31 Thoughts to Think

1 Dec

1. You already know what you have to do.

2. You are capable of far more than you think.

3. There will always be a thousand reasons to not do something.

4. Your time is not necessarily short, but it is certainly counting down.

5. The pain of regret will quickly outweigh the pain of failure.

6. Your THING is found through experience, not waiting for a knock at the door.

7. Give yourself a break.

8. If there is more than one way to skin a cat, there is more than one way to achieve your goal.

9. It is not going to kill you.

10. The point of life is not to fit into an acceptable, normal, attention-deflecting mold.

11. You have already accomplished far more than you realize.

12. One small act in the right direction can change everything.

13. Things could be better, but they could also be worse.

14. Your problems may not be your fault, but there is no doubt the solutions are your responsibility.

15. People have done far more with far less.

16. You are going to remember the times you passed on an opportunity longer than the times you tripped chasing it.

17. Someone has done what you now want to do.

18. If it does not scare you, you are not trying hard enough.

19. Change does not require months or weeks; a few, intelligently-used minutes will do.

20. Do not wait until it is perfect–it never will be and never has to be.

21. Do something different.

22. Things do not get better–you do.

23. Your life is not going to change while you are sitting on the couch.

24. You will never get rid of every butterfly in your stomach.

25. There will always be something else that has to be done.

26. Be happy for today, hopeful about tomorrow.

27. The average overnight success is ten years in the making.

28. Give to get…or just give.

29. Happiness is less a result of having than of helping.

30. Do not overlook the everyday miracle.

31. You can wait all you like; time and opportunity will not.

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What would you add to the list of important thoughts to think? Let us know in the comments below!

25 Responses to “31 Thoughts to Think”

  1. Gary Riddle 01. Dec, 2010 at 5:57 am #

    It is better to be consistantly “HAPPY”…than to be constantly “RIGHT”!!

    • Dale Robbins 01. Dec, 2010 at 9:49 am #

      Perhaps my favorite saying: YOU GET WHAT YOU TOLERATE

      Powerful.

  2. Adele 01. Dec, 2010 at 6:32 am #

    Love these thoughts. I will concentrate on one for each of the days of December! :-)

    • Veronica 01. Dec, 2010 at 7:08 am #

      If you truly own who you are no one can ever use you against you.

  3. cahdo confident 01. Dec, 2010 at 7:13 am #

    Live your life to the fullest and never you do less than what your mind tells you.

  4. Robert Bradfield 01. Dec, 2010 at 10:37 am #

    This is something my dad taught me: “Live for yourself, do not live for somebody else”.

  5. cahdo confident 01. Dec, 2010 at 11:07 am #

    If you aprreciate all things, more things will come your way.

    • Astro 01. Dec, 2010 at 1:24 pm #

      Good ones Jason) The first thought is the best, in my opinion.

      Let your will steer for a while )

  6. Angie 02. Dec, 2010 at 7:39 am #

    “Be the Change you want to see in the world.” – Ghandi

  7. Sandy 02. Dec, 2010 at 4:49 pm #

    Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

  8. Mary 02. Dec, 2010 at 6:31 pm #

    Hi Jason
    Ah yes, for the days I feel like I am not progressing anywhere or even a few steps backwards, I shall have to remember number 23! For everything we do, at least we have done something. There is progress even if it is in the wrong direction, we then now know which way need to go.
    Mary

  9. Norm 03. Dec, 2010 at 7:22 am #

    These will truly help me on my path the change, and it starts TODAY!
    Thank you so much Jason!

  10. Hany Abdelraheem 03. Dec, 2010 at 1:52 pm #

    Thank you very much Jason for thoughts and i benefit more and more from your thoughts and no doubt the life need bravement and begain to use your intellictual possibilities that Allah sbhanah wa talla give us ,break hand cuffs try to make creative thing yes you will face bad people confrontation of the income but detemine your target and in the end you will arrive
    Hany

    • kannan 04. Dec, 2010 at 4:30 am #

      all the 31 thoughts are beautiful ones. i wish i could putinto practice atleast a few of them. To my mind, trying the master the art of living in the present is an imortant aspect of livng. Past is gone.future we dont know. this golden moment is the only reality. perhaps that is thjis very golden moment is a present given to us by Nature, best wishes to all

  11. christy 10. Dec, 2010 at 11:17 am #

    its really awesome and it help to think aboutand get motivated when i am down. keep up the good work.

  12. Jason Gracia 10. Dec, 2010 at 2:26 pm #

    Hello Everyone!

    I’m sorry for the absence; normally I love replying to each one of you…to thank you for your thoughts and for being such an important member of our community.

    But I’ve been away for a bit, leaving you all hanging. Tsk tsk.

    I’m back now and thrilled with your ideas. It feels good to have such an intelligent, witty, with-it group of friends at this blog.

    You guys rock!

    Jason

  13. Shadi 15. Dec, 2010 at 11:39 am #

    Gotta take the good with the bad, smile with the sad, love you got and REMEMBER what you had!

  14. Shadi 15. Dec, 2010 at 11:42 am #

    “Gotta take the good with the bad, smile with the sad, love what you got and REMEMBER what you had!”

  15. ben blanch 15. Jan, 2011 at 8:49 am #

    Unique is perfection, we are all unique. You are the perfect you, you make perfect you mistakes and if you make changes you will still be the perfect you. The perfectly changed you. You cannot improve on perfect, you can only change your description or perception of perfection.

    From Streetkid to Businessman, Husband and Father
    Ben Blanch
    Author: Streets to Success
    http://www.streets2success.com
    Share my journey from the Streets to Success

  16. Astro 19. Jan, 2011 at 5:18 am #

    You have to be perfect on what you do- meaning that it should be the best possible.

  17. Julinda 19. Jan, 2011 at 4:44 pm #

    Love this list! (I’m a little behind on my reading!)

    I typed the whole list into my “Quotations” document because it is that good!

  18. JOHN L 01. Feb, 2011 at 9:31 am #

    If you live fearing death then you don’t LIVE!

  19. Noncedo 15. Apr, 2011 at 12:07 am #

    Challenges we face today are the trainer of how to live and should be made the possibilities to succeed.

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