To Create Your Own Success, You Must Read These Quotes

Success is not about what you have. It is about you, what you are becoming. If you want to keep growing, you must keep developing yourself.

According to Larry Weidel, ‘If you want to win, you have to keep moving forward. To keep moving forward, you have to keep making decisions.’

But ‘No advantage is a guarantee that you’ll win. No lack of advantage is a guarantee that you’ll lose.’

The only questions that matter to winners are: Do really want it? Does it excite me?

We can only be great doing things we really want to do, for our own reasons.’

‘Winners know that if you don’t figure out what you want, you’ll get whatever life hands you.’

‘While losers are overdoing their thinking and planning, winners have moved on and overdoing their activity and learning.’

‘Winners take what they know right now and choose the best course of action they can.’

‘Winners launch into every project with a mindset and plan to overdo it at the start. Because ‘just do it’ isn’t good enough.

It’s doing the extras that add the extras to your life– that give you the biggest results.’

The best form of confidence is the confidence that comes from achievement.’

Without a big goal, you don’t really have a goal at all.’

‘Pushing yourself to uncomfortable limits today makes it possible for you to handle bigger challenges tomorrow.’

It’s not what you have that matters, it’s what you do with what you have.’

Th truth about winning is that you have to start where you are and with what you have right now.’

Grunt work leads to greatness.’

‘Nothing of value in this world comes easy. The only way to get anywhere worthwhile is to go to work.’

Don’t just read these quotes. Use them to change your life.

As always, you are more, not less!

Source:

Larry Weidel (2015). Serial Winner: 5 Actions to Create Your Cycle of Success

If You Want To Get Better At What You Are Doing, Don’t Ignore These Quotes

You will get better at what you are doing if you are willing to practice every day, If you are willing to do the work.

Remember, to get the prize, you must first do the work.

Start where you are. Do not make it too hard for yourself. Getting better at something is not about making it too hard. It is about paying attention to it.

Makt it simple. According to Dr. Eric Maisel, ‘Simple doesn’t mean static. Simple doesn’t mean doing exactly the same thing each day. Simple means doing the thing appropriate to that day’s practice.’

‘One kind of playfulness? Improv! Maybe that’s what your practice needs today, some improvisation!’

The content of your practice needs to be, not some simulation, substitute, or likeness.’

‘There is no ‘way’ to practice. There is only honesty and intention. Let your practice honestly and intentionally serve your desire to live your life purposes.’

You decide. Who else should?’

‘You must decide on the contours of our practice. And you must decide to actually practice. You can’t begin to practice without deciding to practice.’

‘You can spend an intense hour. Or an intense minute. Either way, make it intense!’

‘Kneading the dough? That requires your presence. Cutting the onions? That requires your presence. Whatever your presence is, be present.’

‘Is your daily practice a private one? It could be. But it doesn’t have to be. Practice in public, if that’s what your heart desires. Trust yourself to understand what your practice requires!

‘Inspiration may come. Let’s hope so! But perspiration first.’

‘Should you read yet another business book? Or actually spend time every day building your business?’

‘We may not be able to do a lot, but we can do what we can every day.’

‘Can you run away from all that chaos and noise? Wouldn’t it be better to stop and create some silence?

Do not just read these quotes. Use them to change how you do your work.

As always, you are more, not less!

Further Reading:

Eric Maisel, PhD (2020). The Power of Daily Practice: How Creative and Performing Artists (and Everyone Else) Can Finally Meet Their Goals