“Before you begin scrambling up the ladder of success, make sure that it is leaning against the right building.”
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Brian Tracy
“The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.”
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Brian Tracy
“You become what you think about most of the time”
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Brian Tracy
“In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it as a situation . A problem is something that is upsetting and stressful. A situation is something that you simply deal with .”
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Brian Tracy
“The potential consequences of any task or activity are the key determinants of how important a task really is to you and to your company.”
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Brian Tracy
“An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.”
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Brian Tracy
“You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.”
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Brian Tracy
“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude
toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather
than allowing it to master you.”
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Brian Tracy
“Every hour, stop and ask: Am I really present in this moment? If not, what are my thoughts focused on? Doing this often will help you return to the present moment.”
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Brian Tracy
“You can’t decide to value your child sometimes, and then put a game of Farmville, or golf, or a scrapbooking session before kids on other days. Values are non-negotiable like that.”
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Brian Tracy
“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
“Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.”
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Brian Tracy
“The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
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Brian Tracy
“No matter how you really feel at the moment or what is happening in your life, resolve to remain cheerful and upbeat. As Viktor Frankl wrote in his bestselling book Man’s Search for Meaning, “The last of the human freedoms [is] to choose one’s attitude in any given set of cricumstances.”
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Brian Tracy
