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‎"There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder." - Ronald Reagan 

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 "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." 

Dr. Wayne Dyer 

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‎"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." -- Jim Rohn

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‎"You are the masterpiece of your own life; you are the Michelangelo of your experience. The David that you are sculpting is you. And you do it with your thoughts." 

 Dr. Joe Vitale 

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‎"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected." -- Steve Jobs 

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Amendment to this morning's TFTD

Amendment to this morning's TFTD:

As you will recall this morning's TFTD was about willpower. 

My friend Neil Cantor who is among those few that in my view have mastered willpower, 

To describe his ability, I coined the phrase Iron Will, 

He offered this amendment to part of what was sent out this morning.

I believe, he is on point, and with his suggested tweaks has now nailed it:

                                        "Willpower is one's ability to set a course of action and STAY, "ENGAGED"

Source: Neil J. Cantor 

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TFTD Thought For The Day

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

- Vince Lombardi

What Is Willpower?

Willpower is your ability to set a course of action and say, "Engage!"

Willpower provides an intensely powerful yet temporary boost. Think of it as a one-shot thruster. It burns out quickly, but if directed intelligently, it can provide the burst you need to overcome inertia and create momentum.

Willpower is the spearhead of self-discipline. 

Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward. You attack your problems strategically at their weakest points until they crack, allowing you enough room to maneuver deeper into their territory and finish them off.

The application of willpower includes the following steps:

1. Choose your objective
2. Create a plan of attack
3. Execute the plan

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If your words and your body don't match up, you' re not going to be totally effective

"If you say, 'I absolutely will do that,' and your physiology is unified -- that is, your posture, your facial expression, your breathing pattern, the quality of your gestures and movements, and your words and tonality match -- you absolutely will do it. 

Congruent states are what we all want to move toward, and the biggest step you can take is to be sure you're in a firm, decisive, congruent physiology. 

If your words and your body don't match up, you' re not going to be totally effective."  Anthony Robbins

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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Sourced by Neil J Cantor

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The secret to Success? "Learn the rules of the game and play better than anyone else does " 

Einstein... according to LL Cool J 

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Things don't just happen... You create them with continuous focus and effort. 

What's your focus today? 

This Week? 

What will you make happen?

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." 

Michael Altshuler

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"Start realizing right now that there's no such thing as failure. There are only results. You always produce a result. If it's not the one you desire, you can just change your actions and you'll produce new results. Cross out the word "failure," circle the word "outcome"   and commit yourself to learning from every experience." 

Anthony Robbins

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"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending." - Maria Robinson 

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TFTD - Gratitude is the mother of happiness.

Sourced by: S. Marx

Who Is Happy?

By Dennis Prager

March 13, 2012

After 25 years of lecturing on happiness, writing a book on the subject (Happiness Is a Serious Problem), and devoting an hour of my radio show every week for the last 13 years to happiness, here are some conclusions about who is happy.

People who control themselves.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

People who are given little and earn what they have.

That is why lottery winners are rarely happier than those who have far less money — that they have earned; and often less happy after their win than before it.

So, too, those who get used to receiving unearned material benefits (such as government entitlements) are likely to be unhappier than they were before receiving those benefits — and much less happy than those who have earned whatever they have. That is why the entrepreneur who has worked day and night for years is usually happier than the person who inherited vast wealth.

People who do not see themselves or their group as victims.

Virtually every person can legitimately see himself as a victim — of an unloving upbringing; of bullies in school; of a loveless, or just plain bad, marriage; of financial problems; of membership in a victim group; of health problems; and of so much else. But however valid the fact of one's victimhood, perceiving oneself primarily as victim is the road to misery.

If the primary conclusion you have reached after years of therapy is that you are a victim, you really are a victim — of lousy therapy.

The post-60s labeling of virtually everyone except WASP males (blacks, women, and Hispanics, etc.) as victims has exponentially increased unhappiness in America.

People who rarely complain.

Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get. Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine.

People who have close friends.

Close friends not only prolong people's lives, but on a day-to-day basis they contribute more to most adults' happiness than even their children do. From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

People who are in a good marriage.

A good marriage — having a real partner in life — is so contributive to happiness that it is almost enough. Almost.

People who act happy.

A fundamental rule of life is that the deed shapes feelings more than feelings shape deeds. We feel what we act. Act loving — you'll feel loving. Act happy — you'll feel happy, or at least much happier than if you don't act happy. The notion that acting happy when we don't feel happy is "inauthentic" is foolish.

People who aren't envious.

No matter how little or how much one has, envy destroys happiness. We naturally envy those who have more money or a nicer home, and those we think have better kids, better spouses, or better jobs. But the fact is that we almost never know the pain and suffering of anyone we envy. As a wise woman said to me when I was in high school, "The only happy people I know are people I don't know well." The next time you envy another person's life, just remember that you don't know anything about their inner demons, their childhood, their battles with life. Even friends often know little about their friends' marital problems. The unhappy think that those who walk around with a happy disposition have had less pain than they. They're almost always wrong.

People who don't have high self-esteem.

Low self-esteem doesn't contribute to happiness, and some self-esteem can add to one's happiness. But high self-esteem contributes to unhappiness. People with high self-esteem rarely have close friends. First, almost no one is good enough for them. Second, such people are usually insufferable, and while they attract sycophants, they repel friends. Self-respect, not self-esteem, should be the goal.

People who have few expectations.

The more we expect, the less happy we will be — because the more we expect, the less grateful we are for what we receive. And ingratitude is the mother of unhappiness.

People who are grateful.

Gratitude is the mother of happiness.

— Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio-talk-show host and columnist. He may be contacted through his website, dennisprager.com.

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It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny. -Anthony Robbins 

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‎"By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it" - Wallace D Wattles 

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Having a vision for what you want is not enough! ...."Vision without execution is hallucination" Thomas Edison 

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"Our ability to live in peace with each other depends first and foremost on our ability to accept all that is different between us.

I want to get closer to you, but let me be who I am. I welcome you coming closer to me, while respecting who you are.

On our own individual paths we are all looking for the bread, the water, the wind and a dignified life.

And yes, we all cling to love."

Idan Raichel 

Sourced by Julia Kristmundsdottir 

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"Basically, you can live your life in one of two ways. You can let your brain run you the way it has in the past. You can let it flash any picture or sound or feeling, and you can respond automatically on cue, like a Pavlovian dog resp‎onding to a bell. Or you can choose to consciously run your brain yourself. You can implant the cues you want. You can take bad experiences and sap them of their strength and power. You can represent them to yourself in a way that no longer overpowers you, a way that "cuts them down" to a size where you know you can effectively handle things."

Anthony Robbins -- Unlimited Power

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‎"Every memorable act in the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no matter how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles." - Og Mandino 

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"People often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning." - Mahatma Gandhi 

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  "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a

second-rate version of somebody else." -- Judy Garland 

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‎"Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." -- Nido Qubein 

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Before you speak listen; before you write, think; before you spend, earn; before you invest, investigate; before you criticize, wait; before you pray, forgive; before you quit, try; before you retire, save; before you die, give.... William Arthur Ward

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"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius." 

 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  

http://thatswhattheysaid.blogspot.com

Sourced by Joe Pollack

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"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all." - Norman Vincent Peale 

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".....a tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place; he meets unrepresentative expectations, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his mind when he got there." 

Michael Lewis "Boomerang" 

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"We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions." 

 Thomas Troward