Steve Harvey
You’re career is what you’re paid for. Your calling is what your made for.
“There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.”
“Personal development is the transition of unawareness to awareness.”
"You're either growing or you're dying. There's no 3rd direction"
This site and it's informational emails offer a compilation of tools that I've typed up from the last 10 years (and growing). These tools have been gathered from various articles, books, seminars, and podcasts. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have while on your personal development journey as we all increase our self-awareness together.
The transformational process is a circle as shown by the logo. We need to be healthy to be happy. Happy to be able to love. Loving what we do to be successful. That success then gives us the gratitude to appreciate the healthy life that originally started our path toward fulfillment.
“Knowledge is not power. It is only potential power. Power lies in execution.”
You’re career is what you’re paid for. Your calling is what your made for.
Where you spend your attention is where you spend your life
Leaders anticipate. Losers react
You have to have the rain in your life to get the flowers in the life. Same as you have to have the darkness in your life to enjoy the
You can’t change the people around you, but you can choose to change the people you’re around
When best is possible, good enough isn’t enough
THIS TOO SHALL PASS (time is your ally, just wait)
You have to do the best you can with the resources you have
Perfection comes in the way of greatness
If you don?t stack the goods in life then life will stack the bads for you
Vulnerability is Power. When you get in your head, you?re dead.
Good is the enemy of great
Anything you want in life requires your total obsession. Your obsessions become your possessions
Money is a tool, not the goal. Freedom is the goal. Don't forget that.
You don?t experience life. You experience the life you focus on.
Change is imminent. Progress is not.
Let go and let God
A slice of the watermelon is better than the whole grape
Coincidence is God?s way of remaining anonymous
Procrastination is the assassination of all destinations
Its not enough to be nice, you have to be special
Procrastination is the assassinations of all destinations
Passion is where your skillet aligns with your passion
Aim for nothing and that?s what you?ll hit
Procrastination is the assassin of all destinations
Life gives to givers and takes from takers
Life happens for you not to you
The path of least resistance will never lead you to where you want to get to
Self esteem is created pushing through difficult experiences
Complexity is the enemy of execution
Sometimes you have to do some things you don?t wanna do in order to do what you wanna do
Change only happens when love is greater than fear
There are 2 types of pain in life. The pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons.
Discipline determines your destiny, not your desire
Faith without works, is dead
Love the pain
The quality of your life is the quality of your emotions
You can either cry in the storm or dance in the rain
You?re already enough where you are in the moment and you are always becoming more
You either go for the life you want or settle for the life you get
Procrastination is a thief and fear is a liar
Life is beautiful. Just live it.
I can have a bad minute, a bad moment, a bad hour, but never a bad day
You keep drinking the poison, waiting on your enemy to die
You have to train your mind to be stronger than your feelings or else you will lose yourself
You have to chase or be chased
Discipline determines your destiny not your desire
Faith without works is dead
Success is rented not owned
It all about doing what you hate to do, but do it like you love it
Are you listening or judging?
Rich in life > rich in money
Character is revealed under pressure
Great leaders take responsibility and give credit
Self-doubt is the killer of all dreams
When you overcome the emotion, the story changes
The quickest way to lose focus on your future is to keep focusing on your past
Real change begins when you?re very real excuses end
The brain may think, but the heart knows
Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.
Standards over feelings
Conflict delayed is conflict multiplied
Never say never because limits, like fears are often just an illusion
The magic you are looking for, is in the work you are avoiding
Thinking big makes you bigger
We have the resources, we just lack resourcefulness
If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit
Faith is the belief in what you cannot see
I don?t like the past. I appreciate the presence but I really live for the future and where I want to go
Greatness only shows up on the hard days when you find a way to show up
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it
Discipline determines your destiny not your desire
Don?t sweat the small stuff. It?s usually all small stuff.
You are the most qualified to help people that you use to be
The slower we move the faster we die
We?re not just products of our environment, we?re creators of our environment
God doesn?t call the qualifier God qualifies the caller
When you forgive, you love
Is your need to be right more important than your need to be met?
See it. Believe it. Do it
Discipline is doing what needs to be done, even if you don't want to do it
You create your future. You design your happiness. This is an amazing world and you get to live in it however you want
Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you
Days and weeks and months drag on, but years fly by
Create in stillness. Trigger and anchor in motion
A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don?t allow the happy moment, because they?re so busy trying to get a happy life
The older you get the more you realize how precious life is. You have no desire for drama, conflict or stress. You just want good friends, a cozy home, food on the table, and people who make you happy.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Ordinary actions get ordinary results
It?s okay to fight. Just make up quick.
Your results will never exceed internal temp (self esteem/self value). In any area of your life
Gossiping develops narcissistic tendencies
Life is too short to suffer
Life?s about growing and giving
Divorcing outcome from winning. I get in the most flow in the work when my metric of success is how hard I?ve worked for it. That makes joy (internal) feel like it?s under my control, which has unlocked my highest productivity.
Get out your own way
Money is a tool not the goal. Freedom is the goal. Don't forget that.
You gotta have the mindset before the reality
We all must suffer one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret
Love life for its challenges, for without challenges, there would be no rewards
We want a guarantee from a world that doesn?t give any and the fact that it doesn?t give any guarantees is the reason its worth it
If you look good, you feel good. If you feel good, you play good. If you play good, they pay good
Slow down. Calm down. Don't worry. Don't hurry. Trust the process.
Words carry filters and bias, Pictures open perspective
Be where you are you supposed to be when you?re supposed to be there. Do what you supposed to do when you?re supposed to do it. Treat other people like you would like to be treated
If you?re going to pray about it, don?t worry about it. If you go to worry about it, don?t pray about it
We don?t get in life what we choose to do we get in life who we choose to be
Get up early. Ain?t nothing coming your way laying down.
Change your thoughts, and you change your world.
Let go and let God
Inner purpose is aligning with the present moment
Zen pretty much comes down to three things - - everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention
Money is a tool, not the goal. Freedom is the goal. Don't forget that.
Do the hard things and success will be inevitable
How big would you dream if you knew you couldn?t fail?
Self-love is the source of all our other loves
You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously
Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others
Don?t let life be too expensive to be happy
What you feel on the inside you wear on the outside
THE DEEPER THAT SORROW CARVES INTO YOUR BEING, THE MORE JOY YOU CAN CONTAIN
You can?t have a testimony without a test
When you walk a life of honesty, you live a life of truth
You gotta let go and let God
Stress doesn?t come from hard work. Stress primarily comes from not taking action over something you can control
You don?t get in life what you want you getting life what you are (mindset)
Initiative creates opportunity
Develop your communication skills because once you open your mouth, you show the world who you are
Problems need energy to live. 90% of energy should be spent on the solution rather than growing the problem
Is what you?re doing consistent with who you are and what you stand for?
Your limitations will be the amount of diversity you can handle at any given time
Overcome your fears by following your dreams
Appreciation and gratitude are the keys to having more
Be less impressed, more involved
Always show your queen that she?s the queen
Work as hard as you can as a younger person so that you don?t have to work as hard as an older person
Sin cost you more than you want to pay in causes you to stay longer than you want to stay
Worry and stress are a misuse of your imagination
Problems are always an indicator that you?re making progress and growing
Sleep is a non negotiable biological necessity. It?s mother natures best attempt at immortality
The obstacle is the path
Just keep choppin wood and stackin logs. Life will deliver
Procrastination is opportunity?s assassin
You can?t be all you can be if you keep holding on to all that you was
Get out of judgement and into curiosity
You need to model the change that you want to see
Without any sacrifice or commitment there can?t be any freedom
DOUBT your doubts and BELIEVE your beliefs
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness
Create your best self and give it to the world
The moment in front of you is not bothering you. You are bothering yourself about the moment in front of you.
When you?ve done your best and you?ve done all you can. Sit still for a minute, and do just a little bit more.
The world treats you as you present yourself. If you believe in yourself, they?ll believe in you to
You have to intentionally put yourself in places that are uncomfortable
Adversity is never as bad as you think it?s going to be. You?re always capable of way more than you think you are. Because how we think matters and we let over thinking get in the way of overcoming all the time
In life, there?s only four things you can control. What you think what you say what you feel and what you do. The rest is outside your control and you cannot stress over those factors.
Heart and spine must be united in a single man, and then gone beyond in the fullest expression of love and consciousness possible, which requires a deep relaxation into the openness of this present moment. And this takes a new kind of guts. This is the way of the superior man.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced
Discipline is your destiny, not desire
If God is with you, nobody can stand against you
In life we get what we most believe we deserve
Thoughts are the currency in which you purchase your dreams and visions
To becoming an impossibility achiever, you have to start envisioning it, start touching it, start experiencing it, start believing that you belong there, then becoming familiar with it. Then you can have it.
Touch your dreams. In life, you?ll never get more than you believe you deserve. It?s important to be close to proximity of what you desire to have so you can feel it.
We put the people in our lives that we deserve to have not just the people that have always been there
I don't take life seriously; I take serious moments in life seriously
Ask yourself if each person in your life is a energy giver or energy drainer
In life, you get your standards, not your goals
Today where I go I will create a peaceful, loving, and joyful world
Vulnerability takes courage and through courage, you find strength
The alpha in the room is the one who is relaxed, always alert, and willing to step in when needed
The standard of success in life isn?t the things. It isn?t the money or the stuff ? it is absolutely the amount of joy you feel.
To live free in spirit you must be willing to face your fears and let go of anything that limits your love
There is no growth without change
People don?t grow old. When they stop growing, they become old
Are you thinking about growth or gossip?
At the end of every day ask yourself - Did you live? Did you love? Did you matter?
Pain plus reflection equals progress
You have to do what you don?t want to do to do what you want to do
The thought is the seed. The visualization and the feeling that comes with it is the fertilization
Close when you can not when you have too
You make your thoughts and then your thoughts make you
The closer you get to achieving your goals, the more difficult it becomes so you gotta push on through
Shit doesn?t get done thinking about it
The amount of time it takes you to get from where you are to where you want to be, is only the amount of time it takes you to change the vibration within you. Instant manifestation could be yours if you could instantly change the vibration.
Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration. The same is true about every moment with your partner, only doubly so.
It?s better to be consistently good than occasionally great
Don?t be afraid to change because change is coming anyway
Ask. Believe. Receive.
Don?t do anything that you don?t really want to do. Keep yourself in a place of feeling good. Reach for the thought that feels better ? and watch what happens.
Appreciation and gratitude are the keys to having more
Lack of self-care is connected to lack of self-worth
Your life is a physical manifestation of the conversation going on in your head
Self doubt is the killer of all dreams. We lack the courage if we doubt ourselves
Speak to inspire, not to impress
You?re training people the way to treat you by the way you treat yourself
Angry is just sad's bodyguard
Worry is mentally and emotionally rehearsing what you don?t want to happen
If you?re going to pray about something, then, don?t worry about it. If you?re going to worry about it, then don?t pray about it.
You can?t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf
Conflict delayed is conflict multiplied
How you do anything is how you do everything
If you?re learning but not applying it then it?s wasted energy
Change your outlook to change your outcome
You will run into people that hate you, but those people that hate you long ago, gave up on their dreams and who they really hate is themselves
Live well, you reap what you sow The future is bright if we can ebb with the flow
Stop expecting you from other people
They won?t care how much you know until they know how much you care
Commitment is a renewable resource
Life is happening for you, not to you
Focus = Feeling. Feelings shape your life