Saturday, December 25, 2021

SMARTER goals

a good improvement on classic SMART goal setting technique
How to Set Goals You’ll Actually Achieve - Michael Hyatt
  1. "Write specific goals. The more focused your goal, the more you will find yourself motivated to accomplish it. If a goal is too vague it can be hard to know where to even start.
  2. Goals should be measurable. As you write your goal, you need to ensure that it has built in markers for what it would mean to achieve it. You should be able to break the goal down into specific milestones along the way in order to track your progress.
  3. Make your goals actionable. Use action verbs to help ensure that your goals define what it is you are going to do. This type of goal will prompt you into action. This will help you throughout the year to stay motivated.
  4. Risky goals are better than playing it safe. I challenge you as you write your goals for this next year, to make them ones that will stretch and challenge you. If you set goals that you know you can achieve you aren’t forcing yourself to rise to the challenge.
  5. SMARTER goals must be time bound. The most successful goals are those with a sense of urgency. But how can you ensure that your goals will trigger that response in you throughout the year? You need to time-key your goals with either a deadline, frequency or a time trigger.
  6. Create exciting goals. An exciting goal is one that connects with your internal motivation and inspires. This is a critical step. If your goal isn’t compelling to you personally then it will be very difficult to stick with it when obstacles come up. And they will.
  7. Set relevant goals. I look at this as a necessary “gut-check”. Before you commit to your goals, you must review them and ensure that they are taking into account your life circumstances as well as your values. What you hope to achieve this year must be balanced with the reality of your circumstances."
book review:
YOUR BEST YEAR EVER by Michael Hyatt | Core Message - YouTube
1-Page PDF Summary: https://www.productivitygame.com/summ...

Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals: Hyatt, Michael, Hyatt, Michael: 9781545900659: Amazon.com: Books





5 Steps to Achieving Your Best Year Ever | Soundview Magazine

  1. Design Your Future. Great results don’t usually just happen. You need to find the clarity you need so you can create the life you want. There are 7 keys to transforming our resolutions, aspiration, and dreams into compelling written goals. Each must be Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Risky, Time-keyed, Exciting, and Relevant (SMARTER).

Saturday, December 18, 2021

Goals: 3, for day, week, month, year... (book: The Gap and The Gain)

5 Journal Prompts You Should Answer EVERY 30 days | Dr. Benjamin Hardy - YouTube

"journaling is the master tool
there's so much research on journaling as a tool for clearing your mind"

every 30 days just sit down and answer these five questions
  1. Where am I right now
  2. what are my wins from the last 30 days
  3. what are main 3 goals for the next 30 days
  4. main 3 goals for the next 12 months
  5. main 3 goals for the next 3 years
"We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal."
- Robert Brault (quoting Hindu scripture The Bhagavad Gita)



goal: "one key outcome" => reverse engineer the path to it

"If you've got more than three priorities, you have none." - Jim Collins

"success is about taking 20 steps in one direction 
whereas busyness is about taking one step in 20 different directions"



FREE ebook: The Gap an the Gain




Saturday, October 16, 2021

optimize: Habits

Optimize Habits | Optimize

Habits 101

Optimizing Algorithms 101



Tiny Habits
 by B. J. Fogg
The Small Changes That Change Everything

Atomic Habits
 by James Clear
An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

The Power of Habit
 by Charles Duhigg
Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

The Compound Effect
 by Darren Hardy
Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

The Checklist Manifesto
 by Atul Gawande
How to Get Things Right

   

Saturday, October 9, 2021

"Optimize": Free!

Optimize <- It’s now FREE!!! | Optimize

"Optimize was acquired by Heroic Public Benefit Corporation. As part of Heroic’s mission to help create a world in which 51% of the world’s population is flourishing by the year 2051, the Optimize core wisdom membership is now free. Forever. No credit cards required. No strings attached. Period."

lot of great content...





Saturday, September 25, 2021

Let's teach for mastery: Sal Khan

 Sal Khan: Let's teach for mastery -- not test scores | TED Talk

"Would you choose to build a house on top of an unfinished foundation? Of course not. Why, then, do we rush students through education when they haven't always grasped the basics? Yes, it's complicated, but educator Sal Khan shares his plan to turn struggling students into scholars by helping them master concepts at their own pace."



