannon, of the Harvard Medical School, explained it. He said ‘Most people have the idea that the heart is working all the time. As a matter of fact, there is a definite rest period after each contraction. When beating at a moderate rate of seventy pulses per minute, the heart is actually working only nine hours out of the twenty-four. In the aggregate its rest periods total a full fifteen hours per day.’” – Dale Carnegie

“Not only is being physically grounded a solid requirement for tuning in to your vibes, it’s also an instant antidote for obsession or worry. Whenever you find yourself overly concerned or unable to stop thinking about something, immediately go outside and walk; or better yet, run around the block to disrupt the toxic trance you’re in. I’ve never known anyone to find answers from thinking things to death, but I have known people who gained peaceful insights and grand solutions while strolling through the park.” - Sonia Choquette

“Remaining calm no matter what’s going on around you is an incredible challenge, but it will liberate your psychic sense and will probably add a few years to your life as well—after all, getting worked up about things only makes them worse. Life is always full of drama and challenges, but you don’t have to overreact to any of it if you choose not to.” - Sonia Choquette

“The best way to maintain a higher vibration is to make every thought and word you use or listen to as loving and nurturing as possible.” - Sonia Choquette

“Dwelling on the past is perhaps one of the greatest obstacles to Spirit. The more we focus on or even glamorize what happened to us yesterday, especially how unfair or unpleasant it was, the more we guarantee that we’ll miss the subtle Divine Guidance being relayed to us at the moment.” - Sonia Choquette

“It’s really quite simple: If you want inspiration, think inspiring thoughts; if you want healing, think healing thoughts; if you want creativity, think creative thoughts; and if you want to live in a higher way, think higher thoughts.” - Sonia Choquette

“To be intuitive, we must cultivate our sense of humor and look for reasons to laugh everywhere. We become so self-absorbed and serious when it comes to our problems and melodramas that we disconnect from our deeper sense of who we are as beautiful souls—we withdraw from life instead of enjoying it. Laughter brings us back to ourselves and back to life.” - Sonia Choquette

“Timing is the Divine’s way of again reminding us that we co-create with the Universe—we aren’t doing it alone. We plant, water, and weed the seeds of creativity, but we don’t have the power to make them grow, let alone grow according to our schedule. How it all unfolds is up to God. God’s wisdom will fulfill our deepest intentions once we set them in motion. Our part is to create the perfect conditions for the Universe to flow through us—much like our job is to create the perfect conditions for the garden to grow—but that’s all we can do. God flows through us and develops our gardens according to his own timetable. And thank goodness for that, because God knows and grows better than we do.” - Sonia Choquette

“The core of your life is your purpose. Everything in your life, from your diet to your career, must be aligned with your purpose if you are to act with coherence and integrity in the world. If you know your purpose, your deepest desire, then the secret of success is to discipline your life so that you support your deepest purpose and minimize distraction and detours.” – David Deida

“Make your life an ongoing process of being who you are, at your deepest, most easeful levels of being. Everything other than this process is secondary.” – David Deida

“Own your fear, and lean just beyond it. In every aspect of your life. Starting now.” - David Deida

“Make your own decision, based on your deepest intuitive wisdom and knowledge. You may make the right decision or the wrong one, but whatever happens, it is your best shot, and you will strengthen your capacity for future action.” – David Deida

“As you open yourself to living at your edge, your deepest purpose will slowly begin to make itself known. In the meantime, you will experience layer after layer of purposes, each one getting closer and closer to the fullness of your deepest purpose. It is as if your deepest purpose is at the center of your being, and it is surrounded by concentric circles, each circle being a lesser purpose. Your life consists of penetrating each circle, from the outside toward the center.”

“As you dissolve each layer and move toward the center, you will more and more be living from your deeper purposes, and then your deepest heart purpose, whatever it is, in every moment.”– David Deida

“Each purpose, each mission, is meant to be fully lived to the point where it becomes empty, boring, and useless. Then it should be discarded. This is a sign of growth, but you may mistake it for a sign of failure.” – David Deida

“Self-discipline is when your highest desires rule your lesser desires, not through resistance, but through loving action grounded in understanding and compassion.” – David Deida

“Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore, a warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if he feels that he should not follow it, he must not stay with it under any conditions. His decision to keep on that path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. He must look at every path closely and deliberately. There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily: ‘Does this path have a heart?’” – Carlos Castaneda

“To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.” – Carlos Castaneda

“I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can… And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same… I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.” – Socrates

“Death is our eternal companion. It is always to our left, an arm’s length behind us. Death is the only wise adviser that a warrior has. Whenever he feels that everything is going wrong and he’s about to be annihilated, he can turn to his death and ask if that is so. His death will tell him that he is wrong, that nothing really matters outside its touch. His death will tell him, ‘I haven’t touched you yet.’” – Carlos Castaneda

“We talk to ourselves incessantly about our world. In fact we maintain our world with our internal talk. And whenever we finish talking to ourselves about ourselves and our world, the world is always as it should be. We renew it, we rekindle it with life, we uphold it with our internal talk. Not only that, but we also choose our paths as we talk to ourselves. Thus we repeat the same choices over and over until the day we die, because we keep on repeating the same internal talk over and over until the day we die. A warrior is aware of this and strives to stop his internal talk.” – Carlos Castaneda

“One-pointed intention means holding your attention to the intended outcome with such unbending purpose that you absolutely refuse to allow obstacles to consume and dissipate the focused quality of your attention. There is a total and complete exclusion of all obstacles from your consciousness. You are able to maintain an unshakable serenity while being committed to your goal with intense passion.” – Deepak Chopra

“Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take respon-sibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.” – Carlos Castaneda

“Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.” - Louise Hay

“The most powerful way to do affirmations is to look in the mirror and say them out loud.” - Louise Hay

“If you don’t have the thought, you won’t have the feeling. And thoughts can be changed. Change the thought, and the feeling must go.” - Louise Hay

“If you want to clean a room thoroughly, you will pick up and examine everything in it. Some things you will look at with love, and you will dust them or polish them to give them new beauty. Some things you will see that need refinishing or repair, and you will make a note to do that. Some things will never serve you again, and it becomes time to let those things go. Old magazines and newspapers and dirty paper plates can be dropped into the wastebasket very calmly. There is no need to get angry in order to clean the room.

It is the same thing when we are cleaning our mental house. There is no need to get angry just because some of the beliefs in it are ready to be tossed out. Let them go as easily as you would scrape bits of food into the trash after a meal. Would you really dig into yesterday’s garbage to make tonight’s meal? Do you dig into old mental garbage to create tomorrow’s experiences? If a thought or belief does not serve you, let it go!” – Louise Hay

“If we were to take a three-year-old child and put him in the middle of the room, and you and I were to start yelling at the child, telling him how stupid he was, how he could never do anything right, how he should do this, and shouldn’t do that, and look at the mess he made; and maybe hit him a few times, we would end up with a frightened little child who sits docilely in the corner, or who tears up the place. The child will go one of these two ways, but we will never know the potential of that child.

If we take the same little child and tell him how much we love him, how much we care, that we love the way he looks and love how bright and clever he is, that we love the way he does things, and that it’s okay for him to make mistakes as he learns—and that we will always be there for him no matter what—then the potential that comes out of that child will blow your mind!

