Author Archives: Jim Montgomery

THE GLASS IS ALWAYS HALF FULL

THE GLASS IS ALWAYS HALF FULL

There is a good side to every situation. View your problems as opportunities.

You cannot have the success without the failures. Any experience can be transformed into something of value. Everything depends on the way you look at things.

What are stumbling blocks and defeat before you can be stepping stones to victory if you remain determined.

In all of your adversities lies the seeds of equivalent advantages. In every defeat there is a lesson showing you how to win the next time.

When it’s dark enough you can see the stars.

SEE THE WORLD AS IT IS

SEE THE WORLD AS IT IS

The truth is what it is. It’s neither good nor bad. It’s simple reality. 

Tailor your concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into your concepts. No matter what you believe, it won’t change the facts. 

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advancement in the world. 

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. If fifty-million people say a foolish thing, it’s still a foolish thing. Successful people are realistic and aren’t trapped by false appearances. 

Stay realistic on the road to success.

YOU MUST ACT ON THOSE DREAMS

YOU MUST ACT ON THOSE DREAMS

You have to make your own opportunities. Your future is not a matter of chance. It’s a matter of your choice. It’s not something you wait for. It’s something you must actively pursue. 

Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Opportunity can come disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. 

Start today, right where you are. Distant fields will always appear greener. Yet, golden opportunities are all around you. 

You can live a great dream if you pursue it.

 

YOU CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING

YOU CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING

The only thing that stands between you and what you want from life, is simply the will to pursue it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

You can have anything on earth that you want, once you mentally accept the fact that you can have it.

If you want success, begin thinking of yourself as a success. The feeling of being successful has to come first.

If you have a deep inner conviction that you will always have all that you need, if you actually feel prosperous, it will be so.

Only your mind sets your limits.

GREAT EXPECTATION PRECEDES GREAT SUCCESS

GREAT EXPECTATION PRECEDES GREAT SUCCESS

High expectation always precedes high achievement. You’re as small as your controlling desires, or as great as your dominant aspirations. 

Once your mind stretches to a new idea it never goes back to its original dimensions. 

Think little goals and you can expect little achievement. Think big goals and you’ll win big success. The first ingredient of your success is to dream a great dream. 

You must dream big and think big to be big.

 

RICHES LIE WITHIN YOU

RICHES LIE WITHIN YOU

Wealth without enjoyment is little consolation. Your real riches in life are riches of the head and heart. Satisfaction comes when you appreciate what you have.

While success is getting what you want, true happiness is wanting what you get.

It’s not how much you have, but how much you enjoy that truly matters. Riches lie within you, not in your material possessions.

SUCCESS IS A STATE OF MIND

SUCCESS IS A STATE OF MIND

If you truly want to be successful, start thinking of yourself as successful.

The only thing that stands between you and what you want from life, is simply the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. There is nothing on earth that you can’t have, once you mentally accept the fact that you can have it.

The feeling must come first. If you actually feel successful, if you have a deep inner conviction that you’ll always have all that you need, it will be so.

Whatever your mind can conceive and believe in, your mind can help you achieve.

NOTHING EXTERNAL TO YOU HAS POWER OVER YOU

NOTHING EXTERNAL TO YOU HAS POWER OVER YOU

Great things are accomplished when you believe that what’s inside of you is superior to your circumstances. What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you. 

You’re more important than any of your problems. You’re bigger than anything that can happen to you. 

Courage is a special kind of knowledge. It’s the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. 

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. 

Reality is something you rise above.

FEAR IS OVERCOME WITH ACTION

One of the greatest surprises you’ll experience in life, is when you discover that you can do what you were afraid you couldn’t do.

Your obstacles will melt away, if instead of cowering before them, you make up your mind to walk boldly through them.

Do the thing you fear and fear disappears. Confront your fears, list them, get to know them and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

When you face the things that scare you, you open the door to freedom.

The only thing you have to fear, is fear itself.

LIFE RESPONDS TO YOUR OUTLOOK

LIFE RESPONDS TO YOUR OUTLOOK

The dreams you choose to believe in come to be. When you feel in your innermost being that you will achieve what you set out to do, you open the way for miracles. 

Choose to believe something good can happen. Expecting it to happen energizes your goal and actually gives it momentum. What you expect to happen, happens. 

If you expect to succeed, you’ll succeed.