“The fact is that your productivity begins to decline after eight or nine hours of work. For this reason, working long hours into the night, although it is sometimes necessary, means that you are usually producing less and less in more and more time. The more tired you become, the worse the quality of your work will be and the more mistakes you will make. At a certain point, you can reach “the wall” and simply be unable to continue, like a battery that is run down.”
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Brian Tracy
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself and be lenient to everyone else.” —HENRY WARD BEECHER, NINETEENTH-CENTURY CLERGYMAN”
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Brian Tracy
“You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.”
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Brian Tracy
“Your behavior will guide the behavior of the other members of your team or the people in your organization.”
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Brian Tracy
“Your mind is designed in such a way that you cannot have an idea on the one hand without also having the ability to bring that idea into reality on the other. The very existence of an idea in your conscious mind means that you have within you and around you the capacity to turn it into reality. The only question you have to answer is, How badly do you want it?”
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Brian Tracy
“You perform as well as you believe yourself capable of performing. You are as effective as you believe yourself to be in whatever you do. You can never be better or different on the outside than you believe yourself to be on the inside.”
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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
“The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous.”
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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
“Mark Twain once said that if the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long. Your”
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Brian Tracy
“Your subject should always answer the question “What is the problem to be solved?” or “What is the job to be done?” A”
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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
“I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more
chances, Be more active, Show up more often.”
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Brian Tracy
“The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.”
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Brian Tracy
