The Course in Mastery Day 17: Self Esteem

Day 17 of a 30 day challenge designed to help you gain balance in your life. Tom Wood and Dr. Denis Waitley share the impact self-esteem has on your success and the thought patterns of a winner.

Tom Wood

1. Psychologist say self-esteem is the one factor that determines success more than anything else
2. Self-esteem the value you put in yourself.
3. Someone with high self-esteem place high value in himself
4. People with high self-esteem take more responsibility
5. Taking more responsibility means achieving more accomplishments.
6. More accomplishment give higher self-esteem
7. Its a vicous cycle
8. Upward spiral of responsibility, accomplishments and self-esteem
9. Focus your eyes, ears and thoughts on things you already do well
10. Self-esteem doesn't come from praise, it comes from accomplishments
11. Give challenges to overcome then praise them, give honesty in things they can improve on
12. Warranted praise from different sources build self-esteem faster
13. Give warranted praise
14. Create a "Journal of Joy" / "Journal of Self-esteem"

Dr. Denis Waitley

Denis E. Waitley (born 1933), is an American motivational speaker and writer, consultant and best-selling author.

Waitley is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, and claims to have counseled leaders in many fields: Apollo astronauts, Fortune 500 top executives, Olympic gold medalists, Super Bowl champions, returning POWs. He was a founding member of the National Council for Self-Esteem.

He has authored 16 books and has released hundreds of audio lectures.




1. The 2nd olympic ring is the ring of self-esteem
2. You don't have to wait until you perform to feel valuable
3. Performance is a reflection of value and not a reflection of it
4. Winners believe in their dream when its the only thing to hang on to and believe they deserve to win in advance
5. The value is in the clay not in the shape it has taken
6. The worth is in the uncut diamond gem stone inside
7. Value is inside
8. I'm not the best looking in the group, I just look my best in the group
9. I'm as good as the best, but not better than the rest
10. Why would anyone tell themselves or anyone what they would not want them to do
11. How can you possibly concentrate on the reverse of a message
12. Always walk in as if you have something of value to give
13. If you have high self-esteem you can afford to be modest and you usually are
14. You got so much to offer that you're gracious

OJ Lopez

1. I'm as good as the best, but not better than the rest
2. Mind of a champion
3. Create a Journal of Self-esteem

The Course in Mastery Day 16: Effective Excercise

Day 16 of a 30 day challenge designed to help you gain balance in your life. Tom Wood and Darren Hardy teach how to exercise so you'll never quit.

Tom Wood

1. There is no secret in fitness
2. Health is a decision everyday

Darren Hardy 

1. The secret is consistency
2. Lack of consistency kills progress in any pursuit
3. Exercise consistently
4. Holy moments: Make the right decision
5. Tips
5.1 Set goals - consistenly challenge yourself
5.2 Announce your goals - re-inforced the commitment to yourself
5.3 Like your exercise
5.4 Reward yourself - cheat day
6. If working out isn't fun and rewarding you're not doing it right, but the most important thing is consistency

OJ Lopez


1. Exercise consistently and make it fun and rewarding

The Course in Mastery Day 15: No Nonsense Nutrition

Day 15 of a 30 day challenge designed to help you gain balance in your life. Tom Wood and Darren Hardy give you a no-hype all-natural solution to eating right.

Tom Wood

1. Health and balance
2. Nutrition
3. If your not healthy you can't do anything
4. Its your body, listen to your body

Darren Hardy

1. Common sense to diet and nutrition
2. The law of input and output
3. Find your equilibrium
4. Optimum health, limit the intake and increase the output
5. Challenge your body a few times a week
6. If nature made it its ok to eat, if man made it, better be careful
7. Avoid white flour products
8. Avoid refine sugars
9. Avoid process food
10. Everything in moderation

OJ Lopez

1. Incorporate in daily routine

The Course in Mastery Day 14: Un-Time Management

Day 14 of a 30 day challenge designed to help you gain balance in your life.

