NotitiesDreams Don't Have Deadlines
Mark Victor Hansen
Het boek "Dreams Don't Have Deadlines" van Mark Victor Hansen moedigt lezers aan om hun dromen na te jagen zonder zich door deadlines te laten beperken. Het benadrukt het belang van verlangen, toewijding en samenwerking met anderen om persoonlijke en professionele doelen te bereiken. Bovendien wordt gesteld dat geven en het delen van ideeën essentieel zijn voor succes en voldoening.
For everyone’s benefit, we need to take the deadlines off our dreams and start transforming them into the realities of our everyday lives. (Location 59)
“When you change your direction, you automatically change your destination.” (Location 130)
“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?” (Location 142)
One of the many things I’ll be teaching throughout this book is that if you’re going to be great, you have to have one major idea, one desire, and one key player. Then, voila! Your life is going to change and your fortune and your future is going to be better and richer. I knew that if I really wanted to get into basketball, I’d get up close and tight with this guy. I’m saying that there’s going to be that type of mentor for everybody, everywhere. And that’s why there is never a deadline attached to a dream. (Location 194)
Nowadays we teach to never do a book unless you have a great title; that’s the first and most important part. (Location 212)
There’s a time in each and every person’s life when you have to take your dream and pedestalize it and say, “Look, this is the most important thing.” Temporarily, you have to sacrifice your family. You front-end it with your family saying, “Look, I’m going to make it up to you. Here’s the tradeoff. Here’s the compromise. I’ll take you on a wonderful vacation…” Do whatever you have to do. But you also have to say something like, “This dream is what’s consuming me. The dream is making my life valuable right now; the dream is what I came to realize; it’s what I have to do; it’s what I’m passionately on purpose about; it’s what I came to do.” (Location 238)
We worked our butts off. We read two books that really changed our lives. One was by Dr. Jeffrey Lant, How to Make a Whole Lot More Than $1,000,000. The other was by John Kremer, 1001 Ways to Market Your Books. (Location 250)
It’s amazing to us that we could come out of relative obscurity to become so successful. But it’s possible when you have a burning desire and a passionate, continuing commitment. You can borrow awareness; you can borrow money; you can borrow distribution; you can borrow talent; you can borrow stories; you can borrow everything else you need and that’s what we did. But we started and maintained our desire and commitment. (Location 266)
Dust it off; dust off the dreams you have forgotten about. (Location 289)
Talk about your dreams and ideas and it’ll wake up possibilities that you can’t even imagine. (Location 295)
Jim Rohn said in every discipline and every area of your life there’s only three, four, five, six, or maybe seven things that you have to focus on; and if you just keep paying attention to them and keep scanning the horizon—sort of the dashboard of the management of your life—you’ll get them done. (Location 308)
Because our physical bodies, our physiology, changes every seven years, let’s change what we do and how we do it every seven years. Let’s be people of transformation. (Location 312)
I don’t think people are supposed to retire. I think we’re supposed to repurpose ourselves—because a boat that sits collects barnacles and an empty house attracts vermin. Don’t go from something to nothing. Go from something to something better, something greater, something more wondrous. (Location 330)
With my heart and soul and depth of the core of my being, I want you to repurpose yourself. I want you to not retire but to re-tire yourself. Put four new tires on your car self and take yourself wherever you want to go. I want you to turn on the engine and start your beingness to go where you want to go with it. One person can make a difference—and you’re that one person. (Location 334)
There are three kinds of people: a past person who says, “Back when I was in high school I was a football star,” “I was the head cheerleader,” or whatever. There is a present person who can see only what’s happening in the here and now. And then there’s the future-oriented person who can see the past in a deeper way. The better you know the past the better you can integrate it and take it into the future in a rich and fully dynamic way to more purposefully live now and take it forward. (Location 357)
YOUR LIFE INVENTORY So now I’m going to take you through a brief inventory not just of your goals but of your dreams, when you were in your teens or even before. What were the things you wanted to do or to accomplish or the things that you wanted to invent or the ideas you wanted to explore? Most importantly, who is the person you wanted to be? Write all this down. My cliché is: Don’t think it, ink it. Delegate it to document in whatever form seems comfortable to you. (Location 371)
