"Optimists...are not surprised, overwhelmed or offended by trouble. They know that trouble comes and they know they can handle it."

Are you feeling low today? You don't know what to do with your life? Feeling confused? Move on here and you'll find the solution.

Monday: What matters most to you? If you want to motivate yourself, start with determining your dreams, goals and aspirations.

Tuesday: Mistakes! Don't hate them, learn from them. Embrace your past and dream about the future.

Wednesday: You think you are the best? Accept that you are an amateur; then try to become an expert.

Thursday: Always find fun in your work and the things you want to do. Problems can be either problems or interesting challenges – it's up to you!

Friday: Having feelings is a sign you are a human, but don't let them control your actions and life.

Saturday: Be curious and gain as much knowledge and information as possible. Being smart includes being knowledgeable.

Sunday: Find solutions to the problems, not excuses.

Chaos, distractions and lack of focus will not help you achieve your goals. Prioritise and save precious time; stop wasting time on “timewasters.” Motivate yourself and start achieving your goals.

Set exciting, long-term, and powerful objectives in order to use your full potential. Exact, detail-filled goals will excite your inner creativity and arouse your imagination. Anything less will not even motivate you to get out of bed every day.

"Take control of what you know. The more you know about what motivates you, the easier it is to motivate yourself."

Focus on your goals and success instead of on a possible failure. Minimize distractions, including television. The less you watch, the smarter you will be. Be aware of the nonstop negativity you allow into your brain. Don't let this enter your subconscious mind.

Be a visioneer. Everything started as a dream. Build your goal in detail in your mind’s eye and watch it take shape. Visualize yourself achieving it!

"What you do is create a vision of who you want to be, and then live that picture as if it were already true."

Do not rush, be patient. Make steady advances by seeking to improve your life by about 5% every day.

"The key to personal transformation is in your willingness to do very tiny things – but to do them today. Transformation is not an all-or-nothing game; it’s a work in progress."

People might not believe in you, but you have to believe in in the sincerity and value of your personal goals. Otherwise, you will lose your motivation, therefore your dreams.

"In this information-rich, interactive...life today, you are either living your dream or living someone else’s. And unless you give your own dream the time and space it needs...you’ll simply help...others make their dreams come true."

Face your fears. Empower yourself by facing and conquering your greatest fear, regardless of what it is. You must recognize them, face up to them and overcome them.

If you want to achieve excellence, you must be ready to fail first. You can fall short of your goals simply because you think you couldn’t possibly attain them. Be willing to go through the phase of being an amateur first on your way to expertise.

"Losing teaches kids to grow in the face of defeat. It also teaches them that losing isn’t the same as dying or being worthless. It’s just the other side of winning."

Mistakes often prove to be the best teacher in life. Learn how to use your predicaments, failures and weaknesses as guidelines for doing a better job the next time.

Embrace your weaknesses and learn a great deal from them. Turn the traits, tendencies and characteristics you most dislike about yourself into your strongest assets.

Use your imagination. Play roles. Decide who you are; don't let your past or bad moments dictate your identity. Your thought processes influence who you are and what you will accomplish. Act motivated and you will be.

Let your brain play a game. People react to stressful times with extraordinary abilities. Nothing captures the power of your imagination more than work you truly enjoy.

"Don’t be afraid to leave the psychic home you’re in. Get excited about building a larger, newer, happier home in your mind and then go live there."

Make it simple by determining what tasks you can do that would accomplish your goals, or combine tasks to achieve multiple goals.. Know what's most important to you and concentrate on goals that relate to your priorities.

"Mens sana in corpore sano" or a a sound mind in a sound body! The health of your body is the foundation for the health of your mind. Body strength and agility matter as much as intellectual vigor and alertness.

Train yourself both physically and mentally. Incorporating exercises into your routine isn’t just good for your body; it's also beneficial for your brain. Exercise your mind by solving puzzles and mystery stories.

Don’t let your emotions get the better of you. Often, your emotions control what you say. Speaking or acting from an emotional orientation can disrupt and destroy communication. Don’t ignore your feelings, know when to use them.

Make fun of your situations. Be optimistic. View problems as puzzles you have to solve, rather than seeing them as insurmountable. Problems often bring out the best in people so welcome them.

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.

We colour the world Not with the darkness of our pasts But with the rainbow of our hope.

I'm just opening the doors. And a lot of this is new to me - thinking about it, and letting go again and again and again, trusting that if I'm meant to continue working as a musician, it'll happen. If I'm not, then pull out the life support.

There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads. My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home. I'm not allowed to get a big head; I've still got to do the simple things in life.

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.

Many athletes are seeking new and novel ways of pushing their limits, and the challenge of running back-to-back races is certainly one way to test the boundaries.

To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.

Performing live in front of an audience is such a matter of will - all of those things you can do just fine in your basement, suddenly you have to do them in front of hundreds or thousands of people, and it becomes a different matter entirely.

We'll look after our hospitals. We'll look after our schools. We'll look after our infrastructure.

We learn because we want to learn because its important to us because its natural and because its impossible to live in the world and not learn.

One thing we should all understand is that we are brutally honest with search engines. You show me your search history, and I'll find something incriminating or something embarrassing there in five minutes. We are more honest with search engines than we are with our families.

I don't work with people who ask me questions.

I don't know why it was canceled, but 'Mancuso, FBI,' it should have had a good long run, but it wasn't picked up. Maybe there was a problem with me. I have no idea.

Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.

Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you've got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn't call it gestural crap.

My first occupation was to map the country.

I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.