Some of my favorite quotes and own sayings. Newest items on top.
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- It's all about the people! Know them, use their names, find out something personal and ask about it.
- The more I help other people make money, the more I grow.
- If you’re not doing as well as you’d like, there's something you don't know yet.
- All that matters is execution.
- Ask: "How can I help you?"
- “Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk.” - JC Penny
- Fastlaners are frugal with time, while Slowlaners are frugal with money.
- Saying ‘no’ to someone or something else, is saying ‘yes’ to what I want to keep my attention on.
- Choose where to place your bets, and place them.
- Set intentions for the day while in bed. And before new experiences.
- Contemplate the happy ending [to a problem], and what you contemplate will happen. Meditate on it.
- Judging a person does not define who they are, but who you are. - Wayne Dyer
- "Can I create any mischief for you that'd turn you on before we go?"
- You need to continue to evolve or you get stagnant.
- You have a question on your face?
- Customers value teach, tailor, and take charge (drive conversation).
- "I never give verbal approval."
- People love to correct. For example when asking "How long is that going to take?" at first answer may be "I have no idea!" but ask at some extremes "Like 2 hours or 5 weeks?" and you'll get a ballpark "no! like 3 days".
- Order Matters. If showing a list, always prioritize the list.
- Be owners - just do it
- Speed matters in business. - Andrew Jassy
- Be insurgent (assertive, not aggressive)
- Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling. — Bill Belichick
- Complaining is one of the ego's favorite strategies for strengthening itself. Every complaint is a little story the mind makes up that you completely believe in. - Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
- Men want fare, women want care. - Dr Roberts
- People that respect your boundaries are the people that care for you. - Kim W
- You can't do BIG THINGS in life if you are easily distracted by small things.
- The best risk mitigation is truthfulness.
- "If you adopt only one Agile practice, let it be retrospectives. Everything else will follow." - Woody Zuill
- Be selective on what you spend time on.
- Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
- "Nature is the feminine, and it exemplifies trust and abundance.” - Female Shaman
- Price is only an issue in the absence of value.
- “Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.” - Stephen Hawking
- Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill
- In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety. - Abraham Maslow
- There's no compression algorithm for experience.
- Silence is consensus.
- Confused customer's don't buy. Your job is to drive clarity.
- You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. - James Clear, Atomic Habits
- Unless I'm responding in a clear/kind/open/curious/solid way, it's my work.
- People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls. – Carl Jung
- If you think you're enlightened, go spend a week with your family. - Ram Dass
- Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible!’ ― Audrey Hepburn
- Be simple where you can be simple.
- Perception is reality at the end of the day.
- Price is only an issue in the absence of value.
- What's the easy button? What's the happy path?
- People respect extreme behavior.
- "Sometimes my boss drives me crazy, but that's his job."
- Show not tell.
- ☑️ Group Speaking from Shaun: 1/ Leave them with a feeling... They believe in you. They want to be a part of what you're saying to go do. They're excited. 2/ Leave them with soundbytes. .. Memorable things you say during the talk. Little phrases. They won't remember all the words.
- "Constructive Tension"
- "Does it make the boat go faster" (term from rowing)
- We're going to fail. It's going to be hard. Going to have a lot of friction. "I'm prepared for that friction, and I'm preparing you."
- "Do we need _____? It's a provokative question."
- It's a goal. It's meant to be hard to achieve.
- Co-ownership is No-ownership.
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via Ben Meer (@SystemSunday)
- To solve an issue quickly, be soft on the person and hard on the problem.
- Pretend everyone was sent to teach you something.
- Pause in speaking + eye contact = confidence.
- Make people feel important with the SHR Method: Seen, Heard, Remembered.
- A person's favorite sound is their name, so remember it (h/t Dale Carnegie).
- "Praise publicly. Criticize privately." —Warren Buffett
- To give feedback, first make the other person feel you care about them.
- "Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments." — Neil Strauss
- The best networking strategy is a helping others first strategy.
- Loneliness is a silent pandemic; assume people want to meet you.
- Practice going first, e.g., "Hi, I'm Ben."
- Build the habit of responding with "Yes, and" because it advances their idea.
- Avoid complaining or gossiping (nobody likes to hear it).
- Storytelling is a superpower; use a structure like setup, tension, & resolution.
- Every dog has its day because dogs are friendly (lesson in there).
- "The quality of your relationships determines the quality of your life." — E. Perel
- To discover blindspots, build an inner circle that will give you honest feedback.
- Normalize "I don't know anything about that yet" as a successful answer.
- Record and study your speaking like an athlete watching game film.
- "Great leaders create more leaders, not followers." — Roy T. Bennett
- Steps: 1/ I can’t, 2/ He can, 3/ I think I’ll let him
- Your sanity always has an appointment.
- You may be right.
- Hmm, that’s interesting. Let me think about it.
- That’s an interesting point of view.
- Thanks for sharing your opinion, that means a lot.
- When I got busy I got better.
- The family that prays together sticks together.
- Every place I’m wanting to control … is an emotion I’m not wanting to feel, anger, heartbreak, or fear.
- Owning the obsession of the mind.
- What can I give?
- How can I be of service?
- Turn it over to God.
- Step3 3: our will' (versus 'God's will'), in the programme, really means self-will, i.e. the will borne of ego. Our 'true will' is buried inside us and is aligned with God's will. The programme is about trying to move away from self-will and towards God's will, which is our true will. To make this distinction clear, let's use the term self-will to describe what we are trying to move away from.
