489. What State are You In ?

You have the coice to be in one of two states of nature; green and growing or ripe and rotting. These are the only 2 games in town !

487. Goal Setting

I will keep on coming back to this subject. It is absolutely essential that you master the art of setting goals, targets etc. Mark Twain said "Plan for the future because that's where you'll spend the rest of your life. Set your goals then act as if it were impossible for you to fail. It is only in the active pursuit of your goals that you will truly grow.

Having a goal is the equivalent of having a target and a motive. These are the things that keep you moving so that you don't stop and fall over.

197. Growth and Beauty

Learn to be beauty always. Be ever expansive, always growing, intellectually emotionally and spiritually.

145. Know Thyself

Written over the Oracle at Delphi are the words "Know Thyself". Look inward. Meditate, reflect and constantly seek the insight to perceive the causes of your successes and your failures. Learn and grow.

74. 3 Important Questions to Ask of Yourself

1. How can I take immediate control of my life ?
2. What can I do today, right now, that will make a real difference ?
3. How can I expand, grow and learn and then share that knowledge with others in a meaningful way ?

38. Growth

In order to learn and grow, it is important to become self-questioning. You should ask yourself questions such as "Why do I miss this type of shot ?" or "How can I get along better with ... ?" or "What can I do to improve...?"

26. Failure

It is impossible to fail as a person. You can, however fail at a given task. This is an important distinction because your self-worth as a person is self-evident and has nothing to do with any task external to yourself. Never equate your self-worth with any external achievement. This is an error into which people often fall. Your inherent value and dignity are not measurable by externals.If you are to learn and grow and ever achieve anything worthwhile, plenty of failure (at tasks) is inevitable. More often than not, you will learn far more from the tests that you fail than from those that you pass.The correct attitude to failure is expressed in the old song as "Pick yourself up, Dust yourself down and Start all over again."

25. Life-long Learning

Continue all your life to learn and grow. If you do not, you will dry up emotionally, intellectually and spiritually. Growth means change and testing yourself out in new arenas with a strong sense of excitement.