Tom Wood

1. You can't manage time, it doesn't change
2. What you can manage is your priorities
3. Priorities are determine by urgency and importance
4. Successful people prioritize things that are important but not urgent
5. Important and not urgent
5.1 planning, strategy
5.2 education, learning
5.3 growth
5.4 relationships
6. Important and urgent
6.1 Crisis
6.2 Fixes
6.3 Calls

Nido Qubein

Since 1974, Nido Qubein has given more than 5,000 presentations, received every award in professional speaking and is represented by the best speaker bureaus. He is considered both a motivational speaker and a business speaker with a range of topics covering everything from time management to branding.

He is chairman of Great Harvest Bread Company (220 stores in 43 states). He serves on the Executive Committee and Board of BB&T, a Fortune 500 company with over $164 billion in assets, the corporate board of La-Z-Boy Corporation, one of the world's largest and most recognized furniture retailers and Dots Stores, a chain of fashion boutiques with more than 400 locations across the country. As a professional speaker, he encourages businesses and organizations throughout the world on how to improve their vision and achieve success.

1. Success is secular
2. Significance is spiritual
3. Success deals with creativity that answers: How can we do this diffirently?
4. Significance deals with innovation that answers: How can we do this BETTER?
5. Always give without remembering, always recieve without forgetting
6. Achieving is important but its not sufficient
7. 3F's: Fans, fame, fortune
8. Appreciating 3F's: Faith, family, friends
9. Travel from success to significance

OJ Lopez

1. From focusing on success to focusing on significance
2. Sense of purpose when I help people
3. What are important but not urgent things to me?

- Being an architect
= Review for Board Exam
- Being rich
= study money matters
- Speaker
= practices speeches
- Writer
= Practice writing
- Health
= Exercise daily
4. Faith
- Pray and Meditate daily
5. Family
- Talk to family members daily
6. Friends
- Talk to friends daily
- Make new friends
7. Make a daily, weekly, monthly habit

Daily
- Pray and meditate
- Exercise
- Study
- Work

Weekly
- Mass
- Clean

Monthly
- Save

The Course in Mastery Day 13: How to Read People

Day 13 of a 30 day challenge designed to help you gain balance in your life. Tom Wood and Dr. Tony Alessandra teach you skills for reading people so you'll know how to best communicate.

Tom Wood

1. Eyes
1.1 Visual
- looking up
1.2 Auditory
- looking side to side
1.3 Kinesthetic (Touch or emotion)
- looking down is emotional
2. Hips
2.1 Confidence when hips rolled forward
3. Skin
3.1 Indicates boundaries
4. Make more rapport, make them comfortable before taking next step

Dr. Tony Alessandra



Dr. Tony Alessandra has a street-wise, college-smart perspective on business, having been raised in the housing projects of NYC to eventually realizing success as a graduate professor of marketing, entrepreneur, business author, and hall-of-fame keynote speaker. He earned a BBA from the University of Notre Dame, an MBA from the University of Connecticut and his PhD in marketing from Georgia State University.

In addition to being president of Assessment Business Center, a company that offers online, 360º assessments, Tony is also a founding partner in The Cyrano Group and Platinum Rule Group--companies which have successfully combined cutting-edge technology and proven psychology to give salespeople the ability to build and maintain positive relationships with hundreds of clients and prospects.


1. Platinum Rule: Treat others in the way they like to be treated
2. People may not tell you how to treat them but they will show you
3. Channels of Communication when people talk face to face
3.1 Verbal Channel
- Words
3.2 Vocal Channel
- Inflection
- Intonation
- Volume
- Speed
- Pitch
- Resonance
3.3 Visual Channel
- Body language
- Facial Expressions
4. Listen to what people say and they will tell you how to treat them
5. 2 decisions about people
5.1 Open or Self-contained People
Self-contained: Guarded, do not share their feelings or thoughts readily or willingly, steady or monotone voice, based on facts, task oriented, not like chit-chat
Open: Showing feelings, relationship-oriented, digrest a lot, based on emotions/ feelings/ intuition,
5.2 Direct or Indirect People
Direct: faster pace, more assertive, impatient, tell, desicive, good enough,
Indirect: slower pace, less assertive, more patient, asks, not to be wrong,


