what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

“That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods.”

The basic idea is that we are conditioned to respond in a particular way to a particular stimulus.

True greatness will be

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

While we have acknowledged the tremendous power of conditioning in our lives, to say that we are determined by it, that we have no control over that influence, creates quite a different map.

If you visualize the wrong thing, you’ll produce the wrong thing.

Proactive people focus their efforts in the Circle of Influence. They work on the things they can do something about. The nature of their energy is positive, enlarging and magnifying, causing their Circle of Influence to increase.