Brendon Burchard

To inspire a singularity of focus, a challenge must be important to you and it must be something you feel you should do now in this moment. If it's trivial or not time-bound, you won't engage. So in selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration. ”

Research the leaders in fields related to yours, synthesize their findings, and see how you can apply their hard-won wisdom to your work. Stand on their shoulders, and then make a leap into new territory that is distinctly yours. ”

Let us not alter our course simply because it leads into a dark thicket of work. ”

Remember: when you knock on the door of Opportunity, it is Work who answers! ”

I have incredible respect for customers and peers - my curriculum is very strong because I was taught by my clients' reactions to my work. ”

Business coaching and the personal development and self-help industry is considered to be one of the booming industries today. ”

Even if you overcome a tremendous challenge and feel the personal victory, it's simply not powerful enough. It may activate your left brain, which says, 'I have achieved,' but it will not activate your more social right brain, which desperately desires to say, 'Look, Ma, I did it!' ”

Inexperienced personal development teachers always tell you to visualize, but often in a tragically limited way. They tell you to visualize nothing but victory. But high-achievers know that it's even more important to visualize themselves at the point where they want to quit, and then see themselves working through the struggle. ”