Each one of us has a three-year-old child within us, and we often spend most of our time yelling at that kid in ourselves. Then we wonder why our lives don’t work.” – Louise Hay

“When a little child is learning to walk or talk, we encourage him and praise him for every tiny improvement he makes. The child beams and eagerly tries to do better. Is this the way you encourage yourself when you are learning something new? Or do you make it harder to learn because you tell yourself that you are stupid or clumsy or a ‘failure’?” – Louise Hay

“Impatience is just another form of resistance. It is resistance to learning and to changing. When we demand that it be done right now, completed at once, then we don’t give ourselves time to learn the lesson involved with the problem we have created.” – Louise Hay

“Often what we think of as the things ‘wrong’ with us are only our expressions of our individuality. This is our uniqueness and what is special about us. Nature never repeats itself. Since time began on this planet, there have never been two snowflakes alike or two raindrops the same. And every daisy is different from every other daisy. Our fingerprints are different, and we are different. We are meant to be different. When we can accept this, then there is not competition and no comparison. To try to be like another is to shrivel our soul. We have come to this planet to express who we are.” – Louise Hay

“Think thoughts that make you happy. Do things that make you feel good. Be with people who make you feel good. Eat things that make your body feel good. Go at a pace that makes you feel good.” – Louise Hay

“With death so endless a proposition and life so breathtakingly brief, ask yourself, ‘Should I avoid doing the things I really want to do?’ ‘Should I live my life as others want me to?” ‘Are things important to accumulate?’ ‘Is putting it off the way to live?’ Chances are your answers can be summed up in a few words: Live… Be You… Enjoy… Love.” – Wayne Dyer

“Using yourself as a guide and not needing the approval of an outside force is the most religious experience you can have. It is a veritable religion of the self in which an individual determines his own behavior based upon his own conscience and the laws of his culture that work for him, rather than because someone has directed how he should behave. A careful look at Jesus Christ will reveal an extremely self-actualized person, an individual who preached self-reliance, and was not afraid to incur disapproval. Yet many of his followers have twisted his teachings into a catechism of fear and self-hate.” – Wayne Dyer

“Self-worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for your value it is other-worth.” – Wayne Dyer

“Away with the world’s opinion of you—it’s always unsettled and divided.” – Seneca

“There is nothing to worry about! Absolutely nothing. You can spend the rest of your life, beginning right now, worrying about the future, and no amount of your worry will change a thing. Remember that worry is defined as being immobilized in the present as a result of things that are going or not going to happen in the future. You must be careful not to confuse worrying with planning for the future. If you are planning, and the present-moment activity will contribute to a more effective future, then this is not worry. It is worry only when you are in any way immobilized now about a future happening.” – Wayne Dyer

“Recognize the preposterousness of worry. Ask yourself over and over, ‘Is there anything that will ever change as a result of my worrying about it?’” - Wayne Dyer

“Begin to view your present moments as times to live, rather than to obsess about the future. When you catch yourself worrying, ask yourself, ‘What am I avoiding now by using up this moment with worry?’ Then begin to attack whatever it is you’re avoiding. The best antidote to worry is action.” – Wayne Dyer

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.” - George Bernard Shaw

“Quit smoking… now! Begin your diet… this moment! Give up booze… this second! Put this book down and do one push-up as your beginning exercise project. That’s how you tackle problems… with action now! Do it! The only thing holding you back is you, and the neurotic choices you’ve made because you don’t believe you’re as strong as you really are. How simple… just do it!” – Wayne Dyer

“Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fertilize fear… Jot that down in your success rule book right now. Action cures fear.” – David Schwartz

“Look hard at your life. Are you doing what you’d choose to be doing if you knew you had six months to live? If not, you’d better begin doing it because, relatively speaking, that’s all you have. Given the eternity of time, thirty years or six months make no difference. Your total lifetime is a mere speck. Delaying anything makes no sense.” – Wayne Dyer

“I believe that a life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular success literature that says that self-esteem is primarily a matter of mind set, of attitude—that you can psych yourself into peace of mind. Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.” - Stephen Covey

“Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.” – Stephen Covey

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Begin with the end in mind” is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things.” – Stephen Covey

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.”” – Stephen Covey

“A ‘No’ uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.” - Mahatma Gandhi

“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” – Stephen Covey

“Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of the soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more than the total weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.” – Stephen Covey

“20% of what we do leads to 80% of the results; but 80% of what we do leads to only 20%. We are wasting 80% of our time on low-value outcomes.” – Richard Koch

“Everything you want should be yours: the type of work you want; the relationships you need; the social, mental, and aesthetic stimulation that will make you happy and fulfilled; the money you require for the lifestyle that is appropriate to you; and any requirement that you may (or may not) have for achievement or service to others. If you don’t aim for it all, you’ll never get it all. To aim for it requires that you know what you want.” – Richard Koch

“For the individual, too, it is better to know a few things well, or preferably one thing exceptionally well, than it is to know many things superficially.” - Richard Koch

“It is important to focus on what you find easy. This is where most motivational writers go wrong. They assume you should try things that are difficult for you.” - Richard Koch

“A surprising number of people spend a lot of time with people they don’t like. This is a complete and utter waste of time. It’s not enjoyable, it’s tiring.” - Richard Koch

“For both personal and professional relationships, fewer and deeper is better than more and less deep.” - Richard Koch

“The action implications should be plain. Go for quality rather than quantity. Spend your time and emotional energy reinforcing and deepening the relationships that are most important.” – Richard Koch

“Self-actualizing people have these especially deep ties with rather few individuals. Their circle of friends is rather small. The ones that they love profoundly are few in number. Partly this is for the reason that being very close to someone in this self-actualizing style seems to require a good deal of time. Devotion is not a matter of a moment… One subject expressed it like this: ‘I haven’t got time for many friends. Nobody has, that is, if they are to be real friends.’” – Abraham Maslow

“What is the 20 percent of your time when you achieve 80 percent of your results? Do more of it! What is the 80 percent of your time when you achieve little? Do less of it!” - Richard Koch

90 Days...

Almost there...

:-)

Here's the rundown of the past 10 days...

1. PhilosophersNotes: Here are the books I covered this week:

"The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem" - Nathaniel Brandon
"Spiritual Economics" - Eric Butterworth
"Spiritual Liberation" - Michael Bernard Beckwith
"The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire" - Deepak Chopra
"Strength for Life" - Shawn Phillips
"The Success Principles" - Jack Canfield
"Take Off from Within" - Ervin Seale
"The Tao Te Ching" - Lao Tzu
"Think and Grow Rich" - Napoleon Hill
"Think on These Things" - Krishnamurti

Here are my favorite 8 quotes from the past 10 days:

“When you pray, move your feet.” - Proverb

“Nature obeys us in proportion as we first obey nature.” - Ervin Seale

"Seeing is not believing; believing is seeing! You see things, not as they are, but as you are.” – Eric Butterworth

“You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.” – Seneca

“Your body, the only one you will ever have, is the foundation of your life. And it’s either an anchor limiting your freedom and potential or a source of radiant energy, vitality and joy, elevating your life and the lives of those around you. It’s your choice… will yours be a source of strength, from which you will impact the world, or an obstacle, preventing you from your dreams and desires? – Shawn Phillips

“Think of it this way. If you are clear where you are going (goals) and you take several steps in that direction every day, you eventually have to get there. If I head north out of Santa Barbara and take five steps a day, eventually I have to end up in San Francisco. So decide what you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.” – Jack Canfield

“The gift of self-discipline is that it has the power to take you beyond the reasoning of temporary emotion to freedom. Think of how empowered you’ve felt on occasions when you haven’t given in to the ‘I don’t feel like it’ syndrome and honored your commitment to yourself. What does not feeling like it have to do with it? The combination of love for something with the willingness to do what it takes to practice it—discipline—results in freedom.” – Michael Bernard Beckwith

“That which transforms your life is what you practice. And what you practice constitutes your personal laws of life—not what you merely believe in, but what you practice. It’s all well and good to read books, and to attend seminars, lectures, and workshops, and to say, ‘Oh, that really resonates with me! It’s now part of my life’s philosophy.’ Your philosophy may give you a temporary state of euphoria, but if you want to be anchored in reality, it takes practice, practice, practice. We are not here to be euphoric but to get free. Rudimentary spirituality is theory; advanced spirituality is practice.” – Michael Bernard Beckwith


2. Jump Attack: Weights got heavier, reps went down. This phase has been more challenging in a power sense, as opposed to endurance. It is very liberating pushing beyond your comfort zone. These workouts have been my favorite yet.


3. Nutrition, Eating Well and my other Commitments: I have stayed on the path, not deviating the slightest. It'd be pretty dumb to cheat now. :-)


I look forward to finishing up these last 10 days.

See you in 10.

