Quotes on Mindfulness and the Win-Win mindset

Awareness Affirming Quotes

(In no particular order of relevance or importance)

1. You don’t become indispensable merely because you are different. But the only way to be indispensable is to be different. – linchpin

2. If you are not looking you are not going to see. – linchpin

3. It’s not the writing part that’s hard. It’s sitting down to write. What keeps us form sitting down is resistance resistance. – The War of Art

4. The enemy is a very good teacher – The Dali Lama.

5. The following list, in no particular order, of those activities that most commonly elicit Resistance:

·         ­       The pursuit of any calling in writing, painting, music, film, dance, or any creative art, however marginal or unconventional

·         ­       The launching of any entrepreneurial venture or enterprise, for profit or otherwise.

·         ­       Any diet or health regimen.

·         ­       Any program of spiritual advancement.

·         ­       Any activity whose aim is tighter abdominals.

·         ­       Any course or program designed to overcome an unwholesome habit or addiction.

·         ­       Education of every kind.

·         ­       Any act of political, moral, or ethical courage, including the decision to change for the better some unworthy pattern of thought or conduct in ourselves.

·         ­       The undertaking of any enterprise or endeavor whose aim is to help others.

·         ­       Any act that entails commitment of the hart, the decision to get married, to have a child, to weather a rocky patch in a relationship.

·         ­       The talking of any principled stand in the face of adversity.

·         ­       In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term growth, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives form our higher nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.

6. The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel, and misrepresentation. – C. Northcote Parkinson

7. The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.

8. Time and mobility are HUGE assets

9. DEAL: Define, Eliminate, Automate, Liberate

10. An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be make in a very narrow field. – Niels Bohr

11. Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. – Einstein

12. If you look deep inside trust, you’ll find truth. – Jeffrey Gitomer  

13. Trust is not a request, Trust is earned. – Jeffrey Gitomer 

14. Trust is not spoken, Trust is a feeling. – Jeffrey Gitomer 

15. The reason Trust is requested is because the person seeking Trust realizes that Trust is the key to Yes. – Jeffrey Gitomer 

16. The reason you have to say “Trust me” is that you haven’t earned it and are forced to ask for it – BAD MOVE. – Jeffrey Gitomer  

16. Trust is not an important element; it is THE important element in any LONG TERM success with anyone or any company. – Jeffrey Gitomer 

18. It’s not “Trust me,” its Trust yourself. – Jeffrey Gitomer

19. People who to back and chastise themselves, or second guess themselves, for making a wrong decision or a weak decision continues to set themselves up for failure in future decisions simply because they don’t trust themselves. – Jeffrey Gitomer 

20. Mistakes in judgment are the best teachers in the world, and if you choose to learn from them then you will begin to trust yourself and understand that, correct or incorrect you were decisive and moved on. – Jeffrey Gitomer 

21. You can’t trust others unless you trust yourself. – Jeffrey Gitomer 

22. I became a trusting soul. I seceded that I would trust everyone until they gave me, or proved to me, reasons why I should not, That philosophy was and remains very risky, especially in my present position where I have much more to lose than I did back then. [] BUT, by giving others initial trust, I automatically became wide open to, and accepting of, new ideas, new thoughts, and new strategies for success. – Jeffrey Gitomer 

23. The best way to learn how to become trustworthy is to study other trustworthy people. – Jeffrey Gitomer 

24. Bankrupsy stays on your record for 7-10yrs. That gives you an idea how long it takes to rebuild trust. – Jeffrey Gitomer 

25. How did you get here?

­       How you were raised

­       Who you associate with

­       People of influence

26. Your character holds the key to your trustworthiness. – Jeffrey Gitomer 

27. All things being equal, people like to do business with their friends. All things being not quite so equal, people still like to do business with their friends. – Jeffrey Gitomer 

28. If you don’t give trust to others, it’s because you haven’t earned it. If you don’t have trust form others, it’s because YOU haven’t earned it. – Jeffrey Gitomer 

29. What is the image you have of yourself? – Jeffrey Gitomer 

­       Almost none of you will put trustworthy or untrustworthy.

­       Even less of you will put honest or dishonest.

­       And none of you will put truthful or liar.

30. Truths about Trustworthiness

­       Trust yourself

­       Trust your beliefs

­       Trust your thoughts

31. The only way to achieve your desires and dreams is to ACT ON THEM. The greater you trust in yourself, your beliefs, and your thoughts, the more action you will take. – Jeffrey Gitomer 

32. Being honest when you’re dealing with others is easier to do because your honesty is on the table for all to view…Being honest with yourself is more difficult because you only have to justify it in private where no one can see it. – Jeffrey Gitomer 

33. 3.5 things you can do that will make you, or even force you , to mecome more honest with yourself…

­       Find an honest partner and exchange moments of truth

­       Don’t give in to yourself when no one’s looking

­       Tell the truth when a lie would do and no one will know

­       Go back and make a list of times when you were dishonest

34. A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character. – Jeffrey Gitomer 

35.  To whom much is given, much is required – (Paraphrased, The Bible)

36. With great power comes great responsibility (Spiderman)

37. The way I see it, if your mission is dependent on others for success it is bound to fail, but that doesn't mean it can't include them ;) (Grant Garibay, 10-20-11)

38. Be more concerned with your character that your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are – John Wooden

39. We are what we repeatedly do – Aristotle

40.  “We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.”  –  Marshall McLuhan

41. Life is the only game where the goal is to lean the rules.

42. You can’t break the rules you can only break yourself against the rules.

43.  "An oppressed group tends to adopt the methods and weapons of those they oppose." - Reducing Social Tension and Conflict By Rachel Davis DuBois and Mew-Soong Li

44. ·           All that counts is that, for this day, for this session, I have overcome Resistance. – The War of Art

45. ·           Resistance obstructs movement only from a lower sphere to a higher sphere. – The War of Art

46. ·           Resistance has no strength of its own. Every ounce of juice it possesses comes from us. We feed it power by our fear of it. – The War of Art

47. ·           Humiliation, like rejection and criticism, is the external reflection of internal Resistance. – The War of Art

48.  Bad and mediocre people are tempted to sin by their own habitual weaknesses. The earlier lies or thefts or adulteries make the next one that much easier to contemplate. Having already cut so many corners, the thinking goes, what’s one more here or there? Why even aspire to virtues that you probably won’t achieve, when it’s easier to remain the sinner that you already know yourself to be?

49.  But good people, heroic people, are led into temptation by their very goodness — by the illusion, common to those who have done important deeds, that they have higher responsibilities than the ordinary run of humankind. It’s precisely in the service to these supposed higher responsibilities that they often let more basic ones slip away.

50. ·           Your worth is in your humanity. You maintain it through honoring yourself and others. – Voice of fear