Make a list of things in several paragraphs, create a future inventory of what you want to do—not that you can afford to do, not that you have the talent to do, not that you have the people to do. Don’t be judgmental. Most of us way underjudge ourselves. The word “sin” in the Bible is an Aramaic term that means to miss the mark, to miss the target; and the only way to miss the target is to not have a target. (Location 387)
When you write down your dreams, you’re going to talk about them and keep adding to them. I want you to be totally imaginative. (Location 394)
I’m going to ask you to create one more written document—a timeline of your life focusing not on what you wanted to happen or what you dreamed would happen, but what actually took place over the years of your life. This timeline is sort of like that Aboriginal map from Australia that I mentioned earlier. Get some crayons and a poster board and draw a picture. This is something you want to keep. This is a document that you want to write on and see your life trajectory, your life story. (Location 404)
I believe that everyone is coded at birth at a DNA and RNA level for greatness—not just one or two people or the heroes and heroines of our planet. I also think that at some young age we are told what we’re going to do. (Location 414)
When I was 16 years old, I was driving down Glen Flora Avenue in Waukegan, Illinois, where I was born. In one moment it was like time stopped and I went into that proverbial time warp. I saw myself in front of 80,000 people. I wondered what that meant. (Location 416)
The more things you hope for, the more things you’ll do. I say it’s not that you want too much, it’s that you want too little. Most people don’t put this great capacity to work. We are born over-endowed with 18 billion brain cells, but they can’t get to work until we make the decision to let the subconscious make the provision. (Location 425)
The fact is, after a certain age our lives are remembered by a series, as you read earlier, of snapshots, mental pictures of where you’ve been, what you’ve done, and with whom. These are our mental moments of memory. Snapshots can have a positive or negative predisposition. So we need to create snapshots of memory that are worthy of our highest dreams and our loftiest aspirations and goals. You need to develop positive, proactive pictures that attract you and draw you and bring you in. (Location 437)
My teacher, Bucky Fuller (R. Buckminster Fuller), said to my wife one night at dinner, “Patty, you don’t own you. The universe owns you, and you’re obligated to the universe to do all that you can do.” (Location 476)
The conversations that are the most exciting are when people are talking about what makes them wired, that tunes them in and turns them on. (Location 488)
Allow me a preface statement about the Social Security system, or the insecurity system as some call it. I don’t want you to depend on something that’s not secure. It was modeled after Kaiser Wilhelm’s system in Germany and set up in 1935 by then-president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Unfortunately, there wasn’t any program set in place that looked realistically into the future. Demographically people died at 45, so there was no worry about paying off people at 65. But then people starting setting a goal of retiring at 65 and drawing out the money they put into the Social Security system. (Location 494)
I want you to consider what the world’s most famous gerontologist, my friend Dr. Ken Dychtwald has to say. Ken recommends that you have a goal of creating at least $2 million net worth when you retire to be debt-free. Why? Because you live longer in retirement than you do working. We’re going to spend more on elder care than we ever spent on childcare. The bottom line—you need to be self-responsible, self-sufficient, and self-financed to be truly free. Write that down as part of your goals that we talked about in the last chapter. (Location 514)
Ancient spiritual law says, “Be fruitful, multiply, replenish.” It never said quit being fruitful at age 59, 65, or 72, just because you may be financially secure. Rather, if you have money, I encourage you to go from success to significance. (Location 523)
Each person is providentially incomplete. If you hold up your two index fingers and place them together, it isn’t two but it’s the power of eleven. Everyone achieves more together is the old cliché, but the new rewrite that I’ve done is together everyone achieves miracles because it’s only when you have a team that you create miracles. (Location 556)
The first three years Michael Jordan was playing basketball he sat on the bench, because he was told he wasn’t good enough. So as a high school student, what did he do? He started shooting a thousand jumpshots a day. He did the discipline; you have to do your discipline. I don’t know what your discipline is, but you have to figure it out and then discipline yourself. (Location 580)
“Tell me what it is you want and why it is you want it in your heart of hearts. And if you’ll do the doing, you’ll have the having. But you have to understand—you have to be it, to do it, to have it.” (Location 594)
