You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?

When you become successful and a depression or any other unfavorable circumstance arises which causes you a loss or defeat, act on the self-motivator: Success is achieved by those who try and maintained by those who keep trying with a positive mental attitude. This is the way to avoid being crushed.

Are the things around you helping you toward success, or are they holding you back?

It takes less work to succeed than to fail.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) — you will have hope and be made hopeful.

When you know principles that can motivate you, you will then know principles that can motivate others. Conversely, when you know principles that can motivate others, you will then know principles that can motivate you.