#steve-backley

"Tell me your thinking, and I’ll tell you what your life looks like."

"The sprint is like life ... blink and you miss it."

"Lucky people will focus on what’s in front of them rather than scrabbling about for what they’re searching for."

"If obstacles are large, jump higher."

"For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable."

"It is action that creates motivation."

"If you are able to focus unswervingly on your goals, then all that you desire will become yours."

"See it, feel it, trust it!"

"Trust in your own beliefs or succumb to the influence of others’."

"The way forward is to stop pestering yourself for answers and let it, the creative part of your mind, come up with the solution when the time is right."

"Nothing could be any worse than having to turn to your friends, your colleagues and your loved ones and say –‘I gave up too soon’."

"A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed."

"If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen."

"It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum."

"There are three types of people in this world. Firstly, there are people who make things happen. Then there are people who watch things happen. Lastly, there are people who ask, what happened? Which do you want to be?"

"If not you, who?"

"Do you want to know what one of the secrets to achieving all of your goals is? You’ve got to be committed."

"Just identify the very first physical action you need to take, and do it."

"Compete like you cannot fail."

"The first step is the most important. It is the most crucial and the most effective as it will initiate the direction you have chosen."