Jeff Olson Quotes

#1. There is a natural progression to everything in life: plant, cultivate, harvest.

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#2. For things to change, you've got to change. For things to get better, you've got to get better.

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#3. There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes.

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#4. The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in.

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#5. There are only two possibilities. You are either going for your dreams or giving up your dreams. Stretching for what you could be or settling for what you are.

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#6. Showing up is essential. Showing up consistently is powerful. Showing up consistently with a positive outlook is even more powerful.

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#7. Show up. Show up consistently. Show up consistently with a positive outlook. Be prepared for and committed to the long haul. Cultivate a burning desire backed by faith. Be willing to pay the price. And do the things you've committed to doing - even when no one else is watching.

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#8. The journey starts with a single step - not with thinking about taking a step.

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#9. Would I want to be sponsored by me?

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#10. If you don't have money handled, you don't live free.

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#11. Successful people form habits that feed their success, instead of habits that feed their failure.

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#12. I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have. - Coleman Cox

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#13. It's never too late to start.
It's always too late to wait.

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#14. How you feed your mind is every bit as critical to your happiness as how you feed your body.

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#15. The great Baseball Hall-of-Famer Tom Seaver put it perfectly: In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

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#16. You plant, then you cultivate, and finally you harvest. Plant, cultivate, harvest. In today's world, everyone wants to go directly from plant to harvest.

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#17. Being productive and being busy are not necessarily the same thing. Doing things won't create your success; doing the right things will.

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#18. Write your dreams down; make them vivid and specific; give them a concrete timeline for realization;

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#19. Successful people do the things that unsuccessful people won't do.

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#20. The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. -

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#21. Anything worth having is worth paying that price for.

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#22. Time will be your friend or your enemy; it will promote you or expose you.

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#23. Gandhi put it this way: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

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#24. Because what you need to transform your life is not more information.

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#25. You can't build your dream by what you're going to do or planning to do or intend to do. You only build your dream by building it.

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#26. Remember: success does not lead to happiness - it's the other way around.

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#27. Your habits operate at the unconscious level; you are not normally aware of them. It's only by bringing a habit into your conscious awareness that you can observe what it's doing, how it empowers and serves you or doesn't.

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#28. Serving as your own boss, and doing so successfully, consistently, day in and day out, takes an uncommon degree of slight edge integrity, and frankly many business owners just don't have it.

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#29. When you don't take responsibility, when you blame others, circumstances, fate or chance, you give away your power. When you take and retain full responsibility - even when others are wrong or the situation is genuinely unfair - you keep your life's reins in your own hands.

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#30. Sometimes you need to slow down to go fast.

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#31. The question we should be asking. Would I want to be sponsored by me?

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#32. Successful people do whatever it takes to get the job done, whether or not they feel like it.

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#33. The next time someone says "This sounds great, but I just don't have the TIME ... " Look them straight in the eye, smile warmly, and ask, "Would you like to change that?"

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#34. Surround yourself with people of like mind and different talents and temperaments with the purpose of serving the goals of every member of the group. Associate with these people on a regular basis.

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#35. Your income tends to equal the average income of your five best friends,

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#36. We only need to walk or bike ten percent of the time to make a significant change in society. That is just two days of walking, bicycling or taking transit per month for a typical commuter.

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#37. Successful people fail their way to the top!

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#38. Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do.

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#39. If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.

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#40. The reason diets and other how-to's don't work for most people is the same reason most how-to books and courses don't work for most people. It isn't that the actions are wrong. It's that people don't keep doing them.

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#41. Here's a slight edge action guaranteed to change your life: read just ten pages of a good book, a book aimed at improving your life, every day.

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#42. Position your daily actions so time is working for instead of against you.

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#43. The single most important thing I can tell you about the Slight Edge is this: it's already working, right now, either for you or against you. So don't wait.

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#44. When you have a better image of yourself physically, you have a tendency to live your life in a more positive way.

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#45. You can gauge the limitations of a person's life by the size of the problems that get him or her down. You can measure the impact a person's life has by the size of the problems he or she solves.

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