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“Here’s to the crazy ones — the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things. They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.” (This quote was actually a part of Apple's 'Think Differently' campaign, crafted by both Steve Jobs and the masterful creative team at TBWA/Chiat/Day.)

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NEW THINKING NEW POSSIBILITIES Unleashing the winning the mindset

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Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture are taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. The international copyright of this work vests with the author, Arthur Marara, Harare, Zimbabwe. +263 772 467 255, +263 772304449. Copyright © 2018 by Arthur Marara. The legal and moral right of Arthur Marara to be acknowledged as the writer of this work has been asserted by him personally. The use of short quotations is permitted and encouraged. Permission will be granted upon request. ISBN: 978-0-7974-5787-4 NEW THINKING, NEW POSSIBILITIES Email:greatnessclinic@gmail.com Website: www.arthurmarara.org Published by: Greatness Clinic Publications TO INVITE THE AUTHOR TO SPEAK TO YOUR ORGANISATION OR FUNCTION, KINDLY USE THE DETAILS PROVIDED ABOVE. 4

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Soli Gloria! Deo God alone deserves the glory

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For Every dreamer reading this book, do not give up on your dreams. and Tariro “Mai Judah” and Iyati – amazing friends, with amazing love. Thank you for being a blessing to my life.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Arthur Marara is an attorney, author and a transformational speaker. Arthur is also the Founder and Chairperson of The Greatness Clinic Trust, a non-profit making organisation whose purpose is to mentor and inspire people throughout the country. Having been orphaned at an age of 13, Arthur rose to become a lawyer, and inspired his whole family. Now, Arthur has made it his business to raise other people 7

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especially underprivileged communities through inspirational and personal development talks. He has written articles for The Sunday Mail (Business: Motivation for Success), The Business Herald, The Zimbabwe Mail (Daily Inspiration), Masvingo Star (Effective Living), Masvingo Mirror, The News leader, The Mail, The Manica Post, The Courier, Testimonies Magazine, Business Connect and several magazines. The Sunday Mail and the other publications enabled him to speak to millions of people weekly. His articles have also been distributed on the internet. Arthur has also appeared on several radio stations in Zimbabwe, including Star FM (Shot in the Arm), SFM, Radio Zimbabwe, Power FM, Radio VOP, Capitalk FM, Ya FM, and ZiFM with his motivational sessions, and has also appeared on Zimbabwe Television. These platforms have also enabled him to reach out to millions of people in

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He has spoken extensively to several companies, organisations, churches, schools, universities, colleges and individual gatherings. He is also the author of the published Motivational book, “Personal Development Toolkit” which has been internationally endorsed and contains fundamental principles on Personal Development and Growth. He has also written Keys to Effective Time Management, The Power Within and Keys to Financial Freedom. He has also written Seven (7) “A” Level study guides which have been approved by the Ministry of Education, Sport, Arts and Culture for use in all schools in Zimbabwe.  

“A” Level Divinity: The Old Testament through Questions and Answers “A” Level Divinity: The Four Gospels through Questions and Answers

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“A” Level Divinity: The Apostolic Age through Questions and Answers “A” Level History: History of Europe (17891964) through Questions and Answers “A” Level History: The History of Tropical Africa (1855-1914) through Questions and Answers History of Zimbabwe through Questions and Answers (Volume 1) Keys to Academic Excellence (Motivational book)

These books have been commended for capturing and assessment of issues in a simplistic manner. In 2012, he was ranked number 39 and number 36 in 2013, 30 in 2014, and number 26 in 2015, and 20 in 2016, and 2017 out of 100 most influential persons under the age of 40 in Zimbabwe. In 2014, he was awarded the Outstanding Young Person in the field of education by Junior Chamber International for his outstanding work in education in Zimbabwe. 10

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Arthur speaks on a variety of topics which can add value to his audience. He is however available to speak on any topic which may suit a clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s particular needs. Some of the topics that he speaks on include; - Team Work and Team Building - Strategic Thinking and Strategic Planning - Effective Time Management - Emotional Intelligence - Personal Financial planning â&#x20AC;&#x201C; (Finding Financial Freedom) - Customer Service Excellence - Confidence and Assertiveness skills - Effective Communication skills - Stress Prevention & Management - Goal setting - Personal effectiveness - Inspired public speaking & presentations

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- Effective Keys to Personal Development and Growth - Entrepreneurship - Wealth Creation and Preservation - Estate Planning

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Contents Dedication………………………………………………….. Personal Statement from the author …………… Gratitude ………….……………………………………….. Success is a choice………….…………………………… You are what you think………….…………………….. Think different ………….……………………………… Think disruption ………….…………………………… Challenge tradition ………….………………………… Think quality associations ………….………………… Start with the right mental attitude ………….…… Think possibility………….……………………………… Inspirational thoughts for the journey………….… 13

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Personal Statement from the Author “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain

he above immortal words said by the most quoted of persons, Mark Twain, remain true to my life. I have discovered my passion and purpose in life; to inspire people to greatness. One day as I was going through some of the pictures in my phone, I saw one statement that has become my summary and signature, “I want to inspire people, I want someone to look at me and say, “Because of you, I didn’t give up.” I remember reading the statement over and over again, and ever since that day that has become my signature statement. 15

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Why burden you with all this, it explains to you, why I am writing this book. I am writing this book because I believe in your greatness. I believe you can turn around your life. The date is 31st December 2017, as I am writing this book, and within a few hours from now the year will be 2018. I am writing this book to help you start your 2018, and also to have this as a handbook not just in 2018, but in your life. 2018 will not be there for long, but the principles that I share in this book will be. I am a lawyer by profession that is what I went to school to do for four years. At no point in time, did I ever realise that I could actually be able to write books that will be read globally. I just knew I had a passion to write books. Everything seemed to point to 16

