October 2018 Thoughts that Count:
“If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.” — {Jack Dixon}
Should you focus on results or change? All too often, success is measured by outcomes and results. The same processes can bring us to a familiar rhythm that produces the same steady outcomes. We have discovered that the only way to change our “ends” is to change our “means”.
“People who take huge risks aren’t afraid to fail. In fact, they love to fail. It’s because failing means they found the edge.”
— {Bob Goff, excerpt from Love Does}
More from Love Does:
Continue reading Encouraging You to Find Your Edge by Failing!
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It is certainly okay to disagree. Dudley Field Malone said, “I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.”
Continue reading Einstein’s Simplify Wisdom: June 2018 Thoughts That Count from NextLevel Thinking
April 2018 Thoughts That Count:
“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”
— {Winston Churchill}
February 2018 Thoughts That Count:
“When you focus on problems, you’ll have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you’ll have more opportunities.”
January 2018 Thoughts That Count:
“Although no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending.”
— {Carl Bard}
“As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.”
— {Donald E. Westlake, Author}
Thoughts That Count…
Nick Saban, Alabama Head Football Coach, provides an interesting look at how he views the price you have to pay to be successful.
“The fact of the matter is, if you want to be good, you really don’t have a lot of choices, because it takes what it takes. You have to do what you have to do to be successful.
So, you have to make choices and decisions to have the discipline and focus to the process of what you need to do to accomplish your goals.”
Some great advice in business and in life is to keep moving forward and don’t worry about past mistakes. In fact, check out this quote:
“Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.”
— {Aubrey de Grey, Author and Gerontologist}
“When most people think about the future, they dream up ways so they might live happier lives.
But notice this phenomenon. When people remember the crucial events that formed them, they don’t usually talk about happiness.
It is usually the ordeals that seem most significant. Most people shoot for happiness but feel formed through suffering.”
— {David Brooks, Author of “The Road to Character”}
A while back I ran across an article outlining the 13 things you should give up if you want to be successful.
The following quote caught my eye regarding excuses:
“It’s not about the cards you’re dealt, but how you play the hand.”
— {Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture}
Click Here to read all 13 things you should give up if you want to be successful.
“Our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”
— {M. Scott Peck, Author of “The Road Less Traveled”}
