“How you wake up each day and your morning routine (or lack thereof) dramatically affects your levels of success in every single area of your life. Focused, productive, successful mornings generate focused, productive, successful days -- which inevitably create a successful life -- in the same way that unfocused, unproductive, and mediocre mornings generate unfocused, unproductive, and mediocre days, and ultimately a mediocre quality of life. By simply changing the way you wake up in the morning, you can transform any area of your life, faster than you ever thought possible.”

- From The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod

“Early morning is the most critical time of each day. How you spend the beginning hours of your day sets the stage for the remaining hours. If you purposefully establish a routine for spending your early morning as you want to, you will have taken a giant step toward spending the rest of your life the way you want to. How we spend our mornings is the litmus test for our degree of self-mastery. Do we wake up with a plan for the day or are we scrambling, wasting time figuring out what we must do? If we have a plan for the day, do we consistently follow it? Do we follow a purposefully predetermined, set routine which makes us more efficient and productive, and allows more time to think and relax? Or do we haphazardly scramble to get ready and out the door to make it to work just in time? Our mornings expose the power of our routines. Whether our routines are made up of good habits or bad habits is most evident in how we spend our early morning hours. If we are to get the most out of life and come closer to reaching our potential, it’s crucial that we establish good morning habits that allow us to more effectively utilize our early morning hours.”

- From The Power of Habit by Jack D. Hodge

“Among the most important personal choices you can make is to accept complete responsibility for everything you are and everything you will ever be. This is the great turning point in life. The acceptance of personal responsibility is what separates the superior person from the average person. Personal responsibility is the preeminent trait of leadership and the wellspring of high performance in every person in every situation. Accepting complete responsibility for your life means that you refuse to make excuses or blame others for anything in your life that you’re not happy about. You refuse, from this moment forward, to criticize others for any reason. You refuse to complain about your situation or about what has happened in the past. You eliminate all your if-onlys and what-ifs and focus instead on what you really want and where you are going. This decision to accept complete responsibility for yourself, your life, and your results, with no excuses, is absolutely essential if you want to double your income and double your time off. From now on, no matter what happens, say to yourself, ‘I am responsible.’”

- From Focal Point by Brian Tracy

“In twelve months from now, you will be one year older. But if you also want to be better, then you must accept that your life is your personal responsibility. If you want to change, it is up to YOU and you alone.”

- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne

“Time is the most precious commodity we have. Therefore, how we manage it has the most profound effect on how our lives turn out. Either you run your day or your day will run you. It’s really a matter of deciding to be in charge. When you work, work; and when you play; play.” 

- From 7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness by Jim Rohn

“Busy is a decision. We do the things we want to do, period. If we say we are too busy, it is shorthand for “not important enough”. It means you would rather be doing something else that you consider more important. You don’t find the time to do something; you make the time to do things. Make the time to do the things you want to do and then do them.”

- Debbie Millman

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

- Peter Drucker

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of.”

- Benjamin Franklin

“Time management is really life management, personal management, management of yourself. People who value themselves highly allocate their time carefully. They give their time usage a lot of thought. When you love your life, you love every minute of it. You are very careful about misusing or wasting any of the precious minutes and hours of each day.”

- From Focal Point by Brian Tracy

“If you want to become mentally fit -- positive, poised, and centered -- decide to monitor the messages coming into your conscious mind so they’re consistent with the ideal life you want to live. Consider the TV you watch, the books you read, the people with whom you associate. Do they drag you down, or do they support your vision?”

- From The Winner’s Mindset by Peter Nicado

“Go on a Negativity Fast. For the next thirty days, do not watch, listen to, or read the news.  Avoid negative and sensationalized media. Ignore all gossip about misbehaving reality stars and their ilk; there is nothing positive there. Avoid all negative people whenever possible.  Refuse to say anything negative or engage in conversation with a negative slant. Think only positive thoughts. Optimistic thoughts lead to optimistic action, while pessimistic thoughts lead to self-defeating action or none at all. You can choose your own thoughts and replace those that don’t serve your purpose.”

- From The Only Sales Guide You’ll Ever Need by Anthony Iannarino

“Information is not inconsequential or simply benign. It consumes our attention…our precious and valuable attention. We become prosperous when we learn to fix attention on our purpose, on service-oriented activities and on useful information. Our attention will be the source of our wealth, so if we allow the poisoned, random waters of everything that poses as “news” or “edgy new entertainment” to wash in, we have nothing left to work with.”

- From Wealth Warrior by Steve Chandler

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”

- From The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh

“Gratitude is a choice. It can become a positive habit -- but only with discipline. With continued exercise, practicing gratitude will create more abundance, prosperity, well-being, and happiness than you ever thought possible. In order to create abundance you must first acknowledge and appreciate the abundance you already have.”

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy

“Research has proven that practicing gratitude improves our emotional and physical well-being; reduces stress, worry, fear, anxiety and the conditions closely associated with these emotions such as high blood pressure, depression, heart disease, and immune system deficiencies. Gratitude can save and prolong your life.”

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy

“Gratitude is the attitude that changes everything. An attitude of gratitude adjusts your mind to focus on the positive. Thus you’ll see, discover and create more of the same, experiencing more abundance, prosperity, well-being, love, joy, and happiness.”

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy

“Scientists are finding that even on the days when you don’t feel like you have anything to be thankful for, just asking the question ‘What am I grateful for?’ is enough to change the chemistry of your brain. This simple practice trains you to look for everything that is going right in your life so you can start to more effectively water the flowers and not the weeds.” “The more you stimulate the neural pathways through practicing gratitude, the stronger and more automatic they become.”

- From Stress Less, Accomplish More by Emily Fletcher

“To simplify your life, zero-based thinking is one of the most powerful strategies you can learn and apply on a regular basis. Here’s how it works. Ask yourself, ‘Is there anything I am doing right now that, knowing what I now know, I wouldn’t get into again if I were starting over today?’”

- From Focal Point by Brian Tracy

“You only have one shot at leaving a legacy for your life. How you use your time and who you spend your time with are the most important decisions you’ll make in life. Choose wisely. You cannot soar with eagles if all you do is hang around turkeys. Ask the big question: What do you really want to achieve in life? Then think, are the people I’m spending time with helping me achieve this?”

- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne

“The people who achieve extraordinary results don’t achieve them by working more hours. They achieve them by getting more done in the hours they work.”

- From The ONE Thing by Gary Keller