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.

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."

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."

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

When I first started coming to New York in the early Nineties and seeing the vitality of the programme compared to what was going on back in London or Paris, it was just in a different league. It's like a 16th-century court.

You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.

CJ is my nickname. It stands for Cameron, and my middle name is John.

The classical actor in England makes roughly the equivalent of a bus driver.

The family unit is the first group of people that you are a part of. While there are obvious exceptions, there's usually an intrinsic trust that is built in to your family.

I never thought I was a great mom. I always worked. I fell in love with my children as they got older.

There is inside you all of the potential to be whatever you want to be all of the energy to do whatever you want to do.

My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.

Smartphones are always in your pocket. They're about reactive capture.

People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.

I have many golfer friends whom I play with, including my good friend Ian Poulter, a professional golfer who's coming to Asia to play in a few tournaments.

The privatization plan weakens Social Security and threatens our economic security by creating trillions of dollars in new debt.

I think the speaker of the House in Congress should be like the Massachusetts speaker: all-powerful. He should appoint committee chairmen and remove them if they stray from the party line. He should be answerable only to the caucus, which can remove him at any time. I'd throw the seniority system out on its ear in Congress.

I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

Writing on the beach is not what it's cracked up to be. The sand blows, and you perspire, and the page gets all blotty and messed up, so I don't do that anymore.