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Human Nature

Human nature is to live with a "someday" mindset. #Blog #ThursdayThought #Quote #Someday #Mind

Human nature is to live with a “someday” mindset and think life will work itself out. Hal Elrod talks about the lack of urgency in people to improve themselves and their lives. He mentions that 95% of the people don’t achieve what they want in life because of the perpetual problem of this “someday” mindset. Human nature is such that we tend to hope that someday things will get better, someday we…

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Reading Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul. - Matthew Kelly This is one of our all-time favorite quote.

Who is intelligent investor?

Intelligent Investor #Investments #Value #Price #Money #Stocks #SundayBlogShare #Blog #Quote

The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists. Benjamin Graham, the father of value investing, writes this definition of the intelligent investor. He says, The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a…

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How much money should you save?

How much should you save? #Quote #WednesdayWisdom #Blog #Money #Savings #Investments #Finance

Any man who will put by one-tenth of his earnings consistently and invest it wisely will surely create a valuable estate that will provide an income for him in future. One of the most obvious truth in investment is to just save, and invest it wisely. However, not may people understand it. We don’t realize that a part of all you earn is yours to keep. We never save enough, because we think that we…

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How happy are you?

How happy are you? #Quote #TuesdayMotivation #Blog #Happiness #HowToWinFriends #Mind

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. – Abe Lincoln Another great quote from How to Win Friends & Influence People. Dale Carnegie refers to Abe Lincoln’s quote to explain the general tendency of the human beings about happiness. Dale Carnegie mentions – Everybody in the world is seeking happiness – and there is one sure way to find it. That is controlling your thoughts.…

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How to manage time?

How to manage time? #TimeManagement #Matrix #SundayBlogShare #Work #Time #Management #Blog

No matter what you are doing; you have to manage time. We all know the fact that we have limited amount of time in our hands in a day. You get 24 hours each day, whether you are a billionaire or a streetside seller, you have 24 hours in a day. But what separates people on this earth is that how they spend 24 hours each day. What activities they do, what tasks they finish, what things they do…

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No one can hurt you without your consent

No one can hurt you without your consent.#SundayMorning #7Habits #Relationships #blog #quote

No one can hurt you without your consent. -Eleanor Roosevelt Steven Covey in his timeless best-selling book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change uses this quote to explain that everyone should accept the responsibility of what they are now. We should not blame our circumstances, conditions, or environment for what we are today. They cannot take away our…

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Be wiser than others but do not tell them

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so #Quotes #SaturdayMorning #blog

Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so. – Lord Chesterfield This is another quote from the Dale Carnegie’s all-time classic book on human relationships – How to Win Friends & Influence People. In chapter 2, Dale Carnegie explains the sure way to avoid making enemies. When you tell people that they are wrong, it will make them want to strike back because you have struck a…

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What do you need to develop a habit?

What do you need to develop a habit? #QuoteOfTheDay #7Habits #Quote #WednesdayWisdom

Knowledge is the theoretical paradigm, the what to do and the why. Skill is the how to do. And desire is the motivation, the want to do. In order to make something a habit our lives, we have to have all three. Steven Covey in his timeless best-selling book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change defines the habit in this quote. He defines a habit as an…

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You cannot win an argument

You cannot win an argument #TuesdayTips #TT #Thoughts #Relationships #

A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still. – Benjamin Franklin “You cannot win an argument”, says Dale Carnegie in his all time famous book ‘How to Win Friends & Influence People‘. Above quote is an extension to his thoughts on why arguments are worthless. He writes – Nine times out of ten, an argument ends with each of the contestants more firmly convinced than ever that he…

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Yield to get more than expected

Yield to get more than expected #Saturday #Blogger #SaturdayBlogShare #SaturdayReads #SatChat

By fighting you never get enough, but by yielding you get more than you expected. – Dale Carnegie “If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically” is one of the best principles in Dale Carnegie’s 75 years old book “How to Win Friends & Influence People.” It is one thing to take responsibility for your mistake, but to admit it quickly and emphatically tests more than your courage. It means…

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Importance of visualization

Don't visualize the wrong things #7Habits #QuoteOfTheDay #Quote #SaturdayFunDay #Bloggers

If you visualized the wrong thing, you’ll produce wrong thing. Steven Covey mentions this quote to explain the importance of visualization in his timeless best-selling book. This quote is very simple. Stephen Covey gives his own example in the book where he visualizes himself in day-to-day situations. He can write the program, write the script, in harmony with his values, with his personal…

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A new level of thinking

A new level of thinking #7Habits #QuoteOfTheDay #Quote #Bloggers #Quotes

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them Steven Covey in his timeless best-selling book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change mentions this quote. It is written by the great scientist ever to grace the earth – Einstein. It is a very thoughtful quote, we could take the meaning of it in…

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You are not your idea

You are not your idea #Blog #ThursdayThoughts #Idea #Teamwork #TeamBuilding #Management #Pixar

You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged. – Ed Catmull In Creativity, Inc., a NY Times bestseller by Ed Catmull, we get a glimpse into Pixar’s widely known Braintrust, a group of their creative storytellers ranging from directors to writers who regularly review films from rough storyboards to the final product.…

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The way we see the problem is the problem

The way we see the problem is the problem. #QuoteOfTheDay #TuesdayBookBlog #7Habits

The way we see the problem is the problem Steven Covey in the build up to the seven habits’ introduction in his classic best-selling book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change, mentions this quote. He explains that sometimes we need a paradigm change, we need to look at the problems from a different perspective. People want quick solutions to their problems,…

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Successful People: What differentiates them from others?

Successful People: What differentiates them from others?#MotivationMonday @HalErod @ScottJurek

“Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like doing these things themselves; they just get on and do them.” – Don Marquis Hal Elrod in his widely acclaimed book – ‘The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8 AM)‘…

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Solution to every problem?

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Whether a problem is direct, indirect, or no control, we have in our hands the first step to the solution. It is another thought-provoking quote from Steven Covey’s best-selling book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change. Steven Covey mentions that the problems we face fall in one of the three areas 1. Direct Control These are the problems involving our own…

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