:-)


***Here are the rest of the Quotes from the past 10 days...

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary: new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or old laws will be expanded and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with license of a higher order of beings.” - Henry David Thoreau

“Your most important asset is the conscious control of your own life.” - Eric Butterworth

“Why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible.” – Eric Butterworth

“When you believe you can do it, the ‘how-to-do-it’ develops.” - Eric Butterworth

“There is a great idea that you will encounter again and again on your quest: you are a living magnet, constantly drawing to you the things, the people, and the circumstances which are in accord with your thoughts. In other words, you are where you are in experience, in relationships, even in financial conditions, because of what you are (which is where you are in consciousness).” – Eric Butterworth

“Faith is really your consent to let your own uniqueness unfold and to let that which is attracted by your uniqueness manifest in your life. Thus when Jesus said, ‘All things are possible to those who believe,’ he did not say that a swan can become a duck or that a nonmusical person can become a concert pianist. You cannot become something that is not the outforming of your own inner potential. You can only be you. However you can unfold more of the you that may have been long frustrated.” - Eric Butterworth

“When you pray, move your feet.” - Proverb

“Ask the great athlete or the concert pianist or the successful actor if they arrived at the place where they need no further practice. They will tell you that the higher you climb in proficiency and public acceptance, the greater the need for practice.” – Eric Butterworth

“The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, ‘Ah Maestro, you are a genius!’ Paderewski tartly replied, ‘Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!’ What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.” – Eric Butterworth

“Faith is expectancy. You do not receive what you want; you do not receive what you pray for, not even what you say you have faith in. You will always receive what you actually expect.” – Eric Butterworth

“A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be. As Goethe says, ‘Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.’” – Eric Butterworth

“The mystic ideal, so often missed, is really simple: build on the awareness of ever-present substance and expand your faith in the stability of your own inner wholeness. The things will come too, and in abundance. But they will come out of expanse of your wholeness, not at its expense.” – Eric Butterworth

“The takers are the people who believe that their lives will always be the total of what they can get from the world. They are always thinking get, get, get. They plan and scheme ways to get what they want in money, in love, in happiness, and in all kinds of good. No matter that they may be applying metaphysical techniques, they still may very well be takers. But whatever may be their spiritual ideals or lack of any, no matter what they take, they can never know peace or security or fulfillment.

The givers, on the other hand, are convinced life is a giving process. Thus their subtle motivation in all their ways is to give themselves away, in love, in service, and in all the many helpful ways they can invest themselves. They are always secure, for they intuitively know that their good flows from within.” – Eric Butterworth

“Seeing is not believing; believing is seeing! You see things, not as they are, but as you are.” – Eric Butterworth

“We’ve all experienced how discipline sometimes causes an automatic rebellion or resistance within us. We don’t like the energy around the word discipline, perhaps because of the place it has occupied in our upbringing, education or religion. However, a healthy view of discipline keeps us on track in areas of our life where we’ve determined to make a change. Discipline is a practice of self-love, self-respect, and surrender that results in freedom.” – Michael Bernard Beckwith

“Don’t think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life energy toward the light. Without the discipline to practice them, you will tumble constantly backward into darkness.” – Lao Tzu

“You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.” – Seneca

“The gift of self-discipline is that it has the power to take you beyond the reasoning of temporary emotion to freedom. Think of how empowered you’ve felt on occasions when you haven’t given in to the ‘I don’t feel like it’ syndrome and honored your commitment to yourself. What does not feeling like it have to do with it? The combination of love for something with the willingness to do what it takes to practice it—discipline—results in freedom.” – Michael Bernard Beckwith

“One of the ways we hijack our capacity to experience a state of beholding is that we become swept up in what I call the ‘tyranny of trends.’ The tyranny of trends allows for the lowest common denominator to set the standard of success, and of course, ‘coolness.’ Very often, trends convince individuals what their life’s purpose should be. The tyranny of trends is blasted out at us from television, radio, newspapers, tabloids, computers, and even our dentist’s waiting room, attempting to convince us that we must smell a certain way, wear a certain label, weigh a specific weight, have whiter teeth, drive a certain car, make a certain income, and so on, before we can consider that we’ve made it.”

“Begin to consciously break your agreement with the mediocrity present in the tyranny of trends. No longer consider trendsetters as people who are to be admired or imitated. Break free from the hold of what society tells us we should be like. Be drawn into the presence of those who exemplify the next level of human evolution—a spiritual teacher or spiritual community. Each of us has arrived on planet Earth to behold, to participate in the adventure of exploring the truth that we are enlightened beings having a human incarnation.” – Michael Bernard Beckwith

“Not all pain is negative, even though we label all forms of pain as such and resist them. Positive-negativity is a circumstance that causes us to go deeper, to search ourselves, to stop placing blame on the causes of suffering outside ourselves, and take self-responsibility.

Circumstances arise and hard times come so that we may grow through them, so that we may evolve. I like to say that a bad day for the ego is a good day for the soul. When we look back on some of our most challenging experiences, we admit that we wouldn’t trade what we gained from them for remaining the same as we were. Something within acknowledges that during those times when we are pressed against the ropes of life, we learn to become more generous, to forgive, to never give up on ourselves or others. We learn to regenerate, to rejuvenate, to surrender.” – Michael Bernard Beckwith

“What keeps nagging at you to take action that you keep holding back on, postponing? Don’t wait. Participate, risk, and grow now. The longer you hide out in the attempt to remain safe, the more you become fearful, nervous, hesitant. You will not be present as a participant in birthing a new world, a world that very much wants and needs the contribution of your consciousness.” – Michael Bernard Beckwith

“A conscious realization of our innate oneness with the Ineffable does not mean that we will never make a mistake again. Even enlightened beings burn their bagels once in a while. It’s important to maintain a sense of humor because this is how you will stop being afraid of making a mistake. You’ll make some, but so what? That’s why they’re called mis-takes. Humor relaxes the uptight ego. You get a new cue from your inner Self and simply say, ‘I missed my cue, so let’s do a second take.’ Your willingness to take the risk of making a mistake is actually an expression of courage and a willingness to grow from them. Mistakes are about getting the blessing in the lesson and the lesson in the blessing.” – Michael Bernard Beckwith

“That which transforms your life is what you practice. And what you practice constitutes your personal laws of life—not what you merely believe in, but what you practice. It’s all well and good to read books, and to attend seminars, lectures, and workshops, and to say, ‘Oh, that really resonates with me! It’s now part of my life’s philosophy.’ Your philosophy may give you a temporary state of euphoria, but if you want to be anchored in reality, it takes practice, practice, practice. We are not here to be euphoric but to get free. Rudimentary spirituality is theory; advanced spirituality is practice.” – Michael Bernard Beckwith

“To agree with the keys described here is one thing, to practice them is another. To read and study and have conversations about spiritual practices is good, but unless you incorporate them into your life, you won’t embody or integrate them—which means you aren’t receiving their benefits. Ask yourself, ‘How can I now move from theory into practice?’ If you merely collect spiritual information without practicing it, all you will develop is a case of spiritual indigestion and constipation.” - Michael Bernard Beckwith

“Understand that to be creatively maladjusted is to know the vital distinction between personality and character. The word character is from the Old French ‘caractere’ and means ‘imprint on the soul.’ The etymology of personality suggests veneer and is connected with the Latin word persona, which was a mask worn by actors. Character is revealed when our mask is removed.

