Jack Canfield

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Jack Canfield- “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”


To make sure a goal unleashes the power of your subconscious mind it must be stated in a way that you and anybody else could measure it.

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Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

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Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

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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.

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Self-esteem is based on feeling capable and feeling lovable.

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Most of life is on-the-job training. Some of the most important things can only be learned in the process of doing them. You do something and you get feedback about what works and what doesn´t. If you don´t do anything for fear of doing it wrong, poorly, or badly, you never get any feedback, and therefore you never get to improve.

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Strategic Coach Dan Sullivan once stated that all entrepreneurs are really con artists. They get other people to pay them to practice getting better at what they love to do.

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Part of paying the price is the willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done. It comes from a declaration that you are going to get it done no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, no matter what comes up.

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The true task of spiritual life is not found in faraway places or unusual states of consciousness. It is here in the present. It asks of us a welcoming spirit to greet all that life presents to us with a wise, respectful, and kindly heart. We can bow to both beauty and suffering, to our entanglements and confusion, to our fears and to the injustices of the world. Honoring the truth in this way is the path to freedom.

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The problem is that most people focus on their failures rather than their successes. But the truth is that most people have many more successes than failures.

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Keep in mind that part of growing up is dealing with difficult issues, and the benefits can be great if you have the courage to ask for help. Human beings are not designed to go through life alone. No one has to bear the burden of tough times all by themselves.

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If you surveyed your life and jotted down those activities that brought you the most success, the most financial gain, the most advancement, and the most enjoyment, you discover about 20% of your activity produces about 80% of your success. This phenomenon is the basis for the Pareto Principle, named after the nineteenth-century economist who discovered 80% of an enterprise´s revenue comes from 20% of its customers.

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Our job is not to figure out the “how”. The “how” will show up out of the commitment and believe in the “what”.

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Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life. It is each little thing that you do that day – whether it be spending time with your friends, running in a cross-country meet or just simply staring at the crashing ocean- that holds the key to discovering the meaning of life. I would rather be out enjoying these things than pondering them. We may never really discover the meaning of life, but the knowledge we gain in our quest to discover it is truly more valuable.

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There are essentially two things that will make you wise- the books you read and the people you meet.

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If you want to be really successful, and I know you do, then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life; that means all your results, both your successes and your failures. That is the prerequisite for creating a life of success.

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Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

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No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. [William Gladstone]

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Her essay about the wedding ring was short. Kerr wrote: “Things are just things – they have no power to hurt or to heal. Only people can do that. And we can all choose whether to be hurt or healed by the people who love us.

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Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

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When Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bruce Jenner asked a roomful of Olympic hopefuls if they had a list of written goals, every one raised their hands. When he asked how many of them had that list with them right that moment, only one person raised their hand. That person was Dan O´Brien. And it was Dan O´Brien who went on to win the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Don´t underestimate the power of setting goals and constantly reviewing them.

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If something doesn´t turn out as planned, you will ask yourself; How did I create that? What was I thinking? What were my beliefs? What did I say or not say? What did I do or not do to create that result? How did I get the other person to act that way? What do I need to do differently next time to get the result I want?

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And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again- so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again.

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The first principle the money lender teaches Arkad is: A part of all you earn must be yours to keep. He goes on to explain that by putting aside at least 10% of his earnings and making that money inaccessible for expenses Arkad would see this amount build over time, and, in turn, start earning money on its own. Over an even longer time, it would grow into a lot, because of the power of compound interest.

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You can´t cross a sea by merely staring into the water. [Rabindranath Tagore]

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I like Dr. Daniel Amen´s 18/40/60 Rule: When you´re 18, you worry about what everybody is thinking of you; when you´re 40, you don´t give a darn what anybody thinks of you; when you´re 60, you realize nobody´s been thinking about you at all.

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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

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What if you, too, were to greet every interaction in your life with the question What´s the potential opportunity that this is?

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People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you’ve figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence.

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You only have control over three things in your life, the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take (your behavior). How you use these three things determines everything you experience. If you don´t like what you are producing and experiencing, you have to change your responses.

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Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

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The most successful people I´ve met love what they do so much, they would actually do it for free. But they´re successful because they´ve found a way to make a living doing what they love to do. If you´re not skilled enough to do the work you´d love to do, make time to educate yourself so you are. Do whatever it takes to prepare working part time in your dream job or even volunteering as an intern while still maintaining your current job.

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Life is not about achievement, it’s about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us.

