Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate... Nelson Mandela speech

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Used by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 inaugural speech… A Return to Love - Marianne Williamson

Try chanting this every morning 10 times and not being motivated beyond belief

“Above & within me there is a spirit stronger than them all”

(Do this with the most riveting & psyched up physiology

I’ve ever displayed in my entire life – Chant with Eye of the Tiger) x 10!!!

I am the most determined & driven person on the planet

I vow to do whatever it takes!

I will keep trying my absolute best until I succeed!

This is my time… The losing stops here…

The pain…

the hurt…

the unhappiness…

The frustrations…

My life changes here…

Right now! TODAY!!!

There is no tommorow…

I believe in every ounce of my soul that I will succeed!

I will succeed beyond my wildest dreams over the next six months…

and it begins with succeeding today!

I summon all of my powers to exceed my greatest ability today.

TODAY IS MINE! I OWN IT!

Imagine I have already achieved my goals –

Picture what I had to do to get there…

I have to take more action than what’s necessary to achieve my goals –

Push myself like never before

Like those who have gone before me – I will dominate!

Find that driving spirit within… It is alive!

I can feel it through the essence of my being!

I am my (instruction: fill in with your 2014 goal) by the end of this year!!!

I am my (instruction: fill in with your 2014 goal) by the end of this year!!!

I am my (instruction: fill in with your 2014 goal) by the end of this year!!!

100 of my favorite inspirational quotes

Inspire yourself by reading some or all of my favorite inspirational quotes:

1. Small opportunities are often the beginnings of great enterprises - Demosthenes
2. Perserverance and determination alone are omnipotent - President Calvin Coolidge
3. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success - Elbert Hubbard
4. Men succeed when they realise that their failures are the preparation for their victories - Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm - Charles Schwab
6. I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works - Alexandre Dumas
7. We ourselves must walk the path - Buddha
8. The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well - John D. Rockefeller
9. The victory of success is half done when one gains the habit of work - Sarah Knowles Bolton
10. Talk doesn't cook the rice - Chinese Proverb
11. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit - Aristotle
12. If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes - Andrew Carnegie
13. The ancestor of every action is a thought - Ralph Waldo Emerson
14. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for - Socrates
15. Opportunites multiply as they are seized - Sun Tzu
16. Reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves. Self-discipline with all of them came first - Harry S. Truman
17. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life - Confucius
18. Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
19. The King is the man who can - Thomas Carlyle
20. Men are born to succeed, not fail - Henry David Thoreau
21. There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it? - Kin Hubbard
22. Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up - Thomas A. Edison
23. The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for - Oscar Wilde
24. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain - Helena Petrova Blavatsky
25. You will find the key to success under the alarm clock - Benjamin Franklin
26. If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory - William Hazlitt
27. Men freely believe that which they desire - Julius Caesar
28. Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind - Leonardo da Vinci
29. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work - Aristotle
30. Success produces confidence - Ben Jonson
31. You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club - Jack London
32. Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration - Thomas A. Edison
33. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds - Sir Francis Bacon
34. What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims… - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
35. Success… cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work - Anna Pavlova
36. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work - Thomas Edison
37. If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants - Isaac Newton
38. Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action - Benjamin Disraeli
39. Victory belongs to the most perservering - Napoleon
40. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams... he will meet with success unexpected in common hours - Henry David Thoreau
41. What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise - Oscar Wilde
42. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal - Thomas Jefferson
43. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective... - Aristotle
44. In the long run, men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high - Henry David Thoreau
45. The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do - James Allen
46. All that we are is the result of what we have thought - Buddha
47. The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph - Thomas Paine
48. There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control  the firm resolve of a determined soul - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
49. Our strength grows out of our weaknesses - Ralph Waldo Emerson
50. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance - Confucius
51. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication - Leonardo da Vinci
52. If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there - Lewis Carroll
53. Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish - Jean de La Fontaine
54. None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to the whisper which is heard by him alone - Ralph Waldo Emerson
55. Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense - Buddha
56. Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library - Henri Frederic Amiel
57. Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment - Thomas Carlyle
58. Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fail - Oliver Goldsmith
59. If I had eight hours to cut down a big tree, I'd spend 6 hours sharpening the axe - Abraham Lincoln
60. Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door - Emily Dickinson
61. Out of difficulties grow miracles - Jean de la Bruyere
62. The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time - Abraham Lincoln
63. Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake - Henry David Thoreau
64. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
65. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant - Robert Louis Stevenson
66. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning - Benjamin Franklin
67. The heights of great men reached… were not attained by sudden flight, but while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
68. Winners never quit and quitters never win - Anon.
69. Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born - Seneca 
70. The secret of success is consistency of purpose - Benjamin Disraeli
71. ...the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love - Henry Drummond
72. You have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself - Leonardo da Vinci
73. When... it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn - Harriet Beecher Stowe
74. It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult undertaking which, more than anything else, will determine its successful outcome - William James
75. The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people - Theodore Roosevelt
76. The first and the best victory is to conquer self - Plato
77. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music - Mary Anne Evans
78. A journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step - Ancient Chinese Proverb
79. This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication - Western Union internal memo 1876
80. Genius is divine perseverance. Genius I cannot claim nor even extra brightness but perseverance all can have - Woodrow T. Wilson
81. Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline - Mary Anne Evans
82. The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind - William James
83. ...the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them - Lord Chesterfield
84. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm - Ralph Waldo Emerson
85. Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings - Samuel Johnson
86. … today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow - Harriet Martineau
87. … remember what you now have was once among the things only hoped for - Epicurus
88. I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature - John D. Rockefeller
89. There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing - Kahil Gibran
90. That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well - Abraham Lincoln
91. Know what you want to do... and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal - Elbert Hubbard
92. You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction - George Lorimer
93. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better world - Anatole France
94. Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes - Buddha
95. The virtue of deeds lies in completing them - Arabian Proverb
96. All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim... one which sometimes seemed impossible - Orison Swett Marden
97. Patience and perserverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish - John Quincy Adams
98. Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor - John Milton
99. To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first - William Shakespeare
100. He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor - Menander of Athens

