“If the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning is eat a live frog, then nothing worse can happen for the rest of the day!"
Brian Tracy says that your "frog" should be the most difficult item on your things-to-do list, the one you're most likely to procrastinate on; because, if you eat that first, it'll give you energy and momentum for the rest of the day. But, if you don't...if you let him sit there on the plate and stare at you while you do a hundred unimportant things, it can drain your energy and you won't even know it.”
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Brian Tracy
“A person who really likes himself or herself has high self-esteem and therefore a positive self-concept. When you really like yourself in a particular role, you perform at your best in that role.”
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Brian Tracy
“The most important contribution you can make to your company is to be a leader, accept responsibility for results, and dare to go forward.”
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Brian Tracy
“It is rather pointless to go head to head with strong and entrenched competition. But numerous opportunities can be found in the marketplace for a company to maximize its unique qualities, differentiate its products and services, and go after a specific market segment where its competitors are weak and where you can develop superiority, where you can win battles.”
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Brian Tracy
“Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true”
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Brian Tracy
“First, make a decision to develop the habit of task completion. Second, discipline yourself to practice the principles you are about to learn over and over until they become automatic. And third, back everything you do with determination until the habit is locked in and becomes a permanent part of your personality.”
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Brian Tracy
“The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and
respect yourself.”
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Brian Tracy
“Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.”
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Brian Tracy
“if you expect to be successful, you will eventually be successful. If you expect to be happy and popular, you will be happy and popular. If you expect to be healthy and prosperous, that is what will happen... Always think and talk positively about the future. Start every morning by saying: 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.' Then, throughout the day, expect the best.”
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Brian Tracy
“The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you
want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.
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Brian Tracy
“Three Steps to Mastery First, read in your field for at least one hour every day. Get up a little earlier in the morning and read for thirty to sixty minutes in a book or magazine that contains information that can help you to be more effective and productive at what you do. Second,”
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Brian Tracy
“your ability to select your most important task at each moment, and then to get started on that task and to get it done both quickly and well, will probably have more of an impact on your success than any other quality or skill you can develop.”
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Brian Tracy
“When everything is laid out neatly and in sequence, you will feel much more like getting on with the job.”
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Brian Tracy
“If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.”
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Brian Tracy
“Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.”
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Brian Tracy