  • Students need to master basic skills before learning more difficult material
  • Teachers should focus on students retention of material
  • Our ability to learn and solve difficult problems depends on mastery of concepts

  • Would you choose to build a house on top of an unfinished foundation? Of course not.
    Why do we rush students through education when they haven't always grasped the basics?

Saturday, September 11, 2021

Learn Faster with the Feynman Technique

Feynman Technique - Wikipedia

"The Feynman Technique is a learning method named after Richard Feynman.[1][2] In this technique, a person explains the concept they're learning to themselves in a simple way to find gaps in their knowledge.

The Feynman Technique is a mental model to convey information using concise thoughts and simple language.[3] 


Feynman Technique - Wiki | Golden


The technique uses four steps to obtain information and gauge the genuine understanding of the individual learning it.
  1. Choose a topic or idea that you want to gauge your comprehension on; it can be a topic that is completely new to you or something that you already know. Write down this topic in a notebook or on a piece, followed by everything you know about it and everything you are learning about it.
  2. Write an explanation using simple language about the topic in the notebook as if you were teaching a class on it.
  3. Observe the gaps in your knowledge on the topic and return to studying about those specific gaps.
  4. Simplify your explanation in number 2. This can be done using analogies and simpler language.


The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything - Farnam Street

  1. Choose a concept you want to learn about
  2. Explain it to a 12 year old
  3. Reflect, Refine, and Simplify
  4. Organize and Review


How to learn anything with the Feynman Technique - Ness Labs


The Feynman Technique


How to Learn Anything Faster With The Feynman Technique | LinkedIn


How to Learn Faster with the Feynman Technique (Example Included) - YouTube


What Does “ELI5” Mean, and How Do You Use It?

ELI5 stands for “explain like I’m 5.” When people use it online, they’re asking others to explain a complex or obscure topic in the simplest of terms. So, if taken literally, they would explain something in a way that a 5-year-old would understand.


Saturday, August 7, 2021

Jim Rohn quotes

jim rohn @Amazon





Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. - Jim Rohn


Jim Rohn Quote: “Either you run the day or the day runs you.”

Jim Rohn Personal Development - Time Management | How to WORK SMARTER NOT HARDER - YouTube

life is not just the passing of time
life is a collection of experiences
their frequency
and their intensity

life is not just watching the clock tick away
let's talk about the management of time

when should you start the day?
as soon as you have finished plan for the day 

next don't start the month
until you have finished plan for the month

Saturday, July 24, 2021

book: Effortless

 


Effortless by Greg McKeown: 9780593135648 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books


Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most by Greg McKeown @goodreads


EFFORTLESS by Greg McKeown | Core Message - YouTube by Productivity Game


Summary Of Effortless By Greg McKeown

Summary: Effortless By Greg McKeown


Greg McKeown (author) - Wikipedia


Effortless State 

is an experience many of us have had when we are physically rested, emotionally unburdened, and mentally energized. You are completely aware, alert, present, attentive, and focused on what’s important in this moment. You are able to focus on what matters most with ease.

INVERT
  • Instead of asking, “Why is this so hard?,” invert the question by asking, “What if this could be easy?”
  • Challenge the assumption that the “right” way is, inevitably, the harder one.
  • Make the impossible possible by finding an indirect approach.
  • When faced with work that feels overwhelming, ask, “How am I making this harder than it needs to be?”
ENJOY
  • Pair the most essential activities with the most enjoyable ones.
  • Accept that work and play can co-exist.
  • Turn tedious tasks into meaningful rituals.
  • Allow laughter and fun to lighten more of your moments.
RELEASE
  • Let go of emotional burdens you don’t need to keep carrying.
  • Remember: When you focus on what you lack, you lose what you have. When you focus on what you have, you get what you lack.
  • Use this habit recipe: “Each time I complain I will say something I am thankful for.”
  • Relieve a grudge of its duties by asking, “What job have I hired this grudge to do?”
REST
  • Discover the art of doing nothing.
  • Do not do more today than you can completely recover from by tomorrow.
  • Break down essential work into three sessions of no more than ninety minutes each.
  • Take an effortless nap.
NOTICE
  • Achieve a state of heightened awareness by harnessing the power of presence.
  • Train your brain to focus on the important and ignore the irrelevant.
  • To see others more clearly, set aside your opinions, advice, and judgment, and put their truth above your own.
  • Clear the clutter in your physical environment before clearing the clutter in your mind.
Effortless Action

means accomplishing more by trying less. You stop procrastinating and take the first obvious step. You arrive at the point of completion without overthinking. You make progress by pacing yourself rather than powering through. You overachieve without overexerting.

