Brendon Burchard is a motivational leadership speaker, consultant, podcast host, and bestselling author specializing in life coaching, goal setting, and achieving high levels of personal performance.
CLEAR ALL
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one’s own mind and heart.
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into an idea, then into more tangible action.
Stay a verb—don’t become a noun.
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Life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.
. . . it is almost always the case that whatever has wounded you will also be instrumental in your healing.
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If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. If you do not, it will destroy you.
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Respect the fact that all you do and are now has evolved for a good reason and serves an important purpose.
Excessive use of external motivation can slow and even stop your journey to mastery.