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the fact that I could not amount to anything of serious in life. I have a “U” in Mathematics at “O” Level. “U” simply means “ungraded”. I have a “C” in English at “O” Level, “C” in “A” Level English, 3rd Class in University Communication skills. I was not a confident person, and could not even speak before a big audience. If someone was to ask me then whether I was going to be able to do what I am doing now I was going to tell them no. There was a turning point in my life, the moment I realised that I have serious potential, and that I could pursue my dreams. I have written seven (7) books which are being used in all schools in Zimbabwe, and several more inspirational books. I have spoken to thousands of people in live 17

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audiences, public and private radio stations. I have appeared on television countless times. I have contributed articles to dozens of newspapers. What changed my life was new thinking, and that gave birth to new possibilities hence the title for this book, “New Thinking, New Possibilities”. I had to change the way I thought about myself. I had to take the step of faith to open my mouth and speak to one person, take the step of faith, and start writing what I termed a “book” on rough pieces of paper, and then an exercise book, and even a step of faith more and type the script. The rest of the story is history. If I had maintained the thinking that I could not do it, I was going to miss an opportunity to live my dreams, and impact the lives of 18

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other people. I want you to embrace new thinking in order for you to experience new possibilities. You cannot change your life, until you change the quality of your thoughts. This is my challenge to you as we are starting the year 2018, and even as you are going to engage yourself into any other project. Change your thoughts, change your life. It is my deepest hope that this book will speak to you, and challenge you to take action in the various areas of your life, business. You can change your life, you can make things happen, you can challenge your limitations, and make things happen, you are the one and not anyone else to do it. I want to invite you to be part of my 2018 Master Class where I will be teaching you 19

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the fundamentals of success and helping you track your goals this year. See the details of how you can be part of the Class on the next page. I remain committed to your greatness!

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HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE MASTER CLASS 2018 It would be GREAT having you participating in the ARTHUR MARARA SUCCESS MASTERCLASS 2018. Subscription is simple 1. $1.00 per/month. Send your ECOCASH payment to +263 772 467 255. Why the $1.00? I have discovered in my years of speaking and coaching that what is FREE is often not valued. It is a test of commitment. 2. Send your name and surname to +263 772 467 255 with the proof of payment so that we can save your contact to our broadcast/mailing list. 3. You will be receiving Daily Inspirational messages and other personal development material throughout the year. 4. We will be reviewing our progress monthly and checking where we are. 5. You will also be notified of the workshops that we will be conducting throughout the year so that you do not lose the momentum. Committed to your breakthrough!

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Gratitude

would like to acknowledge several people who have had a profound effect on my life. I might not be able to single out everyone in this book. I have written others in my previous works; Isaac Nyathi â&#x20AC;&#x201C; for being patient with me and inspiring me in my early days of radio. I look back and see that I am a product of this manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work in the studio when we were prerecording shows, and eventually when I started doing live shows.

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Tariro “Mai Judah” and Iyati – two ladies with infectious smiles for believing in me and creating a platform upon which I could share my passion and inspire millions of people. Jonah Mungoshi – for introducing me to the wonderful team at Star FM, and a whole world of new possibilities. My family – I am blessed to have an amazing and supporting family. All my speaker friends – I cannot write all your names, lest I forget writing other names. Keep touching lives. This book is to the new possibilities that await all of us.

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SUCCESS IS A CHOICE Success is not for a chosen few, it is for a few who choose

have been speaking, mentoring and training people for a few years now. I do not come for a wealthy background, all that I have today I have worked for. I have always shared my story wherever I speak. The reason for this is to challenge you, and whoever might be in the situation I was in some years ago to rise and pursue your passion, and dream. I discovered a passion in me to inspire, and motivate people, but how was I going to do it, or even make 24

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meaningful impact in my nation? One of the decisions that I made which I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t regret today, is I committed myself to studying successful people, and the principles that they lived with. There is one fundamental discovery that I have come to understand and live with from my years of studying successful people, speaking and teaching on the subject, that what makes or breaks us are the CHOICES that we make in life. Success is a choice This is the one thing many people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to hear. The truth is success is a choice, and so is failure. No one is broke by accident, you are broke by choice. Painful truth! No one is successful by accident, you are successful by choice. Decision making is very important. You are where you are in life 25

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because of the quality of choices that you made. Choices can make you just as much as they can break you. Excellence is a choice, and so is mediocrity. Personal Development is a choice, and so is stagnation. Justifying mediocrity is a choice, and so is challenging and defying it. What choices have you made so far? Where have they taken you? If you want your life to change, change your choices. If you want to see where your life is going, look at the quality of choices you are making every day.

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CHAPTER 1 YOU ARE WHAT YOU THINK “For as he thinks in his heart” – Proverbs 23:7

ou cannot change your life until you change thoughts. You are your thoughts. There is nothing as powerful as a person with a changed mindset. Everything starts in the mind. Every big business starts in the mind. Every invention starts in the mind. Every financial breakthrough starts in the mind. Your mind is powerful, it can create and it can destroy. You can change your clothes, your name, your address, your mobile phone, but if you 27

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do not change your thoughts, you will still be in the same place. What do you think? What are you thinking about yourself? You are what you think! My story Earlier on I told you my story of how I managed to challenge my limitations. The key is I decided to challenge my belief systems, I decided to change what I thought of myself. My surname, “Marara” means “litter, rubbish, garbage, excretions” and many unpleasant synonyms. Some of my teachers had the audacity to say I was my surname “uri marara emunhu”. I vividly recall the name of the lady who was teaching me who used to say that. I will not favour you with the name of the person. Today

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wherever she is, she cannot open her mouth and repeat such utterances. What is my point? What affects you in life is not what people say about you, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what you say about yourself. What affects you in life is not what people think about you, it is what you think of yourself. You are what you think. In the case of my former teacher, her words could only have effect on me the moment I allowed them to be the truth of my life. I wish I knew this when I was that age. I have learnt to ignore my limitations, and focus on what I want. Words may have been spoken against you, remember you have the power to allow the words to have an effect on you.