DEFINE
  • To get started on an essential project, first define what “done” looks like.
  • Establish clear conditions for completion, get there, then stop.
  • Take sixty seconds to focus on your desired outcome.
  • Write a “Done for the Day” list. Limit it to items that would constitute meaningful progress.

START
  • Make the first action the most obvious one.
  • Break the first obvious action down into the tiniest, concrete step. Then name it.
  • Gain maximum learning from minimal viable effort.
  • Start with a ten-minute microburst of focused activity to boost motivation and energy.
SIMPLIFY
  • To simplify the process, don’t simplify the steps: simply remove them.
  • Recognize that not everything requires you to go the extra mile.
  • Maximize the steps not taken.
  • Measure progress in the tiniest of increments.
PROGRESS
  • When you start a project, start with rubbish.
  • Adopt a “zero-draft” approach and just put some words, any words, on the page.
  • Fail cheaply: make learning-sized mistakes.
  • Protect your progress from the harsh critic in your head.
PACE
  • Set an effortless pace: slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
  • Reject the false economy of “powering through.”
  • Create the right range: I will never do less than X, never more than Y.
  • Recognize that not all progress is created equal.
Effortless Results

You’ve continued to cultivate your Effortless State. You’ve started to take Effortless Action with clarity of objective, tiny, obvious first steps, and a consistent pace. You are achieving the results you want, more easily. But now you want those results to continue to flow to you, again and again, with as little additional effort as possible. You are ready to achieve Effortless Results.

LEARN
  • Learn principles, not just facts and methods.
  • Understand first principles deeply and then apply them again and again.
  • Stand on the shoulders of giants and leverage the best of what they know.
  • Develop unique knowledge, and it will open the door to perpetual opportunity.
LIFT
  • Use teaching as a lever to harness the strength of ten.
  • Achieve far-reaching impact by teaching others to teach.
  • Live what you teach, and notice how much you learn.
  • Tell stories that are easily understood and repeated.
AUTOMATE
  • Free up space in your brain by automating as many essential tasks as possible.
  • Use checklists to get it right every time, without having to rely on memory.
  • Seek single choices that eliminate future decisions.
  • Take the high-tech path for the essential and the low-tech path for the nonessential.
TRUST
  • Leverage trust as the engine oil of frictionless and high-functioning teams.
  • Make the right hire once, and it will continue to produce results again and again.
  • Follow the Three I’s Rule: hire people with integrity, intelligence, and initiative.
  • Design high-trust agreements to clarify results, roles, rules, resources, and rewards.
PREVENT
  • Don’t just manage the problem. Solve it before it happens.
  • Seek simple actions today that can prevent complications tomorrow.
  • Invest two minutes of effort once to end recurring frustrations.
  • Catch mistakes before they happen; measure twice, so you only have to cut once.



Story from the book about "Vasa" ship

Vasa (ship) - Wikipedia

Vasa syndrome - Wikipedia

"Vasa syndrome is a term used in both management and marketing circles referring to problems in communication and management affecting projects, sometimes causing them to fail. Its basis lies with the Swedish 17th-century warship Vasa, a ship that sank on its maiden voyage because it was too unstable.

