The 6 steps are -   • SELF-IMAGE • RELATIONSHIP • GOALS • ATTITUDE • WORK • DESIRE

Success is a 6 step staircase:

Your opinion of yourself. This is often reflected in your self-talk and affects your level of confidence<ul><li>Practice Positive Self Talk </li><li>Spend more alone time -get to know thyself</li></ul>

Self Image 

How do you relate to other people in your life? Your family, friends, colleagues, customers, etc.Your Self-image is often reflected in your relationships and how you treat others.<ul><li>Be Honest </li><li>Be knd </li></ul>

Relationships

Having goals is having a compass that directs you in the vast ocean of life.• Write down your goals • Record your progress• Review and revise your plan Play the long game - think in terms of your long-term future while smashing those short-term goals.

Goals

Your attitude determines the effort you are willing to put into achieving excellence. This is a reflection of what you think of yourself and your place in the world.

Attitude

Mans's greatest desire is to contribute to the legacy of humanity and this can be expressed in the work that you do. Your level of fulfillment is in proportion to the depth and importance of the work you are doing. We can't all be Elon Musk but one can simply offer a helping hand in their community to get the same fulfillment. You don't need to build rockets even a simple donation to the needy is a great fulfillment of your human purpose.

Work

How deeply do you want excellence? Your level of desire to achieve what you want will carry you forth during the low tides of your journey.• Remember your WHY

Desire

"Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation. "

"The problem is not the problem, the problem is your attitude ab

"Lack of DIRECTION, not lack of TIME is the problem. We all have 24 hour days."

“The story of life repeatedly assures you that if you will use what you have, you will be given more to use.”

“You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”

"The problem is not the problem, the problem is your attitude about the problem."

I don't know about you but I'm headed to the TOP of the world!!!

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Personal Development

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Motivation & Inspiration

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Books

"Congratulations on your fascinating book. I have learned much from reading it and, of course, feel its strong motivational quality. It is unusual and different and is bound to do a lot for any person who reads and applies its principles." -Norman Vincent PealeFor more than three decades, Zig Ziglar, one of the great motivators of our age, traveled the world, encouraging, uplifting, and inspiring audiences. His groundbreaking best seller, See You at the Top, remains an authentic American classic. Its basic premise-that you can get everything you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want-has guided generations of readers to personal success.This revised and updated twenty-fifth anniversary edition stresses the importance of honesty, loyalty, faith, integrity, and strong personal character. See You at the Top emphasizes the value of a healthy self-image and shows how to build it. Setting personal goals is an essential part of any program for success. This important book tells you how to set-and achieve-those goals and provides step-by-step instructions on how to change the way you think about yourself and your surroundings.See You at the Top is widely used by corporations large and small, schools, government agencies, correctional institutions, and sales organizations-wherever motivation and self-improvement are considered major priorities. It has been translated into more than a dozen languages, including French and Spanish, and has sold more than one million hardcover copies. It is also available from Pelican as a CD, mp3, and audiocassette.

Zig Ziglar was a motivational teacher and trainer who traveled the world over, delivering his messages of humor, hope, and encouragement. As a talented author and speaker, he had international appeal that transcended every color, culture, and career. Recognized by his peers as the quintessential motivational genius of our times, Zig Ziglar had a unique delivery style and powerful messages that earned him many honors. Today he is considered one of the most versatile authorities on the science of human potential. Ten of his twenty-eight books have been on bestseller lists, and his titles have been translated into more than thirty-eight languages and dialects. He was a committed family man, a dedicated patriot, and an active church member.

Zig Ziglar

See You at the Top

“I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that’s the job of art.”—Andre Dubus III

“So good, so damn compulsively readable, that I can hardly believe it.” —Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly In his stunning follow-up to the #1 best-selling House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus draws us into the lives of three deeply flawed, driven people whose paths intersect on a September night in Florida. April, a stripper, has brought her daughter to work at the Puma Club for Men. There she encounters Bassam, a foreign client both remote and too personal, and free with his money. Meanwhile, another man, AJ, has been thrown out of the club, and he’s drunk and angry and lonely. From these explosive elements comes a relentless, raw, and page-turning narrative that seizes the reader by the throat with psychological tension, depth, and realism.

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Philosophy

“So good, so damn compulsively readable, that I can hardly believe it.” —Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly In his stunning follow-up to the #1 best-selling House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus draws us into the lives of three deeply flawed, driven people whose paths intersect on a September night in Florida. April, a stripper, has brought her daughter to work at the Puma Club for Men. There she encounters Bassam, a foreign client both remote and too personal, and free with his money. Meanwhile, another man, AJ, has been thrown out of the club, and he’s drunk and angry and lonely. From these explosive elements comes a relentless, raw, and page-turning narrative that seizes the reader by the throat with psychological tension, depth, and realism.

Andre Dubus III

The Garden of Last Days: A Novel

To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.

There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.

A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.

The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.

Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either IN or you’re OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between.

You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.

The key is not the will to win. Everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

I don’t plan on being disappointed. We plan on being really good, and obviously, we plan on winning.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!

Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.

You might not be able to outthink, out market or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself.

What do you do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

I’ve failed over & over & over again in my life & that is why I succeed.

You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” “Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.

If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough.

You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

What keeps me going is not winning, but the quest for reaching potential in myself as a coach and my kids as divers. It’s the pursuit of excellence.

Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I think that’s true for a lot of women—sports gives you a part of your life where you can work at something and you look in the mirror and you like that person.

Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special.

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.

Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do…but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.

When you’re riding, only the race in which you’re riding is important.

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win.

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

Pain is only temporary but victory is forever.

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.

The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

There are certain basic qualities and characteristics you’ve got to have. Number one: you’ve got to have a will to win.

A champion is someone who does not settle for that day’s practice, that day’s competition, that day’s performance. They are always striving to be better. They don’t live in the past.

Show me a gracious loser and I’ll show you a failure.

Winning isn’t everything, but it beats anything that comes in second.

Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don’t rush. Be quick, but don’t hurry.

Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.

I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just don’t fight about it. Just try to get better.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Competitive sports are played mainly on a five-and-a-half inch court, the space between your ears.

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.

You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.

At a young age winning is not the most important thing… the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

Passion first and everything will fall into place.

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

I don’t have to wait for nobody, I move when I wanna move.

Most talented players don’t always succeed. Some don’t even make the team. It’s more what’s inside.

Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.”

If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

95. “You’re never a loser until you quit trying.

I’ve never lost a game. I just ran out of time.

Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.

Winning solves everything.

Life is gonna throw you curve balls and it’s how you deal with them and your attitude and your work ethic.

For me, winning isn’t something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.”

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Inspiring sports quotes for athletes on becoming legends & champions. These sports quotes on winning, losing & success are from famous athletes & coaches.

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Inspirational Sports Quotes to give you MOTIVATION

Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the whole world opens up to you.

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.

I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else.

I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

Salvation is certainly among the reasons I read. Reading and writing have always pulled me out of the darkest experiences in my life. Stories have given me a place in which to lose myself.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.

Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape—I didn’t read to learn, I was reading to read.

Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

These quotes highlight the power and joy of reading a good book.

These quotes highlight the power and joy of reading a good book. We found the best funny and sentimental messages about reading.

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Reading & Writing

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Problem Solving

20 Quotes About Reading That Capture the Magic of Books

These will serve as guidelines for regaining emotional, social, financial & spiritual freedom.<ol><li>Meet life with Full Presence</li><li>Reclaim your Agenda</li><li>Defeat your Demons</li><li>Advance with Abandon</li><li>Practice Joy & Gratitude</li><li>Do NOT break Integrity</li><li>Amplify Love</li><li>Inspire Greatness</li><li>Slow Time</li></ol>

The 9 Declarations

Personal Freedom means liberty from the restrictions of social oppression & the tragic self-oppression that is fear. Freed, we have the ability to express who we truly are and pursue what we deeply desire without restrictions set by others.Ironically, we are loosing our freedom because of abundance. We are being caged by our vices.

Personal Freedom

Personal Freedom does not mean the release of responsibility, it also does not necessarily mean the absence of struggle. Some might hope that “freedom” means we can give up or release responsibilities from our lives, but nothing could be further from the truth. The thinking goes, “If I am free, shouldn’t I be free from all responsibilities?”We must be conscious and responsible for our beliefs and behaviours if we are ever to be free.

Responsibility for our Freedom

Avoidance may be the best short-term strategy to avoid pain and conflict, but it is also the best long-term strategy to ensure suffering.In any given moment we can play a combination of vital roles:<ul><li>Observer - the default viewer</li><li>Director - us in control</li><li>Guardian - to our mind, body & soul. Protect what we eat, what we listen, what we read etc ...</li><li>Warrior - fight for something we believe in</li><li>Lover - who are we fighting for?</li><li>Leader - provide vision & discipline to others so they can achieve their dreams</li></ul>No matter the role we should never detach from our daily lives. We must choose to live in reality.

1. Meet Life with Full Presence & Power

<ol><li>On one hand we are becoming slaves to our own tools, especially our mobile phones. We must understand that our time can be spent meaningfully or wasted. But in order to spend it mindfully we need to clarify our needs & desires. </li><li>On the other, we are under the pressure of social obligations. We have to reply artfully & forcefully to those who are always demanding of our time. We can not subordinate our agenda to those whose lives are not in order.</li></ol>Only then we can live a purposeful life and be free. If you want to live a life of purpose you need to be spending your time on your own adventure.

2. Reclaim Our Agenda

We spend more time checking our stats than our souls.

The demands of the whimsically needy or the terminally ill-prepared are not our issue. Their lives are NOT our responsibility. This idea is freeing:I am not in charge or responsible for the wrecks others have created in their lives and I don't need to save everyone in my life.

