Author Archives: Jim Montgomery

YOU ARE YOUR ENVIRONMENT

YOU ARE YOUR ENVIRONMENT

Always be mindful that you’re a product of your environment. 

So choose an environment that will best develop you toward your objective. 

Analyze your life in terms of your environment. Are the things around you helping you toward your success, or are they holding you back? 

The first step toward getting somewhere is to decide that you’re not going to stay where you are. You’re not a captive of your environment. 

If you don’t like where you are, you can make some changes. You’re not planted permanently in the ground like a tree. Don’t say, “You would, if you could,” start saying, “You will, because you can.” 

When you become a part of anything it becomes a part of you.

THINK IN TERMS OF WHAT THE OTHER PERSON WANTS

THINK IN TERMS OF WHAT THE OTHER PERSON WANTS

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

Your success depends on the support of other people.

You can get anything you want in life if you’re willing to help enough other people get what they want.

The only hurdle between you and what you want to be is the support of others.

You cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening your own.

 

THE POWER TO SUCCEED IS YOURS ALONE

THE POWER TO SUCCEED IS YOURS ALONE

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start moving down the road to success.

No one else can do it for you. Only you can make it happen. You’re the only one that has to live your life.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. It’s up to you to choose the thoughts and action that will lead you to success.

Your life will be what you make of it. Nothing will ever happen by itself. Success will come your way once you realize that you have to make it come your way by your own actions.

The power to succeed is yours alone.

YOUR ASPIRATIONS ARE YOUR POSSIBILITIES

YOUR ASPIRATIONS ARE YOUR POSSIBILITIES

The first ingredient of your success is to dream a great dream.

You must dream big and think big to be big. 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 will never go back to its original dimensions. If you dream of little goals you can expect little achievement.

Dream of big goals and you’ll win big success.

YOUR SUCCESS IS A MATTER OF EXPECTATION

YOUR SUCCESS IS A MATTER OF EXPECTATION

You must first expect to succeed if you want to succeed.

When you expect good things to happen, strangely enough, they will happen.

Expectation energizes your goals and gives them momentum.

Your life will always respond to your outlook, so set your goals high.

The dreams you choose to believe in will come to be.

You can’t expect to succeed beyond your wildest expectations unless you begin with some pretty wild expectations.

IF YOU EXPECT TO SUCCEED, YOU’LL SUCCEED

IF YOU EXPECT TO SUCCEED, YOU’LL SUCCEED

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. Life responds to your outlook.

If you want to succeed beyond your wildest expectations, you have to begin with some wild expectations.

THE TIME FOR ACTION IS TODAY

THE TIME FOR ACTION IS TODAY

You must be ready when an opportunity comes before you. Luck is the time when your preparation and opportunity meet.

There is a tide in your affairs, which, when taken at the flood, will lead you on to fortune and success.

By the law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again and again, not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in it’s own period, and each obeying its own law.

As events tend to repeat themselves, the tide of opportunity will come to you.

Be prepared and your chance for success is sure to come. Seize an opportunity to change your life. You can change chance into good fortune if you are ready.

Look around you. The only sure thing about your luck is that it will change.

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

The most successful people in life are the ones with the best information. People with power are people who know how to get things done. 

Knowing how to do something is sometimes virtually the same as having done it. 

Knowledge will come to you when your eyes and mind are always open. There is no knowledge that is not power. Power is the product of understanding. 

You’ll build the power to accomplish your goals by educating yourself. This power comes from knowing how to do something. 

In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.

 

LIFE IN ABUNDANCE COMES ONLY THROUGH GREAT LOVE

LIFE IN ABUNDANCE COMES ONLY THROUGH GREAT LOVE

There is no force more potent than love. Take away love and your world is a tomb.

Your life echoes emptiness without love. With it, your life will vibrate with warmth and meaning. Even during hardship, love will shine through.

As you look back upon the events in your life you will find that the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.

If you have it, you don’t need to have anything else, and if you don’t have it, it doesn’t matter what else you have.

Therefore, search for love. Once you have learned to love, you will have learned to live.

Love is the most important ingredient to your success.

SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE MAKE DECISIONS

SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE MAKE DECISIONS

To control the outcome of anything, you control the action at the point of decision making.

If you let others make decisions for you, you give up control. When you control the decisions, you control the actions.

It’s your life. You decide what you’re going to do with it. If you don’t run your own life, someone else will. You’re in control of your life to the degree that you make decisions.

Take charge of your life, so there is no longer a need to ask permission of others. When you ask permission, you are giving someone veto power over your life.

Take control and start making those decisions. Only you are responsible for your life.