Laugh loud, and laugh often. It’ll keep you happy, keep you healthy, and keep your attitude headed in a positive direction."
~Mac Anderson
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"What you love and God's will for you are
one and the same."
- from The Passion Test
It's not an accident you love the things you
love. It's not an accident you care about the
things you care about.
Neither is it an accident when you find your-
self miserable or unhappy. This is the sign
or signal that you are off the path of passion.
Follow the loves in your life and you will have
all the joy, all the success, all the wishes
of your deepest heart.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated and disciplined."
~Harry E. Fosdick
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Introduction from The Power of Discipline
By Brian Tracy
Why are some people more successful than others? Why do some people make more money, live happier lives and accomplish much more in the same number of years than the great majority?
I started out in life with few advantages. I did not graduate from high school. I worked at menial jobs. I had limited education, limited skills and a limited future.
And then I began asking, "Why are some people more successful than others?" This question changed my life.
Over the years, I have read thousands of books and articles on the subjects of success and achievement. It seems that the reasons for these accomplishments have been discussed and written about for more than two thousand years, in every conceivable way. One quality that most philosophers, teachers and experts agree on is the importance of self-discipline. As Al Tomsik summarized it years ago, "Success is tons of discipline."
Some years ago, I attended a conference in Washington. It was the lunch break and I was eating at a nearby food fair. The area was crowded and I sat down at the last open table by myself, even though it was a table for four.
A few minutes later, an older gentleman and a younger woman who was his assistant came along carrying trays of food, obviously looking for a place to sit.
With plenty of room at my table, I immediately arose and invited the older gentleman to join me. He was hesitant, but I insisted. Finally, thanking me as he sat down, we began to chat over lunch.
It turned out that his name was Kop Kopmeyer. As it happened, I immediately knew who he was. He was a legend in the field of success and achievement. Kop Kopmeyer had written four large books, each of which contained 250 success principles that he had derived from more than fifty years of research and study. I had read all four books from cover to cover, more than once.
After we had chatted for awhile, I asked him the question that many people in this situation would ask, "Of all the one thousand success principles that you have discovered, which do you think is the most important?"
He smiled at me with a twinkle in his eye, as if he had been asked this question many times, and replied, without hesitating, "The most important success principle of all was stated by Thomas Huxley many years ago. He said, "Do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not."
He went on to say, "There are 999 other success principles that I have found in my reading and experience, but without self-discipline, none of them work."
Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.
In the pages ahead I will describe seven areas of your life where the practice of self-discipline will be key to your success. These areas include goals, character, time management, personal health, money, courage and responsibility. It is my hope that you'll find a few "nuggets" that will help make your dreams come true.
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Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Choose your words, for they become actions. Understand your actions, for they become habits. Study your habits, for they will become your character. Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny."
~Unknown
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you will not see the shadows."
~Helen Keller
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What nourishes you is not vitamins in food. It is the joy you feel in eating it.
-- Ramtha
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Part of you thinks that you are not going to die because part of you is not going to die.
-- Alan Cohen
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"In every person is hidden a child who wants to play."
~Harvey Ruben
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This would be a fine world if all men showed as much patience all the time as they do while they're waiting for fish to bite."
~Vaughn Monroe
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The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.
-- Source unknown
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The biggest mistake people make in life is not
making a living at doing what they most enjoy."
- Malcolm S. Forbes
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You believe that a lover will bring you love, but it is your love that will bring you a lover.
-- Alan Cohen
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Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
~Ben Franklin
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Without question, the art of listening is one of the most underestimated keys to success. I want you to stop and think about the friends you really enjoy being with, the bosses you've enjoyed working for, and I'd be willing to bet they all have one thing in common . . . they're good listeners."
~Mac Anderson
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Give up your identity as a seeker, and become a finder. Then everything you ever sought will find you.
-- Alan Cohen
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You are more likely to create success when you are relaxed about a result than when you are uptight about it.
-- Alan Cohen
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The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
-- Charles Du Bos
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Insanity doesn't run in my family. It gallops."
~Cary Grant
The best time to give advice to your children is while they're still young enough to believe you know what you're talking about."
~Evan Esar
When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day.
-- Marty Bucella
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