I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first Chicken Soup for the Soul book.

If you are going to be successful, you have to start hanging out with the successful people.

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Believe you deserve it and believe it’s possible for you. And then close your eyes and every day for several minutes, and visualize having what you already want, feeling the feelings of already having it. Come out of that and focus on what you’re grateful for already, and really enjoy it. Then go into your day and release it to the Universe and trust that the Universe will figure out how to manifest it. “Jack Canfield

Most of life is on-the-job training. Some of the most important things can only be learned in the process of doing them. You do something and you get feedback - about what works and what doesn't. If you don't do anything for fear of doing it wrong, poorly, or badly, you never get any feedback, and therefore you never get to improve.

One of the main strategies of the successful is that they constantly seek guidance from experts in their field.

Everything you should be an expression of your purpose. If an activity doesn't fit that formula, you wouldn't work on it. Period.