I’m urging you to pick a problem. Determine what is it that you want to do to, then work and keep working. (Location 640)
Start now and make it the truth of who you can become. (Location 673)
Earlier I mentioned that Ken Dychtwald said you should have a minimum of $2 million when you’re ready to retire. If that’s not the truth of you yet, write down, “I’m so happy I’m an enlightened millionaire with in excess of two million dollars to retire on.” Then sign it. If you do that quick little exercise, it’ll impress your subconscious so you express it on a screen of your future space. Do it now. (Location 686)
I’m asking you to write down some possible multiple sources of income. What are the ten additional income sources you can create? Notice the word “create.” I don’t want you to take a job. (Location 741)
When you’re in a spirit of joy, you are a money attractor. You attract possibilities and opportunities that don’t come to people who are negative. (Location 760)
Cavett Robert always said your future earning power is probably the most important thing you have after your family and your spiritual values. (Location 773)
Once you have the desire and you have your dream and you have it pictured, all you need is one key contact and voila! you’re going to get a fortune. After that you can borrow everything else—talent, wherewithal, ideas, networks of connections, direct mail, mentors, resource skills, and relationships that you didn’t know you can have. In fact, everyone who’s ever created wealth did just that. (Location 790)
Your intangible wealth—desire and commitment—makes your imagination, ambition, energy, creativity, and possibility bloom. They convert into the tangible asset called real estate, intellectual property, stocks, bonds, a portfolio, money in whatever form called your financial portfolio. So remember this, it’s your intangibles that make the tangible. (Location 793)
Is it hard to have a million dollar idea? No. It’s just like when Jack and I wanted the ideal title for the book, which he was going to call Happy Little Stories. We used the work of Erick Erickson, a psychiatrist and hypnotherapist. He said, “Go into deep meditation and say 400 times in a row, ‘Mega best-selling title, mega best-selling title, mega best-selling title,’ and then give yourself a thought command what time you’re going wake up with the answer.” At four o’clock in the morning, Jack woke up and came up with the title Chicken Soup for the Soul. He woke up his wife, called me, and my wife said, “this better be good.” Well, I got goose bumps. He got goose bumps, we all got goose bumps. (Location 816)
What matters is that you make the decision in your subconscious, and the world and the universe will make the provision. (Location 823)
But you have to keep saying yes to yourself because every idea is stillborn. So you have to say yes to it, nurture it, cultivate it, and then get others who are like-minded to say yes to it. (Location 824)
You never have a money crisis. You only have an idea crisis. Ideas attract money. (Location 851)
Hopefully you will write down ideas every day as you capture your ideas. (Location 853)
That’s what I’m saying about your wealth—have big ideas that excite all of your eighteen billion brain cells to come to work at a new velocity. (Location 874)
The first literature written 6,000 years ago is The Upanishads, and the first line says, “Out of abundance he took abundance and still abundance remained.” (Location 880)
You don’t do the wealth for yourself alone—wealth alone isn’t enough. You can do wealth and source and serve great masses of people at levels you can’t even imagine right now. (Location 895)
Decide in favor of yourself. Write down, “I’m happy that I’m going to be an enlightened millionaire and I’m going to be a massively big contributor in ways I never thought I could do before.” (Location 896)
One of the most neglected elements in all the areas of personal development is the fun factor. (Location 902)
Misery is a decision you don’t have to make. You can decide to laugh, love, enjoy life, and be radiantly, exuberantly happy. You are the party. When you have a party inside, the party shows up outside. (Location 918)
What does it mean to be at fun and in fun? To me, it’s any self-fulfilling activity that does not depend on a particular outcome. (Location 927)
Figure out what your art form is and then manifest it. (Location 950)
Picasso was a reductionist, always trying to do everything in the most economical of all ways. He was considered by The Guinness Book of World Records. to be the world’s most productive artist. (Location 956)
The highest form of fun as far as I’m concerned is good thinking. (Location 972)
You need to go deep because you have more acres of diamonds in your mind. (Location 975)
We’re leveraging abundance into the future. We’re leveraging thinking; and when you leverage thinking, we decide to make thinking fun. (Location 978)
Hang out with people who are having fun in their art form. (Location 982)
If we make education fun, it becomes fun. (Location 989)