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What are you thinking? “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.” These are the words of industrialist, Henry Ford, and I do agree with him. What do you think when you look at yourself in the mirror. Do you see a person waiting to die or do you see a person about to make history? Do you see an oxygen thief or God’s finest creation? The Banister Effect There was a belief for several decades that it was impossible to run a mile in four minutes. This was not to be so for long, as on May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four minute mile in 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds. Two months later, Roger Bannister again ran a sub-four minute mile, this time with John Landy running a sub30

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four minute mile with him. A four-minute mile is now a standard for distance runners. The limitation was in peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thinking. This is what we are faced with in life approved theories of what is doable and what is not. We end up being prisoners of our thoughts. The fact that something is difficult does not mean that it is impossible. You can do what is easy, and be like everyone, but you can attempt the impossible and do the unforgettable.

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CHAPTER 2 THINK DIFFERENT

f you want to be significant, you have to be different. You cannot afford to think what everyone is thinking, and expect to be different. Common thinking gives you common results, uncommon thinking gives you uncommon results. This is the problem; many people want the familiar because there is security. There is no criticism in familiarity. There is no risk of serious loss in familiarity. If you want to change your life you need to be prepared to think and do things differently. 32

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Apple Nugget “Here’s to the crazy ones — the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things. They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones, who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.” These words date back to the 1997 in an advertisement which was created for Apple Computer Inc under the title “Think Different”. Apple was faced with serious competition from companies like IBM 33

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which was termed, “Big Brother”. Even in the midst of serious challenges, Apple was able to stand up and stand out confidently with an intention to change the world. Steve Job’s dream was a computer in every home, and his dream has literally come true. Apple’s Think Different advertisement still carries fundamental truths and challenges all of us to think differently. We cannot doubt the fact that even after his death; Steve Jobs will always be part of the lives of people. Great people do not die, they live beyond the grave. The secret behind Job’s success, he was prepared to go against the grain, and experiment with his fantasies. A company which started in a home garage has grown to be a worldwide phenomenon which has changed the look of personal computing in 34

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the world today. The secret was simple, new thinking, and thinking differently.

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CHAPTER 3 THINK DISRUPTION

ou cannot think like everyone else and expect to be different. Do not be bound by the common way of thinking. Step out of the common and do the uncommon. If you think in a common way you will reap a common harvest, if you think in an uncommon way you will reap an uncommon harvest. Great people look at the same situation like everyone else and see opportunities. Think disruptive innovation, and make history. 36

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I will share with you some interesting thoughts that were uttered some decades ago. I do not know if the authors of these statements were still alive today, whether they would still associate themselves with their utterances; - “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” - Commissioner US Patent Office, 1899. - “The telephone has too many shortcomings to be a means of communication” – Executive from the World’s leading Telegraphic Company – 1876

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- “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers” – IBM Chairman 1943 - “Guitar Music is on the way out” – Record Executive who rejected the Beatles 1962 The people who uttered these sentiments were thoroughly confident about what they were saying. Little however did they know that they were thoroughly wrong as well. The world is witness to how guilty their conclusions were. Do not be guided by generational thinking that is not progressive in nature, think outside the norm. Refuse to accept the status quo; challenge your thoughts to provoke solutions to problems. Remember, the quality of problems you 38

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solve determines the quality of reward you receive. We have always been told to think outside of the box, but sometimes what we need to do is to think as if there is no box. Choose to be innovative I am going to sound hard, or you may want to say I am being rude, but this is the only way that I can see real transformation taking place in your life. Great people are great innovators. They are always looking for opportunities for change and improvement. They are always challenging themselves to be better, and by extension how they can make life better for others. How innovative are you as a person? What is the new thing that you have developed for your business or your workplace if you are an employee?

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The future belongs to innovators Do you know that you do not need capital to think? The world recognises innovators. I often hear people say I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t start a business because I do not have capital. You do not need capital to start a business; you need an idea to start a business. Facebook was started by someone who did not have capital. Whatsapp was started by someone who did not have capital. In fact Whatsapp was started by a person who had been declined employment by Facebook and Twitter. The people who have made it in business simply had innovative ideas they pursued confidently. Thomas Bata set out to put a shoe on every person on planet earth, and his idea gave birth to the family business, The Bata Shoe Company in Czechoslovakia. Boyd Dunlop irritated by the noise from the 40

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steel wheels set out to come up with a solution that would change the world even today, pneumatic tyres. This became the birth of Dunlop Tyre Company which lived beyond him. Truth about innovation R. Buckminster Fuller summarises the truth about change and innovation, “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” This is so true, do not fight anyone! I have seen businesses fight other businesses; I have seen people fight other people! What a waste! True, it’s a waste of time, and a waste of life. Do not invest your energy in fighting competition. In fact competition is not actually your problem. The solution has 41