It’s easy to tell if you are living from character or personality: If things aren’t going your way, personality pouts while character remains unruffled and learns from the experience. When you are not in psychologically or emotionally safe territory, personality panics. Character, on the other hand, rides the vicissitudes of life with even-mindedness. Personality endeavors to extract happiness from its experiences, whereas character realizes that happiness is an inherent quality of being that infuses experiences with happiness.” – Michael Bernard Beckwith

“Ground yourself in the intention to be radically alive. I like these words of Dr. Howard Thurman: ‘Don’t worry about what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.’ This means that, as long as you are on the planet, you are here to deliver your gifts, your talents, and your skills with confidence and inner authority, withholding nothing. This is when you are living full out, moving in the reality of love, affluence, and artistry of being. Your radical aliveness not only affects your individual life but life on the planet as we know it.” – Michael Bernard Beckwith

“The universe has much bigger plans for you than you ever dreamed of for yourself. - Deepak Chopra

“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” - Shakespeare

“Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.” – Hafez

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho

“Your body, the only one you will ever have, is the foundation of your life. And it’s either an anchor limiting your freedom and potential or a source of radiant energy, vitality and joy, elevating your life and the lives of those around you. It’s your choice… will yours be a source of strength, from which you will impact the world, or an obstacle, preventing you from your dreams and desires? – Shawn Phillips

“Bruce Lee said it well in these words: ‘Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do.’ You can count on me to reach in and help fire you up, to keep you moving and inspired for greatness, but ultimately it’s up to you.” - Shawn Phillips

“Recently we crossed a tipping point where, for the first time in recorded history, the youngest generation of children are now expected to live shorter lives than their parents, even though medical technology continues to advance and we know far more about the impact of poor diet and inactivity than ever before.” - Shawn Phillips

“Whether you face reality head on and make a life change, or deny your responsibility, you’ve made a choice. The way I see it you choose either a life of abundant strength and energy, or you’re living in the gap, far beneath the quality of life you could be enjoying.” – Shawn Phillips

“The numbers are startling. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, about 30% of U.S. adults 20 and older are obese and 65 percent are either overweight or obese… One out of five kids ages 12 to 19 is now considered obese.” – Shawn Phillips

“Most people are settling for less than their potential, for less strength, energy and vitality than they both can have and deserve. To accept life anywhere below our fullest potential is to be living in the gap, blindly accepting ‘what is’ without ever deeply considering ‘what could be.’” - Shawn Phillips

“You’re never too old to gain strength. The Noll Laboratory for Human Performance compared young men with men between ages 45 and 60 and found that percentage of body fat, along with aerobic capacity, was not related to age but rather to the amount of time spent training their body. The Human Nutrition Center on Aging found muscle growth in people ranging from 60to 96 years old was statistically equivalent to younger people doing the same amount of training with their bodies.” – Shawn Phillips

“The evidence is strong and science validates what millions of Transformation success stories have revealed: ‘typical signs of aging’ are more the result of how you live than how long you’ve lived.” - Shawn Phillips

“Perhaps more than any other factor, it is the mastery of your focus—which precedes mastery of your energy—that separates the average performers from the peak performers in life. The freedom to place your focused attention where you want it, when you want it, offers a competitive advantage in a world where the average attention span is measured in seconds, not minutes. It’s precisely the skill that has so many high profile leaders adopting meditation practices. Steve Jobs of Apple, music icons Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons, Oprah, Bill Ford of Ford Motor Co., and the Clintons are a few of the prominent names that belong to the rapidly growing population of Americans—currently reported to be more than 20 million—who have embraced the practice of meditation.” – Shawn Phillips

“Training stimulates endorphins, neurotransmitters, and neurotrophic growth factors your brain thrives on, making you feel good during and immediately following training. Scientists are now discovering long-term positive effects of regular strength training: it makes your neurons more robust while improving blood flow, oxygen and nutrients to your brain.” – Shawn Phillips

“Michael Craig Miller, M.D., editor in chief of the Harvard Mental Health Letter, summarizes what scientists have been uncovering for several decades, regular training ‘improves your mood, decreases anxiety, improves sleep and resilience in the face of stress and raises self-esteem.’ He adds that exercise itself makes for a ‘pretty good anti-depressant too, equal to drugs or psychotherapy in some studies.’” – Shawn Phillips

“Here’s the irony: strength training actually makes you smaller. That’s because a pound of muscle is much smaller and takes up less space than a pound of fat. A pound of fat is about the size of a cantaloupe. In contrast a pound of lean muscle is about the size of a baseball. Using this analogy imagine how amazing you would look and feel if you swap 20 pounds of fat (think 20 cantaloupes) for five pounds of lean shape-defining muscle (think 5 baseballs).” – Shawn Phillips

“Drink at least ten 8-ounce glasses of water daily to stay properly hydrated. For an athlete, a 1% drop in hydration can reduce performance output by as much as 20%. For the average person dehydration increases the accumulation of toxins in the body, stunts metabolism, increases risk of cancer and accelerates the aging process. In a dehydrated state the mind and body do not operate at optimal levels.” – Shawn Phillips

“If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.” - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“As you’ll come to know, the closer you get to your goal, the more it draws you in; success feeds on success. It’s like a gravitational pull. Once you get into a rhythm, it’s hard to stop. You achieve big visions by doing the little things every day and looking at them in a positive focus.” - Shawn Phillips

“Your body is an amazingly adaptive machine. Ask it to be stronger and stronger you will be. Challenge it to go further and further you will go. Coax it to be more limber and more limber it will be. Allow it to mold into the seat of a recliner and, you got it, a recliner seat it will become. Stretch it, push it, pull it; your body is like cellular Play-Doh waiting for you to be the sculptor.” – Shawn Phillips

“How strong are you? How will you lift the world? How will you be a beacon of strength for others? These are the questions of utmost importance… Every one of us has a time limit to fulfill our destiny. Don’t be one who waits for the final buzzer to start to really live. Yesterday is a memory and tomorrow is a dream. Today is the day to make your mark—to make a difference.” – Shawn Phillips

“The formula is simple—do more of what is working, do less of what isn’t, and try on new behaviors to see if they produce better results.” - Jack Canfield

“As motivational philosopher Jim Rohn has so aptly put it, ‘You can’t hire someone else to do your push-ups for you.’ You must do them yourself if you are to get any value out of them. Whether it is exercising, stretching, meditating, reading, studying, learning a new language, creating a mastermind group, setting measurable goals, visualizing success, repeating affirmations, or practicing a new skill, you are going to have to do it. No one else can do these things for you. I will give you the road map, but you will have to drive the car. I will teach you the principles, but you will have to apply them. If you choose to put in the effort, I promise you the rewards will be well worth it.” – Jack Canfield

“It is time to stop looking outside yourself for the answers to why you haven’t created the life and results you want, for it is you who creates the quality of the life you lead and the results you produce. You—no one else! To achieve major success in life—to achieve those things that are most important to you—you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.” – Jack Canfield

“You see, without a purpose in life, it’s easy to get sidetracked on your life’s journey. It’s easy to wander and drift, accomplishing little. But with a purpose, everything in life seems to fall into place. To be ‘on purpose’ means you’re doing what you love to do, doing what you’re good at and accomplishing what’s important to you. When you truly are on purpose, the people, resources, and opportunities you need naturally gravitate toward you. The world benefits, too, because when you act in alignment with your true life purpose, all of your actions automatically serve others.” - Jack Canfield

“If you assume in favor of yourself and act as if it is possible, then you will do the things that are necessary to bring about the result. If you believe it is impossible, you will not do what is necessary, and you will not produce the result. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.” - Jack Canfield

“One of the easiest ways to begin clarifying what you truly want is to make a list of 30 things you want to do, 30 things you want to have, and 30 things you want to be before you die. This is a great way to get the ball rolling.” – Jack Canfield

“Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.” - Napoleon Hill

“It’s amazing what happens to your self-confidence when you get eyeball to eyeball with yourself and you forcefully tell yourself what you’re going to do. Whatever your dream is, look at yourself in the mirror and declare that you are indeed going to achieve it—no matter what the price.” - Jack Canfield

“I like Dr. Daniel Amen’s 18/40/60 Rule: When you’re 18, you worry about what everybody is thinking of you; when you’re 40, you don’t give a darn what anybody thinks of you; when you’re 60, you realize nobody’s been thinking about you at all.
Surprise, surprise! Most of the time, nobody’s thinking about you at all! They are too busy worrying about their own lives, and if they are thinking about you at all, they are wondering what you are thinking about them. People think about themselves, not you. Think about it—all the time you are wasting worrying about what other people think about your ideas, your goals, your clothes, your hair, and your home could all be better spent on thinking about and doing the things that will achieve your goals.” – Jack Canfield

“There is a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.” - Ken Blanchard

“I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves—before breakfast, after breakfast, and right on until ten minutes past midnight. They would be a thousand times more concerned about a slight headache of their own than they would about the news of your death or mine.” – Dale Carnegie

“My earliest mentor, W. Clement Stone, was once described as an inverse paranoid. Instead of believing the world was plotting to do him harm, he chose to believe the world was plotting to do him good. Instead of seeing every difficult or challenging event as a negative, he saw it for what it could be—something that was meant to enrich him, empower him, or advance his causes.