The disaster of the Vasa has been interpreted by management experts to have been caused by problems with communication, goal setting, and a
daptability. The sinking of Vasa has also been used as an example for business managers on how to learn from previous mistakes"

Saturday, June 5, 2021

book: Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

Amazon.com: Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life (Audible Audio Edition): Jordan B. Peterson, Jordan B. Peterson, Penguin Audio: Audible Audiobooks


Beyond Order | Jordan Peterson


Announcement: BEYOND ORDER: 12 More Rules for Life - YouTube


Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson – The Rabbit Hole

  1. Do Not Carelessly Denigrate Social Institutions or Creative Achievement
  2. Imagine Who You Could Be, and Then Aim Single-Mindedly at That
  3. Do Not Hide Unwanted Things in the Fog
  4. Notice That Opportunity Lurks Where Responsibility Has Been Abdicated
  5. Do Not Do What You Hate
  6. Abandon Ideology
  7. Work as Hard as You Possibly Can on at Least One Thing and See What Happens
  8. Try to Make One Room in Your Home as Beautiful as Possible
  9. If Old Memories Still Upset You, Write Them Down Carefully and Completely
  10. Plan and Work Diligently to Maintain the Romance in Your Relationship
  11. Do Not Allow Yourself to Become Resentful, Deceitful, or Arrogant
  12. Be Grateful in Spite of Your Suffering


Identity = Responsibility + Vision




Saturday, May 22, 2021

book: Mastery / Competency Learning

MASTERY by Robert Greene | Animated Core Message - YouTube

Amazon.com: Mastery (8601422197709): Greene, Robert: Books


PNTV: Mastery by Robert Greene (#247) - YouTube

Heroic Interview: Mastery with Robert Greene - YouTube


Book Club: My Top 5 Takeaways from Mastery by Robert Greene - YouTube

Mastery by Robert Greene Summary & Key Lessons - Nat Eliason


Khan Academy view of mastery learning (video) | Khan Academy


Mastery learning – Instructional strategy and educational philosophy

Mastery learning maintains that students must achieve a level of mastery (e.g., 90% on a knowledge test) in prerequisite knowledge before moving forward to learn subsequent information.



Competency-based learning - Wikipedia

focuses on outcomes and real-world performance
Key concepts that make up the competency-based education framework include demonstrated mastery of a competency, meaningful types of assessment, individualized support for students, and the creation and application of knowledge


Mastery Transcript Consortium – Working consortium of public and private secondary schools


Learning management system – Software system that serves the delivery of learning content and the organisation of learning processes


CEO Talk: How to run a successful worldwide company in the education market - YouTube


Turning a math tutoring class into a homeschooling online solution


Competency Based Learning - EdTech Update

Competency-Based Learning Puts Students at the Center. It’s Perfect for Now. | EdSurge News


Educational Approach - Whitmore School Online High School

Mastery-Based Learning: online system is designed to focus on students’ strengths and achievements, rather than their limitations and failures. For example, our individually-paced mastery learning approach eliminates the “need for speed” present in a standard classroom and allows students to learn at their own natural rate. Students may begin a new course at any time during the calendar year, and progress at the pace that they find most comfortable. As long as the student eventually masters the course work, they will be awarded credit for the course.

Saturday, May 15, 2021

book: Essentialism


Amazon.com: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (9780753555163): McKeown, Greg: Books

Table of Contents: Essentialism

  • Part I: Essence. The essentialist
  • Choose: the invincible power of choice
  • Discern: the unimportance of practically everything
  • Trade-off: Which problem do I want?
  • Part II: Explore. Escape: the perks of being unavailable
  • Look: see what really matters
  • Play: embrace the wisdom of your inner child
  • Sleep: protect the asset
  • Select: the power of extreme criteria
  • Part III: Eliminate. Clarify: one decision that makes a thousand
  • Dare: the power of a graceful "no"
  • Uncommit: win big by cutting your losses
  • Edit: the invisible art
  • Limit: the freedom of setting boundaries
  • Part IV: Execute. Buffer: the unfair advantage
  • Subtract: bring forth more by removing obstacles
  • Progress: the power of small wins
  • Flow: the genius of routine
  • Focus: What's important now?
  • Be: the essentialist life
  • Appendix: Leadership essentials.


