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"Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience."  

Eddie Rickenbacker

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‎"Learn to become still. And to take your attention away from what you don't want, 

and all the emotional charge around it, 

and place your attention on what you wish to experience" 

Michael Beckwith 

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‎"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."  

Jim Rohn 

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"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential 

for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never."

 Soren Kierkegaard 

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"Me we"  

A poem by Muhammad Ali 

Sourced by Rachael Mahr

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 "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow." 

Melody Beattie 

http://thatswhattheysaid.blogspot.com

TFTD Passion vs Discipline

Passion vs Discipline

Passion is simply an emotional state, and a temporary and unstable one at that. The reason passion gets so much credit is that it helps motivate action. And action is what generates results.

Look at it this way:
P = Passion
A = Action
R = Results

Given:
P causes A
A causes R

Conclusions:

P causes R
No problem there. That's logically correct.

R requires P
Nope. You can't infer this to be true from the givens.

But what if you also know this:
S causes A
S is not P

Now you can say that the statement "R requires P" is definitely false.

S = Self-Discipline

- Results come from actions (no action, no results)
- Passion can lead to action and therefore generate results
- Self-discipline can also lead to action and therefore generate results

Which is better though: passion or self-discipline?

Like any emotional state, passion waxes and wanes. Sometimes you're highly motivated. Sometimes you aren't. Passion has its peaks and valleys, so if you base your actions on your level of passion, your results will depend on your emotions. Feeling passionate? Great actions, great results. Feeling dispassionate? Weak actions, mediocre results.

Using passion as your only fuel will no more assure you of success than being in love will ensure a successful long-term relationship.

Self-discipline is far more important than passion, especially in business. In fact, if you develop the quality of self-discipline to a high degree, it will put passion to shame.

Self-discipline allows you take action and therefore get results no matter what your emotional state. Where passion is erratic, self-discipline provides steadiness and stability. And because your emotions aren't in the way, your decisions are more likely to succeed because they'll be made from a state of disciplined intellect rather than from emotional peaks and valleys.

by Steve Pavlina

http://thatswhattheysaid.blogspot.com

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If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, "Here comes number seventy-one!"

Richard M. DeVos

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

 Mark Twain

http://thatswhattheysaid.blogspot.com

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"Champions aren't made in the gym, champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision."  

Muhammad Ali  

Sourced by Spencer Einhorn

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"Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge."  

Jim Rohn

http://thatswhattheysaid.blogspot.com

Thought For The Day

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "Press On" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

- Calvin Coolidge

What Is Persistence?

Persistence is the ability to maintain action regardless of your feelings. You press on even when you feel like quitting.

When you work on any big goal, your motivation will wax and wane like waves hitting the shore. Sometimes you'll feel motivated; sometimes you won't. But it's not your motivation that will produce results — it's your action. Persistence allows you to keep taking action even when you don't feel motivated to do so, and therefore you keep accumulating results.

Persistence will ultimately provide its own motivation. If you simply keep taking action, you'll eventually get results, and results can be very motivating. 

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"There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self" 

 Hemingway

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"There are  two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein

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Rising requires energy. Falling just requires letting go.                                     
Kenneth Kaufman

TFTD January 5

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
You control your destiny, you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, NO, I won't do it, I won't behave this way anymore.
Leo Buscaglia
sourced by Jimmy Demesa

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"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration" James Allen
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."  Shaw

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<"Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so." - Marcia Wieder http://thatswhattheysaid.blogspot.com

TFTD - January 2, 2012

Whatever one vividly imagines: ardently desires; sincerely believes and enthusiastically acts upon acts upon must eventually come to pass

By planting the seed of desire in your mind it forms a nucleus with the power to attract everything needed for its fulfillment.

Create a plan of action and begin at once