Disappointments are not special gifts reserved for the poor. Everybody has them. The difference is - what you do about them

Anything can happen

If anything can go wrong it will

It's not what happens, it's what you do

It's not what happens that determines the quality or the quantity of your life. It's what you do that changes everything. What happens is about the same. What people do - that's what's different

learn to reap in the fall without apology. without apology if you do well, and without complaint if you don’t. That’s maturity

Take full responsibility for what happens to you. It's one of the highest forms of human maturity. Accepting full responsibility

All values must be defended:
Political values
Social values
Community values
Family values
Marriage values
Friendship values
Business values
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Every garden must be tended all summer

All good will be attacked. Every garden will be invaded, not to think so is naive

Learn how to protect your crops all summer. You got to take care of what you start. Sure enough as soon as you've planted your garden in the spring, the busy bugs and the noxious weeds are out to take it. They'll take it, unless you prevent it. You've got to learn to prevent the Intruder from taking all the good you start

In fact you have to get good at one of two things in life - planting in the Spring or begging in the Fall or get somebody to do it for you. Those are about the only alternatives

Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better;
Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills;
Don't wish for less challenge, wish for more wisdom;
That's the key

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