Nothing predicts happiness like gratitude; what are you grateful for?

The best leaders are continual learners.

If you aren't growing you aren't living

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

The most important actions are never comfortable

You don't build a great reputation by talking about what you are going to do, you actually do it.

Don't try to become a man of success, rather try to become a man of value. Einstein

Everything we have is about decision and action

Make the shift from the time & effort economy to the results economy. It's not about how many hours you work it's about what you get done. Get paid for results not for hours.

One thing done equals money. 5 things undone equals no money.

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”

• Confucius

Intentionally choose discomfort, this is how you grow.

The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Feel the fear and do it anyway

Enthusiasm! You are responsible for the energy you bring into this room/meeting/situation

That which you fear and do not face controls you

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill

If you spend too much time working on your weaknesses, all you end up with is a lot of strong weaknesses. Focus on your strengths

Definition of success; to spend your life the way you want...life by design

Don't let making a living get in the way of making a life

Don't trade hours for dollars; create businesses/investments that produce income while you are on vacation; passive/residual / recurring income

There's a reason top teams 'keep score'. It measures progress/achievement which leads to higher self-esteem.

Great things never came from comfort zones.

Servant leadership, servant selling; serve first, lead or sell second

What you feed your mind determines your appetite.

Pay it forward!

Adversity is the catalyst for growth. Champions know this and are comfortable being uncomfortable

You can get everything in life u want if u will just help enough people get what they want

Just friggin do it

Take action, learn, iterate

No matter what--take action! Action is the foundational key to all success

Have a strong bias toward action!

What do you do when you are not working? Intentionally; Read, Learn, Grow, stretch

Try a lot of stuff, keep what works

It's not real if its not on the calendar

What you focus on expands

Make a positive dent in the universe

Very few things matter at all; but those that do matter enormously

Always make your future bigger than your past

When a bad experience happens; what does this experience make possible?

Build a business that isn't dependent upon you and your time; create systems & delegate; surround yourself with rock stars who can do the work better than you

What do you believe that most people would disagree with you?

Questions are infinitely superior to answers

Find someone who has successful done it in the last 3 years; pattern matching, modeling. Clarity.fm

Get a mentor, business coach and be one

You are the average of the 5 people you hang out with the most

Small actions repeated over time--transform us.

Become so good they can't ignore you

Timid salespeople have skinny kids

People buy from people who they know, like & trust

There's no failure there's only learning

Get out of the building

Consistent practice over time equals exponential growth

Sculpt your job / business that will serve your life; not the other way around.

Career capital; rockstar performance/results enables you to have leverage to sculpt your job to fit your lifestyle

Get good at skills that are rare & valuable; then the market will offer you benefits that are rare & valuable

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

We are all 5-10 habits away from doubling our results/income.

Hire slow, fire fast

Find a big problem in your market and go solve it; scratch your own itch

Find a hole in your market and go fill it. Where is your market under served?

Best jobs offer; autonomy, mastery, purpose

If you want to change yourself, you must change something you do everyday.

What you do everyday matters more than what you do once in a while

What is the motive of your ambition? The cause/team or self interest?

Get the right people on the bus; if this was a new hiring decision would I hire this person?

Time; scarcest resource; you can make more $ but not more time

168 hours in a week; 50 work, 64 sleep = 62 unused discretionary hours...busy is a victim word.

The thoughts we entertain become the behavior

Hire people who play at things you have to work at.

Resourcefulness; everything is figure-out-able

Calendar it to make it real

You can never solve a problem with the same level of thinking that created it. Einstein

You don't have to get it right, just get something going and improve as u go; practice crappy first drafts...get started

Habits are like compound interest when it comes to character.

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. Michael Jordan

Winning means being un-afraid to lose

"Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business." - Simon Cowell

Everything rises and falls on leadership

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Ferris Bueller

Things do not necessarily happen for the best, but some people are able to make the best out of things that happen.

Don't allow your time to get eaten up with responsibilities that fall outside your core competences. That's a recipe for mediocrity.

It's not about ideas it's about making ideas happen

What do you want your closest family & friends to say about you at your funeral?

