Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed
Interpretation
Writing down your goals daily helps reinforce your desire and commitment to achieving them.
This quote emphasizes the importance of visualizing and framing your goals in a way that makes them feel immediate and attainable. By rewriting your goals in the present tense, you create a mental image of success that can motivate you to take actionable steps towards achieving those objectives.
In practice
During a motivational speech, to encourage the audience to take charge of their dreams.
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.
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.
Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.
Don't even wait until you've lost a pound. The minute you can push the plate away with food still on it, give yourself a pat on the back.
My whole life, people have doubted me. My mom did. People told me in high school I'm too short and not fast enough to play basketball. They didn't know my story. Because if they did, they'd know that anything is possible.
In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning.
You are already that which you want to be, and your refusal to believe this is the only reason you do not see it.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.
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