Personal Planning Quotes

In the past, I have all too often listened without hearing, asking questions when I had no intention of hearing the answer or understand my customer’s requirements.

Most men have professions, yet few act like professionals.

Reputation is the panacea for those who lack confidence in their own decisions.

Don't allow your imagination to colour events as lesser men would, and see movement in motionless things.

In this world there are those who enjoy giving people balloons and there are those who take great pleasure in popping them. And I wish to be remembered as being firmly in the first party.

The only time you have is the where and when of right now. There will always be good times, bad times, hard times, and complete disasters. However, there is no other option but to be where you are, when you are. That is a universal truth for everyone. The important thing is how you respond, what you decide to do, and when you decide to do it.

You see continuous movement is the important thing here. Those who remain in one position and then lie to themselves about their progress are the ones in real trouble.

Start today creating a vision for yourself, your life, and your career. Bounce back from adversity and create what you want, rebuild and rebrand. Tell yourself it's possible along the way, have patience, and maintain peace with yourself during the process..

Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.

I see what I have to become and I recognise the time it will take.

Like the evangelist, I will shine with the light I have been shown, recognise that I have the ultimate solution for all my prospects, nurture that feeling deep within, and repeat the words to myself every day, until there is no doubt in my mind that keeping such good news hidden would be the very worst type of sin.

I will look the part. I will act the part. I will deliver that which I have promised to deliver.

And so it must be with the energy you muster for your own work. Get out there and convert the unconverted. Save them all from the charlatans and the nearly-men.

It’s your own personal statement of who you want to become, based on how you wish to be remembered.

Sceptics are persuaded by a good reputation, for it is an unspoken statement of proof.

Can a farmer plants his seeds and then demand the crops to grow before harvest?

You can only see your current horizon. Every time you move nearer to your desired destination, new horizons will become clear. New, previously hidden, opportunities will come into view.

His belief is so passionate that it fills him with the burning desire to share his fabulous news with anyone who will listen. He is concerned that it is us that might be missing out, not him. His faith in a single road to salvation and paradise is so intense, that it would be ungodly not to share the good news with all those who are not aware.

Finding happiness by delivering it.

Everything would have been for nothing just because I simply didn’t listen.

You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind. Either you get out there and plough it or it doesn’t get done.

Could trying your hardest, but never being quite good enough ever be acceptable to anyone? Is that what your dreams are made of?

I will design myself a reputation, in which prospects can place their trust, and customers return to and recommend.

Men constantly miscalculate what they can do in a day, and grossly underestimate what can be achieved in a year.

The choices you make from this day forward will lead you, step by step, to the future you deserve.

Understand why you are different and how you help, recognise your target market, and give them something they might not even realise they are missing.

You cannot become something new without putting in the appropriate effort, can you? Just as a seed cannot grow into an ear of corn without the appropriate time, sunlight, water, and care.

Tell your good news as an evangelist would. Do so with a passion driven by a need to help and solve problems that some people didn’t even know they had.

Sometimes, if you get too close to a subject you can miss what’s most important.

The vast majority of the populace would never think of setting themselves any deadlines for the achievement of their dreams. They may have a vague notion they will get older and that one day they will probably die, but it all seems a long way away, and tomorrow will bring its own share of problems and pressing issues to fill their time.

The confidence felt, when dealing with genuine reputation, often outweighs the simplicity of price.

To my shame, I had never thought to ask anything of the future, and yet woke each and every day embittered because it was never what I needed it to be.

Even though our past has a lot to do with who we are today, remember; all that we think, say and do today has everything to do with who we become ~ Donald Pillai

Destiny and fate are of one’s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path.

Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich seam of colourful stones, you will have to chip through dirt and rock. You will have to learn how to hold rubble in your hands and see the fortune inside.

All these ships are currently safe at anchor but that is not what they were designed for is it? Your job is not to remain anchored and safe. Your job is to move closer to your destination at every attempt.

Embrace the fundamentals like the closest of friends, for they will be the foundation of your future success.

Listening is a discipline. It’s all about being present at that moment in time.

Dreaming and becoming are completely separate parts of the process. However, they are both as important as each other. Never discount how powerful your dreams are. If you cannot visualise what it is you wish to become, then the brain doesn’t have the first clue how to get you there.

It is your duty to save these prospects from that disappointment. Every potential customer, who misses out on what you have to offer, due to your lack of zeal or passion, every prospect who ends up with an excuse of an alternative from your lacklustre competition, should rest heavy on your conscience.

One of the biggest problems with your average sales call is that the salesman doesn’t know what he is trying to achieve. He hasn’t worked out the end of the journey. So he sets off and just hopes he walks out with…something.

If you put in the effort and focus towards a goal, you will get there quicker than most.

It has nothing to do with the time being right or wrong. Storms just happen.

When things get tough, remember this mariner’s star. Bring to mind that everything external is designed as a challenge. A test sent to ensure you are actually worthy of acquiring your goal and reward. Recognise them as such and you will always find a way to go through, go round, or ignore them as required.

Like an ant, I will find my way round any obstacle. Like a child, I will persevere with pinpoint focus.

You may have an overall target to achieve with each prospect, but if you are going to have an ideal outcome for each call, should you not also have a tolerable outcome to fall back on? Something you are willing to put up with if things don't go completely to plan, but something that still moves things forward ever so slightly?

There can be no success in sales without tenacity.

From today onward, you will learn how to become evangelical about the many ways you help people.

If you have designed your last day on earth, if you have decided how you wish to be thought of on your deathbed, only then can you start to plot a course to that point, to your ideal final destination.

Adopt the positive in everything you do, for there will always be positivity there to find, if that is what you seek.

No one ever reached the top of a mountain by digging underneath it.

You should feel so driven to help the world that it would weigh you down if a single person received anything but the best.

Each step of your current journey will take you to new and interesting worlds of opportunity and as every intrepid explorer knows, when one visits strange new lands one must be aware of their customs.

Where he comes from, the education he has received, his family history, his wealth, they matter not a jot, but the perception he conveys - that my, boy, is the key. If they believe he belongs - that he is part of the room - then he does, he is. And whichever room he is about to step into, then that is who he must become.

I should become happier at what I do and leave others happier than before they’d met me.

People undergo several sequential steps in maturing from infancy including childhood, adolescences, young adulthood, middle age, and old age. Each stage presents distinct challenges that require a person to amend how they think and act. The motive for seeking significant change in a person’s manner of perceiving the world and behaving vary. Alteration of person’s mindset can commence with a growing sense of awareness that a person is dissatisfied with an aspect of his or her life, which cause a person consciously to consider amending their lifestyle.

Whenever I am in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, I think about all the times I have been in such situations and say to myself, "I did it before, so I can do it again.

Respect, wealth, property, friendship, even love. Did I expect to simply fall over each of them as I strolled aimlessly through the years? Was I expecting my whole life to be some form of lucky accident?

In this world of half-jobs and liars, I will prevail.

You have your whole life to become what you wish to become. As long as we know where we are going, we can prepare ourselves for the journey. That which is currently beyond your capabilities now, does not have to be so forever.