Character is the will to do what's right even when it's hard

Great leaders grow not just results, but people too. — Dr. Henry Cloud

"Never let your feelings dictate your bravery. Live braver than you feel." ~ Jon Acuff

Failure is often fuel for the very ideas that eventually transform industries, make record profits and reinvent careers

Don't forget that everyday you are writing your résumé.

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is maybe you should just set up a life you don't need to escape from. Seth Godin

Guts, chutzpah, audacity, bravado daring, tenacity and brilliance decides one’s future much more than school grades do.

Happiness and optimism fuel performance.

Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential

Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my results & happiness. My problems and unhappiness?

Self fulfilling prophecy; expecting positive outcomes actually makes them more likely to arise

It's easier to act your way into anew type of thinking than think your way into a new type of acting.

Fake it until you make it. If you force a smile it will make you happier.

Belief = self fulfillment prophecy. Bend reality. Steve Jobs

Reality distortion field. Steve Jobs

What you believe matters.

People will summarize your life in a sentence - pick it now.

What gets measured gets managed

The things that get rewarded get done

Marriage: find the most generous explanation for each others behavior and believe it.

Whatever scares you, go do it. Whatever excites you, go do it.

The key to success in one word: generosity

Most of us don't ask enough.

Most people never change. 10 years from now they will be a 10 year older version of themselves. Choose to experiment, learn, grow, transform.

3 words sum up the majority of the world; not very inspiring. Be unique

Feel the fear and do it anyway!

Stop being vanilla, stand out.

Sales; we are in the business of asking. Be a bold asker

A lack of time is actually a lack of priorities.

Busy is a victim word

You can leave a positive dent in this world

Great comfort rarely produces great growth--intentionally choose dis-comfort--this is how you grow

Successful millionaires: their success was not an event but daily progress, process, systems, habits, like automating your savings

I view life as learning. It's all learning for me, all the time I'm literally non-stop learning. I read everyday. I'm always looking for new people I can learn from. Elliot Bisnow

Survey says..."business people who read at least 7 business books a year earn over 230% more than people who ready only 1 book a year."

If you want to double your success rate, the quickest way is to read great books

I'm a learning addict

Somewhere along the way we seem to have confused comfort with happiness. Dean Karnazes

Sales solve everything. Mark Cuban

Nothing happens until somebody sells something

Solution oriented. Focus on facts and data.

We'd like to be humble but what if no one notices

You want an easy life? Boring! Growth requires facing challenges. If you want easy, go watch TV and wait to die.

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life. ~ Anne Lamott

Freedom = #1 driver of all entrepreneurs

Make the shift from the time & effort economy to the results economy. Get paid for results not hours.

Don't trade dollars for hours.

You can't think your way into the future - action trumps everything.

Have a strong bias toward action!

identify the organizations biggest problem and take initiative to go solve it...this is #1 key to career advancement

"Be selfless." the number-one quality of the successful entrepreneur

The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort (John Ortberg)

The choices you make today will be in your biography tomorrow.

Make interesting choices and you will have an interesting biography.

I hire people brighter than me and then I get out of their way”--Lee Iacocca

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. - Aristotle

We have a strategic plan. It’s called ‘doing things.’ ” —Herb Kelleher

#1 trait of great leaders; Courage

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. T Ferriss

What's the hidden agenda?

What is the story you are telling with your life? Is it exciting? Meaningful? Impactful?

What is the highest & best use of my influence in each nof my circles of influence?

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

You are what you think about all day long.

Joy is proportionate to your level of gratitude.

Self reliance; I own the problem, I own the solution

Get to the place where you are literally repulsed by victim thinking; instead take 100% responsibility always.

Strong leaders have a code of total ownership and total responsibility

The signature of your work and vitality of your network will determine your professional fate.

Negotiation; the person who has more options has more power

Refusal to take risk makes for a life of mediocrity at best.

I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the success and the failures...I divide the world into the learners and non-learners. Benjamin Barber

Work to learn, don't work for money

Passive income; business that doesn't require your presence

For most people their profession is their income, for rich people; their assets are their income

Know what an asset is...then acquire them and become rich

Surround yourself with people smarter than you and pay them well