读书笔记>> THE Success Principles™ HOW TO GET FROM WHERE YOU ARE TO WHERE YOU WANT TO BE Jack Canfield
Everything in the past has actually been perfect. Everything in your past has led you to this transformative moment in time. Everyone—including you—has always done the best they could with what they knew at the time.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.
JIM ROHN
Taking one hundred percent responsibility means you acknowledge that you create everything that happens to you. It means you understand that you are the cause of all of your experience. If you want to be really successful, and I know you do, then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life—that means all your results, both your successes and your failures. That is the prerequisite for creating a life of success. It is only by acknowledging that you have created everything up until now that you can take charge of creating the future you want.
“Figure out what you love to do as young as you can, and then organize your life around figuring out how to make a living at it.”--Pat Williams
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
MICHELANGELO
“No matter how bad it is, and how bad it gets, I’m going to make it!”
If you are bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things—you don’t have enough goals.
LOU HOLTZ
You can lose the material things, but you can never lose your mastery—what you learn and who you become in the process of achieving your goals.
If you are clear where you are going (goals) and you take several steps in that direction every day, you eventually have to get there.
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much. – Jim Rohn
There’s rarely a “perfect” time to do anything. What is important is to just get started. Get into the game. Get on the playing field. Once you do, you will start to get feedback that will help you make the corrections you need to make to be successful.
We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope that we get to death without being too badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.
BOB PROCTOR
Self-made millionaire, radio and TV personality, and success trainer
If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem wonderful at all.
MICHELANGELO
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
STEPHEN KING
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
SYLVESTER STALLONE
Actor, writer, and director
The record for the most astounding number of rejections would probably be John Creasey’s. A popular British mystery writer, Creasey collected 743 rejection slips before he sold his first book! Impervious to rejection, over the next 40 years he went on to publish 562 full-length books under 28 different pseudonyms! If John Creasey can handle 743 rejections on his way to success, so can you.
“No” is a word on your path to “Yes.” Don’t give up too soon.
Not even if well-meaning parents, relatives, friends, and colleagues tell you to get “a real job.” Your dreams are your real job.
JOYCE SPIZER
Author of Rejections of the Written Famous
Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.
Your heart has to let your head know what it wants.
We have to use the experience. We can become either bitter or better.
“Be an encourager. Scatter sunshine. Who knows whose life you might touch with something as simple as a kind word.”
― Debbie Macomber
“Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.”
― Debbie Macomber
“It was time to face those fears head-on and quit flirting with thoughts of failure.”
― Debbie Macomber, Mr. Miracle
“Don’t be a quitter.
Try harder.
Don’t be so picky.
Be willing to start at the bottom.
Prove yourself.”
― Debbie Macomber, Starting Now
“Take charge of your life.
Don’t be afraid to pursue your dreams.
Work hard and don’t listen to anyone who says you can’t, because you can and you will.”
― Debbie Macomber, Starting Now
“Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up.”
― Debbie Macomber, Mrs. Miracle
“If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.”
― Debbie Macomber, Thursdays at Eight
“God created us to dream. When we fail to dream, we rob Him of the opportunity to do great things. Sometimes we shy away from dreaming big dreams. Maybe we don’t want to ask for too much. Maybe we somehow don’t feel worthy. But over and over again in the Bible, the Lord instructs us to envision what He can do. Our job is to dream.”
― Debbie Macomber, Patterns of Grace
“My father used to say that someone who used foul language was someone who needed to study vocabulary because there were more civilized ways to get one’s point across.”
― Debbie Macomber, A Girl's Guide to Moving On
If I am through learning, I am through.
JOHN WOODEN
UCLA basketball coach who won 10 NCAA championships
I’m reminded of Dr. Billy Sharp, my boss when I worked at the W. Clement and Jesse V. Stone Foundation and one of the smartest men I ever knew. Whenever I attended meetings where he visited with outside consultants, Billy was always strangely quiet. One day, I asked him why he seldom spoke in these meetings. Not only was his reply revealing but it also taught me why he knew so much. “I already know what I know,” he said. “If I’m talking to impress someone else, I don’t learn anything new. I want to learn what they know.” And he always did.
You don’t have to let yourself be terrorized by other people’s expectations of you.
SUE PATTON THOELE
Author of The Courage to Be Yourself
Study anyone who’s great, and you’ll find that they apprenticed to a master, or several masters. Therefore, if you want to achieve greatness, renown, and superlative success, you must apprentice to a master.
ROBERT ALLEN
Self-made multimillionaire and coauthor of The One Minute Millionaire
Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.
RICHARD PAUL EVANS
Best-selling author of The Christmas Box
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
TYRON EDWARDS
American theologian
You are the same today as you’ll be in five years except for two things, the books you read and the people you meet.
CHARLIE “TREMENDOUS” JONES
Member of the National Speakers Hall of Fame
If you don't have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep trying after you've been told you should quit, you'll never make it.
TAWNI O'DELL
Author of Back Roads, and Oprah Book Club pick
Whenever you ask anyone for anything, remember the following: SWSWSWSW, which stands for "some will, some won't; so what--someone's waiting."