"No matter what the challenge, he taught me to make up in hard work for wherever I might be disadvantaged."
"Promise yourself that you're going to let go once and for all of your lottery-winner expectations because let's face it, you only hear stories about the one winner, not the millions of losers."
"Don't try to fool yourself into believing that a mega-successful athlete didn't live through regular bone-crushing drills and thousands of hours of practice. He got up early to practice and kept practicing long after all others had stopped. He faced the sheer agony and frustration of the failures, loneliness, hard work and disappointment it took to become No. 1."
"Write out a few excuses you might be clinging to (e.g. not smart enough, no experience, wrong upbringing, don't have the education etc.). Decide to make up in hard work and personal development to outcompete anyone, including your old self."
"List a few areas, skills or outcomes where you have you been most successful in the past. Consider whether you could be taking those for granted and are not continuing to improve and are therefore in jeopardy of having that complacency lead to future failure."
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"You alone are responsible for what you do, don't do, or how you respond to what's done to you."
"The difference between becoming fabulously rich, happy and healthy or broke, depressed and unhealthy is the choices you make throughout life. Nothing else will make the difference."
"Here's the thing about luck. We're all lucky. If you are on the right side of the dirt, have your health, and a little food in your cupboard, you are incredibly lucky. Everyone has the opportunity to be LUCKY because beyond having the basics of health and sustenance, luck simply comes down to a series of choices."
"If you live in a free society, you are lucky. Luck surrounds us every day, we are constantly having lucky things happen to us, whether you recognize it or not. I have not been any more lucky or unlucky than anyone else. The difference is when luck came my way, I took advantage of it."
"By consistently improving and preparing yourself, your skills, knowledge, expertise, relationships, and resources, you have the wherewithal to take advantage of great opportunities when they arise (when luck 'strikes')."
"Lady Luck shines on all, but rather than having your umbrella overhead, you've got to have your face to the sky. When it comes down to it, it's all you, baby. There's no other way around it."
"No matter what has happened to you, take complete responsibility for it, good or bad, victory or defeat."
"If you want to get from where you are to where you want to be, you have to start by becoming aware of the choices that lead you away from your desired destination. Become very conscious of every choice you make today so you can begin to make smarter choices moving forward."
"Your life is the product of your moment-to-moment choices."
Contributed by Darren Hardy
The
Compound Effect
