Whatever you hold in your mind will tend to occur in your life. If you continue to believe as you have always believed, you will continue to act as you have always acted, you will continue to get what you have always gotten. If you want different results in your life or your work, all you have to do is change your mind. — Anonymous

The power of thought in relation to success is an astounding thing

Attitude is everything

How you think and act, your level of perseverance to solider on in the face of adversity are the things which will be most informative of your future success. Winning isn’t easy, often it is a war of attrition.

Are you willing to outlast your opponents?

Most often that’s what it boils down to, consistency, persistence and grit. Can you keep putting one foot in front of the other longer than anyone else?

It doesn’t matter if you are the first person to the party, it’s far more important that you are the last to leave

• Half the battles in life is turning up.
• One quarter is about what you do when you get there.
• The last is about how long you are willing to last and whether you give up.

Never give up on yourself

Certain ventures can fail, and they will, but you need to continue to back yourself through those obstacles. Nothing worth having is ever easy and giving up is always the easy route.

9 out of 10 businesses fail

It doesn’t matter how many times you fail, only that you don’t the last time you are willing to try.

If your mind is never right you will never get there

You will lament your luck, blame everyone else, and never realise the true fault lies in your own thinking. The mind control the body and it sets the agenda we must follow.

Perseverance is the key to achieving anything in life

If you don’t have it you need to develop it.