Steve Maraboli

The dream is yours_ why are you asking others to validate or nourish it? Your journey must be self-propelled. It must be fueled from within.

Everyone wants to look great in the summer... Don't just dream, take action!Your journey to being a summer yummer starts today.

Stop giving meaningless praise and start giving meaningful action.

A sense of entitlement is a cancerous thought process that is void of gratitude and can be deadly to our relationships.

Most board meetings amount to little more than intellectual masturbation. They are ideas that cause thrills, chills, and satisfaction, but there is no impregnation. Nothing is ever born of them. It__ intellectual masturbation.

The most successful businesses have leaders that see the correlation between customer service and sales_ not as separate departments, but as complimentary components for growth.

The efforts of a leader will be emulated. Depending on the quality of appointed leadership, this can be medicine or poison to a living business.

Make sure your business is creating a service experience so good that it demands loyalty.

As a business leader you have to ask yourself, __m I creating a consumer environment that is conducive to loyalty?_ If the answer is no, FIX IT!

When you put yourself in the customer__ shoes and begin your dialog from there, an immediate connection develops that stems beyond basic commerce and encourages loyalty.

Many companies expect loyal customers without providing loyal service. This has been the visionary failure of countless corporations.

By surrounding yourself with people who are positive, caring, intelligent, loving, and open-minded, you create a personal environment that is conducive to your emotional and personal growth. By surrounding yourself with the opposite, you create a personal environment that is conducive to the opposite. Choose accordingly.

Be mindful of your social environment. By nature, the group you hang-out with will develop a common behavior and mindset. This behavior usually gravitates towards the lowest common denominator. Choose your group wisely.

Friendship is a beautiful blessing. You may love your friends and they may love you, but that doesn__ mean they should have unexamined influence in all areas of your life.

Nothing is so unpopular as positive change amongst friends. It seems when you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change_ But only after trying their hardest to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER let anyone dilute your power to change!

Through the twist and turns of life, I find myself so grateful for my friends. Even though sometimes the days can seem so dark, and my heart can feel so hurt, I am never alone; my friends are beside me.

Cutting out drama... Healthy mind and body choices... Intent followed by action... Keeping real friends and letting go of the pretends... Livin' clean for Twenty Seventeen!

Just because I don't believe in YOUR God doesn't mean I don't believe in God. I just choose not to be bound by the limits of your imagination or those of your ancestors.