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‎"First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination." — Napoleon Hill 

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"So what is the difference between "power thinking" and "positive" thinking? The distinction is slight but profound. To me, people use positive thinking to pretend that everything is rosy, when they really believe that it's not. With power thinking, we understand that everything is neutral, that nothing has meaning except for the meaning we give it, and that we are going to make up a story and give something it's meaning."

"This is the difference between positive thinking and power thinking. With positive thinking, people believe that their thoughts are true. Power thinking recognizes that our thoughts are not true, but since we're making up a story anyway, we might as well make up a story that supports us. We don't do this because our new thoughts are "true" in an absolute sense, but because they are ore useful to us and feel a heck of a lot better than nonsupportive ones." 

T. Harv Eker

"CREATE YOUR REALITY. CHANGE THE TAPES PLAYING IN YOUR MIND. FOCUS ONLY ON CONSTRUCTIVE POSITIVE THOUGHTS AND DESTROY THE DESTRUCTIVE NEGATIVE ONES."

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" Now or later which will YOU have? Or, the alternativ​e is mediocrity​.....fsm" ( see photo)

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"It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.  

It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can be a catalyst for profound re-invention."

-Conan O'Brian Dartmouth ( 2011 graduation commencement speech) 

Sourced By Andrew J. Mahr

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‎"I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything." - Abraham Lincoln 

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Focus = Follow ONE course until SUCCESSFUL ( see image attached)

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‎"Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said." 

 Jim Rohn 

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‎"Don't wish for fewer challenges; wish for more wisdom." "Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better." "Don't wish for fewer problems; wish for more skills." 

Jim Rohn  

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"Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement." 

 Claude M. Bristol 

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"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold." 

 Ralph Waldo Emerson 

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We choose our thoughts not based on true or false. We choose them based on whether they support us or not. The mind is limited in its conscious attention. 

You can only entertain one thought at a time. Make sure it's got a positive focus. 

T. Harv Eker

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We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Cesare Pavese,

Italian poet, novelist and critic

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" Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. "

Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) 

Italian painter, sculptor, and inventor 

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Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist. 

Andrea Bocelli 

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"The good is often the enemy of the BEST; and

We need the night to see the LIGHT."

Julia Kristmundsdottir

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‎"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds." - Norman Vincent Peale 

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"Change your thoughts, change your life." - James Allen 

‎"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds." - Dr. Wayne Dyer 

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We can learn much about leadership and getting things done from Genghis Khan.  

For starters: he abolished torture, embraced religious freedom, united disparate tribes, hated aristocratic privilege, ran his kingdoms meritocratically, loved learning and advanced the rights of women in Mongol society. He was also the greatest conqueror and general who ever lived, ruling a self-made kingdom of nearly 12-million square miles which lasted in parts for nearly seven centuries.

Yes, he was violent and war-like, but never for its own sake. The Mongols found no honor in fighting–only winning. Victory was their aim and they did whatever it took to get it. Then they focused on building peace with equal intensity.

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His great mission was simple yet audacious: "Unite the whole world in one empire." But, as he said, "[Since the] calling is high, the obligations incumbent on me are also heavy." Using the unparalleled biography Genghis Khan: and Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford as our guide, let us see how Khan–in his own words–managed to accomplish this great work and what he felt those obligations were.

Have An End in Mind

"For the Mongol warrior, there was no such thing as individual honor in battle if the battle was lost. As Genghis Khan reportedly said, there is no good in anything until it is finished."

Lead from the Front

"When it was wet, we bore the wet together, when it was cold, we bore the cold together."

Serve a Greater Good Than Yourself

"[A leader] can never be happy until his people are happy."

Have a Vision

"Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others…The ancients had a saying: 'Unity of purpose is a fortune in affliction.'"

Be Self-Reliant

"No friend is better than your own wise heart! Although there are many things you can rely on, no one is more reliable than yourself. Although many people can be your helper, no one should be closer to you than your own consciousness. Although there are many things you should cherish, no one is more valuable than your own life."

Be Humble

"The mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion. He warned them that, 'If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead.'"

Be Moderate

"I hate luxury. I exercise moderation…It will be easy to forget your vision and purpose one you have fine clothes, fast horses and beautiful women. [In which case], you will be no better than a slave, and you will surely lose everything."

Understand Your People

"People conquered on different sides of the lake should be ruled on different sides of the lake."

Change the World, But Change it Gradually

"The vision should never stray far from the teaching of the elders. The old tunic fits better and it always more comfortable; it survives the hardships of the bush while the new or untried tunic is quickly torn."

As Weatherford writes, these tenets of leadership did not come to Khan as part of some princely education. He was born poor and illiterate in a world of conflict and strife. He taught himself to be a Khan:

"At no single, crucial moment in his life did he suddenly acquire his genius at warfare, his ability to inspire the loyalty of his followers, or his unprecedented skill for organizing on a global scale. These derived not from epiphanic enlightenment or formal schooling but from a persistent cycle of pragmatic learning, experimental adaptation and constant revision driven by his uniquely disciplined mind and focused will."

We can do the same. And we can do it by starting with the example of someone who at first might make us a little uncomfortable. Genghis Khan's reputation precedes him (a brutal pillager who shows no mercy to men, women or children), but that was deliberate. Khan allowed rumors of his atrocities to spread to encourage surrender and cooperate from enemies who might otherwise resist. Putting that aside, we can learn from Genghis Khan how to be loyal, how to understand our people, how to induce change and how to have a vision.

 

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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." - Richard DeVos 

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FRIENDSHIP

Did anyone ever tell you, just how special you are?

The light that you emit might even light a star!
Did anyone ever tell you how you make others feel? 
Did anyone ever tell you that many times when they were sad

Your e-mail or contact made them smile a bit?
In fact it made them glad. 

For the time you spend sending things and sharing whatever you may find

There are not words sufficient to thank you.

But know that somebody thinks you're fine. 
Did anyone ever tell you?

Well, My Dearest Friend

Today I am Telling You. 

Sourced By Doug Cohn

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"Here is a saying that hung in my home and is one that I have fashioned into my life religiously. It's source is unknown, but so true and
so powerful that it will change a person's thinking the first time they read it. I learned before I ever saw it that true love and true friendship are the rarest of orchids in this world."
Neil J. Cantor

As we grow up, we learn that even one person that wasn't supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry because time is passing too fast and you'll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many photographs, laugh too much, and love like you've never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back. Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin. 

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‎"Everything I know about communication tells me to build from agreement, not from conflict; 

to learn to align and lead rather than to try and overcome resistance. 

This is easier said than done. 

However, through conscious and consistent awareness, we can change our patterns of communication."

ANTHONY ROBBINS

Unlimited Power, page 287  

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‎"Our job as humans is to hold on to the thoughts of what we want, make it absolutely clear in our minds what we want, and from that we start to invoke one of the greatest laws in the Universe, and that's the law of attraction. You become what you think about most, but you also attract what you think about most." 

 John Assaraf 

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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." -- Michael Jordan 

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The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do. ( image attached )

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‎"We might be getting comfortable results, but we could be getting spectacular results. So please do this exercise. Make a list of five things you're doing right now that you're pretty pleased with. They could be relationships that are going well, something at work, maybe something having to do with your children or your finances. Now imagine them as even better. Spend a few minutes thinking about it. You'll probably surprise yourself by finding ways your life could be dramatically improved. Possibility reframing is something we can all do. All it takes is the mental flexibility to be alert for potential and the personal power to take action."

--Anthony Robbins

Unlimited Power 

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