You can't get rid of January by tearing it off the calendar. But here's what you can do - you can get stronger, you can get wiser and you can get better. The winters won't change but you can and that's how life changes for you

Learn how to handle the winters

Learn how to handle the winters. They come right after Falls with regularity. Some are long and some are short and some are hard and some are easy but they keep coming.
You must handle the nights, they come right after days.
You must learn to handle difficulty, it comes right after opportunity.
You must learn to handle recessions, they always follow progressions.
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For the last six thousand see it's not going to change. The lesson you must learn is how to handle it!

You can not change the seasons but you can change yourself

Life and business is like the changing seasons. You can not change the seasons but you can change yourself. That's how life gets better for you - not by chance but by change

Life and business is like the changing seasons

Some people don't do well because they major in minor things. You've got to be on the lookout. At the end of every week, at the end of every month you've got to check make sure you're not spending major time on minor things

The only way it gets better for you is when you get better

For things to change for you you've got to change, otherwise it isn't going to change

If somebody is wealthy and happy you have got to listen

Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job

One of the most frustrating experiences in life is looking for an above average job with above average pay without becoming an above average person. It's called frustration

It's possible to do much better at the marketplace if you go to work primarily on yourself

We primarily get paid for value. Bringing value to the marketplace - that's how you get paid. You don't get paid for the time. I know it takes time to bring value to the marketplace but you get paid for the value not the time

Value makes the difference in results. You can't get more time but you can create more value

Major key to your better future is you

If you can intelligently apply your emotions in the right direction no telling what can happen, could turn your life around, one day would be sufficient

Human beings are emotional creatures. Emotions are powerful for life change. Emotions are so powerful they can go either way on you. Emotions can either build or destroy. So you really have to employ emotions properly

If you look at your bank account and your income and you're not happy, there's sever places in the Bible to check to see what the heck's wrong so you can make the changes

Bible is a good textbook for ideas and stories and success equations - how to live the better life

It's an unending challenge to see what you can become

True happiness is not contained in what you get. Happiness is contained in what you become

The major question to ask on the job is not what am I getting paid here, the major question to ask on the job is what I am becoming here

The major question to ask on the job

The major question to ask on the job is not what are you getting, the major question to ask on the job is what are you becoming. The big question is not what am I getting paid here, the big question is - what am I becoming here. Because true happiness is not contained in what you get. Happiness is contained in what you become

Success is something you attract, not something you pursue. Success is looking for a good place to stay. So instead of going after it, you work on yourself [Personal Development]