Greg McKeown (author) - Wikipedia

Saturday, May 8, 2021

book: Predictably Irrational

excellent book about Behavioral economics

Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions: Ariely, Dr. Dan: 9780061353246: Amazon.com: Books


Predictably Irrational - Wikipedia

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions is a 2008 book by Dan Ariely, in which he challenges readers' assumptions about making decisions based on rational thought. Ariely explains, "My goal, by the end of this book, is to help you fundamentally rethink what makes you and the people around you tick. I hope to lead you there by presenting a wide range of scientific experiments, findings, and anecdotes that are in many cases quite amusing. Once you see how systematic certain mistakes are—how we repeat them again and again—I think you will begin to learn how to avoid some of them".


author's web site:

Dan Ariely


book summaries:

Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely: Summary and Notes - Dan Silvestre

"Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely explores the hidden forces that shape our decisions. Ariely proves that humans are not only irrational but predictably irrational. In other words: our irrationality happens again and again. A great book to improve your decision making so you can change the way you live for the better."


Predictably Irrational - The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions [Speed Summary] - Brand Genetics


related book: 

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Wikipedia

In 2002, psychologist Daniel Kahneman and economist Vernon L. Smith were awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Kahneman was awarded the prize "for having integrated insights from psychological research into economic science, especially concerning human judgment and decision-making under uncertainty"


Saturday, April 24, 2021

"Man in the Arena" Speech by Theodore Roosevelt

MAN IN THE ARENA | Elon Musk - YouTube

Narrated by Lex Friedman (AI researcher working on autonomous vehicles, human-robot interaction, and machine learning at MIT and beyond)

Playing Guitar in a Self-Driving Car - YouTube


Man in the Arena Speech by Theodore Roosevelt with Audio, Read by John F. Kennedy - YouTube


Citizenship in a Republic - Wikipedia

Citizenship in a Republic is the title of a speech given by Theodore Roosevelt, former President of the United States, at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, on April 23, 1910.[1]

One notable passage from the speech is referred to as "The Man in the Arena":[2][3]

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Someone who is heavily involved in a situation that requires courage, skill, or tenacity (as opposed to someone sitting on the sidelines and watching), is sometimes referred to as "the man in the arena".


Citizenship in a Republic: The Man in the Arena - Theodore Roosevelt @ LeadershipNow

Sunday, April 11, 2021

book: The Innovation Stack

great interview with co-founder of Square and author or a new interesting book
+ references on some other books about innovation 

Hanselminutes Technology Podcast - Fresh Air and Fresh Perspectives for Developers - Outside In: The Innovation Stack with Jim McKelvey

transcript: Podcast transcripts, sponsors, and audience data - Podscribe


the book: 

Amazon.com: The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time (9780593086735): McKelvey, Jim: Books

"In 2009, a St. Louis glassblowing artist and recovering computer scientist named Jim McKelvey lost a sale because he couldn't accept American Express cards. Frustrated by the high costs and difficulty of accepting credit card payments, McKelvey joined his friend Jack Dorsey (the cofounder of Twitter) to launch Square, a startup that would enable small merchants to accept credit card payments on their mobile phones. With no expertise or experience in the world of payments, they approached the problem of credit cards with a new perspective, questioning the industry's assumptions, experimenting and innovating their way through early challenges, and achieving widespread adoption from merchants small and large..."


summaries: 



more interviews


quote: "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."
William Gibson - Wikiquote


related books: 






another good article with the same title, while unrelated, from another well known entrepreneur: 



Saturday, March 13, 2021

book: Zero to One

ZERO TO ONE by Peter Thiel | Core Message - YouTube

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future: Thiel, Peter, Masters, Blake: 9780804139298: Amazon.com: Books


Zero to One Book Summary by Peter Thiel @shortform


Peter Thiel on the Power of Counterintuitive Thinking

"Business thinking today (wrong?)

  1. Make incremental advances.
  2. Stay lean and flexible.
  3. Improve on the competition.
  4. Focus on products, not sales.

And yet the opposite principles are probably more correct:

  1. It is better to risk boldness than triviality.
  2. A bad plan is better than no plan.
  3. Competitive markets destroy profits.
  4. Sales matters just as much as profit."



Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future Audiobook | Peter Thiel, Blake Masters | Audible.com

"Doing what someone else already knows how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. But when you do something new, you go from 0 to 1. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique. "


Zero to One: What You Can Learn From Peter Thiel's Philosophy of Progress | OPEN Forum
Don’t waste time competing with others. Instead, do something new and valuable and unique—there’s plenty left to do. ... we can build a better future, and you can build a great business—but only if you believe that that's possible and work relentlessly to make it happen."