I hope you enjoyed them as much as I did!!!

Till next time...

100 tips to motivate yourself right now

I just thought I'd provide 100 tips to motivate yourself right now:

1. Simply just do it
2. Know that you can do it
3. Simply begin doing a little and soon you'll being doing a lot
4. Block out all other thoughts other than just doing that which you know you must or want to do
5. Listen to an inspirational song - this can motivate you quicker than almost anything else
6. Watch a motivational video - sometimes we need a little more inspiration
7. Use affirmations to get yourself to act like: "Do it... Do it... Do it... Do it" - & repeat
8. Read a motivational quote
9. Don't over-think things... simply do it
10. If you know you should be acting - why not just do it now?
11. You are not getting any younger
12. You are the only you that will ever exist in the entire history of the universe
13. You are capable of more than what you could ever imagine
14. What are you waiting for?
15. The only time is now
16. You were born to do this
17. There is nothing you cannot accomplish if you set your mind to it
18. I believe in you
19. Imagine if you did everything you needed to do right now - how would you feel?
20. How would it feel if you just got the thing done?
21. Reward yourself after completing the thing you need to do
22. To motivate yourself is simply to get yourself to do it
23. You do not need to be 'motivated' - you just need to do it
24. Don't waste anymore time reading this list - strike whilst the iron is hot
25. Try writing down 100 things to motivate yourself
26. If you have trouble at 26 to come up with ideas it is probably time to do the thing as there is nothing left but the task at hand
27. Procrastination cannot exist in the world of achieving what you want
28. There is no need to analyse why you are not acting... just act
29. Talk to a friend about your problem
30. Sometimes things can be a little more complicated... so write out a plan
31. Think with your heart & mind
32. What have you got to gain by taking action now?
33. What have you got to lose by not taking action now?
34. You believe in yourself. Deep down you truly do.
35. Take a quick break if it is needed.
36. Go out and try something new
37. Do you need an action plan... or do you simply need to act?
38. How could you win today? How about try winning at life for one day?
39. If you can achieve success over a day there is nothing that can stop you from achieving success day after day
40. Think whatever you have to think to get yourself to act right now
41. Do you need to read an inspirational book?
42. Why is it that some people are successful and some are not? Is it simply the power of thinking yourself into action?
43. You need to win... and you need to win now
44. What is the one thing you need to say to yourself to act right now
45. How motivated do you need to be to achieve what it is you are setting out to achieve? Be that motivated full stop!
46. Do you have a list of clearly defined goals with realistic plans to achieve them?
47. Do you want to live in the top 10%?
48. Do what the bottom 90% don't do
49. Realize that you are allowed to trick yourself into acting right now
50. There is really nothing stopping you from acting right now
51. Get someone who is in a position of authority to check up on whether or not you have done what you said you were going to do
52. To win today is simply to know that you did everything you could to win today
53. What is the number one thing you need to do right now?
54. What do you truly want from life?
55. Is there anything on this list which made you think I need to do that - then do that!
56. Get of your chair... Go to a mirror and look yourself deep in the eyes and tell yourself "I am going to do it! I am going to do it now!"
57. Whatever level of motivation you need to act right now - you will find it
58. Master the art of motivating yourself to act by acting fast and on that which you truly know you want to
59. Take all distractions out of the picture by doing the thing which you know you must
60. Your motivation is the result of the way you think... Think action now. Take action now.
61. Why would you need to read anything more on this list before taking action?
62. Even just thinking is acting... do this right and you will act right
63. When do you want to do it? Why not now?
64. How long are you going to wait before you live the life of your dreams?
65. If you were on your death bed - what would you have done differently? What would you do differently right now?
66. How much time do you need before you can be motivated?
67. Do you need to be an expert on motivation to get yourself to consistently act?
68. Everything you need to do everything you want to is already sitting right in front of you. You are using it to read the words on this page.
69. You are the best you I have ever had the pleasure of writing to
70. You have the power
71. You have the will
72. There is more in you than what you think you've got
73. There is nothing that can stop you
74. You are unstoppable
75. You are invincible
76. There is a power within you stronger than your wildest dreams
77. You were born to win
78. You are a champion
79. All that is left is to do the thing you need to do
80. You are special beyond what you could even pretend to imagine
81. You are an amazing individual
82. Everything you want is achievable
83. Start doing now
84. When does the time come to stop thinking and start acting?
85. Is that time now?
86. You were put on this earth for a reason
87. Coach yourself to success
88. Take control of your mind
89. Are you truly able to do whatever you want to?
90. If you can think to act... then you can 
91. You can make yourself act right now
92. Step by step anything is possible
93. Start at step 1
94. Do whatever you must to get yourself to be motivated right now
95. If you are not motivated then do whatever it takes to become motivated
96. There is a solution to every problem
97. What could you do right now if you knew you were going to win?
98. Do it right now
99. Do it!
100. If you have read this list to 100 you were motivated to act to read to 100... Now just do what you have to... immediately... no delay... Now is your time!!!