There’s no topic that can’t be fun. (Location 991)
I want you to decide in favor of yourself and decide that you’re going to hang around people who are fun. Be decisive, take action, and do what no one’s ever done before. (Location 996)
If you’re a Christian, why shouldn’t your church invite a Jewish person to come and speak, or a Hindu or Muslim. Different points of view prompt you to think in new ways. You don’t have to abandon your own beliefs to hear about others, and it may even prove to solidify what you believe. (Location 1012)
Every friend you meet opens you up to a whole new category of about 250 other people you could meet. (Location 1016)
When was the last time you laughed so hard you cried? (Location 1018)
Whatever you do, be aware of the tendency that exists in many people as they get older to get grumpier and complain more. It’s the Scrooge syndrome. (Location 1043)
Never lose the capacity to have fun. On the other hand your dreams are waiting for you. (Location 1048)
To stay young and prosper, you have to keep cultivating young friends. You have to cultivate your wealth and your health—and you have to cultivate more and more purposes to be on purpose about. When we study the development of any great idea, we invariably find that it didn’t happen in a vacuum. (Location 1060)
Often a great idea has remained dormant in the mind of a given individual until contact with someone else triggers it and brings it into realization. (Location 1067)
In business, there are three parts: innovation, optimization, and acceleration. Let’s look at each. Innovation is always intrinsically messy. One of my three favorite lines in the Bible is in Proverbs where it says the only clean barn is an empty barn. Meaning, if you have stacked innovation, you can have a messy barn. You’re going to have some horse poop there, so to speak. No matter what you’re going to do, to be successful, you have to do more of it in less time and faster and better, and get better results in your tomorrow than you did in your yesterday or even that you’re getting today. How are you going to do that? You can do it if you’re networking with people who are true to their heart and true to innovation, no matter when they do it in their lives. (Location 1069)
We don’t know when one person’s life is going to connect with another. You can’t even predict it. All you can do is write it into your diary and your goal journal that in the future you will have lots and lots of friends. And write what kind of friends you want to have, what they ideally would be like. Write what your conversations will be like. (Location 1085)
There’s a clear similarity between the development of thinking capacity of the human brain and development of creative potential of society as a whole—both depend on the transformation of a large group of isolated entities into an interconnected network of communication cooperation. We call it co-op-petition where competitors come together and create something brand-new. (Location 1096)
In the first three years of life, individual neurons in the brain are connected to one another and the extent to which this happens seems to determine the cognitive power of the individual. The amount of stimulation that a child receives determines the extent to which brain cells connect. (Location 1099)
All of us are connected. In India they call it the Akashic records, the infinite knowingness. I believe that if we stay connected and get with the right people, there’s probably no limitation to what we can do. (Location 1107)
There are people who can see more in you than what you can see. That’s why you have to stay connected, get connected, maximize your exposure, and maximize your possibilities. (Location 1109)
Why not make it a goal to meet one new person every day no matter what. (Location 1119)
The more you learn, the more you earn. When you understand the importance of getting and staying connected and you’ve identified both the high and low tech means of doing so, you’ve already answered some of the all-important questions. For example, who should I stay connected with? (Location 1126)
Joe Girard, the world’s greatest car salesman, said that he knew that everyone he sold a car to had a little diary, or address book at home of about 250 people they know and love and respect and admire and appreciate. So he said to each of the buyers, “I want you to be my bird dog. I’ll give you twenty five dollars for everyone who comes in here and buys a car from me.” He sold more than 1,425 cars in one year and 13,000 cars in ten years. How? One reason was his bird dog tactic and another was that he wrote a thank-you note to everyone who bought a car from him. (Location 1131)
The point is, most people need somebody to talk to; and the value here is be a good listener, an active listener. We have two eyes and two ears, so we’re supposed to listen twice as much as we talk. When you take time to listen, your value exponentially goes up in their mind. (Location 1158)