  • Rule #1: Build Proprietary Technology That Is 10x Better
  • Rule #2: Look For Network Effects
  • Rule #3: Create Economies of Scale
  • Rule #4: Build A Strong Brand
Peter Thiel: Competition Is for Losers - WSJ
"Tolstoy famously opens "Anna Karenina" by observing: "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Business is the opposite. All happy companies are different: Each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: They failed to escape competition."


Heroic Optimize with Brian Johnson

How to Discover Your Purpose in Less than 5 Seconds. :) - YouTube

asking myself the question:

"what with the highest version of me do in this moment"

moment the next moment the next month 

when you're feeling fear you're feeling anxiety or feeling stress
maybe you go over here and you you practice the gratitude and the grateful flow...



Saturday, February 27, 2021

The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale

The Strangest Secret

The Strangest Secret: Nightingale, Earl: 9781603865579: Amazon.com: Books

SUCCESS: Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.”

GOALS: People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going

WE BECOME WHAT WE THINK ABOUT

AS YE SOW and SO SHALL YE REAP

30-DAY ACTION


Internet Archive Search: creator:"Earl Nightingale"

"THE STRANGEST SECRET IN THE WORLD " EARL NIGHTINGALE MOTIVATIONAL FILM SECRETS OF SUCCESS 50764 : PeriscopeFilm : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive


PNTV: The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale (#174) - YouTube

How to Master the Basic Fundamentals of Life and Success - Earl Nightingale - YouTube

Earl Nightingale in this lectures shares the two most important lessons for success. The first rule includes knowing what you want in life so that you can devote most of your time towards attaining that and believing that you can achieve that goal. Next rule is that of interdependency, you can win or loose in life based on your service to others.

The Strangest Secret by Earl Nightingale @GoodReads

The Strangest Secret - Wikipedia

The Strangest Secret was a 1956 spoken word record by Earl Nightingale which sold over one million copies and received the first Gold Record for the spoken word,[1] which helped launch the fields of business motivation and audio publishing. It was later adapted into print and video forms.[2][3]


summaries / reviews






Inspirational quotes 

“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.” — Earl Nightingale

“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice; it is conformity.” — Rollo May

“The only person who succeeds is the person who’s progressively realizing a worthy ideal.” — Earl Nightingale

“A success is anyone who is doing deliberately a predetermined job because that’s what he decided to do deliberately.” — Earl Nightingale

“Instead of competing, all we have to do is create.” — Earl Nightingale

“Selling is the highest paid profession if we’re good at it and know where we’re going.” — Earl Nightingale

“A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.” — Marcus Aurelius

“Everything comes if a man will only wait. I brought myself by long meditation to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it and that nothing can resist a will that stay even existent for its fulfillment.” — Benjamin Disraeli

“A man is what he thinks about all day long.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” — William James

“If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich. If you wish to be learned, you will be learned. If you wish to be good, you’ll be good. Only you must really wish these things and wish them exclusively and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.” —William James

“If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.” — Mark 9:23

“This is one of the greatest laws in the universe. Fervently do I wish I had discovered it as a very young man. It dawned upon me much later in life and I found it to be the greatest, if not my greatest discovery outside of my relationship to God. Simply stated if you think in negative terms, you’ll get negative results. If you think in positive terms, you achieve positive results…This is the basis of the prosperity of success. In three words: Believe and Succeed.” — Norman Vincent Peale

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get out and look for the circumstances they want and, if they can’t find them, make them.” — George Bernard Shaw

“Everyone is the sum total of his own thoughts.” — Earl Nightingale

“What you think today and tomorrow will mold your life and determine your future.” — Earl Nightingale

Sermon on the Mount: “Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened onto you.”

"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you."
Matthew 7:7 Meaning of Ask and It Will Be given to You – ConnectUS


code: (ask, seek, knock) => (get, find, open)

“Success isn’t the result of making money; making money is the result of success.
Success is in direct proportion to our service.” — Earl Nightingale