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Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in
your own powers you cannot be succ his
book “The Power of Positive Thinking”. A friend
loaned me his copy of this book and from the very
first page I became enthralled. I knew I could
improve and become a better person, but never
understood how and “The Power of Positive
Thinking” taught me how.
I can never fully explain how life changing Peale’s
book was for me. The lessons contained in it started
me on a new journey, one that is positive and
hopeful. I learned to embrace every day with a
humble but reasonable confidence in myself and my
abilities.
I highly recommend “The Power of Positive Thinking”
to anyone, especially if you have been struggling for
some time and you want to find a way to rise above
your struggles.
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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
Few teachers teach lessons that are so direct,
honest and significant. Rohn often talked about
possibilities and opportunities as wind and that the
wind blows around all of us, but the difference is
how you set your sail.
Peale’s lesson came first and I am fortunate it did,
because had I not learned the lessons of positive
thinking I would not have been ready to design my
own life plan. I would not have written my memoir
and self-published it. I also would not have created
this blog you are reading.
By writing, self-publishing and even starting my
blogs, I began to design my own life as a writer. I
could have continued to write in my personal
journals and stayed in obscurity, but that would
have been self-limiting.
So what’s your passion? Have you designed your
own plan to bring life to your passion?
If you’re waiting for someone else to give you an
opportunity or design your plan for you, well, be
prepared if they don’t have much in store for you.
Go ahead, set your own sail.
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Don’t let what you can’t do stop you from doing
what you can do.
―John Wooden
Oh boy, one of the most important lessons of all.
Our failures, our mistakes and our weaknesses are
usually at the forefront of our minds. It’s natural and
normal to want to improve in the things we do not
do well, but our energy would be better spent
focusing on the things we do well.
Don’t let what you can’t do hold you back from
doing what you can do.
In other words set your sail by your strengths .
Embrace your passion and allow your strengths to
grow. Your confidence in your abilities will naturally
grow as well.
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has
never tried anything new.
―Albert Einstein
We all make mistakes, plain and simple. Some
mistakes are major, but most are minor and
repairable. However, the only way to avoid a mistake
is to attempt nothing at all.
Is that really an option?
I used to fear making mistakes. I always took the
path of least resistance, so I thought.
It’s better to do what you want to do and learn from
the mistakes you make. You’re going to make them,
but you may discover they are not so bad after all.
Whenever you learn from a mistake you improve and
grow from it. Well, my friends, there’s a great sense
of accomplishment and satisfaction in that.
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Half the failures in life arise from pulling in the
horse as he is leaping.
―Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles
Hare
Too many people have given up just when they were
about to cross the finish line. The problem was they
didn’t know they were so close.
If you’re going to do something, be prepared to go
all the way. Fear and doubt will always find their
way into our consciousness when we attempt to go
beyond what we’ve done before and if we let them,
they will stop us.
The key is to follow through all the way to the finish.
We usually come up short because we stop
ourselves when it gets too tough and seems
hopeless. On the contrary, that’s when you’re about
to break through.
Keep going. Be all in.
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You have to let people see what you wrote. It
will never be perfect, but perfect is overrated.
―Tina Fey
Perfection is unachievable and irrelevant and yet, too
many of us get caught up trying to achieve it.
Do what you can to the best of your ability. You’ll
discover that most of the time, that’s good enough.
I wrote a short, free eBook on this subject. Feel free
to read it .
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If today were the last day of my life, would I
want to do what I am about to do today?
―Steve Jobs
One of the most valuable lessons in life is learning
to enjoy each day, each moment and do what you
are about to do with purpose. Simply going through
the motions is not enough.
You’ve got to be intentional about your life.
Are you happy? Are you doing what you want to be
doing? If so, that’s fantastic. If not, then what are
you going to do today ?
I hope you enjoyed these quotes and the lessons
they taught me