Today Matters

• When opportunity comes, it’s too late to prepare.
• Real, sustainable change doesn’t happen in a moment. It’s a process.
• Today is the only time you have. It’s too late for yesterday and you can’t depend on tomorrow. That’s why today matters.
• The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.
• Successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.
• One today is worth two tomorrows; what I am to be, I am now becoming.
• You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
• The only adequate preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today.
• Most people don’t lead their own lives- they just accept them.
• The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his time when it comes.
• The most successful people in life are the ones who settle their critical issues early and manage them daily.
• Decisions help us start. Discipline helps us finish.
• Be the change that you want to see in the world.
• The greatest gap in life is the one between knowing and doing.
• What I do in the future depends on what I already am; and what I am is the result of previous years of discipline.
• All’s well that begins well.
• All things equal, attitude wins. All things not being eqal, attitude sometimes still wins.
• The thoughts in your mind will always be more important than the things in your life.
• Many people in this world mistakenly believe their attitude is set.
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
• You cannot have a bad attitude and encourage others at the same time.
• Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
• Like any discipline, your attitude will not take care of itself. You need to attend to it daily.
• Since you can’t change time, you must instead change your approach it to.
• The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
• Experience isn’t always the best teacher- evaluated experience is.
• People are funny. When they are young, they will spend their health to get wealth. Later, they will gladly pay all they have trying to get their health back.
• If I had known I was going to live this ling, I would have taken better care of myself.
• Neglect enough today’s, and you’ll experience the “someday” you’ve wanted to avoid.
• While you can’t do much about your ancestors, you can influence your descendants greatly.
• Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and all achievement.
• What is important is ideas. If yu have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn’t any limit to what you can do with your business and your life.
• Better an empty purse than an empty head.
• Every time a person puts an idea across, he find ten people who thought about ti before he did- but they only thought about it. No action.
• Any time you make a commitment to something, it will be tested.
• You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize.
• People forget how fast you did a job- but they remember how well you did it.
• If you want something out of your day, you have to put something in it.
• Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them, day after day.
• The average American is busy buying things he doesn’t want with money he doesn’t have to impress people he doesn’t like.
• Money doesn’t change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish, or arrogant, or greedy, the money brings it out; that’s all.
• All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.
• If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area of his life.
• The difference between the rich and the poor is that the rich invest their money and spend what’s left, while the poor spend their money and invest what’s left.
• We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
• Where there is no faith in the future, there is no power in the present.
• Faith keeps the person who keeps the faith.
• Faith puts God between us and our circumstances.
• You can’t make the other fellow feel important in your presence if you secretly feel that he is a nobody.
• Life is an exciting business and most exciting when lived for others.
• The best way to help people is to see the best in them.
• Generosity is changing one’s focus from self to others.
• You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
• No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.
• If you desire to become a more generous person, don’t wait for you income to change. Change your heart.
• Do all the good you can, to all the propel you can, in all the ways you can, as long as you can.
• Your core values are the deeply held beliefs that authentically describe your soul.
• Try not to become men of success, to become men of value.
• The gap between knowing and doing is significantly greater than the gap between ignorance and knowledge.
• Nice guys may appear to finish last, but usually they are running a different race.
• By choosing to embrace and practice good values every day, you may not always get what you desire, but you will always be the person you desire to be.
• The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today.

Source: Today Matters by John C. Maxwell