You are not responsible for the happiness of others

We all host a 3 serpent head demon which makes us miserable: <ol><li>Doubt -  questions our worth & course of action. </li><li>Delay - use our fear to stop us from doing anything</li><li>Division - we feel everyone around us is an idiot or unworthy of trust.</li></ol>We are able to beat the demon back with <ol><li>Faith - “I believe in my ability to learn & figure things out.”</li><li>Action - "I will move fwd in spite of my fear"</li><li>Love ❤️  - "We are all made of the same purity, all fighting our own demons" </li></ol>

3. Defeat your Demons

We must believe that we can bend reality to our own preferences, crafting the lives we desire through disciplined learning. And we must ACT.The issue is we have been conditioned to believe the opposite. Instead of bold action we have to be cautious and follow the rules. Instead of ambition we are thought to ask for permission. Instead of being proud about our success, be ashamed of it.These assumptions come from an unenlightened mind blinded by scarcity and jealousy. However, progress is good. And we should be proud of our success.

4. Advance with Abandon

A great tidal wave of cynicism & pessimism has washed ashore and drowned the dreams of our people. The emotional energy of the world is flatlining. We risk turning into a culture of slow-moving, low-aiming, negativity-spewing brats and blamers.We will swim away from whirlpool of negativity & rekindle the magic of life. We will act like happy children again & again:<ul><li>Be curious.</li><li>Release expectation.</li><li>Take pleasure in small things and expect good things.</li><li>Cheerfully engage the moment.</li></ul>Let this become our practice, our mastery, and our art.

5. Practice Joy & Gratitude

In our darkest hours we compromise on who we are, what we believe in and we act against what we know to be true. Most of these breaks are small in scale but they compound. We should commit to the 6 practices of integrity:<ol><li>Think before we act</li><li>Never commit to anything we lack passion for</li><li>Keep our word</li><li>Always treat others with respect</li><li>Tell the truth</li><li>Always favour action</li></ol>These emotions are usually when we compromise: impatience, disappointment, desperation, aggression, hurt, loyalty & power.

6. Do Not Break Integrity

Integrity is learning to feel hurt but not integrate its darkness into our soul or cast it onto another.﻿

When loyalty is chosen over truth, corruption is always near.

Love is our origin & our final destination. But we stop giving it or receiving it because we were hurt & we don't feel safe doing it.Hurt has nothing to do with love, and love is unaffiliated with and unaffected by pain.

7. Amplify Love

We no doubt live in a noisy, numb, narcissistic age. The talents and attentions of the majority are not invested in personal mastery and social responsibility but squandered on games, voyeurism, and base sensationalism. As leaders, we will ask for more from those around us. Let us demand:<ol><li>Honesty</li><li>Responsibility</li><li>Intelligence</li><li>Excellence - strive for the highest level in everything</li><li>Courage </li><li>Respect for others - fairness, empathy, love</li><li>Vigilance - "Know what stands in our way"</li><li>Service - "Make a difference"</li><li>Unity - "We are in this together"</li></ol>

8. Inspire Greatness

We are not supposed to miss this moment. Awareness is humanity’s best weapon against time. So let us always remember our capacities to be gifted time benders.To slow down the moment, we must heighten our senses. To feel something more, we must either take more in, or more deeply sense that which is already here. <ul><li>Touch more things around us. Feel the textures.</li><li>We should love the sounds in our ears: the car driving by; the house finch trilling in the birch tree; the beautiful, unique voice speaking to us. </li><li>Appreciate the food </li><li>Look at things like for the first time </li><li>etc ...</li></ul>

9. Slow Time

We can train our awareness with a practice called 2 (heart) beats longer:Do not breathe so quickly. Take in air for two beats longer. Do not scan the room. Sense the room by gazing into each shadow and corner for two beats longer. Do not merely glance at her. Look into her eyes and hold them for two beats longer.In time the practice becomes stronger and, over time, more automatic. This is how you slow down time.

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Self help books are usually trash. This author however shows tremendous mastery over words. The ideas are just 10% of the book and if you remotely like them pick up the book and marvel at all the fancy expression Brendon came up with.

"The Motivation Manifesto is a poetic and powerful call to reclaim our lives and find our own personal freedom. It’s a triumphant work that transcends the title, lifting the reader from mere motivation into a soaringly purposeful and meaningful life. I love this book." —Paulo Coelho The Motivation Manifesto is a pulsing, articulate, ferocious call to claim our personal power. World-renowned high performance trainer Brendon Burchard reveals that the main motive of humankind is the pursuit of greater Personal Freedom. We desire the grand liberties of choice—time freedom, emotional freedom, social freedom, financial freedom, spiritual freedom. Only two enemies stand in our way: an external enemy, defined as the social oppression of who we are by the mediocre masses, and an internal enemy, a sort of self-oppression caused by our own doubt and fear. The march to Personal Freedom, Burchard argues, can be won only by declaring our intent and independence, stepping into our personal power, and battling through self-doubt and the distractions of the day until full victory is won. Recalling the revolutionist voices of the past that chose freedom over tyranny, Burchard—at times poetic yet always fierce—motivates us to free ourselves from fear and take back our lives once and for all.

The Motivation Manifesto

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