Conclusion

NOTABLE QUOTABLES TO LIVE BY

Oftentimes people pay me a compliment by saying they are living their life vicariously through watching me live mine to the fullest. Others say they wish they had my life. This means there are still folks out there searching for significance and meaning and not realizing their dreams. That’s why I believe this book is so timely and apropos. I have been where they are and I know the feeling of wanting something better for your life but looking at your circumstances and feeling like your hands, mind, and pockets are tied, and even though you can visualize it, you still can’t see it. It’s a very frustrating, deflating, and hopeless feeling.

As I was writing this book I found myself reliving a lot of painful and unfortunate incidents as I laid bare my life’s experiences. But writing also allowed me to reflect more on how far I really have come. Turns out that writing this book was also cathartic for me and reaffirmed the steps I took to release my limitations so I could now be living my dreams. It revealed just how much I’ve learned about myself, about others, and about life.

Here I’ve summarized those lessons in the form of what I call “Notable Quotables to Live By,” which may become my next book. Additionally, at the back of the book is a discussion guide I developed for your reference. It provides a series of reflection questions based on where you are on the road of life.

I hope you will implement some or all of these “quotables” in your life, and I pray they bring you new meaning, greater clarity, and a sense of purpose and fulfillment, as they have for me.

Notable Quotables

1. Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to what happens to you.

2. Don’t just go through it, grow through it.

3. We are born with only two kinds of fears: the fear of falling and the fear of a loud sound. All other fears are learned.

4. You’re either living your dreams or living your fears.

5. Failure is an option. Learn to fail fast and fail forward.

6. Failing at something doesn’t make you a failure, nor does making mistakes make you a mistake.

7. What you resist will persist.

8. If you don’t learn from your mistakes you are doomed to repeat them.

9. Life is like taking a test at school. If you pass, you move to the next level. If you fail, you have to repeat the class.

10. Opportunities never look like opportunities. They come brilliantly disguised as problems and challenges awaiting a solution.

11. Your dream must be bigger than your fear.

12. It’s one thing to be alive, it’s another thing to be living.

13. In life not everything is meant to be forever; some things have an expiration date, and we must discern when that time arrives.

14. You cannot conquer what you aren’t willing to confront.

15. We create our own reality by the way we speak.

16. True success and happiness come from becoming the highest, truest, and most complete version of ourselves and the purpose for which we were born.

17. Even when you’ve had a phenomenal year of success you cannot park there and become complacent.

18. What lies behind you and what lies ahead of you are tiny compared to what lies within you.

19. Purpose is so personal that no one else has been designed to do what you were born to do.

20. The only thing keeping us from getting what we want are the messages we keep telling ourselves and those we keep believing.

21. Relationships are the new currency.

22. Imagination is the most powerful tool we have.

23. Get out of your head so you can step into your greatness.

24. Become a producer and not a procrastinator.

25. Nobody likes to follow a parked car.

26. We are the sum total of our thoughts, beliefs, and confessions.

27. Most people die at age thirty and don’t get buried until age eighty-five.

28. Procrastination will never allow you to live the life you’ve always dreamed of. It is an epidemic that can be cured and corrected only if the underlying root causes are discovered and conquered.

29. If fear is a learned response, we can unlearn and relearn a different response.

30. It’s not just what you know or who you know but what they know about you.