Jeff Olson Quotes

You can gauge the limitations of a person's life by the size of the problems that get him or her down. You can measure the impact a person's life has by the size of the problems he or she solves.

• perspective

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Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do, and that often means living outside the limits of one's comfort zone.

• discipline
• sacrifice

This is the source.

It can take a good amount of energy and initiative to get yourself started in a new activity - but it takes far, far less to keep yourself doing it once you've started.

• initiative

This is the source.

Your optimal rate of growth is always served best by a step-by-step approach of constant, never-ending improvement, which lays solid foundations and builds upon them over and over.

• self improvement

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Each and every incomplete thing in your life or work exerts a draining force on you, sucking the energy of accomplishment and success out of you as surely as a vampire stealing your blood.

Every incomplete promise, commitment and agreement saps your strength, because it blocks your momentum, inhibits your ability to move forward, to progress and improve. Incomplete things keep calling you back to the past to take care of them.

• accomplishment
• completion

This is the source.

A surefire way to be forced to live as a prisoner of your past is not to complete things.

• accomplishment
• completion

This is the source.

There are two kinds of habits: those that serve you, and those that don't.

• habit

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Your habits operate at the unconscious level; you are not normally aware of them. It's only by bringing a habit into your conscious awareness that you can observe what it's doing, how it empowers and serves you or doesn't.

• habit

This is the source.

You can't build your dream by what you're going to do or planning to do or intend to do. You only build your dream by building it.

• actions
• dreams

This is the source.