What an incredibly positive belief! Imagine how much easier it would be to succeed in life if you were constantly expecting the world to support you and bring you opportunity.
Successful people do just that.” – Jack Canfield

“Think of it this way. If you are clear where you are going (goals) and you take several steps in that direction every day, you eventually have to get there. If I head north out of Santa Barbara and take five steps a day, eventually I have to end up in San Francisco. So decide what you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.” – Jack Canfield

“Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.” - Richard Paul Evans

“You can’t do everything at once. But if you keep adding a little progress every day, over time you will have built a whole new set of habits and self-disciplines. Remember, anything valuable takes time. There are no overnight successes. It took me years to learn and implement all of the principles in this book. I have mastered some and am still working on mastering others.” – Jack Canfield

“It is what you think of this situation that governs you and not the situation itself. Causation is always in mind and not in things.” - Ervin Seale

“Keep any description of trouble or sickness or error minimal, for there is something inside which is listening, and it says, ‘Oh! You like this! I will make you a lot more of it.’” – Ervin Seale

“There is one recurring, persistent, perennial, and dogging personal problem which, more than any other, steals the force and peace of people and ruins projects and enterprises and careers. It is the habit of feeling hurt because of what others do or do not do and what they say or do not say.” – Ervin Seale

“One can never love himself as he ought until he esteems himself in terms of his spiritual heritage—a divinely generated being, destined to win, to achieve, and to express the nature of his source. As water rises no higher than the level of its source, so a man can rise no higher than his personal estimate of his source.” – Ervin Seale

“As Gandhi once said, ‘Renounce the world, then take it back again on other terms.’” - Ervin Seale

“Overconcern for a suffering world is often a projection of one’s own need. And many a needy one has helped himself by helping others. Some have become ineffectual nuisances because they did not realize that the main business of living is individual growth, the seeking of the kingdom of heaven which is within. Let one take care of what has been given him—his thoughts, sensations, faculties, and he will be the best of all help to his fellow men. Of all the people I know who are serving society, those who are making the greatest contributions in alleviating human ills and wants are those who have themselves in hand.” – Ervin Seale

“Nature obeys us in proportion as we first obey nature.” - Ervin Seale

“It is not what is happening to you but rather what is happening in you that determines whether you succeed or fail.” - Ervin Seale

“When we are not Self-conscious, we are self conscious.” - Ervin Seale

“The event has happened. Be willing to have it so. There are an awful lot of folk who resent the event after it has happened, and that means they are keeping it alive. To resent means ‘to feel again.’” - Ervin Seale

“It has happened! Let it be! So you made a mistake, you failed, you came short of your goal, you are chagrined, put out, embarrassed, or cast down. Beware of resenting any of those facts. There is an immediate release of tension when one admits that we all make mistakes and fail. But one should quickly match this admission with the knowledge that failure is not defeat. Our failures only indicate that we are trying for new summits of achievement, and if we are not failing we are not trying. It is not the individual failure that matters, but rather the overall progress. As the Chinese put it, ‘The fault is not in falling down, it is in lying there.’ There are none so tense as those who try to be outwardly perfect. There is great release in acknowledging your foibles and laughing at your mistakes.” - Ervin Seale

“To walk after the spirit means to listen and to believe that God does not mock when he sends us the heart’s true desire. To walk after the spirit means to accept the desire as the promise of God, to believe that that which sends the desire will also send the fulfillment. Then, just as one was formerly compelled into anxiety and trouble, so he will now be compelled into peace and good fortune.” – Ervin Seale

“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and in thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.” – Lao Tzu

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” - Lao Tzu

“Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: which is more valuable? Success or failure: which is more destructive? If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” – Lao Tzu

“Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail.” - Lao Tzu

“Prevent trouble before it arises. Put things in order before they exist. The giant pine tree grows from a tiny sprout. The journey of a thousand miles starts from beneath your feet.” – Lao Tzu

“Confront the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series of small acts.” – Lao Tzu

“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.” – Lao Tzu

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” – Heraclitus

“I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.” – Napoleon Hill

“Truly, ‘thoughts are things,’ and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire for their translation into riches, or other material objects.” - Napoleon Hill

“A long while ago, a great warrior faced a situation which made it necessary for him to make a decision which insured his success on the battlefield. He was about to send his armies against a powerful foe, whose men outnumbered his own. He loaded his soldiers into boats, sailed to the enemy’s country, unloaded soldiers and equipment, then gave the order to burn the ships that had carried them. Addressing the men before the first battle, he said, ‘You see the boats going up in smoke. That means that we cannot leave these shores unless we win! We now have no choice—we win—or we perish!’

They won.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win, essential to success.” – Napoleon Hill

“Before success comes in any man’s life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known told the author their greatest success came just one step *beyond* the point at which defeat had overtaken them.” - Napoleon Hill

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Eliot

“There is a difference between wishing for a thing and being ready to receive it. No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage and belief.” - Napoleon Hill

“There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.” - Napoleon Hill

“Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.” - Napoleon Hill

“Every man is what he is because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind.” – Napoleon Hill

“First: I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my definite purpose in life; therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.

Second: I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action, and gradually transform themselves into physical reality; therefore, I will concentrate my thoughts for thirty minutes daily, upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture.” – Napoeon Hill

“Temporary defeat should mean only one thing, the certain knowledge that there is something wrong with your plan. Millions of men go through life in misery and poverty, because they lack a sound plan through which to accumulate a fortune.” - Napoleon Hill

“We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before ‘arriving.’” - Napoleon Hill

“If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.” – Napoleon Hill

”One thing we all know, if one does not possess persistence, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.” - Napoleon Hill

“Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.” – Napoleon Hill

“The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.” - Napoleon Hill

“The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on despite all opposition, until they attain their goal. There may be no heroic connotation to the word ‘persistence,’ but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.” – Napoleon Hill

“Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth.” - Napoleon Hill

“Tell the world what you intend to do, but first show it.” – Napoleon Hill

“Deeds, and not words, are what count most.” – Napoleon Hill

“As long as you are afraid of anyone or anything, there can be no happiness. There can be no happiness as long as you are afraid of your parents, your teachers, afraid of not passing examinations, afraid of not making progress, of not getting nearer to the Master, nearer to truth, or of not being approved of, patted on the back. But if you are really not afraid of anything, then you will find—when you wake up of a morning, or when you are walking alone—that suddenly a strange thing happens: uninvited, unsolicited, unlooked for, that which may be called love, truth, happiness, is suddenly there.” – Krishnamurti

“To go far you must begin near, and the nearest step is the most important one.” – Krishnamurti

“An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind, a mind that is watching, learning, studying.” - Krishnamurti

“Can you and I, who are simple, ordinary people, live creatively in this world without the drive of ambition which shows itself in various ways as the desire for power, position? You will find the right answer when you love what you are doing. If you are an engineer merely because you must earn a livelihood, or because your father or society expects it of you, that is another form of compulsion; and compulsion in any form creates a contradiction, a conflict. Whereas, if you really love to be an engineer, or a scientist, or if you can plant a tree, or paint a picture, or write a poem, not to gain recognition but just because you love to do it, then you will find that you never need to compete with another. I think this is the real key: to love what you do.” – Krishnamurti

“Real life is doing something which you love to do with your whole being so that there is no inner contradiction, no war between what you are doing and what you think you should do. Life is then a completely integrated process in which there is tremendous joy.” – Krishnamurti