- I don’t know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.
- Easy does it.
- One day at a time.
- Listen and learn.
- First things first.
- Live and let live.
- Let it begin with me.
- How important is it?
- Keep it simple.
- Think think think.
- If you're not ready to let go, get ready to be dragged.
- 3 Cs: You did not Cause it, you can't Control it, you can't Cure it.
- One Day at a Time (ODAAT).
- Let there be no criticism among you.
- It works if you work it.
- When we come into spiritual alignment, common sense becomes uncommon sense.
- To establish and maintain this new order of things.
- Fear is when self-reliance fails us.
- If it's hysterical, it's historical.
- There are no victims, only volunteers.
- Take what works for you, and leave the rest behind.
- “It’s only when I let go and trust the inner voice that quietly nudges me in the direction of my Higher Power’s choosing that my life becomes fulfilling.“ - Courage to Change, September 25
- Think of it as you're running a business. You have a portfolio of products to offer. Always be thinking "I'm a CEO. How am I going to run this business?". You have to reach out and connect. Pick places and place bets. Always look and think around the corner. "I have 30min free, I'm going to reach out to someone and pitch them something." Make the connections, so you become first recall in their mind. You've got to create those relationships! Got to market yourself! Create your brand. - Neelesh Raheja
- Ruthlessly prioritize your time. Don't be afraid to say no, or make hard choices where NOT to spend time. Avoid the people pleaser fallacy. - Shaun Collet
- You are freer than you think you are.
- I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter.
- The closer you are to alignment with what you want the calmer it feels. - Abraham Hicks
- "Inhabit the beauty that lives in your beastly body and strive to see the beauty in all the other beasts."
- If it's dirty kinky naughty messy or just plain wrong … I want it.
- Don’t change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love you.
- We don’t appreciate negative vibes around here. Move along.
- I'm not a perfect person. I make a lot of mistakes. But I really appreciate those people who stay with me after knowing how I really am.
- Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it. -Ellen Goodman
- Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again. - Alex Tan
- The heart with continued expansion needs to break open regularly. Release and start again, new and bigger. The heart needs essentially to go into climax in order to purify out old hurts & pump in new fresh blood. - Nicole Daedone
- Sorry to all my friends and family members who didn't know I was a freak until they saw my likes and shares on Facebook.
- You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. - Winston Churchill
- A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.
- Beating yourself up is never a fair fight.
- The fastest way to kill something special, is to compare it to something else.
- Thoughts create reality.
- Meditate, Visualize and Create your own reality and the universe will simply reflect back to you. - Amit Ray
- Whatever the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve. - Dr. Napoleon Hill
- I wanna feel you... I wanna taste you... I wanna fuck you... just like an animal!
- Ways I opt out: forgetting who I am, thinking I can’t handle it, forgetting my soul asked for this, blaming others for my feelings, picking the bitch up, trying too hard, proving why I am right determined to win the argument, rescuing others, correcting others, speaking too loud or too fast …. Ways I opt back in: remembering, committing deeply, remembering my soul asked for this, just feel, slow down, don’t pickup the bitch, listen / rest / allow / listen, be curious, take responsibility, asking for what I want, focussing on gratitude, saying I’m scared.
- Life’s toughest storms prove the strength of our anchors.
- We create by consciously directing our focus on: What we think, How we act, How we feel, What we believe, What we visualize, What we read, What we talk about, What we listen to, What we express in any manner at all.
- New Beginnings January 20: Resentments are the blocks that hold us back from loving ourselves and others. Resentments do not punish the other person, they punish us. They become barriers to feeling good and enjoying life. They prevent us from being in harmony with the world. Resentments are hardened chunks of anger. They loosen up and dissolve with forgiveness and letting go. Letting go of resentments does not mean we allow the other person to do anything to us that he or she wants. It means we accept what happened in the past, and we set boundaries for the future. We can let go of resentments and still have boundaries! We try to see the good in the person, or the good that ultimately evolved from whatever incident we feel resentful about. We try to see our part. Then we put the incident to rest. Praying for those we resent helps. Asking God to take our resentments from us helps too. What better way to begin a new year than by cleaning the slate of the past, and entering this one free of resentments. Higher Power, help me become ready to let go of my resentments. Bring any resentments that are hidden within me, and blocking me, to the surface. Show me what I need to do to take care of myself by letting go of resentments, and then help me do that.
- 🥹 Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. - Rumi
- When you are willing to feel it, you can heal it.
- If the you of five years ago doesn't consider the you of today a heretic, you are not growing spiritually. - Thomas Merton
- Oh Lover of my Soul and Keeper of my Spirit, none can separate us, for we are One. - Ernest Holmes
- Effective Prayer Techniques: As you recite your prayers, let the impressions and feelings of the words sink into your deeper mind until your are possessed by their truth. As you continue this process, you will feel a great sense of inner release, like a cleansing of the soul. You will feel at peace and be relaxed, and you'll have a feeling that you are secreting the healing power from the depths of yourself that will bring about a perfect, harmonious solution to the desire you seek to resolve. That's when you'll know that your prayer is being answered. - Ernest Holmes
- F.E.A.R. has two meanings - Forget Everything And Run - OR - Face Everything And Rise - The choice is yours.
- It's easy to take off all your clothes and have sex. People do it all the time. But opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams.. Now that's being naked.
- I prefer the company of people who are believers in magic … and of magical people who are believers in happy.