Risk the stuff. It's worthless anyway. But don't make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.Collection: Sacrifice
The exact process you use to build courage isn't important. What's important is that you consciously do it. Just as your muscles will atrophy if you don't regularly stress them, your courage will atrophy if you don't consistently challenge yourself to face down your fears. In the absence of this kind of conscious conditioning, you'll automatically become weak in both body and mind. If you aren't regularly exercising your courage, then you are strengthening your fear by default; there is no middle ground.Collection: Fear
I think the best friendships are those that can stand the test of time, where the friendship is based more on who you are than on what you do or what you have.Collection: Thinking
"Stop asking "What should I do now?" That question only brings up what others expect of you. Free people don't have shoulds. They have choices."Collection: People
Using passion as your only fuel will no more assure you of success than being in love will ensure a successful long-term relationship.Collection: Inspirational
I got screwed over in some bad business deals, but as long as I focused on those past problems, I couldn't move forward. I had to let all of that go and forgive everyone and everything first.Collection: Money
Don't die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be.Collection: Adventure
You can move beyond the ego's perspective and see reality from the perspective of a higher consciousness.Collection: Moving
Our beliefs act as lenses. These lenses can help us see things we can't otherwise see, but they can also block us from seeing parts of reality.Collection: Block
Treat your business relationships like friendships (or potential friendships). Formality puts up walls, and walls don't foster good business relationships. No one is loyal to a wall... except the one in China.Collection: Wall
It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog - you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it.Collection: Funny
Replace "Have to" with "Want to."Collection: Want
We primarily grow as human beings by discovering new truths about ourselves and our reality.Collection: Reality
Network selectively. Nothing says "business newbie" like shotgun networking. "You never know when someone might say yes" is marketing for dummies. Take the time to build a profile of your ideal customers, and target your networking activities to reach them. Speak to those who are already predisposed to want what you offer. Almost any profile is better than "anyone with a pulse."Collection: Business
The momentum of continuous action fuels motivation, while procrastination kills motivation.Collection: Motivation
If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there's a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.Collection: Strong
No one on earth has lived through the exact same experiences you have, and no one thinks the exact same thoughts you do.Collection: Thinking
Our brains are fairly powerful, but our conscious minds are still extremely limited in their ability to hold onto multiple simultaneous thoughtsCollection: Powerful
Side effect of overemphasizing the importance of personal security in your life is that it can cause you to live reactively.Collection: Fear
If you really believe something, you will act in accordance with that belief - always. If you believe in gravity, you will never attempt to defy it. If you claim to hold a belief but act incongruently, then you don't actually believe it. You're only kidding yourself. Casual faith isn't.Collection: Believe
Spiritual development requires the freedom to connect with different parts of reality in order to understand them more fully. The more you're able to explore, the more connections you can form, and the greater your spiritual growth will be. When you feel a strong desire to connect with something in your reality, listen to your intuitive guidance, and make the connection.Collection: Spiritual
Fail your way forward. Recognize that Ready, fire, aim is superior to ready, aim, aim, aim. Straightforward trial and error produces better results than endless vacillating. If you're afraid to make decisions and act on them in the face of ambiguity and uncertainty, get a job. Failure's lessons are essential to success.Collection: Jobs
People often overestimate what they can reasonably achieve in a year. But they vastly underestimate what they can achieve in 5 years.Collection: Years
One of my core beliefs is that belief itself is a choice that can be made of our own free will.Collection: Choices
I learned that accepting others and accepting myself are two sides of the same coin; you can't love and accept yourself without doing the same for others.Collection: Two Sides
Tackling challenges that are too big for you is what makes you grow as a human being. Why do you think this problem keeps coming up in your life, staring you in the face? Do you think you're supposed to ignore it and hide from it and wait for someone else to solve it for you? If you notice it, you own it.Collection: Thinking
If you dislike the answers you’re getting from life, try asking better questions.Collection: Trying
Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be. You may go broke. You may experience failure and rejection repeatedly. You may endure multiple dysfunctional relationships. But these are all milestones along the path of a life lived courageously. They are your private victories, carving a deeper space within you to be filled with an abundance of joy, happiness, and fulfillment. So go ahead and feel the fear. Then summon the courage to follow your dreams anyway.Collection: Dream
A man doesn't require the approval of others. He's willing to follow his heart wherever it leads him. When a man is following his heart-centered path, it's of little consequence if the entire world is against him.Collection: Heart
Achieving meaningful goals requires that you commit your entire ass, not just one cheek.Collection: Meaningful
Waiting for clarity is like being a sculptor staring at a piece of marble, waiting for the statue within to cast off the unneeded pieces. Do not wait for clarity to spontaneously materialize-gra b a chisel and get busy!Collection: Waiting
One of the secrets to success is recognizing that motivation follows action.Collection: Motivation
Your values are your current estimations of truth. They represent your answer to the question of how to live.Collection: Answers
Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward.Collection: Energy
Regardless of others' reactions, do your best to stay true to yourself. Make the choices that allow you to look in the mirror and feel good about the person gazing back at you.Collection: Mirrors
Believing that you must do something perfectly is a recipe for stress, and you'll associate that stress with the task and thus condition yourself to avoid itCollection: Stress
Saying no isn't easy, but it's a required skill if you wish to have any degree of focus in your life. If you say yes too often, you'll likely fall into the common trap of saying yes to the good while simultaneously saying no to the best.Collection: Fall
'Someday' is the day after you die.Collection: Someday
It's a serious character weakness to think you can get something of value for little or nothing, to believe that life will flood you with abundance when you won't commit yourself to delivering your best contribution in exchange. In fact, it's a safe bet that you'll subconsciously sabotage yourself from being in such a place for long. You won't allow yourself to receive what you don't feel you've earned. To receive life's bounty, you must know without a doubt that you deserve it.Collection: Believe
Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are - by definition - abusive relationships. You'll be much better off when you let them go.Collection: Rejects You
Embrace opportunities with limited downside, unlimited upside. The best deals are those where your risk of loss is predictable and fixed if things go wrong, while your potential gains are enormous if things go right. Take such deals whenever you can get them if the odds of success are halfway decent.Collection: Business
Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.Collection: Goal
I realized that my bliss and my heartbreak both point in the same direction. I follow my joy and my heartbreak simultaneously because they’re two sides of the same coin.Collection: Two Sides
If you don't make a conscious choice... someone else will decide for you. It may be your boss, a family member, an advertiser, a collective social influence, or someone or something else, but it won't be something of your deliberate choosing.Collection: Thought Provoking
The more disciplined you become, the easier life gets.Collection: Discipline
For good or ill, your habits will make or break you.Collection: Inspirational
Passion and purpose go hand in hand. When you discover your purpose, you will normally find it's something you're tremendously passionate about.Collection: Football
The universe cannot show you anything which you've intentionally chosen to block from your reality.Collection: Block
To work effectively you need uninterrupted blocks of time in which you can complete meaningful work... I've found that a minimum of 90 minutes is ideal for a single block.Collection: Meaningful