The time you invest in exploring new things can result in virtually unlimited rewards. It is difficult to even grasp the magnitude of the possibilities available to you until you put some time into exploring them. Exploration in an open-ended effort. The very nature of exploration prevents you from knowing in advance exactly what you’ll find. Consequently, exploration is difficult to justify on purely rational terms. On the surface, exploration may appear to be a waste of time rather than... Read more

The conditions of the moment do not matter nearly so much as what you decide to do with them. The same conditions that drive people into hopelessness and despair also provide fertile ground for great and positive accomplishments. The situation is certainly a factor, but it is not the deciding factor. The deciding factor is the response. This moment is as it is. The world is as it is. There is no use in denying or fighting against the reality... Read more

What would you like to see happen in your life tomorrow? Where would you like to be three months from now? What kind of life do you wish to be living a year from today? Much of the work of accomplishment is in figuring out precisely what to accomplish. Once you’ve done that, all that’s left to do is to fill in the course of action with your own effort and with the efforts of those with whom you share... Read more

Right now you have an incredible opportunity which has never before existed and which will never come again. You have the opportunity to be the special, unique person you are right now. You have the opportunity to put to good use everything you’ve ever learned, every skill you’ve ever developed, every experience through which you’ve ever lived. Just imagine the powerful, magnificent possibilities. Just think of how much value there is in a lifetime of experience, of learning, of dealing... Read more

You have what it takes to achieve whatever you want to achieve. Choose the objects of your efforts wisely, because whatever you’re truly committed to doing, you’ll do. Go beyond just a vague idea of what you desire. Examine your desires in detail. What, specifically, does your ideal world look like? What are its colors and sounds? What would you do upon waking up each morning? What would you do after that? Who are the people and what are the... Read more

The quickest way to turn a problem into an opportunity is to do something about it. Even if, at the outset, you cannot imagine how your problem could ever be reframed into an opportunity, take action. Start working on the problem and many opportunities will become evident. Simply complaining or throwing up your hands in despair will not bring the opportunities forth. Jumping in and taking action will put you in intimate contact with the situation, and from that vantage... Read more

To make new discoveries requires that you put yourself in unfamiliar territory. If you stick with the comfortable and the familiar, there will be many things that you’ll never even know about. How often do you venture away from the familiar? How often do you meet new people, consider beliefs different from your own, try food that you’ve never eaten, or allow your assumptions to be challenged? Going into unfamiliar territory will not destroy your old, comfortable world. Rather, it... Read more

A very effective way to control and direct your thoughts is with other thoughts. For example, in your mind you can construct a “thought shield” which you can use to literally cause negative, wasteful and destructive thoughts to bounce right off of you. Once you have something positive upon which to focus your thoughts, it’s easy to build that mental shield and program it to simply deflect all the wayward thoughts which might otherwise cause you to lose your focus.... Read more

The two most powerful motivators are fear and desire. You can harness their power to get yourself going. Some people respond more to fear. Others are more responsive to desire as a driving force. And there are those who respond about equally to fear and desire. If you take a look at the decisions you’ve made in the past, and at your reasons for making those decisions, you’ll get a good idea of whether you are motivated primarily by fear,... Read more