Surround yourself with people who add the fuel of advice and encouragement to your fire.
Interpretation
Choose friends and companions who support and inspire you.
This quote emphasizes the importance of surrounding oneself with positive influences. It suggests that the people we associate with can greatly affect our drive and passion in life, and thus, we should seek out those who provide encouragement and constructive advice to help us thrive.
In practice
During a motivational workshop, this quote can inspire individuals to evaluate their social circles.
Debt is so ingrained into our culture that most Americans can't even envision a car without a payment ... a house without a mortgage ... a student without a loan ... and credit without a card. We've been sold debt with such repetition and with such fervor that most folks can't conceive of what it would be like to have NO payments.
The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.
Debt collectors like to play on your emotions because they think you'll give in and do something you can't really afford to do. Most of them don't care about you or your situation as long as they get some money.
Hitting bottom and hitting it hard was the worst thing that ever happened to me and the best thing that ever happened to me.
Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money.
You have to teach children about money intentionally - create teachable moments.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in life. It gives you vision. But you can't acquire it if you're afraid of keeping score.
Encourage one another. Many times a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept people on their feet.
Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!
That's what it's all about. It doesn't matter if you climbed the Eiger's north face in two hours and forty-seven minutes or in two days. If it's your challenge, and you're happy with it, that's the most important thing.
This morning did you wake up to an alarm clock or an opportunity clock?
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