Linda Kane

Take some time to think about all of last year’s experiences, and more importantly, hold on to all the lessons you learned from those experiences. Understand that everything that occurred last year was simply a result. Don’t get caught up in labeling those results as good or bad – as successes or as failures.

Learn from any mistakes you made and make a commitment not to repeat them. Learn from your successes but don’t let yourself get too complacent or overconfident. The actions that made you successful last year may not be the same actions you need to take this year. Be open to new approaches.

It’s hard to plan for the future when things from the past are still pulling at you. If you’re starting off the new year with unfinished projects from last year, you need to clear those projects from your plate as soon as possible. By getting rid of the old, you make room for the new. 

Anything that is worth achieving is worth putting in writing. Make a list of the major goals that you’d like to achieve this year. Each of these goals should represent a significant milestone in the long term vision for your life. Once you have your goals in writing,put them in a place where you will see them everyday.

Exercise is not something you “have time for”. It is something you make time for. It is also the one thing that provides you with strength, energy, and vitality to be more effective in all the other areas of your life. Exercise is an investment in your health, your life, your longevity, and your productivity.

The people you know and work with have helped you get to where you are. To get to a new level, you will likely need to surround yourself with some new people. Make it a priority to cultivate new relationships with positive people both inside and outside of your industry.

Build new relationships. Successful people know the value of a good network. They spend years building and cultivating their network, and as a result, they are presented with fruitful opportunities, and better positioned to take advantage of them as they come.

Learn new skills. New goals require new actions, and new actions typically require new skills. Take a moment to identify some of the skills you would like to acquire this year, and begin looking for the people and resources that can help you acquire those skills.

Dissolve relationships that don't support your success. Understand that you become the average of the people you spend the most time with. If the attitudes, philosophies, and behaviours of the people around you are not aligned with those of the person you intend to become, you must begin dissolving those relationships.

Make balance a priority. If this next year is truly going to be your most successful year yet, then it must be successful in all the areas of your life. And remember that it’s not about the amount of time you give to each area, it’s about the quality of the time you give to each area.

As is true of all living things in the universe, they're either growing or they are dying. There is no stagnation. If you're not continuously learning and growing, you're falling behind. Creating a personal development plan means committing to nourishing your mind with new, empowering information on a consistent basis.

To ensure you make this year your best year is to hold yourself accountable.Lack of accountability is one of the single greatest reasons for failure. If no one is holding us accountable for the consistent implementation of new habits or behaviors, we are more likely to fall back into our old patterns. 

The secret to holding yourself accountable is to have a system. Without a system for tracking your daily and weekly activities, and then measuring those against the new standards you’ve set for yourself, failure is almost inevitable. What gets measured gets improved.

Start Taking Action. As you plan each day’s activities, ask yourself:  What one thing can I do today that will move me in the direction of at least one of my goals?  Taking small steps in the direction of your goals will result in huge gains over time.

When you make your New Year’s goals, be sure to be as specific as you can. That is one of the keys to your success.

Create a Breakthrough Goal for the Year. A well-formed goal is both powerful and measurable. Specifically, a goal must quantify something, and it must list a specific date for completion. Because a breakthrough goal has the power to transform your life, it also has the power to make this year your best year ever.

Don’t think about making the coming year your best year ever. Just do it. You might not even notice that it is your best year yet until the end of the year.

Take a minute to reflect on the past year for yourself. Then give it a bow of gratitude, and say goodbye.

Remember that the quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts.

The project that most scares you is the project you need to do first.

Small daily improvements are the key to staggering long-term results.

Stop being busy being busy. This New Year, clean out the distractions from your work plus life and devote to a monomaniacal focus on the few things that matter.

In a world where technology is causing some of us to forget how to act human, become the politest person you know. Be Polite!

Remember that all great ideas were first ridiculed. Remember that critics are dreamers gone scared.

Every morning ask yourself: “How may I best serve the most people?” Every night ask yourself: “What 5 good things happened to me this day?”

Don’t waste your most valuable hours (the morning) doing low value work. Leave every project you touch at work better than you found it.

Your job is not just to work. Your job is to leave a trail of leaders behind you. A job is not “just a job” Every job is a gorgeous vehicle to express your gifts and talents – and to model exceptionalism for all around you.

Get up at 5 am and take 60 minutes to prepare your mind, body, emotions and spirit to be remarkable during the hours that follow. Being a superstar is not the domain of the gifted but the prepared.

Set 5 daily goals every morning. These small wins will lead to nearly 2000 little victories by the end of the year.

Remember the secret to happiness is doing work that matters and being an instrument of service.

Prepare for success. Find out what do you need to start doing, stop doing, do more of or do less of – in order to achieve these goals.

Commit yourself and get support. Find out WHO can support you and HOW and ask for that support.

Fear is not a pleasant emotion. Fear is not comforting, nurturing, relaxing, or reassuring. What we all can agree on when it comes to fear is: it’s distressing. It’s uncomfortable; and much of the time that we’re in a state of fear, we’re simply seeking to navigate our way back out again.

Fear is an emotional response induced by a perceived threat, which causes a change in brain and organ function, as well as in behavior.

Fear may arise from a confrontation or from avoiding a threat, or it may come in the form of a discovery.

It’s easy to ignore our fears, but courage won’t make it to the playing field unless you have a fear to face down.

The true inherent danger of fear is its ability to play with our emotions and challenge our perceptions.

The best way to halt these runaway fears is to confront them with present moment awareness.

the next time you feel yourself in the grips of anxiety, try to identify the worry that’s plaguing you, and then, address the concern in a tangible, concrete way in the present moment.

Face your fear if you can Anxiety problems tend to increase if you get into this pattern. Exposing yourself to your fears can be an effective way of overcoming this anxiety.

Nothing can be solved if you keep fear as your top emotion, face your fears and overcome them!

Fear is one of the most powerful emotions. It has a very strong effect on your mind and body.

You can try setting yourself small, achievable goals for facing your fears. You could carry with you a list of things that help at times when you are likely to be become frightened or anxious. This can be an effective way of addressing the underlying beliefs that are behind your anxiety.

Share your fears Talking about what’s irking us can really help alleviate the burden of anxiety. Find a trusted friend, partner, or confidant, and reveal the thing you’re scared of.

Confronting the thing you’re most frightened of can have an empowering effect; but this must be done carefully, slowly, and in small doses.

Visualise a happy place Take a moment to close your eyes and imagine a place of safety and calm.Let the positive feelings soothe you until you feel more relaxed.

Rewire your brain. Rewiring your brain is one of the surest ways to overcome your fears and develop the courage that is needed to get to where you want to go.

Read uplifting books to help interrupt the negative inner dialogue that goes on in your mind.

Do one thing every day that scares you. Living in our comfort zone is not the best way to live. Not doing the things that frighten you will increase the likelihood that your fears will become bigger – and taking over your life.

Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

Bear patiently with a rival.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

Genius is eternal patience.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.

Whoever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Have patience with all things. But, first of all with yourself.

Abused patience turns to fury.

We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Beware the fury of a patient man.

Patience and diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Patience is the art of hoping.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

Patience is passion tamed.

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

He who rides the sea of the Nile must have sails woven of patience.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it’s cowardice.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait. It’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

Patience is a flower which doesn’t grow in everybody’s garden.