“Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.”

Make sure you pick good people to build your business with, as they’ll determine 80 percent of your success.

I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn’t want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn’t want a boss.

If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list it in two months as ‘new.’

If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.

Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can’t get.

I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.

I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% – still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

Don’t be afraid to go for positions, jobs or take on clients just outside of your knowledge base. It’s when you’re uncomfortable that you learn and grow the most.

Refinancing doesn’t reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.

Instead of assuming everything you’re being told is the truth, ask plenty of questions.

Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.

People imitate their leader. Lead by example.

The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don’t build ‘wiggle room’ into the asking price. There’s a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.

You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you’re moving out. But it’s demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don’t have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.

The worst that could happen is I lose my company and go back to being a waitress. I don’t think money’s a great aspiration for a lot of people that succeed. They they have other motivations that turn them on. And money was not one of mine.

When you have chemistry with a potential hire, they will most likely become a great employee.

To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.

He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.

You let go of the past, and stop bringing the past into the present and replaying it into the future. You release guilt, shame, and you can create an entirely new pattern for yourself.

Guilt is a gift from Allah warning you that what you are doing is violating your soul.

If only I wasn’t an atheist, I could get away with anything. You’d just ask for forgiveness and then you’d be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.

When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God’s gift of grace.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

I know my truths. I know exactly why I am the way I am and I’m secure with it. There’s not a single soul that can ever shame or guilt trip me into making me feel and think otherwise.