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As you take a few minutes each day to quiet your mind, you will discover a nice benefit: your everyday, “ordinary” life will begin to seem far more extraordinary. Little things that previously went unnoticed will begin to please you. You’ll be more easily satisfied, and happier all around. Rather than focusing on what’s wrong with your life, you’ll find yourself thinking about and more fully enjoying what’s right with your life. The world won’t change, but your perception of it will. You’ll start to notice the little acts of kindness and caring from other people rather than the negativity and anger.

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When you’re nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

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To demonstrate the power of taking action in my seminars, I hold up a $100 bill and ask, “Who wants this $100 bill?” Invariably, most of the people in the audience will raise their hands. Some will wave their hands vigorously back and forth; some will even shout, “I want it” or “I´ll take it” or “Give it to me”. But I just stand there calmly holding out the bill until they get it. Eventually, someone jumps out of her seat, rushes to the front of the room, and takes the bill from my hand.

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Self-esteem is a huge piece of my work. You have to believe it’s possible and believe in yourself. Because after you’ve decided what you want, you have to believe it’s possible, and possible for you, not just for other people. Then you need to seek out models, mentors, and coaches.

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According to John Troup, writing in USA Today,The average Olympian trains four hours a day at least 310 days a year for six years before succeeding.

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You can begin right now to act as if you have achieved any goal you desire, and that outer experience of acting as if it will create the inner experience, the millionaire mindset, as it were that will take you to the actual manifestation of that experience.

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If you are going to be successful, you have to start hanging out with the successful people. You need to ask them to share their success strategies with you. Then try them on and see if they fit for you. Experiment with doing what they do, reading what they read, thinking the way they think, and so on. If the new ways of thinking and behaving work, adopt them. If not, drop them, and keep looking and experimenting.

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One of the easiest ways to begin clarifying what you truly want is to make a list of 30 things you want to do, 30 things you want to have, and 30 things you want to be before you die.

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20% of America´s millionaires never set foot in college, and 21 of the 222 Americans listed as billionaires in 2003 never got their college diplomas; 2 never even finished high school!

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One of the things that may get in the way of people being lifelong learners is that they’re not in touch with their passion. If you’re passionate about what it is you do, then you’re going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it.

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Make sure to immediately write down any impressions you receive. Intuitive impressions are often subtle and therefore evaporate very quickly, so make sure to capture them in writing as soon as possible. Recent research in neuroscience indicates that an intuitive insight or any new idea not captured within 37 seconds is likely never to be recalled again. In 7 minutes, it´s gone forever. As my buddy Mark Victor Hansen likes to say, As soon as you think it, ink it!

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Now, when anything bad; happens, I remember that everything that ever happens to me has within it the seeds of something better. I look for the upside rather than the downside. I ask myself, Where´s the greater benefit in this event?

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Persistence and determination along are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. [Calvin Coolidge]

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I first learned about the power of affirmations when W. Clement Stone challenged me to set a goal so far beyond my current circumstances it would literally astound me if I achieved it.

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To get over rejection, you have to realize that rejection is really a myth. It doesn´t really exist. It is simply a concept that you hold in your head. Think about it. If you ask Patty to have dinner with you and she says no, you didn´t have anyone to eat dinner with before you asked her, and you don´t have anyone to eat dinner with after you asked her.

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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they enjoy most. [Malcolm Forbes]

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A recent management study revealed that 46% of employees leaving a company do so because they feel underappreciated; 61% said their bosses don´t place much importance on them as people, and 88 % said they do not receive acknowledgement for the work they do.

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If you are not moving closer to what you want in sales (or in life), you probably aren’t doing enough asking.

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There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, you’ve mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it!

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Dan Casstevens, formerly of the Dallas Morning News, tells a story about Frank Szymanski, A Notre Dame center in the 1940s, who had been called in as a witness in a civil suit in South Bend, Indiana.

“Are you on the Notre Dame football team this year?” the judge asked.
“Yes, your honor.”
“What position?”
“Center, your honor.”
“How good a center?”
Szymanski squirmed in his seat, but said firmly: “Sir, I´m the best center Notre Dame ever had.”

Coach Frank Leahy, who was in the courtroom, was surprised. Szymanski had always been modest and unassuming. So when the proceedings were over, he took Szymanski aside and asked why he had made such a statement.
Szymanski blushed, “I hated to do it, Coach” he said, “But, after all, I was under oath”.

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I think as you meditate over the years you evolve–your practice gets deeper, and you reach new levels of inner peace and awareness.

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Success depends on getting good at saying no without feeling guilty. You cannot get ahead with your own goals if you are always saying yes to someone else’s projects. You can only get ahead with your desired lifestyle if you are focused on the things that will produce that lifestyle.

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As you begin to take action toward the fulfillment of your goals and dreams, you must realize that not every action will be perfect. Not every action will produce the desired result. Not every action will work. Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

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