Quotes from Jeff Olson

Showing up is essential. Showing up consistently is powerful. Showing up consistently with a positive outlook is even more powerful.

How you feed your mind is every bit as critical to your happiness as how you feed your body.

Remember: success does not lead to happiness - it's the other way around. Greater happiness is what leads to greater success.

Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do.

The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in.

The journey starts with a single step—not with thinking about taking a step.

Successful people do whatever it takes to get the job done, whether or not they feel like it.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." —Ralph Waldo Emerson (attrib.)

Instead of writing down what you're going to do (chances are you've been doing that your whole adult life anyway, and it doesn't make you any better at doing them), write down at the end of the day what you did do that day.

Sometimes you need to slow down to go fast.

There are two kinds of habits: those that serve you, and those that don't.

People on the success curve live a life of responsibility. They take full responsibility for who they are, where they are, and everything that happens to them.

Any time you see what looks like a breakthrough, it is always the end result of a long series of little things, done consistently over time.

Showing up is essential. Showing up consistently is powerful. Showing up consistently with a positive outlook is even more powerful.

Your happiness is affected by 1) your outlook, that is, how you choose to view the events and circumstances of your everyday life; 2) specific actions with positive impact—things like writing down three things your grateful for, or sending appreciative emails, doing random acts of kindness, practicing forgiveness, meditating, and exercising; and 3) where you put your time and energy, and especially investing more time into important relationships and personally meaningful pursuits.

take care with what you think. Because what you think, multiplied by action plus time, will create what you get.

And some more shocking news: your ship's not coming—it's already here. Docked and waiting. You already have the money. You already have the time. You already have the skill, the confidence. You already have everything you need to achieve everything you want.

anything worth having is worth paying that price for.

There is a natural progression to everything in life: plant, cultivate, harvest.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

Every morning write down three new things you're grateful for. Journal for two minutes a day about a positive experience from the past 24 hours. Meditate daily for a few minutes. At the start of every day, write an email to someone praising or thanking them. Get fifteen minutes of simple cardio exercise a day.

I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. You get busy living, or get busy dying." —Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption

Show up. Show up consistently. Show up consistently with a positive outlook. Be prepared for and committed to the long haul. Cultivate a burning desire backed by faith. Be willing to pay the price. And do the things you've committed to doing—even when no one else is watching.

The great Baseball Hall-of-Famer Tom Seaver put it perfectly: In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.