Jack canfield quotes

Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be.

The Law of Probabilities: the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work.

People who don't have goals work for people who do.

If we are not a little bit uncomfortable every day, we're not growing. All the good stuff is outside our comfort zone.

Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people -- people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories.

Most of life is on-the-job training. Some of the most important things can only be learned in the process of doing them. You do something and you get feedback - about what works and what doesn't. If you don't do anything for fear of doing it wrong, poorly, or badly, you never get any feedback, and therefore you never get to improve.

Don't waste your life believing you can't.

When you truly are on purpose, the people, resources, and opportunities you need naturally gravitate toward you.

Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again. Give yourself permission to toot your own horn and don't wait for anyone to praise you.

If you don't like your outcomes, change your responses.

Remember, it is not about luck. It is about doing the right things the right way.

Don't just sit there (and complain), do something.

If you love your work, if you enjoy it, you're already a success.

Do it, delegate it, delay it, or dump it.

If you want to find greater happiness and fulfillment in your life, you must begin to understand and live in harmony with the law of attraction.

One of the things that may get in the way of people ... is that they're not in touch with their passion. If you're passionate about what it is you do, then you're going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it.

When Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bruce Jenner asked a roomful of Olympic hopefuls if they had a list of written goals, every one raised their hands. When he asked how many of them had that list with them right that moment, only one person raised their hand. That person was Dan O'Brien. And it was Dan O'Brien who went on to win the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Don't underestimate the power of setting goals and constantly reviewing them.

Jump, then grow wings on the way down.

Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

The world doesn't pay you for what you know, it pays you for what you do.

Whatever goal you give to your subconscious mind, it will work night and day to achieve.

Self-esteem does not mean feeling good all the time. Self-esteem means loving yourself even when you feel badly...even when you make a mistake. It means loving yourself even when you're depressed. It means that you accept yourself fully.

You can't change anyone else but people do change in relationship to your change. All relationships are a system, and when any one part of a system changes, it affects the other part.

I'm a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it's about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us.

Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

Change is inevitable in life. You can either resist it and potentially get run over by it, or you can choose to cooperate with it, adapt to it, and learn how to benefit from it. When you embrace change you will begin to see it as an opportunity for growth.

It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.

I like Dr. Daniel Amen's 18/40/60 Rule: When you're 18, you worry about what everybody is thinking of you; when you're 40, you don't give a darn what anybody thinks of you; when you're 60, you realize nobody's been thinking about you at all.

If you are clear where you are going and you take several steps in that direction every day, you eventually have to get there. If I head north out of Santa Barbara and take five steps a day, eventually I have to end up in San Francisco. So decide what you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.

Believing that you can achieve (and deserve) all that you want in your life is a critical step to your success. Don't waste your life believing you can't.

Good or bad, habits always deliver results.

You only have control over three things in your life - the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take (your behavior). How you use these three things determines everything you experience. If you don't like what you are producing and experiencing, you have to change your responses.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

Your habits will determine your future.

If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

Research has shown over and over again that the more you acknowledge your past successes, the more confident you become in taking on and successfully accomplishing new ones.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is a gift of empowerment and love.

Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as 10-pound milestones. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step.

May you always work like you don't need the money; May you always love like you've never been hurt; and May you always dance like there's nobody watching.

Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.

The biggest rewards in life are found outside your comfort zone. Live with it. Fear and risk are prerequisites if you want to enjoy a life of success and adventure.

A recent management study revealed that 46% of employees leaving a company do so because they feel underappreciated; 61% said their bosses don't place much importance on them as people, and 88% said they do not receive acknowledgement for the work they do.

Sometimes you dance with a partner, and sometimes you dance alone. But the important thing is to keep dancing.

When you're nice to people, they want to be nice back to you.

You either create or allow everything that happens to you.

The things that bring you the greatest joy are in alignment with your purpose.

Every time you take a risk or move out of your comfort zone, you have a great opportunity to learn more about yourself and your capacity.

Success is the ability to do what you want, whenever you want, as often as you want.

The principles always work if you work the principles.

You have to commit to the what, before the how shows up.

Your habits determine your outcomes.

The formula is simple - do more of what is working, do less of what isn't, and try on new behaviors to see if they produce better results.

