“We can ALL become a “genius” and reach mastery in any area of our life, if we commit to a process of deliberate and purposeful improvement. Deliberate improvement requires a mindset of never, ever, being satisfied with your current ability. It requires a constant self-critique, a capacity for daily disappointment and failure and a never-ending resolve to dust oneself off and to try again and again and again.”

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy

“3 Keys to Living Your Perfect Life: To live your perfect life and achieve the income, impact, and lifestyle you desire you must follow only three keys. And they go like this:

1. Build Massive Self Discipline. Without the DISCIPLINE to wake up every single day and do what must be done, you will never create the life you want. You must identify those important habits and behaviors required to bring you to the next level and achieve your goals...and then DO those things. Create the structure and rituals you need to make success automatic and achieve the goals you’ve set.

2. ELIMINATE Self-Sabotage. No matter how hard working or disciplined you are, you can’t achieve the income or the life you deserve without first ELIMINATING those self-sabotaging patterns and behaviors that are holding you back. You can do EVERYTHING right. But if you undermine your progress with procrastination, apathy, distraction, or addiction, you’ll never reach the potential of which you’re capable. Eliminate self-sabotage and it’ll be like putting nitrous in your success engine. You’ll move so much faster and achieve those big goals and dreams that much sooner.

3. Commit to Becoming 1% Better Everyday. Every day, try to be just 1% better than you were the day before. Commit to what Tony Robbins calls “Constant and Never Ending Improvement”. Success rarely happens in huge leaps. It happens one day, one hour, and one percent at a time. So commit to improving yourself just 1% a day. Commit to becoming 1% kinder, more knowledgeable, more skilled, more disciplined, more persistent, and more caring.

If you will do this over a long enough timeline...You WILL achieve your perfect life.” 

- Craig Ballantyne, Instagram

“A constant awareness and never-ending commitment to growth and continual improvement is what will catapult you forward, enabling you to achieve what before seemed impossible goals.  To achieve what you have never been able to achieve before you have to grow and improve yourself to levels beyond where you are now.  Your commitment to ongoing improvement is what will get you there.”

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy

“The “magic” is becoming the person you should be in order to attract the people or results you want to achieve.”

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy

“To achieve something you have never achieved before you must become someone you have never been.”

- Les Brown

“No matter what it is you want to change -- your marriage, your financial situation, your weight -- you’ll never achieve lasting change until YOU change.  Once YOU improve, everything else around you will improve.  It’s important to understand that you don’t get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.  You will only achieve the level of success in your life that equals your level of self-worth.  When it comes to achieving your goals, remember that it is not your goals that need to be worked on; it is YOU.  You can only have, be or do what you feel you are worthy of.  The key is to raise your set point, or self worth, self-esteem, mindset, attitude, philosophy, and character.  When those get raised, everything in your life will be raised with them.”

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy

“Success is something you attract by the person you become.  For things to improve, you have to improve.  For things to get better, you have to get better.  For things to change, you have to change.  When you change, everything changes for you.”

- Jim Rohn 

“All change occurs outside your comfort zone. This is true physically, mentally, spiritually and financially. No change can occur inside your comfort zone. Push your body past the weight it is comfortable lifting and it will grow stronger. Push your self past its own comfort zone and you will grow stronger.”

- From Wealth Warrior by Steve Chandler

“You can dramatically improve the overall quality of your life far faster than you might think possible. All you need is the desire to change, the decision to take action, the discipline to practice the new behaviors you have chosen, and the determination to persist until you get the results you want.”

- From Focal Point by Brian Tracy

“Imagine for a moment that you will have a guest accompanying you throughout your day tomorrow. This person’s task will be to follow you around from the moment you wake up until the moment you fall asleep. They will take copious notes about your schedule, how you interact with your family and friends, how you engage in your tasks and projects, and your mind-set through it all. Once the day is over, this person will spend the next few days processing their observations, draw conclusions about your motivations, and compile their notes into a book about you that will stand as the definitive record of your life and work.  How would you act differently tomorrow if you knew that your actions and attitude on that one day were going to be a permanent testament to your life? If you’re like many people to whom I’ve posted this question, you would probably get up a little earlier, pay extra attention to your family and the barista at Starbucks, be fully vested in every meeting, be meticulous in every task, call up an old friend for lunch, reconcile with an alienated colleague, and generally wrap up loose ends.  Next I ask, ‘How does your imagined behavior compare with how you are actually living your life today?’”

- From Die Empty by Todd Henry

“You cannot pursue greatness and comfort at the same time. Commit today to stepping outside your comfort zone and set some goals to help you get there. In short, grow.”

- From Die Empty by Todd Henry

“When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

- Paulo Coelho

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

- Jim Rohn

“Your values and vision drive every decision.”

- Craig Ballantyne

"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them."

- From Walt Disney: An American Original

“Living without clear goals is like driving in a thick fog. No matter how powerful or well engineered your car, you drive slowly, hesitantly, making little progress on even the smoothest road. Deciding upon your goals clears the fog immediately and allows you to focus and channel your energies and abilities. Clear goals enable you to step on the accelerator of your own life and race ahead rapidly toward achieving more of what you really want.”

- From Goals! by Brian Tracy

“One of the most important questions in goal setting is this: What do I really want to do with my life? If you could do or be or have anything at all in life, what would it be? You should return to this question over and over again in the months and years ahead.”

- From Goals! by Brian Tracy

“My favorite word in goal setting, and in success in general, is ‘clarity.’ There is a direct relationship between the level of clarity you have about who you are and what you want and virtually everything you accomplish in life.  Successful men and women invest the time necessary to develop absolute clarity about themselves and what they really want, like designing a detailed blueprint for a building before they begin construction.”

- From Goals! by Brian Tracy

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.”

- From Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

“You have to decide that your goals are more important than push notifications. It’s that simple.”

- From The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins