• Complacency and comfort are the enemies of excellence.

• You must commit yourself to be the very best in your field if you are to become truly successful in it. If you don’t want to become excellent, you are probably doing the wrong thing.

• The harder you work the better you get.

• Less that 5% of the population really succeed in life. Only about 1 out of 100 will be financially successful in life. They work hard. 12-13 hours a day. 8 hours is for survival, anything over is for success. Most people only do the bare minimum, so the more you do the better the results you will get.

• When you do something well and to the best of your ability it makes you feel good and raises your self esteem. When you do something poorly you feel nothing at all and it does nothing for you.

• All high performers have a sense of urgency, they want to get the job done. Regular people just shuffle through life.

• Separate what is relevant from what is irrelevant.

• Action without thinking is the cause of virtually all failures.

• Men have just as good intuition as women, women just listen to it more than men.

• Socrates – The unexamined life is not worth living.

• Aristotle – Wisdom is an equal measure of experience plus reflection.

• You need to take the time to reflect on what you have learnt and the experiences you have, so you can move forward and don’t make the same mistakes over and over again. Such as moving from one bad job or relationship into another bad job or relationship.

• All changes in life come with the input of new information. Without new information you will always be doing the same things.

• Words are the tools with which we think, the more words you know the better you can think.

• Consistent work and results are better than short un-sustained flashes of genius. Slow and steady wins the race. Even if you don’t see yourself getting results keep working knowing that you are accumulating.

• It’s easy to go along with the crowd, but you will never be happy in life unless you know you are being true to yourself.

• Uncommitted people are the worst type of people to have around you.

• There is no security in life only opportunity. The more you seek security the less you will have it. The more you seek opportunity the more security you will have in life.

• If you chose your parents before you were put on this earth as some cultures believe, how would that change your view towards your parents and your own personal growth?

• What you respect and admire in other people are usually the things you would like to have for yourself such as character traits.

• You have to decide what you want, then decide what the price will be to get it and then whether or not you are willing to pay that price.

• You either work to achieve your own goals, or you work to achieve the goals of someone else.

• When you find yourself being distracted from your work have a trigger phrase you say to yourself to get you back on track, such as “get back to work now”.

• There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always time to do the important things.

• Wisdom comes from considering the secondary consequences of your actions. The primary consequences are usually fun, they are the immediate enjoyment you will receive. The secondary consequences are the things you have to live with as a result of those actions.

• You always have a choice between doing something that will benefit your life, and doing things which won’t.

• What you externalise you internalise.

• When giving praise to someone praise them immediately after doing something and make the praise specific, otherwise the praise has little or no value. That person will be more likely to repeat a behaviour if it is praised. Praise is most powerful in public.

• Success is always a journey not a destination.

• Aim for quality over quantity.