Reject rejection! If someone says no, just say NEXT

The problem is the average person isnt tuned in to lifelong learning, or going to seminars and so forth. If the information is not on television, and its not in the movies they watch, and its not in the few books that they buy, they dont get it.

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

The most successful people I know create superior results yet still maintain a balance among work, family, and recreation in their lives.

It's surprising how many people get bogged down in analysing, planning, and organizing when what they really need to do is take action.

Repeating an affirmation several times a day keeps you focused on your goal, strengthens your motivation, and programs your subconscious by sending an order to your crew to do whatever it takes to make that goal happen.

Anything that's motivated from fear will ultimately take you down the wrong road and lead you in a cul de sac, anything motivated from purpose, from joy, and from love will take you on an evolutionary path to greater and greater happiness.

Part of paying the price is the willingness to do whatever it takes to get the job done. It comes from a declaration that you are going to get it done no matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes, no matter what comes up.

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

It is kindness in a person, not beauty that wins our love

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

If everybody thinks you're out of your mind, you just might be onto something.

The Law of Attraction states that whatever you focus on, think about, read about, and talk about intensely, you’re going to attract more of into your life.

Make sure to immediately write down any impressions you receive. Intuitive impressions are often subtle and therefore 'evaporate' very quickly, so make sure to capture them in writing as soon as possible. Recent research in neuroscience indicates that an intuitive insight - or any new idea - not captured within 37 seconds is likely never to be recalled again. In 7 minutes, it's gone forever. As my buddy Mark Victor Hansen likes to say, 'As soon as you think it, ink it!'

Almost everything we'll ever do in life that is really powerful, that really produces a result in our lives, that quantum-leaps us to a new level . . . requires us to do something uncomfortable. It takes risks to achieve. It's often scary. It requires something you didn't know before or a skill you didn't have before. But in the end, it's worth it. As former Congressman Ed Forman says, 'Winners are those people who make a habit of doing things losers are uncomfortable doing.' Make today your day to start that uncomfortable new habit.

Almost everything we'll ever do in life that is really powerful, that really produces a result in our lives, that quantum-leaps us to a new level... requires us to do something uncomfortable.

If you get clear on the what, the how will be taken care of.

Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Believe you deserve it and believe it’s possible for you. And then close your eyes and every day for several minutes, and visualize having what you already want, feeling the feelings of already having it. Come out of that and focus on what you’re grateful for already, and really enjoy it. Then go into your day and release it to the Universe and trust that the Universe will figure out how to manifest it. “Jack Canfield

If you are going to be successful, you need to give up the phrase, "I can't" & all of its cousins, such as "I wish I were able to.

What others think about you is none of your business.

For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

Pay attention to how you are feeling, and keep your compass heading set for JOY!

Law of attraction says: "We'll give you whatever it is you say and focus on." and so if you are complaining about how bad it is, what you're creating is more of how bad it is.

Remember, there is no perfect time for anything. There is only now.

You only have control over three things in your life-the thoughts you think, the images you visualise, & the actions you take.

All you have to do is DECIDE what you want. BELIEVE you DESERVE IT, and PRACTICE the success PRINCIPLES.

Psychologists tell us we think 50,000 thoughts a day...between 1,000 and 5,000 thoughts in a single hour. Many of those thoughts are about ourselves and about our performance, about our lovability, our capability and our significance. So the key is to control those thoughts, making certain they're always positive.

Super-successf ul people aren’t the most gifted people in their fields. They just work, study and practice more than the competition.

I think setting goals is critical; having deadlines for ourselves- how much by when? Too many people have these big dreams where they want to have a big house on the ocean. But until we say what ocean, how big, what day, our conscience doesn't know what to do with that information. A positive expectancy, a positive attitude, a belief that your dream is possible is also helpful.

Most fears cannot withstand the test of careful scrutiny and analysis. When we expose our fears to the light of thoughtful examination they usually just evaporate.

If you already know how to make your dream come true, then you're thinking too small.

There is only one person responsible for the quality of life you live and that person is you.

You and you alone are responsible for taking actions to create the life of your dreams. Nobody else can (or will) do it for you.

Vague goals produce vague results

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

It is only by acknowledging that you have created everything up until now that you can take charge of creating the future you want.