“Suppose you want to study painting because to paint is the joy of your life, and your father says that you must become a lawyer or a business man, otherwise he will cut you off and not pay for your education; there is then a contradiction in you, is there not? Now, how are you going to remove that inner contradiction, to be free of the struggle and the pain of it? As long as you are caught in self-contradiction you cannot think; so you must remove the contradiction, you must do one thing or the other. Which will it be? Will you yield to your father? If you do, it means that you have put away your joy, you have wed something which you do not love; and will that resolve the contradiction? Whereas, if you withstand your father, if you say, ‘Sorry, I don’t care if I have to beg, starve, I am going to paint,’ then there is no contradiction; then being and doing are simultaneous, because you know what you want to do and you do it with your whole heart. But if you become a lawyer or a business man while inside you are burning to be a painter, then for the rest of your life you will be a dull, weary human being living in torment, in frustration, in misery, being destroyed and destroying others.” – Krishnamurti

“Your mind is like rich soil, and if given sufficient time any problem that comes along takes root like a weed, and then you have the trouble of pulling it out; but if you do not give the problem sufficient time to take root, then it has no place to grow and it will whither away.” – Krishnamurti

“That is why you should have strong feelings—feelings of passion, anger—and watch them, play with them, find out the truth of them; for if you merely suppress them, if you say, ‘I must not get angry, I must not feel passionate, because it is wrong,’ you will find that your mind is gradually being encased in an idea and thereby becomes very shallow. You may be immensely clever, you may have encyclopaedic knowledge, but, if there is not the vitality of strong and deep feeling, your comprehension is like a flower that has no perfume.” – Krishnamurti

“Do you know what it means to learn? When you are really learning you are learning throughout your life and there is no one special teacher to learn from. Then everything teaches you—a deaf leaf, a bird in flight, a smell, a tear, the rich and the poor, those who are crying, the smile of a woman, the haughtiness of a man. You learn from everything, therefore there is no guide, no philosopher, no guru. Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.” – Krishnamurti

“To be a real student is to learn all the time.” – Krishnamurti

Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men’s clothes.” – Confucius

“Sir, life is very strange. The moment you are very clear about what you want to do, things happen. Life comes to your aid—a friend, a relation, a teacher, a grandmother, somebody helps you. But if you are afraid to try because your father may turn you out, then you are lost. Life never comes to the aid of those who merely yield to some demand out of fear. But if you say, ‘This is what I really want to do and I am going to pursue it,’ then you will find that something miraculous takes place. You may have to go hungry, struggle to get through, but you will be a worthwhile human being, not a mere copy, and that is the miracle of it.” – Krishnamurti

“If you can look at yourself without condemning what you see, without comparing yourself with somebody else, without wishing to be more beautiful or more virtuous; or you can just observe what you are and move with it, then you will find that it is possible to go infinitely far. Then there is no end to the journey, and that is the mystery, the beauty of it.” – Krishnamurti

80 Days...

The first 30 days passed by slowly, yet the days since have been flying by. I am amazed to be at 80 days already. I'm really feeling good, strong, clear minded, and even more motivated to implement some brand new personal challenges...for the next 100 days. It's really neat to see how having small successes over a short period of time can really fuel the flame of inspiration, motivation and confidence. I'm going to start developing my next set of goals over these last 20 days. I am ready to keep working hard and reaping real, lasting rewards that will continue to improve my life and the lives of those around me indefinitely. As I see it now, at 80 days, this 100 day program is only the beginning of more goodness to come, as I plan to grow and share as much as I possibly can. :-)

Here's the rundown of the past 10 days:

1. PhilosophersNotes: Here are the books I covered this week:

"The Pursuit of Perfect" - Tal Ben-Shahar
"Real Magic" - Wayne Dyer
"Rich Dad, Poor Dad" - Robert T. Kiyosaki
"Rumi Daylight" - Rumi
"The Science of Being Great" - Wallace D. Wattles
"The Science of Getting Rich" - Wallace D. Wattles
"Secrets of the Millionaire Mind" - T. Harv Eker
"The Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
"The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success" - Deepak Chopra
"The Silva Mind Control Method of Mental Dynamics" - Jose Silva & Burt Goldman

Here are my favorite 13 quotes from the past 10 days...

“You can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself.” – Wallace D. Wattles

“Get rich, that is the best way you can help the poor.” - Wallace D. Wattles

“Facts do not cease to exist simply because they are ignored.” – Aldous Huxley

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?” – Rumi

Learn to fail, or fail to learn.” - Tal Ben-Shahar

“Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.” - Wallace D. Wattles

“You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.” - Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.4.5

“Practicing the Law of Giving is actually very simple; if you want joy, give joy to others; if you want love, learn to give love; if you want attention and appreciation, learn to give attention and appreciation; if you want material affluence, help others to become materially affluent. In fact, the easiest way to get what you want is to help others get what they want.” – Deepak Chopra

“The answer to your prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.” - Wallace D. Wattles

“Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” – Alexander Graham Bell

“In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it’s what’s under the ground that creates what’s above the ground. That’s why placing your attention on the fruits that you have already grown is futile. You cannot change the fruits that are already hanging on the tree. You can, however, change tomorrow’s fruits. But to do so, you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots.” – T. Harv Eker

“Commit to paper precisely what you would like to have appear in your physical life. By seeing it and reading it repeatedly you will plant that thought more firmly in your mind and you will begin to manifest that which you are imaging.” – Wayne Dyer

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

***More Super-Awesome Quotes follow below this post...


2. Jump Attack: I enjoyed my week of rest as the demands of this program have been heavy on my legs. I am getting stronger and faster indeed, and I look forward to completing the final phase of the program. This new phase sees all my weights increasing and my reps going down. This phase will be power based and intense. I look forward to the ongoing challenge and will be pushing hard until completion. I hope by the end of this phase to be able to "put it down", aka "slam dunk" for those not hip to the lingo. ;-)


3. Nutrition, Eating Well and my other Commitments: I've been staying strong, eating well and feeling good. I've discovered dried Figs (Black Mission) and have been in love with them. I was reading about nutrition and Figs were highly recommended by numerous sources so I thought I'd give them a try. They look kinda gross, and not so appealing, yet once I took my first bite and chewed I was hooked. I've forged on with the plant based (Vegan) diet while also managing to stay clear of all sweets, refined grains/sugars, toxins, etc.

In other food/nutrition related news I would highly recommend that everyone watch Food, Inc. It's a great documentary that has been getting a ton of attention Nationwide, and really sheds light on the state of our Food and Agriculture Industries. Discovering how the food you eat, and the products you buy get from the farm to your plate, is a great thing to know. You'll be very surprised to learn about the whole process. You'll be appalled at some of the practices and truths, yet you will be informed and empowered. Check it out! :-)


***Here are the rest of the quotes I've enjoyed from the past 10 days...

“You might initially think courage, not faith, is the opposite of fear. But consider that courage exists only where there is fear to be overcome. Without fear there can be no courage; you would just act.” - Josè Silva and Burt Goldman

“To deal with it [fear], go to your meditative level. Polarize the fear; visualize the positive expectations. What would you be doing if you did not have the fear? Go over this again and again.” - Josè Silva and Burt Goldman

“There is no way to get dark out of a room other than to let light in. The only way to get stress out of your being is to let in relaxation. You cannot be relaxed and stressful at the same time.” - Josè Silva and Burt Goldman

“Fear is nothing more than Negative Expectation.” – Brian Johnson

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well… To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is!” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”- Thomas Jefferson

“There is only one way in which you can ‘change your luck’ and that is by altering your thoughts.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn’t like to do.” – Thomas Edison

“Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The lion who breaks the enemy’s ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.” – Rumi

“The intelligent want self-control; children want candy.” – Rumi

“No mirror ever became iron again; No bread ever became wheat;No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.Become the light.” – Rumi

“Patience is the key to joy.” – Rumi

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?” – Rumi

“Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.” – Rumi

“Facts do not cease to exist simply because they are ignored.” – Aldous Huxley

“Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.” - Rumi

“God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.” – Rumi

“Travelers, it is late. Life’s sun is going to set. During these brief days that you have strength, be quick and spare no effort of your wings.” – Rumi

“If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don’t abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.” – Rumi

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.” – Buddha

“The Principle of Power gives us just what we ask of it; if we only undertake little things, it only gives us power for little things; but if we try to do great things in a great way it gives us all the power there is.” - Wallace D. Wattles