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been prescribed above; “To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” This is the truth that business needs to run with, and also as individuals, need to embrace. It’s very possible to be rendered obsolete. If you are not developing yourself you will be made obsolete. If I may rub it in, you can be absolutely obsolete if you do not develop yourself. I want to illustrate this point using the R. Buckminster Fuller quote, and a few examples. VCRs – growing up it used to be a sign of status to own a Video Cassette Recorder, not to mention a colour television. I remember my family owning one at a later stage in life. Little before we enjoyed the ‘new’ status, there was already a new model 42

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rendering a VCR obsolete and you know what the model was, “Digital Video Decoder” (DVD) which would play Digital Versatile Discs. No one condemned the VCR; they simply developed a model which rendered a VCR obsolete. PEGEUOT “emergency” taxis – I was still a ‘baby’ when these were being used in Harare as taxis or public transport. You might have used these in the 1990s where people would be squashed inside, and be dropped at the various places. A few years later, “kombis” came, and sooner the Peugeots disappeared. Why? Someone developed a model which made them obsolete. The kombis themselves have been threatened significantly by the “Funcargo” and “honda fit” of the “mushikashika” fame. Though I do not use 43

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this mode of transport now, but my brief study of these people inspired a reality of creating a model which renders an existing one obsolete. I grew up in Masvingo and ordinarily I would have some serious connections. I was told an interesting thing that kombis in Masvingo had actually been kicked out of business by the mushikashika guys who use Funcargos and Honda Fits. The true solution to mushikashika is not actually fighting them; but to develop a model which renders mushikashika obsolete. The mobile phone â&#x20AC;&#x201C; there was a time having a landline on your home was a sign of success. I recall having to sweat to secure a landline for our home in Masvingo, but this was to be history with the coming in of the mobile phone. Now everyone can easily 44

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communicate with ease, and with almost everyone. This became a serious challenge to Telone which for years had enjoyed the monopoly. Today Telone has come up with some very innovative products, and has pushed hard so that many homes are connected, and also have access to the internet. I really enjoyed the billboards which Telone was putting in Harare digging into or responding to a competitor. That simply serves a point, if you are not careful someone will develop a model which will render you obsolete. Econet has threatened several companies even in fields which have nothing to do with communication. It shook banks with the creation of ECOCASH. People can easily transact on their phones, transfer, receive 45

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money, and make payments and recently tollgates. The tradition was one could only do these things when they go into a bank and fill in some forms. Telecel and Netone have similar solutions. The airtime vendor will soon be in trouble as people can easily get their airtime on their phones. ZOL transformed the field of internet, and connectivity, and has been so aggressive in connecting several homes. Internet is not a luxury itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a necessity. When I moved to the place I am staying, I discovered that they had actually installed their cables even in areas where there were no houses. What was the strategy? They made their presence felt ahead of their competitors, and you have an idea what happens if someone wants an internet service provider in the area. Why donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we master the importance of speed and 46

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precision in service delivery? Kwese TV has given a serious challenge to DSTV which for years has enjoyed serious dominance in the world of pay-tv in Zimbabwe. This is what business needs, new and innovative solutions. Insurance firms have now been threatened by mobile telecommunications companies which are now venturing into insurance building on their existing customer base. I was watching a documentary about Elon Musk the CEO of Tesla, and SpaceX who wants to launch over 3000 satellites so that everyone in the world can access internet for free. Facebook even had such talk at some point in time. They want to ensure that internet is free to everyone. Their model if successful will greatly affect those people 47

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who make money from providing internet only. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wait and see. Business at times is about driving other people out of business. Look at this statement and you will see how true it is. How many companies closed with the coming in of iTunes? Several, CDs became obsolete in other parts of the world with people preferring digital downloads. This is the reason why we do not need worry about CD pirates in Zimbabwe; letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s develop models which render piracy obsolete. No one will ever buy from a CD pirate again. Do you want to be an effective entrepreneur? Develop effective models that render existing ones obsolete. People complain so much about DSTV and the costs. The solution is simple; develop a model that 48

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renders it obsolete (that is if you can do that). Do not complain about a competitor who seems to have all the market, yet with an average product, develop a model which renders their model obsolete. Entrepreneurs are constantly looking for solutions. Stop complaining start developing models. What are you going to innovate?

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CHAPTER 4 CHALLENGE TRADITION

reatness makes no room for people with respect to tradition. People who have made history are the people who were prepared to face the challenges and the criticism in order to do the unforgettable. There are people who will always hold non-progressive views and will always look for opportunities to crush innovation. People who are accustomed to the normal will never have a date with the abnormal. At one point in time it was 50

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termed abnormal to transmit voices without wires, it was abnormal to fly and soar like eagles. There are people who even invested their resources just to demonstrate that that there is nothing that can be invented. There are several things that may have become normal in your business, and you may have embraced it as a reality. What you embrace becomes a part of you. What has been said about you? Do you believe it? The story of George Dantzig You may not know of this gentleman, but I will unpack his story for you. George had a well documented record of late coming for class every day during his college days. Consistent with his behaviour he walked into class and saw some two mathematical problems which were written on the 51

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chalkboard. Without talking to anybody, he simply copied the problems and went back to his room where he started working on them. He finished the first mathematical problem, and moved on to the next one. He discovered that the second problem was not his usual mathematical problem and realised that he just need a bit more time to work on it. Within three days, he managed to finish the second problem, and he submitted his assignment. To compound the matters he was also late with his assignment. After submitting his assignment, he got a call from his Professor who seemed a bit shaken. George was apprehensive, as he thought he may have performed dismally in the assignments and the Professor was calling to caution him. The Professor told George, â&#x20AC;&#x153;DO you know what you just did? The 52

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second question that you answered was not an assignment. This is an equation which has vexed mathematicians ever since the time of Albert Einstein.â&#x20AC;? History was made, a problem which had been in existence for years, was solved in three days. Interesting! What was the secret behind George Dantzigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success? Ignorance of the history of the problem was his secret. Everyone who was in class when the Professor was delivering the lecture about the famous mathematical problem never attempted to write it. In fact those who wrote it down simply did so because they wanted to share the story, and not find a solution. George who was not in class was not conditioned on the difficulties of the problem. He was never told about the history of the problem, and 53

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when he attempted the problem, he treated it as a normal homework problem and with that mindset, he made history. You too can do so, choose to ignore the stories that are often told about the challenges that face the economy, and choose to focus on solutions.

