Similarly, you should regulate your reading and your exposure to intellectual stimulation so that you don’t subject yourself to just the mind candy found in popular entertainment.

“Take out a dollar bill and look at it,” he said. “Now pat yourself on your back because you are looking at a certificate of performance. If you did not rob or steal from anyone to obtain that dollar, if you neither defrauded anyone nor persuaded your government to seize it from a fellow citizen and give it to you, then you could only have obtained

“Do you want wealth?” Cain seems to be asking? If so, locate yourself in the heart of large populations of people who share your values. Then begin making connections.

If you are trying to attract and acquire something, you need to know as much as possible about that thing first.

recovery is directly linked to how much confidence that patient has in his or her medical advisers. It is almost as if your body knows what is in your mind

Character strength is rare and can only come from within.

Aim for predictability in your professional performance. It greatly enhances your value to others. Humans all prefer the familiar to the alien. One reason for the stunning success of the franchise concept during the second half of the twentieth century was that it offered the familiar and the predictable.

Don’t be embarrassed to admit that you want more money. Think of all the good things you could do if you had more discretionary income

Then carefully tabulate the 8 to 10 hours that you have available each day for economic productivity. Find out whether your efforts were driven by your plans and your agenda or whether you were responding haphazardly to random stimuli.