“You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an anxious person, a worried one, or a fearful one to perceive truth; all things are distorted and thrown out of their proper relations by such mental states, and those who are in them cannot read the thoughts of God.” – Wallace D. Wattles

“Intellect helps us to see the best means and manner of doing the right thing, but intellect never shows us the right thing.” - Wallace D. Wattles

“Obey your soul, have perfect faith in yourself. Never think of yourself with doubt or distrust, or as one who makes mistakes.” – Wallace D. Wattles

“Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a dreamer. Dream on.” – Wallace D. Wattles

“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.” - Wallace D. Wattles

“So surely as you find yourself in the mental attitude of haste, just so surely may you know that you are out of the mental attitude of greatness. Hurry and fear will instantly cut your connection with the universal mind.” – Wallace D. Wattles

“It is within the power of every man to become great.” – Wallace D. Wattles

“It is a tremendous fact that all you need is already within you.” - Wallace D. Wattles

“The only service you can render to God is to give expression to what he is trying to give the world, through you. The only service you can render God is to make the very most of yourself in order that God may live in you to the utmost of your possibilities.” – Wallace D. Wattles

“The world needs demonstration more than it needs teaching.” – Wallace D. Wattles

“When you discover your essential nature and know who you really are, in that knowing itself is the ability to fulfill any dream you have… and the more you experience your true nature, the closer you are to the field of pure potentiality.” – Deepak Chopra

“You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.” - Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.4.5

“But first, you have to practice stillness. Stillness is the first requirement of manifesting your desires, because in stillness lies your connection to the field of pure potentiality that can orchestrate an infinity of details for you.” - Deepak Chopra

“Practicing the Law of Giving is actually very simple; if you want joy, give joy to others; if you want love, learn to give love; if you want attention and appreciation, learn to give attention and appreciation; if you want material affluence, help others to become materially affluent. In fact, the easiest way to get what you want is to help others get what they want.” – Deepak Chopra

“The takers are the people who believe that their lives will always be the total of what they can get from the world. They are always thinking get, get, get. They plan and scheme ways to get what they want in money, in love, in happiness, and in all kinds of good. No matter that they may be applying metaphysical techniques, they still may very well be takers. But whatever may be their spiritual ideals or lack of any, no matter what they take, they can never know peace or security or fulfillment… The givers, on the other hand, are convinced life is a giving process. Thus their subtle motivation in all their ways is to give themselves away, in love, in service, and in all the many helpful ways they can invest themselves. They are always secure, for they intuitively know that their good flows from within.” – Eric Butterworth

“This means that your acceptance of this moment is total and complete. You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment. This is important to understand. You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.” - Deepak Chopra

“All problems contain the seeds of opportunity, and this awareness allows you to take the moment and transform it to a better situation or thing.” – Deepak Chopra

“One-pointed intention is that quality of attention that is unbending in its fixity of purpose. One-pointed intention means holding your attention to the intended outcome with such unbending purpose that you absolutely refuse to allow obstacles to consume and dissipate the focused quality of your attention. There is a total and complete exclusion of all obstacles from your consciousness. You are able to maintain an unshakable serenity while being committed to your goal with intense passion. This is the power of detached awareness and one-pointed, focused intention simultaneously.” – Deepak Chopra

“The Law of Detachment says that in order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn’t mean that you give up the intention to create your desire. You don’t give up the intention, and you don’t give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result.” – Deepak Chopra

“Everyone has a purpose in life… a unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of goals.” – Deepak Chopra

“You can render to God and humanity no greater service than to make the most of yourself.” – Wallace D. Wattles

“To do things in a way you want to do them, you will have to acquire the ability to think the way you want to think; this is the first step toward getting rich.” - Wallace D. Wattles

“The purpose of Nature is the advancement and unfoldment of life; and every man should have all that can contribute to the power, elegance, beauty and richness of life; to be content with less is sinful.” – Wallace D. Wattles

“What he [God] wants is that you should make the most of yourself, for yourself, and for others; and you can help others more by making the most of yourself than in any other way. … You can make the most of yourself only by getting rich; so it is right and praiseworthy that you should give your first and best thought to the work of acquiring wealth.” – Wallace D. Wattles

“A seed, dropped into the ground, springs into activity, and in the act of living produces a hundred more seeds; life, by living, multiplies itself. It is forever Becoming More; it must do so, if it continues to be at all.” – Wallace D. Wattles

“Get rich, that is the best way you can help the poor.” - Wallace D. Wattles

“A man’s highest happiness is found in the bestowal of benefits on those he loves; love finds its most natural and spontaneous expression in giving.” - Wallace D. Wattles

“It is the natural and inherent impulse of life to seek to live more; it is the nature of intelligence to enlarge itself, and of consciousness to seek to extend its boundaries and find fuller expression.” – Wallace D. Wattles

“You are to become a creator, not a competitor; you are going to get what you want, but in such a way that when you get it every other man will have more than he has now.” – Wallace D. Wattles

“The answer to your prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.” - Wallace D. Wattles

“You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want.” - Wallace D. Wattles

“You cannot impress the mind of God by having a special Sabbath day set apart to tell Him what you want, and then forgetting Him the rest of the week.” - Wallace D. Wattles

“You cannot exercise much power without gratitude; for it is gratitude that keeps you connected with Power.” – Wallace D. Wattles

“It is necessary, then, to cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you; and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” – Wallace D. Wattles

“You want to be rich in order that you may eat, drink, and be merry when it is time to do these things; in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and develop your intellect; in order that you may love men and do kind things, and be able to play a good part in helping the world to find truth.” – Wallace D. Wattles

“In order to get rich you do not need a ‘sweet hour of prayer’; you need to ‘pray without ceasing.’ And by prayer I mean holding steadily to your vision, with the purpose to cause its creation into solid form, and the faith that you are doing so.” – Wallace D. Wattles

“Every day is either a successful day or a failure; and it is the successful days which get you what you want. If everyday is a failure, you can never get rich; while if every day is a success, you cannot fail to get rich.” - Wallace D. Wattles

“Do not give your creative impulse to Original Substance, and then sit down and wait for results; if you do, you will never get them. Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now. If you are ever to begin to make ready for the reception of what you want, you must begin now.” – Wallace D. Wattles

“In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it’s what’s under the ground that creates what’s above the ground. That’s why placing your attention on the fruits that you have already grown is futile. You cannot change the fruits that are already hanging on the tree. You can, however, change tomorrow’s fruits. But to do so, you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots.” – T. Harv Eker

“An affirmation states that a goal is already happening. I’m not crazy about this because, often when we affirm something that is not yet real, the little voice in our head usually responds with ‘This isn’t true, this is BS’ … On the other hand, a declaration is not saying something is true, it’s saying we have an intention of doing or being something. This is a position the little voice can buy, because we’re not stating it’s true right now, but again, it’s an intention for us in the future.” – T. Harv Eker

“Your programming leads to your thoughts; your thoughts lead to your feelings; your feelings lead to your actions; your actions lead to your results. Therefore, just as is done with a personal computer, by changing your programming, you take the first essential step to changing your results.” – T. Harv Eker

“No thought lives in your head rent-free.” – T. Harv Eker

“It’s simple arithmetic: ‘Your income can grow only to the extent you do.’” – T. Harv Eker

“Poor people choose to play the role of the victim.” – T. Harv Eker

“Let me put it bluntly: anyone who says that money isn’t important doesn’t have any! Rich people understand the importance of money and the place it has in our society. On the other hand, poor people validate their financial ineptitude by using irrelevant comparisons. They’ll argue, ‘Well, money isn’t as important as love.’ Now, is that comparison dumb or what? What’s more important, your arm or your leg? Maybe they’re both important.” – T. Harv Eker

“Complaining is the absolute worst possible thing you could do for your health or your wealth. The worst! … For the next seven days, I challenge you not to complain at all.” - T. Harv Eker

“Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich.” – T. Harv Eker

“If you shoot for the stars, you’ll at least hit the moon. Poor people don’t even shoot for the ceiling in their house, and then they wonder why they’re not successful.” – T. Harv Eker