Whatever your dream is, look yourself in the mirror and declare that you are indeed going to achieve it -no matter what the price.

When you think you can't, revisit a previous triumph.

One of the main strategies of the successful is that they constantly seek guidance from experts in their field.

Negative feelings are like weeds. If you don't fully extract them (i.e. pull out the roots), they will come back.

The best way to establish rapport with people and to win them over to your side is to be truly interested in them, to listen with the intention of really learning about them. When the person feels that you are really interested in getting to know them and their feelings, they will open up to you and share their true feelings with you much more quickly.

Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.

Your level of performance matches your dominant self image.

If you want something new in your life, you have to make space for it. I mean that psychologically as well as physically. Take a look at your closet. If you have the kind of closet where you can't fit another thing in there, that might be the reason you don't have more new clothes. If you want a new man in your life, you've got to let go of the one who stopped dating you five years ago. In other words, you need to complete the past in order for the present to show up more fully.

You become like the people you spend the most time with.

You don't have the potential to create, you are always creating.

One way to kill an opportunity is to avoid taking it.

Everything valuable takes time, there are no overnight successes.

The bottom line is that you are the one who is creating your life the way it is. The life you currently live is the result of all your past thoughts and actions. You are in charge of your current thoughts and your present feelings.

Gratitude is the single most important ingredient to living a successful and fulfilled life.

Each of us is born with a life purpose. Identifying, acknowledging, and honoring this purpose is perhaps the most important action successful people take.

I have a friend, a pastor, who applied with me and 419 other people for 25 seats on a special advisory board. Though I believed she was infinitely more qualified than me, she wasn't selected and I was. When I saw her at her church weeks later, I asked her how she felt about the decision. While disappointment, self-doubt and defeat would have been normal reactions to the Board's decision, my friend said she felt great. 'How come?' I asked. She said with a smile, 'I just figured God had something better in store for me.'

Everything you think, say, and do needs to become intentional and aligned with your purpose, your values, and your goals.

One Dad I know uses what I call Post-It® Note therapy on his children. He leaves sticky Post-It Notes everywhere ...in their lunch box, inside their shoes, on top of their sandwich before he wraps it up. He once went into his daughter's room, looking for his hammer, and on the back of her bedroom door were every Post-It Note he'd ever given her - over 250 in all with simple messages like 'Great job'...'I love you'...or 'You're special to me.' Do you think that girl knew, without a doubt, that her Dad valued her and loved her?

Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything. So when you think a sustained thought it is immediately sent out into the Universe. That thought magnetically attaches itself to the like frequency, and then within seconds sends the reading of that frequency back to you through your feelings. Put another way, your feelings are communicated back to you from the Universe, telling you what frequency you are currently on. Your feelings are your frequency feedback mechanism!

Most of us have never allowed ourselves to want what we truly want because we can't see how it's going to manifest.

What have you done for YOURSELF this year to create a better life?

You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right

Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them.

Keep in mind that part of growing up is dealing with difficult issues, and the benefits can be great if you have the courage to ask for help. Human beings are not designed to go through life alone. No one has to bear the burden of tough times all by themselves.

If you want to be really successful, and I know you do, then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life -- that means all your results, both your successes and your failures. That is the prerequisite for creating a life of success.

The day you change your responses is the day your life will begin to get better.

I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

To be 'on purpose' means you're doing what you love to do, doing what you're good at, and accomplishing what's important to you.

As you begin to take action toward the fulfillment of your goals and dreams, you must realize that not every action will be perfect. Not every action will produce the desired result. Not every action will work. Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

To achieve your dreams, work is required. Suffering is optional.

People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence.

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

Every time you share your vision, you strengthen your own subconscious belief that you can achieve it.

I've always believed in God. I remember once a guy asked me what it was like to be self-employed. I said, I'm not self employed. I work for God. The pay is good; He works me hard.

Persistence is probably the single most common quality of high achievers. They simply refuse to give up. They longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist the more likely your success.

Simply put, the Law of Attraction states that you will attract into your life whatever you focus on. Whatever you give your energy and attention to will come back to you. So, if you stay focused on the good and positive things in your life, you will automatically attract more good and positive things into your life.