Quotes from Jeff Olson

The same activities that take us from failure to survival would also take us from survival to success—if we would just keep doing them.

They do the thing, and gain the power.

As I began examining my successes and failures, what I gradually realized was that the very same activities that had rescued me from failure, that had carried me from the failure line up to the survival line, would also rescue me from average and carry me from the survival line to the success line-IF I WOULD JUST KEEP DOING THEM.

let's frame our definition of success as: life (health), liberty (financial freedom), and the realization of happiness.

The simple things that lead to success are all easy to do. But they're also just as easy not to do.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success." —Albert Schweitzer

you've reached a place where many years of simple errors in judgment have compounded over time, and you're feeling it.

Your philosophy is your view of life, something beyond feelings and attitudes. Your philosophy drives your attitudes and feelings, which drive your actions.

Life is doing. If you aren't doing, you're dying.

successful people do: simple things that are easy to do.

here's how real success is built: by the time you get the feedback, the real work's already done.

I have not failed. I've simply discovered ten thousand ways that don't work.

Do the thing, and you shall have the power.

Simple daily disciplines—little productive actions, repeated consistently over time—add up to the difference between failure and success.

Every incomplete promise, commitment, or agreement saps your strength because it blocks your momentum and chokes off your ability to move forward, progress, or improve.

Write your dreams down; make them vivid and specific; give them a concrete timeline for realization;

You see, there is no magic bullet, quick fix, or quantum leap method to reach success.

Over the course of his career, Abraham Lincoln had a staggering record of lost elections and public-office failures. For the ungainly lawyer from Illinois, failure was not only an option, it was practically his specialty. If it hadn't been, he would never have made it to the White House, and who knows what the United States would look like today. Or if there would even be such a thing as the United States. And

There is one quality which one must possess to win," writes Napoleon Hill in his all-time classic Think and Grow Rich, "and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

the author supplies you with a satisfying ending in the last ten pages. This is nonfiction, which means it's about real life—which means the ending hasn't been written yet. And the only one who can write it is you. So, let me ask you: How does it end?

The first step to increasing your happiness is to understand what positive psychology research has been telling us for the past fifteen years: the most significant factors in your day-to-day, moment-to-moment level of happiness are not circumstantial. They're not heredity. They're not dictated by your genes or caused by outside events. The most significant factors in your happiness are your actions. What you do every day.

So easy to do. So easy not to do.

Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined, or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

I want the world to be better because I was here. I want my life, my work, my family to mean something. If you are not making someone else's life better you are wasting your time. Your life will only become better by helping make other lives better.