Don't Wait For Opportunity - Create It! by Sue Baker

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give

Title: Don't Wait For Opportunity - Create It! (success habits, millionaire success habits, psychology of winning, gorilla mindset, self-help - Book 1)

Author: Sue Baker

Reading motivational self-help books, I LOVE the highlighting function on my Kindle! This books was no exception as I have quite a few pages of highlights.

You really need to read the book, and with only 140 pages it was a quick read but with lots of useful and inspirational take-aways.

To get us motivated, Baker asks questions like 'why do some people want to change while some resist change?' and 'why are some people able to wake up early and work harder compared to some?' She makes us think about what we may want to change and why.

I found this sentence thought provoking;

Successful people talk about ideas, average people talk about things and small people talk about other people.

Another one which caught my eyes;

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”

... and a related one;

Remember each time you fail you are simply learning another way not to be successful. Failure is simply and opportunity to be educated in success. If you avoid failure, how will you ever have the opportunity to learn to be successful?

Comments

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