“Comfort kills! If your goal in life is to be comfortable, I guarantee two things. First, you will never be rich. Second, you will never be happy. Happiness doesn’t come from living a lukewarm life, always wondering what could have been. Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up to our fullest potential.” - T. Harv Eker

“Bless that which you want. If you see a person with a beautiful home, bless that person and bless that home. If you see a person with a beautiful car, bless that person and bless that car. If you see a person with a loving family, bless that person and bless that family. If you see a person with a beautiful body, bless that person and bless their body.” – T. Harv Eker

“Energy is contagious: either you affect people or you infect people… I believe negative thinking is like having measles of the mind. Instead of itching, you get bitching; instead of scratching, you get bashing; instead of irritation, you get frustration. Now, do you really want to be close to people like that?” – T. Harv Eker

“Here’s an equation I want you to remember for the rest of your life: CZ = WZ. It means your ‘comfort zone’ equals your ‘wealth zone.’ By expanding your comfort zone, you will expand the size of your income and wealth zone.” – T. Harv Eker

“I am concerned that too many people are focused too much on money and not on their greatest wealth, which is their education. If people are prepared to be flexible, keep an open mind and learn, they will grow richer and richer through the changes. If they think money will solve the problems, I am afraid those people will have a rough ride. Intelligence solves problems and produces money. Money without financial intelligence is money soon gone.” – Robert Kiyosaki

(Speaking about Debt)- “If you find you have dug yourself into a hole... stop digging.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“We all have tremendous potential, and we all are blessed with gifts. Yet, the one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt. It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of self-confidence.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“Life is much like going to the gym. The most painful part is deciding to go. Once you get past that, it’s easy.” - Robert Kiyosaki

“If you have little money and you want to be rich, you must first be ‘focused,’ not ‘balanced.’ If you look at anyone successful, at the start they were not balanced. Balanced people go nowhere. They stay in one spot. To make progress, you must first go unbalanced. Just look at how you make progress walking.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.” – Alexander Graham Bell

“Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.” – Peter Senge

“Whenever you feel ‘short’ or in ‘need’ of something, give what you want first and it will come back in buckets. That is true for money, a smile, love, friendship. I know it is often the last thing a person may want to do, but it has always worked for me. I just trust that the principle of reciprocity is true, and I give what I want.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“When you go beyond outcome in life you find yourself unconcerned about what is in it for you. Thoughts, feelings and behavior focus more and more on the fulfillment of your purpose. You go beyond success, achievement and performance as indications of your life’s mission. Instead, every moment is lived fully and lovingly. Material possessions cease to dominate your thoughts, which is not to say that they disappear. They simply cease to be the focus of life. Instead, your purpose takes hold, and you gain a sense of joy and inner harmony knowing that you are divinely fulfilling your reason for being here. As Michel de Montaigne put it so succinctly: “The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.” – Wayne Dyer

“All of the things that you have become convinced are limits are products of the way in which you have learned to think… Before the invention of the microscope most people did not believe in the existence of microscopic life. People who believe only what they can see or p – Wayne Dyer

“Become detached from the outcome of your actions and paradoxically your level of performance will climb.” - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

“Begin to act in your physical world as if that person whom you would love to be were already here.” - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

“When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity.” – Wayne Dyer

“How do you surrender? Just let go! Don’t strain to achieve; instead, enjoy the process of the work that you are doing. The results will come independent of your striving for them. When your mind is on the result rather than what you are doing, you create inner discord that blocks any and all possibilities for miracles to show up. Prosperity is about process, not outcome. Purpose is about loving and giving.” – Wayne Dyer

“Your biggest hurdle to reshaping your personality into the work of art that you desire will be overcoming your fears and doubts.” - Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

“For a master, the rewards gained along the way are fine, but they are not the main reason for the journey. Ultimately, the master and the master’s path are one. And if the traveler is fortunate—that is, if the path is complex and profound enough—the destination is two miles farther away for every mile he or she travels.” – George Leonard

“Commit to paper precisely what you would like to have appear in your physical life. By seeing it and reading it repeatedly you will plant that thought more firmly in your mind and you will begin to manifest that which you are imaging.” – Wayne Dyer

“Create an intention inventory for yourself. Not a wish list, but an inventory of what you intend to create within yourself. The kind of person you want to become, along with the necessary ingredients for creating that person. You must first know this. Then shift to your intention stance. ‘I intend to manifest the necessary talent and intellect to become the kind of purposeful person I am destined to be.’ This kind of inner commitment to your own excellence is the stuff of which miracles are made.” – Wayne Dyer

‘The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.” – Carl Rogers

“Change is not a threat but a challenge; the unknown is not frightening but fascinating.” - Tal Ben-Shahar

“The pain associated with the fear of failure is usually more intense than the pain following an actual failure.” - Tal Ben-Shahar

“A conscious realization of our innate oneness with the Ineffable does not mean that we will never make a mistake again. Even enlightened beings burn their bagels once in a while. It’s important to maintain a sense of humor because this is how you will stop being afraid of making a mistake. You’ll make some, but so what? That’s why they’re called mis-takes. Humor relaxes the uptight ego. You get a new cue from your inner Self and simply say, ‘I missed my cue, so let’s do a second take.’ Your willingness to take the risk of making a mistake is actually an expression of courage and a willingness to grow from them. Mistakes are about getting the blessing in the lesson and the lesson in the blessing.” – Michael Beckwith

“Taking the constraints of reality into consideration, the Optimalist then works toward creating not the perfect life but the best possible one.” - Tal Ben-Shahar

“The word appreciate has two meanings. The first meaning is ‘to be thankful,’ the opposite of taking something for granted. The second meaning is ‘to increase in value’ (as money appreciates in the bank). Combined, these two meanings point to a truth that has been proved repeatedly in research on gratitude: when we appreciate the good in our lives, the good grows and we have more of it. The opposite, sadly, is also true: when we fail to appreciate the good—when we take the good in our lives for granted—the good depreciates.” – Tal Ben-Shahar

“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare, is to lose oneself.” - Søren Kierkegaard

“The problem in today’s corporate world, as well as in many other realms, is not hard work; the problem is insufficient recovery.” - Tal Ben-Shahar

“The rising levels of mental health problems, coupled with improved psychiatric medication, are thrusting us toward a brave new world. To reverse direction, rather than listening to advertisers who promise us the wonder drug, the magic pill that will improve performance and mood, we need to listen to our nature and rediscover its wonders. Regular recovery, on the micro-, mid-, and macrolevels, can often do the work of psychiatric medicine, only naturally.” – Tal Ben-Shahar

“Those who understand that failure is inextricably linked with achievement are the ones who learn, grow, and ultimately do well. Learn to fail, or fail to learn.” - Tal Ben-Shahar

“The basic premise of cognitive therapy is that we react to our interpretation of events rather than directly to the events themselves, which is why the same event may elicit radically different responses from different people. An event leads to a thought (an interpretation of the event), and the thought in turn evokes an emotion. I see a baby (event), recognize her as my daughter (thought), and feel love (emotion). I see the audience waiting for my lecture (event), interpret it as threatening (thought), and experience anxiety (emotion).” – Tal Ben-Shahar

“The goal of cognitive therapy is to restore a sense of realism by getting rid of distorted thinking. When we identify an irrational thought (a cognitive distortion), we change the way we think about an event and thereby change the way we feel. For example, if I experience paralyzing anxiety before a job interview, I can evaluate the thought that elicits the anxiety (if I am rejected, it will all be over and I will never find a job) and reinterpret the event by disputing and replacing the distorted evaluation with a rational one (although I really want this job, there are many other desirable jobs out there). The distortion elicits an intense and unhealthy fear of failure; the rational thought reframes the situation and puts it in perspective.” – Tal Ben Shahar

“Helen Keller, who in her lifetime knew much suffering, as well as joy, noted that ‘character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.’” - Tal Ben-Shahar

“Why the double standard, the generosity toward our neighbor and the miserliness where we ourselves are concerned? And so I propose that we add a new rule, which we can call the Platinum Rule, to our moral code: ‘Do not do unto yourself what you would not do unto others.’” – Tal Ben-Shahar