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CHAPTER 5 THINK QUALITY ASSOCIATIONS

ho is in your life, and what are they speaking? I can best guarantee you that if Dantzig was in class that day, he would not have made history. Fear was instilled in all the people who attended the lecture. Who is speaking in your life right now? What are they speaking into your life. There are people who are really good at inspiring fear in you. They can tell you every reason why you cannot achieve your dreams. Sometimes, you do not need to hear a thousand reasons 55

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why you cannot do it; you just need one good reason why you can. Surround yourself with people who challenge your thinking, and stretch you to greater limits. People who do not stretch you shrink you. I once wrote in my Personal Development book, that, “It is better to have no friends at all than to have a thousand friends who do not add any value to you.” Evaluate your associations “Good company and good discourse are the sinews of virtue” [Izaak Walton]. It is better to have no friends at all than to have a thousand friends who do not add value to you. Our success in life is also dependent on the associations that we create and sustain in life. Associations can either build you or destroy you. Certain business started because 56

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of associations, other businesses were liquidated because of associations. Other people destroyed their marriages because of the associations they created or became part of. The instances are many. Evaluation is a critical component of assessing where you are going with your life. Interrogate your choice of friends. You can do this by asking yourself some common sense questions. Fortunately, Jim Rohn put across the questions in an interesting way, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask 57

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yourself the big question: is that okay?â&#x20AC;? Great people understand the importance and power of healthy associations. A number of parents are always particular about the people who are around their children. This is because they know that a child can have alien behaviour which they never had before merely because of association. This is still the same for adults, associations can affect you; positively or negatively. The story of four lepers A story is often told about four leprous men in Ancient Israel. Eugene Peterson puts it in an interesting way; â&#x20AC;&#x153;It happened that four lepers were sitting just outside the city gate. They said to one another, "What are we doing sitting here at death's door? If we 58

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enter the famine-struck city we'll die; if we stay here we'll die. So let's take our chances in the camp of Aram and throw ourselves on their mercy. If they receive us we'll live, if they kill us we'll die. We've got nothing to lose."â&#x20AC;?(MSG) (2 Kings 7:3-4). Leprosy then was considered a curse and those who were affected by it were treated as outcasts. Four people found themselves in this scenario, a friendship ensued, but it later birthed inspirational actions because of what they decided to do. In particular, they opened their minds. Have friends who desire better things Desist from associations that tolerate mediocrity. The greatest impediment to a better tomorrow is the satisfaction of today. People who are contended with the status 59

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quo will never hunger for change in their life. The four lepers became sick and tired of the status quo and made a decision to challenge it, “"Why are we sitting here until we die?” (NKJV) (2 Kings 7:3). If you circle yourself with people who do not feel the need for development in their own lives, they will never inspire you to develop your own life. If you hang around four broke people, you will be number five. “We acquire the characteristics of the people we associate with on a steady basis.” [Zig Ziglar].The four lepers were able to realise the need to take action in order to change the course of their lives. They were not afraid to take action, and they were ready to take risks. Why not surround yourself with people who inspire you to take positive risks? 60

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Surround yourself with people who add value to you â&#x20AC;&#x153;Surround yourself with people of like mind and different talents and temperaments with the purpose of serving the goals of every member of the group. Associate with these people on a regular basisâ&#x20AC;? (Jeff Olson). People, who do not add value to you, take away value from you. What are you learning from the people who are in your circles? How better is your knowledge about business, by interacting with the people you are interacting with? This question can be extended to any area of your life. You can never succeed in your marriage if you surround yourself with people who have no respect marriage, you can never love your spouse if you surround yourself with people who do not value their spouses. Have people 61

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in your circle who value what you value and respect what you respect. Do not be tolerant and patient with any relationship that is not taking you anywhere. Take a bold step in your life and leave certain people. “The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve. An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people” (Unknown). Sometimes in life, subtraction is as healthy as multiplication. What value are you friends adding to you? Surround yourself with people who believe in you “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, 62

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too, can become great” (Mark Twain). A number of ideas died and continue to die at the hands of friends who chose not to believe their friends’ dreams. Life is too short to spend it with the “wrong” people. You do not need people who tolerate you, you need people who celebrate you. One of the constant source of discouragement in life is people who are close to us, and we sometimes call friends. Be careful who you allow to hear your dreams, it is not everyone who cares about it. Go to people who can help you think, and stretch your idea, and help you find ways of making it come true. Have people who give you constructive criticism “The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to 63

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you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.â&#x20AC;? [George Bernard Shaw]. Great friends are not afraid to tell you the truth; they love you so much that they make your success their own. The challenge today is that we have friends who celebrate their friends to destruction. A number of people have been celebrated for their adulterous escapades rather than be corrected. There are some people who are even celebrated by their friends for their corrupt behaviour and none of them is prepared to correct them. You need friendships that value the truth rather than feelings. In the long run, it is the truth that will protect your feelings. Be prepared to listen to positive criticism and not just praises. Norman Vincent Pearle once noted that a lot of people prefer to be 64

