When it seems impossible like nothing is going to work, you are usually just a few millimeters away from making it happen.

Individuals who succeed have a belief in the power of commitment. If there's a single belief that seems almost inseparable from success, it's that there's no great success without commitment. If you look at successful people in any field, you'll find they're not necessarily the best and the brightest, the fastest and the strongest. You'll find they're the ones with the most commitment.

You might say what if I screw up? Then screw up big! Go for it! Do a big screw-up!

If you want to look for obstacles, what's wrong is always available. But so is what's right!

Raise your standards for the one thing over which you have complete control--yourse lf. It means you're committed to being intelligent, flexible, and creative enough to consistently find a way to look at your life in a fashion that makes any experience enriching.

When you go on an extreme diet, your body's self-preservation mechanism responds by burning calories as slowly as possible. Of course, that makes it much more difficult to lose weight.

Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.