My cliché is, when your network goes up, your net worth goes up. So, one of the books you have to read to build your network is the classic by Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People. What he learned a long time ago is that when you keep asking people questions about what interests them, which are nonjudgmental and nonintimidating, they open up like an ever-flowering lotus. (Location 1160)
Everybody is fascinating to me, so I usually ask, “Do you mind if I take notes?” I encourage you to do that too because your value will grow exponentially and increase as you become an active grower of your contact list. (Location 1164)
The only part of the network you want to stay away from is toxic people. You know, the people who brighten up a whole room when they walk out of it. (Location 1172)
Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people are six, or fewer, social connections away from each other. I think once you understand this, you’re only one or two people away from anyone you want to meet. When you get it in your head, they will show up in your experience. (Location 1209)
Focus on expanding your volume of friendships and acquaintances. When you need something, you can use your network to get from where you are to where you want to be, with whomever you want. Shift your thinking from in terms of volume of relationships to specific connections that may at times include only one person who could be the mentoring relationship you need. (Location 1218)
When I got up close and personal to Bucky, I learned that anyone who’s become great has sometime during his or her career apprenticed with someone great for two or more years. (Location 1240)
what do you do to solicit a mentor? You ask what they need, what their short supply is, how you can source and serve them, and get for them what they want. (Location 1241)
Build bridges with younger people who are going to inspire you to do things that you didn’t even think you could do. (Location 1254)
Your real personal wealth, your health equity, is the equity of all equities. In the beginning of our career life, many give their whole health to gain wealth; but in the end, a lot of people pay their whole wealth to regain their health. (Location 1271)
A dollar a day over sixty-six years adds up to $25,000 if you’re hiding it under your mattress or in your Folgers can. But at 10 percent interest, it turns out to be more than $1 million. (Location 1296)
Some people say, “I don’t get sick, it’s not part of the mantra that I believe. I don’t get an annual cold. I don’t get sniffles. I don’t get the flu.” They’re being honest. And that’s the position I’ve had now for more than thirty years, because I started studying this type of thinking. Can you get there? Yes. But the problem may be that you have to take care of yourself at higher levels. (Location 1305)
Every priority has an anti-priority. (Location 1311)
Studies have shown a correlation between a low heart rate and longevity. (Location 1343)
If stress is increased by radically changing what we eat, maybe we’re doing more harm than good. (Location 1358)
When people overeat or eat unhealthy foods, there’s a reason—usually an emotional, subconscious reason. (Location 1359)
To get rid of a bad habit, it has to be instantaneously replaced with a good habit. Finding a replacement requires insight. (Location 1361)
If you want to have high energy, you have to put in the jet fuel. (Location 1383)
You need to be telling yourself, I’m going into REM sleep, and when I wake up (how many hours), I’m going to wake up refreshed. And when you do, you’re going to feel really good. (Location 1422)
There are two basic ways we learn—one is impact and the other is repetition. If we repeat garbage into our heads on a full-time basis, we’ll live in fear, anger, doubt, indecision, pain, procrastination, and guilt. Avoid negative stimulation. (Location 1428)
You need to be systematically programming yourself to have happy, joyous experiences. Listen to funny stuff and people who make you laugh. Purposely push some humor and laughter and high spirits into your workday. (Location 1454)
Humor is vital for our emotional health. (Location 1456)
The experience of parenthood is a deeply spiritual component of life. (Location 1499)
When we reflect on the forces that are much bigger, more powerful, and more lasting than we are, we step into a spiritual experience of nature. (Location 1536)
In everyone’s life there are times when things seem to happen that completely contradict the laws of probability. (Location 1551)
Arthur Koestler wrote a wonderful book titled The Roots of Coincidence. It asserts that coincidence is actually a quick glimpse into the spiritual world, a reminder that we should be paying attention to spiritual forces that are at work every moment of our life. Every time you get in any transportation vehicle, whether a bus, plane, or train, say to yourself, I’m going to sit next to and meet the person who is going to take me to the next level on my life’s journey. (Location 1553)
imagination is going to create coincidences because your intention in that tension will get you retention of your dreams. (Location 1559)