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ruined by praise rather than preserved by criticism. Let me close with a thought which you can ponder upon, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.â&#x20AC;? [George Washington]

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CHAPTER 6 START WITH THE RIGHT MENTAL ATTITUDE

t has often been said that your attitude determines your altitude. What is killing many people and working against our success is our attitude. Many people have registered failure in their system, and everything that they apply their mind to is bound to fail. Everything that they do has to conform to this standard. We can never grow beyond our level of faith. Those who 66

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internalised the theories of the Professor in George Dantzigâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case may even have compared themselves to Albert Einstein and his achievements, and looked at themselves and they felt hopeless. One gentleman, who did not read about Einstein and other mathematicianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s troubles, approached an age old problem as a normal problem. He had the right attitude which was devoid of inherited fears. Why donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you give yourself a chance? Forget the failures of the past, and choose to create breakthroughs of the future. Choose to make the future generation believe in possibility rather than in limitations. So what? Who said you should be compared to anyone. If Einstein failed it so what? If my 67

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father could not do it so what? If your boss could not do it, so what? Some people are not pursuing Masters Degrees simply because their superiors do not even think about pursuing their own studies. Challenge the standards which have been set by the people around you and create new solutions. Do not import other people’s failures into your life. You cannot be corrupt simply because everyone around you is doing it. Stand out, and make yourself visible to even greater and better opportunities. Next time someone tells you about people who have failed in the past, look them in the eye and ask them, “So what?” “The Lion Mode” I was going through a post which I thought made a lot of sense. The article illustrates 68

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one creature which knows the power of attitude, the lion. I thought it prudent to share with you what I read. I could have recognised the author had it been signed, but it was not. In the jungle: 1. The Elephant is the biggest 2. The Giraffe is the tallest 3. The Fox is the wisest 4. The Cheetah is the fastest Yet, the Lion is the KING of the jungle even without ANY of these qualities. Why? 1. The Lion is courageous, is bold, walks with confidence, dares anything and is never afraid. 69

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2. The Lion believes it is unstoppable. 3. The Lion is a risk taker. 4. The Lion believes any animal is food for him. 5. The Lion believes any opportunity is worth giving a try and never lets it slip from its hands. So... 1. You don't need to be the fastest. 2. You don't need to be the wisest. 3. You don't need to be the smartest. 4. You don't need to be the most brilliant. 5. All you need is courage 6. All you need is the will to try. 70

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7. All you need is the faith to believe it is possible. 8. All you need is to believe in yourself, that you can do it.!! I believe there are a lot of lessons to learn from the lion, what we need to do is learning and mastering the winnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attitude.

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CHAPTER 7 THINK POSSIBILITY

ou need to be a possibility thinker for you to make it in this life. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going to be easy; it is going to be hard. You have to believe that it is doable. You have to be determined to achieve your goals in life. "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination." [Tommy Lasorda]. The fact that you have awesome goals does not necessarily mean that the pathway to 72

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achieving them is going to be awesome as well. Challenges will always be there, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how you deal with them that will make the difference between your failure and success. The challenges that you go through in life enable you to have a better appreciation of the process and the value. If you do not have an understanding of the process, you will not have an appreciation of the value of the proceeds. A lot of people, who are reckless with money or property, do not have an appreciation of the process that led to the acquisition of the same. Challenges are actually good for you. You are not going to make it in life if you are ready to give up. With the necessary determination, you will always find your way through challenges and 73

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turn them as stepping stones to your greatness. Have the dedication to accomplish you goals. Never give up until you are through. "The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication." [Cecil de Mille] George Weahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Case Liberia recently had presidential elections, which have been commended globally for being peaceful. One interesting thing about the elections is one of the participants. I quote an article I found circulating on social media, â&#x20AC;&#x153;When George Weah contested and lost the Liberian Election in 2005, a major negative campaign against him from his opponents was that, he lacked proper education. He didn't even have a High 74

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School Certificate though he could speak English, French and Italian. But he didn't relent, and it didn't break him down. Now he has taken care of that over the past eight years: Following the defeat, he challenged himself and worked extremely hard to obtain a high school diploma(SHS) in 2006, aged 40, and went on to DeVry University in Florida, obtaining a bachelor’s degree in business management in 2011 and on top, has a master’s degree in public administration. Today, the 1995 World Footballer of the Year is Now President elect of Liberia.” What is interesting about Weah’s case is his determination and willingness to develop him. In so doing he managed to improve himself, and also ensured that he earned the 75

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respect of his people who have entrusted him with leadership of the nation. The story of Harland Sanders The name Colonel Harland Sanders might not be common to many people but his legacy is, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). Harland Sanders started KFC when he was sixty five (65) years of age, an age when most people would have abandoned any thought of new goals and projects. KFC did not just start from nowhere. It was birthed from a gas business that he operated in Kentucky. He then discovered that there was an opportunity for food among the travellers who were passing through his gas station. He started frying chicken using some of his recipes which had been rejected by several companies in the United States. Sooner 76

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than later, his fried chicken became very famous such that there was an increase in the business. He had to extend his dining room so that he could accommodate more people. His CHALLENGE lay in the fact that it took about 30 minutes to prepare the chicken an amount of time travellers did not have. This prompted him to look around, and managed to get hold a company that was selling pressure cooks. In those days the pressure cookers were used for boiling vegetables and other items. Instead he filled the cookers with oil and used it for frying chicken. He thus managed to cut the cooking time from thirty minutes to merely eight minutes. The rest is history; Harland sold his KFC business for over US$2 million and he died a very rich person in 1980. What this teaches us is that we need to 77

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always open our minds in the midst of challenges. There is an awesome lesson wrapped in every challenge. Every challenge carries with it a solution. Tune your mind to be solution -oriented rather than problemoriented.

