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

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!

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.

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

Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related to, and that love is not just a spontaneous feeling but something we sometimes really have to work at, with people we may not even much like.

My mother just died at 103, so that's a start. You should live 20 years longer than your parents.

I think self awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

Tennis players are very fortunate that unlike some disciplines of sport, in mega-sporting events like the Grand Slams, they have a huge platform to showcase their talents on the world stage once every few months.

Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.

I've got to do everything extra to put myself in the best shape to get in the World Cup squad.

Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

Country of Origin labelling is something that consumers really want, and I think it's critical to support Australian farmers.

Fvery time Anthony and I are supposed to fight, the lines come out, and it's like we're dead even. It's like people don't know what to make of a fight between Daniel Cormier and Anthony Johnson, when in reality, it should be very easy to know what to make of a fight between me and Anthony Johnson.

We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.

If you run a business, if you are responsible for a lot of people, you come to grips with the reality that you have to have discipline. You have to protect the enterprise in order to take care of the employees. So, therefore, you can't be wasteful. You can't squander things, or you jeopardize other people.

A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.

Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.

Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class.

Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women.