Every successful leader has traveled a path particular to them. Viewing the world through their eyes can offer inspiration for your journey. Even more powerfully, experiencing the world through their hearts awakens your own deep inner wisdom. With it, you can chart your own course with self-love and strength.
Find your favorite success leaders and draw upon their ideas and observations. Take a few moments each day to read their quotes and stories in order to nurture and nourish you as you awaken to success. Here are some of mine.
Maya Angelou
"If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."
"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
Jack Canfield, The Success Principles
"Create a victory log... By recalling and writing down your successes each day, you log them into your long-term memory, which enhances your self-esteem and builds your self-confidence."
Paulo Coelho
"There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth… And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."
Harv Eker
"Isn’t it amazing that our mind is pretty much the basis for our life and yet most of us have no clue as to how this powerful apparatus functions?"
Scilla Elworthy
"If all we do is spew anger and fear out onto other people, it’s completely ineffective."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."
Bill Gates
"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Charles F. Haanel, The Master Key System
"We cannot express powers that we do not possess. The only way by which we may secure possession of power is to become conscious of power, and we can never become conscious of power until we learn that all power is within."
"It is evident, therefore, that all we have to do is let our light shine; the more energy we can radiate, the more rapidly shall we be enabled to transmute undesirable conditions into sources of pleasure and profit."
"Thought is energy and energy is power, and it is because all the religions, sciences, and philosophies with which the world has heretofore been familiar have been based upon the manifestation of this energy instead of the energy itself, that the world has been limited to effects, while causes have been ignored or misunderstood."
May Sarton
"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
Bruce D. Schneider, Energy Leadership
"Empowerment Principle #1 - Life offers neither problems or challenges, only opportunities."
"Shifting emotions is much more effective than shifting behaviors, because people will feel a buy-in when they emotionally connect with a person or a situation."
Henry David Thoreau
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
Lynne Twist
"We think we live in a set of circ*mstances, but we don't. We live in our conversation about the world and our conversation about the circ*mstances."
Denis, Deborah & Dayna Waitley
"We aren’t talking about winning so that others lose. Instead, we’re talking about winning so that we don’t lose. And winning by helping others win."
"Women who win in life accept themselves as they are: changing, growing, imperfect, and in the process of becoming all their potential allows them to be."
"Yesterday, leaders commanded and controlled. Today, leaders empower and coach."
Oprah Winfrey
"Be authentic and the universe will rise up to meet you."
Jonathan Winters
"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it."
What's Next...
Which quote captured your attention the most? What do you think it's reflecting to you?
Quotes can be doorways into your inner landscape. Walk through those doors and explore what you find within. The richness is in the exploration and increased awareness you experience there. It's not necessary to emerge with a sense of certainty, rather, the optimal outcome is greater curiosity... especially kind curiosity... and self-love.
When you lead with kind curiosity and self-love, you will…
If you're ready to learn how you can make the world a better place without losing yourself,reach out.
I’m here to answer your questions and show you how powerful you already are.
Zette Harbour CPC, ELI-MP, CBHP, NLP
Love Lies Beneath: How reclaiming my Soul through Story became the secret to healing my Heart,available on Amazon
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