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Inspire yourself

e all need inspiration in life. People wonder why I am always inspired and I am able to inspire other people. My secret is simple, I invest in inspirational materials. I read and share inspirational quotes daily. I listen to an inspirational audio daily. I can even repeat one audio or video the whole day. Buy books that will inspire you along the journey. I have collected 204 Inspirational Quotes which you can read for yourself at least one a day. Look for more inspirational quotes, which you can read and encourage yourself. Be inspired! 80

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1. "You are the only one who can control the way you think. Make sure you nourish the positive thoughts, and weed out the negative ones!" Catherine Pulsifer

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2. "The more positive thoughts you have, the better you feel, which causes you to have more positive thoughts, then you feel even better." James Borg, Mind Power 2nd edn: Change your thinking, change your life

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3. "I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative." James A. Baldwin

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4. “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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5. “In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.” — Dalai Lama

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6. “I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.” — Walt Disney

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7. "Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Zig Ziglar

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8. “Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.” — William James

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9. "You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Deepak Chopra

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10. The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Lee lacocca

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11. "Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Harvey Mackay

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12. "In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Les Brown

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13. “I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.” — Roger Federer

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14. "Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier." â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Colin Powell

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15. “Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” — Winston Churchill

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16. “Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so let us all be thankful.” —Buddha

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17. “Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.” – Paulo Coelho

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19. “With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.” – Dr. Wayne W Dyer

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20. “Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” – Norman Vincent Peale

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21. “Hate. It has caused a lot of problems in this world but has not solved one yet.” – Maya Angelou

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22. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle

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23. “An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of the superior personality.” – Brian Tracy

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24. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

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25. “If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar

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26. “The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.” – Robert H Schuller

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27. “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” – Anais Nin

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28. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison

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29. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” – Douglas Adams

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30. “Learning is a gift. Even when pain is your teacher.” – Maya Watson

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31. “I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened” – Mark Twain

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32. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

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33. “Hope is a waking dream.” – Aristotle

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34. “The past has no power over the present moment.” – Eckhart Tolle

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35. “Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Francesca Reigler

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36. “I do believe we’re all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.” – Harvey Fierstein

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37. “If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.” – Guy Finley

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38. “Today is a new beginning, a chance to turn your failures into achievements & your sorrows into so goods. No room for excuses.” – Joel Brown

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39. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Tony Robbins

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40. “We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.” – Robin Sharma

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41. “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

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42. “No matter what the situation, remind yourself “I have a choice.” – Deepak Chopra

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43. “All you can change is yourself, but sometimes that changes everything!” – Gary W Goldstein

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44. “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” – Confucius

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45. “If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.” – John C Maxwell

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46. “Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” – Mary Tyler Moore

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47. “I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.” – Muhammad Ali

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48. “We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.” – Swami Vivekananda

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49. “The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.” – Unknown

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50. “If someone tells you, “You can’t” they really mean, “I can’t.” – Sean Stephenson

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51. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; W. Clement Stone

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52. “Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.” – Michael Landon

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53. “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion.” – Abraham Lincoln

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54. “The difference in winning and losing is most often…not quitting.” – Walt Disney

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55. “You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.” – C.S Lewis

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56. “All things are difficult before they are easy.” – Thomas Fuller

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57. “Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.” – Jon Bon Jovi

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58. “Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.” – Stephen Covey

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59. “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.” – Kurt Vonnegut

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60. “You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.” – Joel Osteen

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61. “The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.” – Eric Thomas

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62. “When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.” – Rumi

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63. “If you can change your mind, you can change your life.” – William James

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64. “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor Frankl

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65. “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore

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66. “The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.” – Unknown

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67. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The day is what you make it! So why not make it a great one?â&#x20AC;? ~ Steve Schulte

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68. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.â&#x20AC;? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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69. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being miserable is a habit; being happy is a habit; and the choice is yours.â&#x20AC;? ~ Tom Hopkins

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70. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You cannot tailormake the situations in life but you can tailormake the attitudes to fit those situations.â&#x20AC;? ~ Zig Ziglar

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72. “We can’t escape pain; we can’t escape the essential nature of our lives. But we do have a choice. We can give in and relent, or we can fight, persevere, and create a life worth living, a noble life. Pain is a fact; our evaluation of it is a choice.” ~ Jacob Held

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73. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity.â&#x20AC;? ~ Joseph Sugarman

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universe, it will be that, and nothing else. On the other hand, if we believe that the earth is ours, and that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields because the Artist in our souls glorifies creation. Surely, it gives dignity to life to believe that we are born into this world for noble ends, and that we have a higher destiny than can be 157

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accomplished within the narrow limits of this physical life.â&#x20AC;? ~ Helen Keller

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77. “Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control. Sickness may challenge your body. But are you merely your body? Lameness may impede your legs. But you are not merely your legs. Your will is bigger than your legs. Your will needn’t be affected by an incident unless you let it.” ~ Epictetus

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78. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.â&#x20AC;? ~ Anthony Robbins

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79. “Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.” ~ Groucho Marx

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80. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.â&#x20AC;? ~ Mahatma Gandhi

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82. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind” - Dr. Seuss

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83. “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” – Grandma Moses

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84. “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.” – John Maxwell

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85. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain

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86. “Just know, when you truly want success, you’ll never give up on it. No matter how bad the situation may get.” – Unknown

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87. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.â&#x20AC;? - Eleanor Roosevelt

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88. “Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.” – Vincent Van Gogh

