Quotes About Mindset

When you first start chanting or repeating your positive affirmations, they don't make much sense. You don't feel great about them because they strongly oppose your current reality. That's the point. The affirmations should oppose your current reality. That's how change happens. Everyone feels strange about using affirmations to begin with. But if you stick to the program, the power of positive affirmations will take effect.

Being positive all the time is such a catchy idea, and it's easy to preach. I guess that's why it is popular. But life reveals itself in successions of up's and down's and if you plan to be positive all the time you will definitely fail.

Restlessness is the number one enemy of people who have just quit smoking.

The word constructive means 'carefully constructed, meant to be helpful'. Constructive thinking is therefore the process of carefully thinking or responding in a helpful and solution oriented manner.

You must make a clear distinction between your creative mode and your critical mode. The two are like water and oil, they do not mix.

Self-confidence is not a fixed way of being. People are not born with certain levels of self-confidence, it can be acquired, and it can be lost.

What is it about spirituality that doesn't resonate with our core value of being rational? What makes it so difficult for us to maintain our level-headed (and slightly jaded) mindset while being spiritual at the same time?

Life is not only measured by what happens to us. It is measured by the way in which we interpret what happens to us.

I realized that moderate amounts of stress, when directed or funneled in specific directions, could be both beneficial and practical.

My rule in relation to time management and teaching is simple: "If you're on time, you're late!" That means that if you arrive just on time to teach, you have no flexibility. In essence nothing can go wrong, and in addition to that, your mind probably won't settle until halfway through the class.

One myth that has become established in the self-development arena is that it only takes 21 days to form a new habit. This simply isn't true in all cases. Sometimes it takes a shorter time, sometimes a longer time, and sometimes old habits are so hard to break that new ones never take hold.

Self-confidence is built from the inside out and has little or nothing to do with outside circumstances.

If a person accepts that she will stumble, fall, and even be struck down every now and then, then that is a constructive view because the person will be prepared. Preparedness is not the same as fatalism.

By thinking mostly about everything that has gone wrong, is going wrong, and can possibly go wrong, the thinker is bound to end up in a lousy mental and emotional state.

Kada se gledaš u ogledalu i želiš da ga razbiješ, nije ogledalo to što treba da bude slomljeno, nego si ti taj, koji treba da se promeni. ~ Nepoznat autor ~

No debemos perder de vista nuestra idea».

he explained that elements of his behaviour in front of the media were a necessary evil: a vital cog in the psychological machinery that he used to win football matches.

Abidal explains that before he arrived at Barcelona, every time he was called into action on the pitch, as a defender he'd been taught to focus on winning the ball. As soon as he arrived at Barcelona, he was taught to think one step ahead about what he could do with it once he'd got hold of it.

No importa el tamaño del perro en la pelea sino el tamaño de la pelea en el perro

Be intent on the action, not on the fruits of action.2

Your positivity can become a castle around you which will protect you from the arrow of negativity.

Kitle, tuhaf biçimde dü?ük seviyeli bir zihniyet sergiler.

No one can be free who believes freedom is coming.

We must do the work to prove our fears groundless, otherwise it is our fears that will gain ground and our lives will be spent in their service.