Life Planning Strategies Blog Posts

“A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!” — Thomas A. Kempis <:))))...

“Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don’t necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.” — Andy Andrews <:))))><<...

“The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder—a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.” — Thomas Carlyle <:))))&#...

“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.” — General George S. Patton <:))))><<...

“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.” — Alan Lakein <:))))><<...

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.” — Daniel...

“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” — Mark Twain <:))))><<...

“If we would only give the same amount of reflection to what we want out of life that we give to the question of what to do with two weeks’ vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.”...

“Better to face danger once than to be always in fear.” — Zig Ziglar <:))))><<...

“My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.” — Marshall Ferdinand Foch <:))))><<...

“One is responsible for one’s own life. Passivity provides no protection.” — Madeleine Kunin <:))))><<...

“The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually make a new man of himself.” — Wang Yang-Ming <:))))...

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman. – La Bruyere <:))))><<...

“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” — Benjamin Disraeli <:))))><<...

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” — Vincent van Gogh <:))))><<...

“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside themselves was superior to circumstance.” — Bruce Barton <:))))><<...

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make...

“Work is love made visible.” — Kahlil Gibran <:))))><<...

“We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.” — Eleanor Roosevelt <:))))><&#...

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience. — James Freeman Clarke <:))))><<...