On Jack Canfield
“Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.” ~ Jack Canfield — Few do this, and few are successful.
“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” ~ Jack Canfield — If you don’t bet, you can’t win. Just look for situations where you have the advantage, which is much harder said than done.
“If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.” ~ Jack Canfield — Don’t just open another boring tea shop next to the other hundred tea shops on the street. Do something that stands out and makes people want to tell their friends about it.
“Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful and fulfilled life.” ~ Jack Canfield — If you forget how to be grateful, go to a poor country or a poor neighborhood in your country, and watch how hard and hopeless it is for the locals. You will immediately feel 100X more grateful about your life situation.
“There are essentially two things that will make you wise — the books you read and the people you meet.” ~ Jack Canfield — Reading people can be more beneficial than reading books.
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“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” ~ Jack Canfield — Fear is a tough emotion to decipher because sometimes it is guiding us exactly right to run away as fast as we can and sometimes it is telling us that we’re on the right track.
“You don’t have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don’t walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right” ~ Jack Canfield — If you want to get good at something don’t be afraid to be bad at it for a while. Bad writing, for example, is fine as long as you are writing consistently and you are getting a tiny bit better each day.
“Self-esteem does not mean feeling good all the time. Self-esteem means loving yourself even when you feel badly…even when you make a mistake. It means loving yourself even when you’re depressed. It means that you accept yourself fully.” ~ Jack Canfield — Self-esteem is self-acceptance. However, this is not an excuse to be mediocre. If you don’t learn to grow from your mistakes, you will find it impossible to accept yourself fully.
“It is kindness in a person, not beauty that wins our love” ~ Jack Canfield — Good looks certainly help, but a warm personality will take you all the way to where you’re going.
“The Law of Attraction states that whatever you focus on, think about, read about, and talk about intensely, you’re going to attract more of into your life.” ~ Jack Canfield — Unfortunately the Law of Distraction is working 24/7 against most of us.
“If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you’re already a success.” ~ Jack Canfield — If you love your work and you are making a decent living at it, you may never become a billionaire or even a millionaire, but you are doing way better than most.
