Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
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John C. Maxwell
Notes
“There comes a special moment in everyone’s life, a moment for which that person was born.… When he seizes it… it is his finest hour.”
Winston Churchill
“He that is everywhere is nowhere.” To get things done, you need focus.
As you get older and more experienced, the need to focus becomes more critical. The farther and higher you go, the more focused you can be—and need to be…Do first things first — the activities that give you the highest return…Don’t allow yourself to look at e-mail until after 10 A.M. Instead, focus your energies on your number one priority. Put non-productive time wasters on hold so that you can create thinking time for yourself.
“Ninety-nine percent of everything in life I don’t need to know about.” I try to focus on the one percent that gives the highest return. And of the remaining ninety-nine, Margaret keeps me aware of whatever I need to know.
My definition of creativity is the logical combination of two or more existing elements that result in a new concept.
…hope is not a strategy.
Plan your life; Live your plan.
…prompt yourself to dream one size bigger than you normally do. Let’s face it: most people dream too small.
You must reject common thinking if you want to accomplish uncommon results…If you spend time with people who think out of the box, you’re more likely to challenge popular thinking and break new ground.
“People with humility don’t think less of themselves; they just think of themselves less.”