Quotes About Mindset

The three decisions that control your destiny are: 1. Your decisions about what to focus on. 2. Your decisions about what things mean to you. 3. Your decisions about what to do to create the results you desire.

that people who produce outstanding results think this way.

Which do you tend to focus on more—what you have or what's missing from your life?

Do you tend to focus more on what you can control or what you can't control?

Remember, don't drive into the past using your rear-view mirror as a guide. You want to learn from your past, not live in it—focus on the things that empower you.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

The mystic poet William Blake once wrote, "The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.

How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life—it is your interpretation of what is happening.

Whatever you focus on—whatever you tune in to—you will feel more intensely. So if you don't like what you're doing, maybe it's time to change the channel.

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in your life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.

If you want to look for obstacles, what's wrong is always available. But so is what's right!

The most powerful and effective managers, coaches, parents, and motivators are those who can represent the circumstances of life to themselves and to others in a way that signals success to the nervous system in spite of seemingly hopeless external stimuli.

Life is always happening for you, not to you. Appreciate that gift, and you are wealthy, now and forever.

the quality of my life was the quality of my questions.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. —MAHATMA GANDHI

So live in an attitude of positive expectancy, knowing that everything that happens in your life benefits you in some way.

Belief in limits creates limited people.

Man is what be believes." —Anton Chekhov

as long as we structure our lives in a way where our happiness is dependent upon something we cannot control, then we will experience pain.

I don't worry about maintaining the quality of my life, because every day I work on improving it.

I will tell you, though, if you won't give a dime out of a dollar, you won't give $1 million out of $10 million. The time to give is now! When I had nothing, I began this process. The reward is that if you give, even at the times when you think you have very little, you'll teach your brain that there is more than enough. You can leave scarcity behind and move toward a world of abundance.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't life controls you.

it's not our references, but our interpretations of them, the way we organize them—that clearly determine our beliefs.