Write down ten things you would do in your life if you had absolutely no fear. Then pick one of them and do it.
– Steve Chandler
Listen to the clues. The next time you feel real joy, stop and think. Pay attention. Because joy is the universe’s way of knocking on your mind’s door. Hello in there. Is anyone home? Can I leave a message? Yes? Good! The message is that you are happy, and that means that you are in touch with your purpose.
– Steve Chandler
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
– Steve Chandler
Not being excited is to have missed the whole point of life.
– Steve Chandler
You don’t have to make all the difficult decisions you think you have to make. You can choose instead. Choosing is bolder and cleaner. You can do it in a nanosecond. Decisions are messy and filled with second-guessing and self-doubt.
– Steve Chandler
Negative thinking is something we all do. The difference between the person who is primarily optimistic and the person who is primarily pessimistic is that the optimist learns to become a good debater. Once you become thoroughly aware of the effectiveness of optimism in your life, you can learn to debate your pessimistic thoughts.
– Steve Chandler
If the person you lead truly understood that self-discipline is something one uses, not something one has, then that person could use it to accomplish virtually any goal he or she ever set.
– Steve Chandler
Some people us language to describe the lives they lead, and other people use language to create the lives they lead.
– Steve Chandler
Whatever goal you want to reach, you can reach it ten times faster if you are happy.
– Steve Chandler
People whose repeated self-told stories cast themselves as victims continuously use the language of obligation. There are so many things they “should” do and “have to” do. Reinvented people convert to the language of intention. They do things because they intend to… because they want to… because they choose to. This is more powerful because it is closer to the truth. It is not a sugary affirmation.
– Steve Chandler
Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it.
– Steve Chandler
Change your relationship to life – if you see life as something outside of you, pushing in on you, then you will reveal that by saying things like, “That’s life!” when things go wrong, or, “Life is difficult” when you feel the need to sound disconsolate and wise. But when you reconsider your relationship to life and change “life” from being outside pressing in to being inside as a source of energy, everything gets fun again.
– Steve Chandler
There are no optimistic or pessimistic personalities. There are only single, individual choices for optimistic or pessimistic thoughts.
– Steve Chandler
Optimism is courageous and tough-minded. Pessimism is a weak little tantrum. Optimism fearlessly opens the mind to possible solutions. Pessimism is the attitude that closes the mind.
– Steve Chandler
Help me to believe the truth about myself, no matter how beautiful it may be.
– Steve Chandler
Taking ownership is the highest form of focus: It is a willingness to bring everything you’ve got to the situation. To live in the now. When you do that, your spirit wakes up to join you in the fun.
– Steve Chandler
Losing is not the same as being defeated.
– Steve Chandler
What I needed to learn was the proactive use of my imagination. And once I’d learned that skill, the first task was to begin imagining the vision of who I wanted to be.
– Steve Chandler