OJ Lopez

1. Practice the platinum rule
2. Study body language of people
3. There is no such thing as a good or bad personality
4. I am a self-contained person when it comes to people I'm not aquianted to and my parents
5. I am very open person to my friends
6. I am a direct person, so in business I would need an indirect person to balance out equations

The Course in Mastery Day 12: The Secrets of Negotiation

Day 12 of a 30 day challenge designed to help you gain balance in your life. Tom Wood and Roger Dawson unveil negotiation skills used by ambassadors, executives and crises management professionals that you can use in your daily life.

Tom Wood

1. Negotiating is getting what you want while helping others getting what they want
1.1 People get concessions for people they like
1.2 Must be able to walk away from the deal
2. Is it going to be a win-win? If it's not don't even start

Roger Dawson

Roger Dawson was born in England and came to this country in 1962. He became a US citizen in 1972. His business background includes being president of one of California's largest real estate companies, with 28 offices, five hundred and forty sales associates, and a volume of over $400 million dollars per year.

As a full time speaker since 1982, he has trained managers and salespeople at the top companies and business associations throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Taiwan, China, New Zealand and Australia. He was inducted into the Speaker Hall of Fame in 1991.


Business executives love Roger Dawson for his ability to teach their people how to improve profits and make more sales with Power Negotiating tactics.

Meeting planners love Roger Dawson for his ability to put on a terrific presentation that is custom-tailored to their audiences and filled with content and humor. Roger is the author of "Secrets of Power Negotiating" and founder of the Power Negotiating Institute. He is full time speaker and author and travels around the world giving seminars to corporations and associations.



Advance tactics for power negotiating
1. Time-pressure
2. 80% of the concessions come down in the last 20% of the time available to negotiate
3. Don't reveal your deadlines
4. Discover the other sides' deadlines
5. The one that has the most options has the most power should use time pressure, otherwise avoid time pressure
6. Always think that you have the weaker hand in the negotiation
7. The one has more power should keep time pressure, the one has least power avoid time pressure
8. The more time you have in a negotiation the more likely to get what you want
9. You have to make a decision as it exist in that particular point in time
10. Learn to pull the plug


OJ Lopez

1. Practice Power Negotiating
2. oDesk employees

The Course in Mastery Day 11: The Power to Influence

Day 11 of a 30 day challenge designed to help you gain balance in your life. Tom Wood and Jim Stovall share stories of inspiration that show anyone has the power to positively influence people each day.

Tom Wood

1. Study and master the skill of influence
2. Influencing is communicating with people so that they take action
3. Demosthenes and Cicero
3.1 Cicero was the ability to influence
3.2 When Demosthenes spoke people get excited but when Cicero spoke people went to war!
4. 6 Influencing Strategy:
4.1 Build rapport
4.2 Discover and listen
4.3 Expose the problem
4.4 Expose the solution
4.5 Appeal to emotions
4.6 Must ask for action
5. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini


Jim Stovall

Jim Stovall is an American writer best known for his bestselling novel The Ultimate Gift. The book was made into the movie The Ultimate Gift, distributed by 20th Century Fox. The Ultimate Gift has a sequel out called The Ultimate Life.

He is a graduate of Oral Roberts University. On May 3, 2008, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Law from ORU for his work with the disabled.
Stovall is blind and is an advocate on behalf of people with blindness. He advocated for the blind by making television and movies accessible to the blind through his work as President of the Emmy Award-winning Narrative Television Network.

In the book, Forbes Great Success Stories: Twelve Tales of Victory Wrested from Defeat (Hardcover) by Alan Farnham, Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes Jr., president and CEO of Forbes magazine, says, “Jim Stovall is one of the most extraordinary men of our era.”