Carnegie said, “To try to make the world in some way better than you found it is to have a noble motive in life.” (Location 1570)
Like Hemingway, your story is yours to create, master, share, constantly reinvent, recount, and then later on to be remembered and to last in history. You are here to make a significant spiritual difference now and forever. Because the spiritual you is eternal. (Location 1600)
What do I believe? Who do I believe in? How do those beliefs become actionable in my life? What am I going to do about them? (Location 1610)
Sharing is having more. The best way to get something, is to give something. (Location 1631)
Even if you have low self-esteem and don’t feel like a whole person temporarily, you times God is infinite, so use infinity to multiply yourself. (Location 1643)
When you and God unify, you become one with God. Only you can become an individualization of God. Like giving in human form, you start to multiply the infinite. It’s miraculous. God needs each of us to multiply all of us. God needs each of us to multiply out all that’s possible for the rest of us. You are more important than you have ever realized. (Location 1646)
It’s only when we shut off giving that we create lack. (Location 1649)
Start all your thinking with giving, and you will experience perpetual happiness, plenty, abundance, and loads of surplus. (Location 1650)
My friend Cynthia Kersy, author of the best-selling book Unstoppable, says it’s impossible to understand giving from a human point of view—except by experience and after the fact. It happens mystically and mysteriously; every time you give, you get. Ultimately and inevitably you get from somewhere, somehow, and at some time. Be godlike; be a great giver. (Location 1652)
The original translation in the Bible says that God loves a hilarious giver (2 Corinthians 9:7). The words were downplayed to “cheerful giver,” meaning laugh, enjoy yourself knowing in your heart of hearts that there is more and better coming. (Location 1659)
Your objective is to find a place where you can and want to serve in a spirit of absolute joy. Discover a way to utilize your extraordinary talent so you can experience it as effortless effort. (Location 1670)
Colossal giving and serving always guarantees colossal receiving. (Location 1673)
My friend Dr. Ken Blanchard said to me once, “When you wake up, wake up slowly.” I interpreted that to mean to have a conversation with God before racing busily into the day’s activity. God has ways of making your life operate with effortless ease and effort. If you just get quiet, be patient, and reverently listen, the more and better you get at it, the more God will tell you. (Location 1693)
I believe tithing is an umbrella protection that can only help you if you’ve given in advance. (Location 1708)
I encourage you to start by giving away your ideas, and more will come to you than you ever experienced before. (Location 1710)
Giving Principle Three Give yourself as part of the gift. The best giving always includes you as part of the gift. When you participate in a gift, its value is always more cherished and appreciated. (Location 1712)
Bob Allen says the decisions you make with each and every dollar under your dominion determines whether you are on course to become a millionaire or a pauper. (Location 1728)
If you’re going to give your money away, maybe you can set up a foundation that’s incorruptible. But if you don’t think you can do that, why not give it away while you’re alive. (Location 1753)
Bucky Fuller said sharing is having more; and when our orientation is others-oriented, we share and become more purposeful and better stewards of our resources, be they financial, talent, personal connections, or whatever. To achieve your dreams, you have to understand that dreams don’t have deadlines, and givers give. (Location 1765)
Robert Schuller says anyone can count the seeds in an apple but only God counts the apples in a seed. (Location 1818)
I’m encouraging you to give without an expectation of return because it mysteriously generates a compounding effect in the most unexpected ways and unexpected times and unexpected places. (Location 1833)
Most people intrinsically know that giving is an investment. Billionaire and founder of the John Templeton Fund, Sir John Marks Templeton said, “Tithing has always been the best investment and pays the greatest returns. When one invests, one can expect a return.” Tithing causes a boomerang effect. (Location 1843)
If you want the best insurance policy to guarantee happiness, get into regular, systematic, heartfelt giving. (Location 1855)
Giving 10 percent of what you have puts the universe in your debt. If you put positive energy into the world, positive energy has to come back to you. (Location 1858)
When you really master giving, you’ll evolve to a double tithe and perhaps even like LeTourneau, you’ll become a reverse tither who gives 90 percent and lives on 10 percent. When the amounts become phenomenal, you can’t use it all anyhow. (Location 1870)
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his essay Compensation, which I hope you’ve read, “Every act rewards itself.” Likewise every gift is its own reward. (Location 1874)
