“Priorities versus Posteriorities Setting priorities requires setting posteriorities as well. A priority is something that you do more of and sooner, whereas a posteriority is something you do less of or later. You are probably already overwhelmed with too much to do and too little time. Because of this, for you to embark on a new task, you must discontinue an old task. Getting into something new requires getting out of another activity. Before you commit to a new undertaking, ask yourself, “What am I going to stop doing so that I have enough time to work on this new task?” Go through your life regularly and practice “creative abandonment”: Consciously determine the activities that you are going to discontinue so that you have more time to spend on those tasks that can really make a difference to your future.”
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Brian Tracy
“Your mental picture of yourself has a powerful effect on your behavior. Visualize yourself as the person you intend to be in the future. Your self-image, the way you see yourself on the inside, largely determines your performance on the outside. All
improvement in your outer life begins with improvements in your mental pictures, on the inside.”
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Brian Tracy
“What one great thing would you dare to dream, if you knew you could not fail?”
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Brian Tracy
“You have within you,right now,everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”
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Brian Tracy
“Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.”
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Brian Tracy
“If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn't pay to sit and look at it for very long.”
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Brian Tracy
“There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants and a burning desire to achieve it.”
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Brian Tracy
“You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough”
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Brian Tracy
“Sometimes we need to let go of things in our lives to make room for better things. Stress less and live more. Don't waste your energy, when you have the choice to be happy.”
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Brian Tracy
“The most important success principle of all was stated by Elbert Hubbard, one of the most prolific writers in American history, at the beginning of the twentieth century. He said, ‘Self-discipline is the ability to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”
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Brian Tracy
“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”
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Brian Tracy
“People invariably seek the fastest and easiest way to get the things they want, right now, with little or no concern for the long-term consequences of their behaviors.”
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Brian Tracy
“Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”
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Brian Tracy
“Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.”
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Brian Tracy
