Clarify your purpose. What is the why behind everything you do? When we know this in life or design it is very empowering and the path is clear.

You can't change anyone else but people do change in relationship to your change. All relationships are a system, and when any one part of a system changes, it affects the other part.

No one has to bear the burden of tough times all by themselves.

If you are going to be successful, you have to start hanging out with the successful people. You need to ask them to share their success strategies with you. Then try them on and see if they fit for you. Experiment with doing what they do, reading what they read, thinking the way they think, and so on. If the new ways of thinking and behaving work, adopt them. If not, drop them, and keep looking and experimenting.

If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

Our feelings are a feedback mechanism to us about whether we're on track or not, whether we're on course or off course.

The problem is that most people focus on their failures rather than their successes. But the truth is that most people have many more successes than failures.