Positively change your life forever... by taking action right now.

Why do people search for the secret to success?

Hi everyone!

I just wanted to explore the topic of 'why do people search for the secret to success'?

What is it that is so fascinating about finding that one secret and then achieving success beyond your wildest dreams?

There have been many books which have tried to detail what that secret is. One such book that has become very well known is The Secret by Rhonda Byrne.

It would seem that everyone is out there in life to find the elusive pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

When that pot of gold is what you are using right now to read these words.

It is what you think about on a consistent basis that determines your consistent results.

I mean to illustrate this point more simply try this exercise.

Touch the tip of your finger on one hand with the tip of another finger on your other hand.

How you spoke to yourself just now determined whether or not you did it or not.

How you speak to yourself is your key to all success.

Because it determines the actions you take.

If a result is what you are after for a specified goal then you must think in ways that determine that you will take the actions necessary to achieve that goal.

The Self Coaching Theorem

What makes the difference between those Michael Jordan's of the world and everyone else? 

Is it based entirely upon their internal processes - think carefully about this one!

If you think very carefully about this question you will know that it is a universal truth that your actions result from the way you think. And how do you think?

Your thoughts are more often than not a result of the way you talk to yourself inside your head.

Napoleon Hill in his book Think & Grow Rich went to great lengths to hide the secret to all success. Or as he has put it another way to uncover for yourself what is known as The Master Key to Riches.

The Master Key is to control the way you think in such a way as to determine the results you get from the consequent actions you take.

Therefore, the way that you speak to yourself inside your head is absolutely crucial to your success in anything in life.

After being heavily involved in the personal development industry for a long time I strongly feel as though this is the one factor that separates those who are successful from those who are not.

You need to push yourself to succeed. You need to motivate yourself on a consistent basis to do that which you were born to do. You need to kick ass! Quite simply you need to coach yourself to success.

You are with you every waking moment of your entire life. And it is not the outside circumstances that you have control over. Pretty much the only thing you have control over is the way you think and thus the resulting actions you take.

You cannot be successful in anything without action. Even if that action is just thinking. For example, to be happy - be happy. Think happy thoughts.

I would love to discuss this with all of you who happen to stumble upon this article.

I know in my heart of hearts that this is the sole determinant in any successful venture.

Feel free to post any comments and I will respond to you all as soon as I can.

Is self coaching the master key to all success?

Hi everyone!

Is self-coaching the master key to all success?

Think about it.

Seriously.

Try this practical theory... you can call it The Self Coaching Theorem - even if it has it's origins from many sources.

1. Assume that all your actions come from your thoughts.

2. How do you think? Is it not most often when you speak to yourself inside your head. Like your talking out aloud but in your head? (This is the way it works for me).

3. If this is so then what you say to yourself on a consistent basis determines your consistent actions and thus your results.

SELF-COACHING then would be the key to all success.

Drive your own inner thoughts by using repetitive positive statements that support & drive you like a coach and you will find a surge of energy you never knew existed.