1. We always live up to the expectations we have for ourselves or those expectations  that we allow other people to place upon us.
2. That big dream wouldn't have been put inside of you of you don't have the capacity to achieve it.
3. Mediocrity is the most selfish pursuit of any human being.
4. You don't have any right to be less than the best you can be.
5. No such thing as an insignificant moment
6. Your ability to dream, exercise the right to choose and make a quality decision and change your life by changing your mind


OJ Lopez

1. Practice the influencing strategy
2. Who is the most influencial person in my life?
3. No such thing as an insignificant person

The Course in Mastery Day 10: How to Network

Day 10 of a 30 day challenge designed to help you gain balance in your life. Tom Wood and Dr. Sheila Murray Bethel outline strategies for networking your way to success in any field.

Tom Wood

1. Use your contact to help people get what they want
2. Put people together with other people that can help each other
3. The key is to get them talk about themselves
4. The more people you'll help, the more help you will get
5. Action task of the day: Introduce yourself to 3 people and ask them, what do you do and how can I help you


Dr. Sheila Murray Bethel

Best Selling Author  •  Global Expert on Leadership, Change and Customer Service  •  Successful Business Executive

Engaging Keynote Speaker and Seminar Leader
Dr. Sheila Murray Bethel's client list reads like a Global Who's Who of Business, Trade Associations, Education and Government. She is a member of the Speaker Hall of Fame with over 3,000 presentations to over two million people in 20 countries. She brings a broad view of current trends and relevant issues that maximize human resources…solve people problems and increase bottom line results. Sheila shares real world solutions for real world issues.





1. Story of Frank the cab driver
1.1 Smile
1.2 Focus
1.3 Morning check-list
1.4 Understood accountability and responsibility
1.5 He was the CEO of Frank
2. Write down a card, focus, write down what makes you good at what you do


OJ Lopez

1. Introduce myself to 3 people
1.1 What do you do and how can I help you?
2. Write down what makes you good at what you do
2.1 I am a very good communicator
2.2 I am a very good planner
2.3 I put people together
3. Action plan
3.1 Business card for Team B Concepts
3.2 oDesk
3.3 Architecture students

The Course in Mastery Day 9: How to Build Trust and Rapport

Day 9 of a 30 day challenge designed to help you gain balance in your life. Tom Wood and Nido Qubein share skills for developing the trust you need to have influence and connection.

Tom Wood

1. The ability to build rapport is the most important skill
2. Rapport is the ability to build trust and bonding among people
3. Relationships are build by trust and rapport
4. Building trust and rapport makes you an incredible leader
5. Building trust and rapport makes other people do what you asks them to
6. Book: Instant rapport by Michael Brooks


Nido Qubein

Since 1974, Nido Qubein has given more than 5,000 presentations, received every award in professional speaking and is represented by the best speaker bureaus. He is considered both a motivational speaker and a business speaker with a range of topics covering everything from time management to branding.

He is chairman of Great Harvest Bread Company (220 stores in 43 states). He serves on the Executive Committee and Board of BB&T, a Fortune 500 company with over $164 billion in assets, the corporate board of La-Z-Boy Corporation, one of the world's largest and most recognized furniture retailers and Dots Stores, a chain of fashion boutiques with more than 400 locations across the country. As a professional speaker, he encourages businesses and organizations throughout the world on how to improve their vision and achieve success.


1. From communicating with people to connecting with people
2. Understand someones passion to connect with them
3. Most people has the efficient rate of 30% when it comes to communicating
4. Communicating is the minimum requirement
5. When something becomes personal it becomes important
6. Facts tell, emotions sell
7. The best way to get attention is to give attention
8. The best way for you to become interesting is for you to become interested
9. It takes a focused approach of applied knowledge to achieve it well.


OJ Lopez

1. Improve my ability to build trust and rapport
2. Take from where people are and take them where you want them to go
3. Connect with people
4. How must this person feel? Facts tell, emotions sell. People must trust and like and believe in me for me to have an impact in their lives.

