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Believe in your vision and gifts when no one else believes in your vision and gifts.
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Start your day with 20 minutes of exercise.
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Make excellence your way of being (versus a once in a while event).
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Be on time (bonus points: be early).
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Be a celebrator of other’s talents versus a critic.
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Stop watching TV. (Bonus points: sell your tv and invest the cash in learning and self-education).
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Finish what you start.
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Remember that your diet affects your moods so eat like an athlete.
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Spend an hour a day without stimulation (no phone+no FaceBook+no noise).
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Release the energy vampires from your life. They are destroying your performance.
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Write in a journal every morning. And record gratitude every night.
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Do work that scares you (if you’re not uncomfortable often, you’re not growing very much).
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Make the choice to let go of your past. It’s dusty history. And polluting your future.
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Commit to being “Mozart-Level Good” at your work.
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Smile more (and tell your face).
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Do a collage filled with images of your ideal life. Look at it once a day for focus and inspiration.
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Plan your week on a schedule (clarity is the DNA of mastery).
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Stop gossiping (average people love gossip; exceptional people adore ideas).
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Read “As You Think”.
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Read “The Go-Getter”.
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Don’t just parent your kids–develop them.
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Remember that victims are frightened by change. And leaders grow inspired by it.
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Start taking daily supplements to stay in peak health.
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Clean out any form of “victimspeak” in your vocabulary and start running the language of leadership and possibility.
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Do a nature walk at least once a week. It’ll renew you (you can’t inspire others if you’re depleted yourself).
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Take on projects no one else will take on. Set goals no one else will do.
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Do something that makes you feel uncomfortable at least once every 7 days.
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Say “sorry” when you know you should say “sorry”.
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Say “please” and “thank you” a lot.
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Remember that to double your income, triple your investment in learning, coaching and self-education.
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Dream big but start now.
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Achieve 5 little goals each day (“The Daily 5 Concept” I shared in “The Leader Who Had No Title” that has transformed the lives of so many). In 12 months this habit will produce 1850 little goals–which will amount to a massive transformation.
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Write handwritten thank you notes to your customers, teammates and family members.
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Be slow to criticize and fast to praise.
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Read Walter Isaacson’s amazing biography on Steve Jobs.
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Give your customers 10X the value they pay for (“The 10X Value Obsession”).
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Use the first 90 minutes of your work day only on value-creating activities (versus checking email or surfing the Net).
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Breathe.
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Keep your promises.
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Remember that ordinary people talk about their goals. Leaders get them done. With speed.
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Watch the inspirational documentary “Jiro Dreams of Sushi”.
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Know that a problem only becomes a problem when you choose to see it as a problem.
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Brain tattoo the fact that all work is a chance to change the world.
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Watch the amazing movie “The Intouchables”.
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Remember that every person you meet has a story to tell, a lesson to teach and a dream to do.
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Risk being rejected. All of the great ones do.
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Spend more time in art galleries. Art inspires, stimulates creativity and pushes boundaries.
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Read a book a week, invest in a course every month and attend a workshop every quarter.
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Remember that you empower what you complain about.
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Get to know yourself. The main reason we procrastinate on our goals is not because of external conditions; we procrastinate due to our internal beliefs. And the thing is they are stuck so deep that we don’t even know they exist. But once you do, everything changes.
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Read “Jonathan Livingston Seagull”.
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Know your values. And then have the guts to live them–no matter what the crowd thinks and how the herd lives.
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Become the fittest person you know.
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Become the strongest person you know.
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Become the kindest person you know.
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Know your “Big 5″–the 5 goals you absolutely must achieve by December 31 to make this year your best yet (I teach my entire goal-achieving process, my advanced techniques on unleashing confidence and how to go from being stuck to living a life you adore in my online program “Your Absolute Best Year Yet”).
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Know that potential unexpressed turns to pain.
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Build a strong family foundation while you grow your ideal career.
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Stop being selfish.
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Give your life to a project bigger than yourself.
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Be thankful for your talents.
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Stand for iconic. Go for legendary. And make history.
Quotes(14-08-2014)
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“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.” — Dr. Robert
Anthony “It isn’t where you came from; it’s where you’re going that
counts.” — Ella...
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