I stumbled upon this whilst researching what is the recipe for success with a motivational speaker / newly acquired friend.

I had renewed my passion for watching Michael Jordan and finding out what he's doing at the moment... and watched a couple Youtube videos of him. 

It made me realise quite clearly when he was playing that he was speaking to himself and firing himself up to a point which few other athletes do.

I am 100% certain of this theorem as I have found it evident in every great success I've ever had.

And even in every action I take, good or bad - a result of the way I talk to myself in my head.

For example you could choose to control that voice by saying:

"Today is Kick Ass Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday etc"

"I am the best"

"I am going to Kick ass"

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I hope that in some way you see the magic in what I have shown you! 

Until next time, take care of yourselves!

How to work from home full time?

Hi everyone!

I wanted to discuss a working lifestyle that many, many people on this planet would love to do... To work from home.

I would firstly like to ask everyone a very important question?

How many people on this planet do you think work from home full-time?

• A. 1
• B. 100
• C. 1,000
• D. 10,000
• E. None of the above

I would suggest that the number would exceed any of those listed above. The point is that there are at least hundreds of thousands, if not millions who work from home on a full-time basis.

How did they do it?

They look up online work websites that are reputable such as: Elance.com, Odesk.com, Guru.com, Fiverr.com to name a few.

There are also many other ways to work full time from home.

You could sell over Amazon.com, Ebay.com, Alibaba.com, Aliexpress.com.

The opportunities are literally endless.

But, you need to become an expert in your field if this is what you truly want to do.

As the majority of people work for other people and do not work from home you will need to do what they don't do in order to succeed in this goal.

I myself have been working from home full-time in a number of different niches.

Particularly through selling my books.

I would love to hear what you guys and gals all think on this topic - comment below...

The Success Study Program 2

Hi everyone!

Just wanted to let you know that there are motions in the works for a new book The Success Study 2.

If you loved the first book and got a lot out of it - you will love this new one.

So far there have been 17 reviews all of which are 5-star positive reviews for the first book in the series.

It contained exclusive interviews with the likes of Dr. Stephen R. Covey - US presidential adviser and best-selling success author, Catherine Ryan Hyde - writer of the book which became the blockbuster movie Pay it Forward with Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt, Justice Kirby - Australia's highest court judge and many more.

The book itself was a culmination of a 5 year success study that I undertook.

As a couple more years have pasted I wouldn't mind stepping it up a notch and really delivering success to all you guys and gals out there.

In order to do that I have to be crystal clear in what makes the major difference between someone who is successful and someone who is not.

There are a lot of factors at play if you actually did a controlled environment scientific study where you could actually control a lot of these factors. And of course the world itself is not a controlled environment. But your mind is. If that leaves any clues...

Until next time,

To positively change the world forever...

James

The lacking ingredient of success

I just thought I'd check in to let you all know that yes I am still pursuing my quest to become a full time author. In this post I'd like to shortly discuss an ingredient that many people are lacking in the quest to live a successful life.

When people talk about a successful life these days at a truly deep level, most people if they are honest with themselves and others will say that it involves being happy, great relationships, wealth, health and the majority of things we feel in our hearts and see around us.

I'm going to narrow the key to success to simply one true goal.

Happiness.

If you lived your life as a life full of happiness in the majority of instances you would probably be very satisfied with how you lived.

Now if the major goal of life is to be truly happy as most people will testify to - then what is it that can make you happy on a consistent basis whilst you are on the journey to achieving goals in other areas which in turn should make you happy.

The answer ladies and gentlemen as simply as it sounds is fitness.

Fitness not as its source motivator in looking good, being strong, having self-confidence, having great health and all the other plethora of benefits that it offers.

Fitness with its source motivator in providing more happiness in your life on a day to day basis and for life.

Think about it this way - the way you think determines the actions you take. True or not true?

You really don't need 100 reasons why you should do something to get you motivated to do it.

Because if you do - when you make the decision about whether or not to do it you will have to think too much before acting.

All you really need is a bulls-eye focus with 100 different reasons supporting it.

I am suggesting that if your true life goal is to be truly happy as consistently as you can for your life then try exercising regularly. Not to lose weight. Not to become a hulk. Not to get better at a sport. Not for your health. Not for any other reason other than it will make you feel fantastic overall.

I have found that the majority of people who are in the top 10% of successful living do this on a regular basis.

I have thoroughly compared those who trained regularly to those getting started out, to those going through phases to those who did not train consistently or never really got started.

The difference was without a doubt what their main motivation for training was.

Make happiness your bulls-eye target for fitness.

Make happiness your bulls-eye target for lifelong success.

Of course I am talking about true happiness in this instance.

To positively change the world forever.

James.