Success University 19 (Jul 14 - Dec 14)

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"Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals."

- David Ogilvy

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Ask Yourself This Question Before Going to Bed

By Co-founder Jesse Lear of V.I.P. Waste Services

Every night before bed, I think about this question: If I live every day the same way I did today, what kind of future would that create?

It forces me to constantly evaluate whether or not my actions are lining up with my priorities.

The future is shaped one day at a time, and it’s never as far away as we think.

Source: ETR

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"If you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you.

When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else. "


- Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady

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"You make the world a better place by making yourself a better person."

- Scott Sorrell

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"Believe you will be successful and you will."

- Dale Carnegie

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Success is not defined by obtaining everything you want, but by appreciating everything you have.

--Unknown

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"Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator."

- Yogi Berra

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"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."


- Dr. Seuss

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** Book Review: Working on Yourself Doesn't Work: The 3 Simple Ideas That Will Instantaneously Transform Your Life
- By Ariel and Shya Kane ***
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The three simple ideas that form the foundation of their approach are:
1. What you resist persists and grows stronger.
2. You can only be exactly as you are in the moment.
3. Anything you allow to be exactly as it is completes itself.

Once you grasp these three straightforward but enlightened concepts, you can stop "working" on yourself and start living the life you've always wanted--free from your old perceptions, and open to world of possibilities for discovering the ins and outs of who you are.

Source: www.selfgrowth.com

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The Truth About Change By Seth Godin

Can you change? Are you stuck with your habits, your knowledge, your weight, your fitness, your interpersonal skills? Is your future a slightly different rerun of your past?

We spend an enormous amount of time and money seeking to reinvent and upgrade ourselves, working to give up something, start something, build something or change something about who we are and what we do. And we usually fail.

It's tempting to say, "this is who I am, habits are hardwired, it's in my DNA, I'm going to live with it." Tempting, and an easy way out.

Change is hard, sometimes nearly impossible. But if even one person as far behind as we are has dug in and done enough work to finish that marathon, to change that habit or to learn that skill, it means that it's not impossible.

Merely (astonishingly) difficult. Knowing that it's possible is 86% of the project.

Source: ETR