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

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.

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."

We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.

Perhaps the best you can hope for on the master’s journey, whether your art be management or marriage, badminton or ballet—is to cultivate the mind and heart from the beginning and at every stage along the way. For the master, surrender means there are no experts. There are only learners.

I was really active as a kid. I was outdoors constantly.

I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it.

The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.

The trust of the people in the leaders reflects the confidence of the leaders in the people.

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

Nobody cares about the bronze or silver medals.

I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.

America preaches integration and practices segregation.

My dad leaving my life. That's the biggest thing that happened to me. I just remember what he tells me, the memories, and try to move on forward each day, knowing that he's still here, looking down on me.

Historically, there has been a gap between single-purpose racecars and street-legal models - commonly called supercars - that emulate the real racers on the road.

I thought I'd have the baby, and get super fit and strong straight away.

We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.

After I had my kids, I realized it's pretty much all about instinct - you have to do what's right for you. Everyone has an opinion, but it was all about what you do or don't do. I was so overloaded, so I let my children dictate the way things were supposed to go, and things fell into place.

I became inspired while I was listening to music on the radio. I felt the music in my head sounded better, so I turned off the radio and scribbled it down on a piece of paper. I remember that it was in May. People liked that song. They said it was beautiful. I felt overjoyed.

I never, ever in my heart want to hurt anyone.