Earning success is hard. The process is laborious, tedious, sometimes even boring. Becoming wealthy, influential, and world-class in your field is slow and arduous.
Only when you’re willing to take 100 percent responsibility for making the relationship work will it work. Otherwise, a relationship left to chance will always be vulnerable to disaster.
The great danger of the media is that it gives us a very perverted view of the world. Because the focus and the repetition of messaging is on the negative, that’s what our minds start believing.
If all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work. When you stop being like other people, they stop liking you. That’s just how it goes.
Seek out positive people who have achieved the success you want to create in your own life. Remember the adage: “Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn’t want to trade places.
There is one thing that 99 percent of ‘failures’ and ‘successful’ folks have in common – they all hate doing the same things. The difference is successful people do them anyway.
