We All Take Baby Steps Everyday

We are all going somewhere. The problem seems to be where we are going. Most of the time a day goes by and we have taken a baby step in one direction…then the next day, we take a baby step in another direction. 

That's going nowhere fast. That's exactly how you got where you are today…one baby step at a time. 

There's an old saying, "Those who fail to plan, plan to fail".

You certainly need to know where you want to go before you can get there. The only place you will arrive is "nowhere-city" without a plan…a well-thought-out, written-down-in-black-and-white plan….a roadmap to success.

First Baby Step

Decide exactly what your long term goal is…no maybes, or ifs. Write it down in one short sentence. "I want a successful online business", "I want to be able to send my kids to college" are some examples.

Put one foot in front of the other and soon you'll be walking through the door you have decided to head for.

Second Baby Step

Map out the way that you can achieve that long term goal. Write down the baby steps it will take to get there. What you can do each day to make it all happen. 

Your list might start with, "Make an appointment with a financial planner" or "Get information about starting an online business". Make a plan to stick with for the long haul.

Baby Step Three

Start to put it into action, one baby step after another. A plan without the action to back it up is just a useless piece of paper. 

Way More than a few of My Favorite Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

"True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it."

"Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy."

"You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserves love and affection."

"The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall always see truth in fragment and different points of vision."

"Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them; a desire, a dream, a vision."

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory."

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony."

  "It is easy to stand in a crowd but it takes courage to stand alone."

"A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing yourself."

"The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane."

"Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds, not words."

"Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral."

"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems."

"It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts."

"Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

"There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results."

"Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity."

"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim a purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."

"My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from god as my successes and my talents and lay them both at his feet."

"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow in."

"Speak only if it improves upon the silence."

"Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances."

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"Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly."

"There is no 'way to peace.' there is only 'peace."

"They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them."

"In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all."

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"Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable."

"The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer."

"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."

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"Truth never damages a cause that is just."

"Whenever you are confronted with an opponet conquer him with love."

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."

"Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. The next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn."

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

"The future depends on what you do today."

"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

"Hate the sin, love the sinner."

"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."

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"Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become you habits, your habits become you values, your values become your destiny."

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

"Where there is love there is life."

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."

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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end up really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even it I may not have it in the beginning."

"It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. Buy that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know the what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no results."

"I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them."

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"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment."

"It is not that I do not see angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as agelessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by consistent practice."

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Way More Than a Few of My Favorite Zig Ziglar Quotes

Zig Ziglar was a great salesman, motivational speaker, and author. I discovered him as a member of Morning Coach. I got all of these quotes from my favorites list in my Zig Ziglar Daily Dailypedia App. Zig's book 'See You at the Top' is course material for the 12-week Motivation 101 course, with Morning Coach Membership, which I will be reading once I'm through with Wealth 101.

Zig himself passed away in 2012, his son Tom Ziglar and the Ziglar family help keep Zig's wise and inspirational messages and training alive today. The Ziglar family hosts Life-Changing Programs, and their website has even more great Ziglar Quotes.

I'm also considering reading Zig and Tom's book 'Born To Win; Find Your Success Code' in the future, just took a look inside on amazon. The first image below is the cover of another one of his books 'Great Quotes from Zig Ziglar', which would be a nice book to have around.

"When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities." 

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win." 

"The price of success is much lower than the price of failure." 

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." 

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily." 

"Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well." 

"A positive attitude and personal motivation allow you to remain excited about what you are doing - no matter how difficult the challenges may be day to day." 

"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." 

"If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you."

"We cannot start over, but we can begin now, and make a new beginning."

"If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you."

"Most people who fail their dreams fail not from the lack of ability but from the lack of commitment." 

"It's not where you start or even what happens to you along the way that's important. What is important. What is important is that you preserve and never give up on yourself." 

"Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment." 

"Miserable people focus on what they hate about their life. Happy people focus on what they love about their life."

 "It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you." "Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission."

"You don't build a business, you build people, and then people build the business." 

"Outside of love, no two things are more valued in another person that trust and loyalty." 

"You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people." 

"If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time." "Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice." 

"Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him one of your."

"It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through." "We are physical, mental and spiritual beings. If you don't deal with all of life you're not going to get all that life has to offer." "It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference."

"If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform  as a winner."

"You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there."

"Will what I am about to do, bring me closer to, or take me further from my goals?" 

"Always do the right thing, always be exciting, always be encouraging, and always be learning something new." "Any relationship primarily built on physical attractiveness is predestined to be short-lived." 

"Don't let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours." 

"You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations." "The height of your success is determined by the depth of your belief." 

"Put all excuses aside and remember this: you are capable." "A Goal properly set is halfway reached." "You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm." 

"You never know when a helping hand will change another person's life." 

"Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep, a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend." 

"In the blink of an eye everything can change. So forgive often and love with all your heart. You may not have that chance again."

"Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful."

"You will never find a truly happy self-centered person. They simply don't exist."  

"Making a big life chang is pretty scary. But know what's even scarier? Regret." 

"True joy comes when you inspire, encourage, and guide someone else on a path that benefits him or her." "The more you are grateful for what you have the more you will have to be grateful for." 

"Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past." 

"If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost." 

"I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles." 

"Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have." 

"Make today worth remembering." 

"If you go out looking for friends, your going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere." 

"F-E-A-R has two meanings:'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise'. The choice is yours." 

"What you do today can change all the tomorrow's of your life.""When we do more than we are paid to do, eventually we will be paid more for what we do." 

"Success is not measured by what you do compared to what someone else does. Success is measured by what you do compared to what you are capable of doing." 

"Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive." 

"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you."

"Where you start is not as important as where you finish."

"Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince the person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise." 

"Character produces endurance and persistence when the going gets tough, and life truly is an endurance race, not a sprint." 

"Success occurred when opportunity meets preparation." 

"While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job is infinitely more important."

"When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there." 

"Making the family a top priority will invariably bring success." "Happiness is like a kiss, in order to get any good out of it, you have to give it to someone else." 

"Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes." 

"The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little." 

"Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."

"Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success." 

"You can only have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want." 

"Failure is an event, not a person."

Some people find fault like there is a reward for it." 

"Attitude, not aptitude, determines Altitude." 

"Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart." 

"The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now." 

"When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action."

"Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker." "You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life." 

"Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TV's." 

"If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry, do something about it. Worry less, and act more." 

"You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future." 

"What you do today can change all the tomorrow's of your life." "You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else." "Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." 

"Don't let mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future." 

"You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

"Lack of direction, not the lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days."

A Few of My Favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger Quotes

Arnold Schwarzenegger is someone who has accomplished a lot of different things. One of my favorite quotes from Arnold came from a story I heard one morning listening to Morning Coach.

Once upon a time, just as young Arnold had been winning bodybuilding competitions, a reporter asked a young Arnold how he managed to become a bodybuilding champion and how expects to become successful in Hollywood. Here is what he told the reporter;

"I will create a vision of who I want to be, & then I will start living like that person in my mind as if it were already true."

That just goes to prove that we are what we think we are. You can't be it if you can't see it. Your life is limited to your vision. If you want to change your life you must change your vision of your life.

"Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body."

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

"For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer."

  

"The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy." 

Of course, from being in so many movies, Arnold has a ton of memorial one liners that his unique accent and tough guy persona simply make sound awesome when saying them.

"I'll be back"    "It's not a tumor"     "Put that cookie down!"

"It's turbo time"

"Get in the chopper!"     "I'll be back"        "Get in the boat!"

 Okay, perhaps I got a little carried away here, no more movie quotes ha ha.  

"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent."