“Practice "zero-based thinking" in every part of your life. Ask yourself continually, "If I were not doing this already, knowing what I now know, would I start doing it again today?" If it is something you would not start again today, knowing what you now know, it is a prime candidate for abandonment or creative procrastination.”
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Brian Tracy
“When you allow yourself to begin to dream big dreams, creatively abandon the activities that are taking up too much of your time, and focus your inward energies on alleviating your main constraints, you start to feel an incredible sense of power and confidence.”
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Brian Tracy
“...you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.
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Brian Tracy
“it's impossible to remain angry or blame other people for problems in your life when you are saying , "I am responsible”
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Brian Tracy
“The second rule of frog eating is this: 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
“Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.”
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Brian Tracy
“When you set more goals, try more things, engage in more activities, and explore more opportunities, your probabilities of success increase dramatically.”
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Brian Tracy
“You are where you are and what you are because of yourself. Everything you are today, or ever will be in the future, is up to you. Your life today is the sum total result of your choices, decisions and actions up to this point. You can create your own future by changing your behaviors. You can make new choices and decisions that are more consistent with the person you want to be and the things you want to accomplish with your life.”
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Brian Tracy
“One of the very worst uses of time is to do something very well that need not to be done at all.”
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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
“rule, once again, is that every minute spent in planning and creating checklists will save you ten minutes in execution and getting the job done
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Brian Tracy
“Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
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Brian Tracy
“Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one thousand percent.”
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Brian Tracy
“There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.”
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Brian Tracy
“The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.”
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Brian Tracy
