Believe and achieve.

You have to believe good things are possible for them to energize you.

If I told you that you could be one of the top people in your field with all the things that come with it, if you want that and believe it, you will pursue it.  You will do the things necessary to get there.  Your belief will push you through setbacks and obstacles.

If you do not believe me, and/or you do not want it, there is no hope for you.

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

Do you have a big goal and BELIEVE it is possible for you?

Master yourself first

“In reading the lives of great men, I found the first victory they won was over themselves.” – Harry S. Truman

If you cannot control your lower impulses, control your attention, think before acting, delay gratification, and do what is right instead of what is easy and what feels good, then you will always have trouble of your own making.

You are your enemy/obstruction/problem, or your best friend and instrument of progress and good.  

Your choice.

Nothing will advance your success and fulfillment more than self-mastery.

Imagination

“Logic will get you from point A to point B, but Imagination will take you anywhere.” -Albert Einstein

Think.  Dream.  It’s the origin of innovation, creation, and adventure. 

Why not? 

Imagine – go nuts.

Being good, and doing good.

Being good is a start.  First do no harm and do not be a burden.

But DOING good – that is something different and better.

“What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.” – Dorthea Dix

What good needs doing?  

You’re up.

Long term goals guide the short term ones

If all your goals are short-term, you won’t accomplish anything big.

What do you want to be long-term?  Who do you want to be?  Where?  Think in decades.

Then create short-term goals that are part of the long-term ones – steps to getting there.

Meaningful satisfaction is not built overnight.  A decade-driven strategy lets you build purposefully – one intentional action at a time.