“Act with purpose, courage, confidence, competence and intelligence until these qualities 'lock in' to your subconscious mind.”
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Brian Tracy
“Successful, effective people are those who launch directly into their major tasks and then discipline themselves to work steadily and single-mindedly until those tasks are complete.
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Brian Tracy
“Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality.”
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Brian Tracy
“Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.” —CLARE BOOTHE LUCE When things go wrong, when you experience sudden reversals and disappointments, your natural tendency will be to respond with negativity, fear, and anger. Whenever you feel hurt or threatened by loss or criticism, you react to protect yourself with the fight-or-flight response. As a leader, your first job is to take firm control over your mind and emotions, and then to take control over the situation, in that order. Leaders focus on the future, not the past. They focus on what can be done now to resolve the problem or improve the situation. They focus on what is under their control, their next decisions and actions. You must do the same.”
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Brian Tracy
“The law of increasing returns says that the more you focus on doing the few things that represent the most valuable use of your time, the better you become at those activities and the less time it takes you to accomplish each one.”
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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
“This is the process of “systematic desensitization.” By confronting your fear, and by repeatedly doing the thing you fear, the fear eventually disappears.”
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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
“The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.”
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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
“It takes only about 10 to 12 minutes for you to plan out your day, but this small investment of time will save you up to two hours (100 to 120 minutes) in wasted time and diffused effort throughout the day.”
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Brian Tracy
“Truthfulness is the main element of character.”
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Brian Tracy
“The ability to concentrate singlemindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status, and happiness in life.”
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Brian Tracy
“Every minute spent in planning saves ten to twelve minutes in execution.”
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Brian Tracy
“Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?”
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Brian Tracy
