unleash the potential<\/a> and make your move(ment).\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cI was just tired of coming up short and needed desperately to surround myself with people who had that winner\u2019s mentality.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCharacter is like my fingerprint; it identifies me from everyone else in the world. It says who I am and where I am headed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThings change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThose who want success should think like a planter. They should understand that having the right seed is an essential key to success, but they must also understand that the soil that they entrust to the seed is just as vital\u2026 Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe truth is that momentum, in the sense in which we are discussing, is a feeling, and if it\u2019s a feeling, that means we have the ability to have it on our side at all times if we so choose.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is power in one\u2019s spirit \u2013 the power to empower and the power to suppress.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cStop sabotaging yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou will not experience all life has to offer you or begin to experience life at its fullest as long as you are satisfied with mediocrity. You have to be disgusted with your current circumstances before your circumstances can change.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need your undivided attention.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt some point in life you have to face your fears, and head on even though you can\u2019t be sure of the outcome. A great deal of people will never reach their dreams and it won\u2019t have anything to do with their ability or skill set. They won\u2019t reach their dreams because they were too afraid to try.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I had never taken the test, I could always say I would have passed if I had taken it, I just did not feel like taking it. That way I would never have to face my fears and I could create this illusion in my mind to prevent me from feeling like a failure. I was good at that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI soon discovered, dreaming is one thing, but at some point I had to get up, get out and get something.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is nothing wrong with dreaming big dreams, just know that all roads that lead to success have to pass through Hardwork Boulevard at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, I learned through the process not to make time the focus. The secret to success is in the nature of the seed, not how long it takes to see the results.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. It\u2019s not who you are that holds you back, it\u2019s who you think you\u2019re not.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd as a former procrastinator, I always had to remind myself not to put of what I could do today.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA setback is a setup for a comeback.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI learned that pain produces certain things that complacency can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I could have you take just one thing from this book, it would be that there is no magical formula for success. It\u2019s about having a dream and working towards it no matter what negative circumstances occur along the way. In basketball there is a saying that says, \u201cThe only way to get out of a shooting slump is to keep shooting.\u2019 The same can be said for our lives. The only way to get out of mediocrity, is to keep shooting for excellence.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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