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89. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

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90. “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” – Tony Robbins

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91. “Live everyday like it’s your last day on earth” – Unknown

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92. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

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93. “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown

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94. “Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What’s in it for me?” – Brian Tracy

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95. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb

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96. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart" - Helen Keller Read

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97. “I don’t regret the things I’ve done, I regret the things I didn’t do when I had the chance.” – Unknown

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98. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

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99. “Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.” – W. Clement Stone

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100. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Believe you can and you're halfway thereâ&#x20AC;? Theodore Roosevelt

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101. “Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” – Napoleon Hill

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102. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.” – Confucius

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103. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.â&#x20AC;? Joshua J. Marine

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104. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible' â&#x20AC;? - Audrey Hepburn Read

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105. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank

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106. “Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen

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107. “Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama

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108. “Its hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; but its harder to give up when you know its everything you want.” – Unknown

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109. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is never too late to be what you might have been.â&#x20AC;? George Eliot

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110. “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke

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111. “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” –Christopher Columbus

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112. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.â&#x20AC;? - Denis Waitley

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113. “That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” Friedrich Nietzsche

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114. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

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115. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

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116. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

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117. “In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby

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118. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.â&#x20AC;? Jimmy Dean

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119. “Go where you are celebrated – not tolerated. If they can’t see the real value of you, it’s time for a new start.” – Unknown

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120. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

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121. "Whether you think you can or think you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re right." - Henry Ford

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122. “Don’t be afraid to stand for what you believe in, even if that means standing alone..” – Unknown

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123. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself” – George Bernard Shaw

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124. "Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.â&#x20AC;? - Roy Goodman

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125. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” – Leonardo da Vinci

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126. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant” - Robert Louis Stevenson

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127. “Forget all the reasons it won’t work and believe the one reason that it will.” – Unknown

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128. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have found that if you love life, life will love you backâ&#x20AC;? - Arthur Rubinstein

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129. “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” – Jim Morrison

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130. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu

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131. “Positive thinking sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and can achieve the impossible.” – Unknown

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132. “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive” – Howard Thurman

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133. “I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. Its because of them I’m doing it myself.” – Albert Einstein

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134. “All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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135. “You become what you believe.” – Oprah Winfrey

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136. “We don’t meet people by accident, they are meant to cross our path for a reason” – Unknown

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137. “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like” – Will Rogers

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139. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.” – Vincent van Gogh

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140. “Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish it.” – Unknown

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141. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracleâ&#x20AC;? Albert Einstein

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142. “In the end, it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away” - Shing Xiong

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143. “Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” – Frank Zappa

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144. “Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have.” – Unknown

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145. “Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give them yours” – Zig Ziglar

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146. “Do or Do Not. There is no Try” – Yoda

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147. “When you say “It’s hard”, it actually means “I’m not strong enough to fight for it”. Stop saying its hard. Think positive!” – Unknown

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148. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius

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149. “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us” – Alexander Graham Bell

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150. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created itâ&#x20AC;? - Albert Einstein

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151. “It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.” – Mae Jemison

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152. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We must let go of the life we had planned so as to have the life that is waiting for usâ&#x20AC;? - Joseph Campbell

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153. “Life is like photography. You need the negatives to develop.” – Unknown

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154. “You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.” – Beverly Sills

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155. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the faceâ&#x20AC;? - Eleanor Roosevelt

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156. “It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

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157. “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield

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158. “Change is inevitable. Progress is optional” – Tony Robbins

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159. “The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth.” – Unknown

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160. “Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there” – Will Rogers

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161. “Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.” – Farrah Gray

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162. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Unknown

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163. “The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible.” – Joel Brown

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164. “People will hate you, rate you, shake you, and break you. But how strong you stand is what makes you” – Unknown

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165. “Self confidence is the most attractive quality a person can have. how can anyone see how awesome you are if you can’t see it yourself?” – Unknown

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166. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference” – Reinhold Niebuhr

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167. “Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. it means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” – Unknown

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168. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale

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169. “If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” –Zig Ziglar

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170. “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem

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171. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

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172. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard

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173. “ Do what makes YOU happy.” – Malcolm Matthews

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174. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein

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175. “Love what you have. Need what you want. Accept what you receive. Give what you can. Always remember, what goes around, comes around…” – Unknown

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176. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost

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177. “Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1.” – Unknown

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178. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

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Steve Jobs Quotes I have selected a few quotes from Steve Jobs, a man who challenged the world to think different. Enjoy them.

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179. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs

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180. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.â&#x20AC;?

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181. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened 265

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182. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.â&#x20AC;?

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183. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That's been one of my mantras focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.â&#x20AC;?

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184. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.â&#x20AC;?

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186. “We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?”

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187. “But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.”

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188. “When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”

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189. “Details matter, it’s worth waiting to get it right.”

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190. “If you don’t love something, you’re not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.”

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191. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.â&#x20AC;?

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192. “Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.”

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193. “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while.”

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194. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.â&#x20AC;?

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195. “Here’s to the crazy ones — the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things. They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that

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they can change the world, are the ones who do.â&#x20AC;? (This quote was actually a part of Apple's 'Think Differently' campaign, crafted by both Steve Jobs and the masterful creative team at TBWA/Chiat/Day.

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196. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Quality is much better than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.â&#x20AC;?

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197. “My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other’s kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. That’s how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.”

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198. “It’s better to be a pirate than to join the navy.”

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199. “If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away.”

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200. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.â&#x20AC;?

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201. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.â&#x20AC;?

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202. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t con people in this business. The products speak for themselves."

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203. "I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates."

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204. "Getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life." 290

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