You may be familiar with the biblical story of Joseph and his many-colored coat. Joseph interpreted Pharaoh’s dreams saying there would be seven years of feast and seven years of famine. During the feast, the Egyptians were to save 20 percent of all their foodstuff. Because of that act, Egypt became the most powerful nation in the world and able to feed everyone within their geographical reach. Likewise, if you’re an enlightened giver, you’ll be alerted in time to take advantage of opportunities and warned in time to get out of the way if troubles are coming. What does that mean? If you are a giver and a tither, your inner knower is going to direct you to save more money, resources, or whatever. If you have that little intuitive inner knowing, listen to it, because when you live a principled life, you become ever more enlightened. (Location 1878)
Each of us should share a little—that way a lot would be shared, everyone would be better off, and no one would be worse off. (Location 1891)
Visualize yourself as a cheerful, happy, joyous giver. Even before you are one, don’t make the mistake of thinking that you have to be a millionaire in order to give. (Location 1893)
Many people, and probably you’re one of them, reach a point in their lives where they develop leadership, which is defined as character and competence with expertise in a given subject area. (Location 1914)
But leadership is not only about qualifications. The qualifications for leadership develop once the actions toward leadership are taken. (Location 1938)
That’s how leadership starts. You start small and you progressively get tall. (Location 1947)
How do I multiply it? What would it take for me to tenfold or hundredfold my leadership role? What’s possible if I got rid of my own self-sabotaging doubts and lack of belief? (Location 1955)
There’s always, always, always an opportunity for you to be a leader. (Location 1963)
Most especially there are leadership roles in our society that need leaders on a voluntary basis. (Location 1965)
A real leader is nice to everybody. There are no little people, only different people. A real leader sees potential in everyone and sees more potential in them than anyone else sees. (Location 1981)
There’s a leader inside you; a leader desperate to be released. I’m giving you permission today to release your great leadership. The world needs you. Your family needs you. The business, industry, or association you’re in needs you; and most importantly, the future needs you to live up to your leadership ability. There’s more in you than you ever thought. (Location 2012)
But maybe you can develop enough soul depth that you can solve a lot of people’s relationship problems. (Location 2046)
Everyone needs someone who really cares and knows you at a soul level, a core level, at the essence of your being and is willing to discuss with you how to make your relationships work. (Location 2049)
I’m asking you to write down all your can’ts, light them on fire, cremate them, then bury them deep. (Location 2063)
The seventh mentor you need is an overall life guide. What does that mean? That means someone who helps you work with the blueprint, the pattern of integrity called your life. (Location 2071)
In his seminars, Jack and I sit eyeball to eyeball with each attendee and keep asking, “What do you want? What do you want? What do you want?” Most start out saying something like, “I want my right livelihood. I want my ideal spouse. I want my kids to graduate from college.” But after ten or so of that same question, the answers start to come from the depth of the person’s soul. (Location 2083)
The trick is having someone in your life who can help you fulfill your dreams, which is not the opposite of being a leader yourself. It’s about the recognition that you can’t do everything on your own. (Location 2095)
Money freedom creates time freedom which creates relationship freedom which creates genius freedom. (Location 2109)
Robert Schuller said, “God’s delays aren’t God’s denials.” Maybe you stopped moving or stopped believing. If you stopped trusting in your own abilities, I want you to shake off that distrust in the presence of the Higher Power who is always there to help you. Never stop hoping, and never stop moving. Just keep going. (Location 2149)
If you are a self-leader and a tither, if you are a giver who is resolute in your giving, you will be alerted in times of opportunity. And there is more opportunity than ever before. That’s why this book is titled Dreams Don’t Have Deadlines. Don’t self-sabotage yourself. If you buy into the worst, into the lowest, and if someone preys into your fear, you’ll shut down and be immobilized, stifled and condemned to living less than your full potential. (Location 2196)
You have to be willing to speak from the peak and share your dreams and visions with other people. (Location 2203)
Courage is a French word that means strength of heart. I’m asking you to work on the strength of your heart and be more courageous than you’ve ever been. (Location 2205)