The greatest lift of self esteem is doing the best you can

One of the major things that makes us not feel good about ourselves is not engaging in the disciplines

To bring value from potential we need the disciplines

Self esteem comes from engaging in the disciplines that lead to value

If you want to do well it takes all of us to help each of us. You can't succeed by yourself

How the day goes is greatly determined by your confidence about the future

Set goals, write them down, design the future

It's difficult to be confident about the day if you don't have your future well designed. Here is one of the keys to do about your future - set goals, write them down, design the future
- Where do you want to go,
- What do you want to do,
- What do you want to be,
- What do you want to see,
- What do you want to have,
- What do you want to share
Even if it all changes 12 months from now the key is to start making a list now

If you don't feel good about the future by having goals set you take what we call uncertain steps

How we feel is going to greatly determine how our life works out

Emotions must go to school to learn where the values are

No matter what they pay I always come early and I always stay late, to invest in my own future. Is not it fascinating? Attitude is by choice. You can either choose to come early or you can choose to come late. You can either choose to leave early or you can choose to stay late. Attitude is a matter of choice

You can't do what you don't know. But the key is to keep learning so that good ideas keep occurring to you - now you can do more wise things. But philosophy is where it all begins - what you know

Life is accumulative. Our errors either accumulate into what we don't get, or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get. Now the key is to correct the errors as early as possible

If you really want to help somebody / motivated idiot

If you really want to help somebody, change their life you have to start changing their mind, change their philosophy. Change how they think. Somebody said - well just motivation that'll do. The answer is - NO, motivation won't do it. If a guy's an idiot and you motivate him you got a motivated idiot

Poor thinking habits keep most people poor. Not poor working habits. Most people work hard but they don't think hard

Weight everything

Weigh everything before you do it, before you buy it, before you try it... make sure you weigh it

Ignorance is not bliss. It's important to know, it's important to get the information

What you don't know will hurt you

What you don't know greatly affects how your life works out. The idea you miss could be the missing number in trying to put the numbers in the lock

Philosophy is simply what you know and what you know greatly affects how your life works out

Poor people can talk and rich people can talk, looks like rich people talk better. It's just learning A skill with a high degree of precision. Learning to speak is called survival, learning to speak well is called success. So we can speak well enough to survive or we can speak the extra well enough to succeed

Success is not doing extraordinary things, success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well

Debate all the ideas

That's what university is for to debate all the ideas. Not just to buy them all, debate them all. And then decide what's best for you. Where to go from there. University is a great place to hear and exchange of ideas on a wide variety of major life topics and that's what it's all about. Taking the time to go through it

Be independent. Take advice but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Make sure what you finally do is the product of your own conclusion