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Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Denis Waitley

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
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Learning Mistake Past Success Yourself
You always project on the outside how you feel on the inside.
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Emotion Feeling Project Yourself
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
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Desire Energy Need Spring Willing Win
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
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Children Decision Desire Listening Yourself
Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns.
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Harm Limitation Pieces Success Suffering Yourself
The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we’ve already achieved them.
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Achievement Definition Establishment Goal Photograph Production Secret
The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.
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Achievement Apply Effort Result Yourself
Recognize when your peak energy occurs during the day. Allocate the most difficult projects to that period. Work on easy projects at low-energy times
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Day Easy Energy Project Recognition Time
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.
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Earn Experience Grace Gratitude Happiness Spiritual Time Travel
When you visualize, then you materialize. If you’ve been there in the mind you’ll go there in the body.
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Body Material Mindset Visual Yourself
Losers let it happen; winners make it happen!
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Difference Inspirational Lose Winner
No one is born with self confidence. Self confidence is learned and earned with experience.
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Born Confidence Experience Growth Learning Oneself
The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.
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Achievement Greatness Performance Yourself
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
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Dependent Drive Persistence Secret Success Try Win
Don’t wait for mentors to seek you out. Don’t ever wait for your phone calls to be returned, your letters to be answered, your faxes to be responded to. Keep going out and asking question.
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Call Mentor Phone Question Respond Yourself
Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it’s easier.
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Easy Knowledge People Time Word
When you kill time, you kill your opportunities for success.
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Kill Opportunity Success Time
Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to your door.
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Customer Path Pay Service
The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves.
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Inspirational Person Possible Success True
We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.
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Forgiveness Ourselves Self Love
Habits are like submarines; they run silent and deep.
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Deep Habit Silence Submarine
One person’s ceiling is another person’s floor.
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Floor Oneself Person
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
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Break Comfortable Creation Dreams Future Unknown Vision Yourself
You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.
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Knowledge Life Potential Price Value Yourself
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
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Experience Learning Mistake Oneself Performance Rejection Ridicule
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
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Expectation Planning Preparation Surprise Worst
Your habits will determine your quality of life.
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Determination Habit Life Yourself

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