Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.
Interpretation
Your greatest potential for success is often found in what you already have around you.
This quote by Brian Tracy emphasizes the importance of recognizing and leveraging the opportunities that exist in our current circumstances. It suggests that instead of constantly seeking something new or chasing external success, we should focus on the resources and opportunities available in our present job, industry, education, or personal interests to achieve our goals and unlock our potential.
In practice
In a career workshop, you might say this quote to encourage participants to evaluate their current roles.
Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.
Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.
Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed
Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.
Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'
Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. To achieve something you've never achieved before, you must become someone you've never been before.
Somethings don't always work out the way you plan. The main thing is to keep trying, do better next time, and deal with disappointment if it comes.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life.
Been working and working But I still got so terribly far to go.
That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.
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