The Course in Mastery Day 8: How to Listen

Day 8 of a 30 day challenge designed to help you gain balance in your life. Today, Tom Wood describes the amazing impact actively listening has on your ability to communicate and Dr. Tony Alessandra gives specific guidelines to follow in order to listen more effectively.

Tom Wood

1. Great communicators do great things
2. The level of communication is the level of your life
3. Story of John F. Kennedy by Kenneth O'Donnell
3.1 JFK listens to people and remember
4. Listening is a life-long process


Dr. Tony Alessandra



Dr. Tony Alessandra has a street-wise, college-smart perspective on business, having been raised in the housing projects of NYC to eventually realizing success as a graduate professor of marketing, entrepreneur, business author, and hall-of-fame keynote speaker. He earned a BBA from the University of Notre Dame, an MBA from the University of Connecticut and his PhD in marketing from Georgia State University.

In addition to being president of Assessment Business Center, a company that offers online, 360º assessments, Tony is also a founding partner in The Cyrano Group and Platinum Rule Group--companies which have successfully combined cutting-edge technology and proven psychology to give salespeople the ability to build and maintain positive relationships with hundreds of clients and prospects.




1. The Platinum Rule: Treat others in the way they like to be treated
2. 6 Steps to Effective Listening (CARESS)
2.1 Concentrate
- You cannot listen if you cannot hear, you can hear but not listen
- Focus/Blur
- Figure/Ground
2.2 Acknowledge
- Hitch-hiking theory (The ears follow eyes)
- Eye-contact
- Vocal prompt
2.3 Respond
- Feeding back
- clarifying what was said
- Paraphrasing
- Empathy statements (Tentativeness)
- Let them vent
2.4 Exercising Emotional Control
- Emotionally charge words
- Things people say to turn off listening
- Avoid emotional blocks
2.5 Sensing
- Paying attention to vocal and visual, the non-verbals
2.6 Structure
- Paying attention to the verbal


OJ Lopez

1. Listen and remember
2. Listening is the best gift I can give to people
3. I should listen more. Practice CARESS, especially to exercise emotional control

The Course in Mastery Day 7: How to Take Action

Day 7 of a 30 day challenge designed to help you gain balance in your life. Today, Tom Wood gives steps to follow in order to take action effectively and Dr. Barbara De Angelis gives you one question to ask in your relationships to take them to the next level.

Tom Wood

1. Tony Robbins: "Personal power is the ability to take action"
2. Ability to action and inability to action is directly proportional to success and failure.
3. Strategies:
3.1 Plan, Do, Review
3.2 Getting over procastination
3.2.1 Do something (learn to do by doing)
3.2.2 List your reasons (believable)
3.2.3 Understand, all you can do is all you can do, and all you can do is enough. - A.L. Williams


Dr. Barbara DeAngelis

Barbara De Angelis Ph.D. is one of the most influential teachers of our time in the field of relationships and personal growth. For the past twenty-five years, she has reached tens of millions of people throughout the world with her positive messages about love, happiness and the search for meaning in our lives. As a best-selling author, popular television personality and sought after motivational speaker, Barbara has been a pioneer in the field of personal transformation as one of the first people to popularize the idea of self-help in the 1980's, and as one of the first nationally recognized female motivational teachers on television.



1. Question to intimate relationship: "How can I love you more?"
2. Feeding sombody's heart
3. Three A's:
3.1 Attention
- Looking at them
- Feeling
- Being with them
3.2 Affection
- Touching
- Loving
3.3 Appreciation
- Words
- Words is foreplay
- "Thank you, I appreciate it"
- "You are beautiful"


OJ Lopez

1. Plan, do, review
1.1 Business
1.2 Health
1.3 Relationships
1.4 Wealth
2. Take it to the next level
3. Women love words

The Course in Mastery Day 6: The Unlimited Power of Belief

Day 6 of a 30 day challenge designed to help you gain balance in your life. Today, Tom Wood and Dr. Janet Lapp explain the impact that faith has on your level of success.

Tom Wood

1. Story of Wilma Rudolph
1.1 Wilma Rudolph was born prematurely at 4.5 lbs. , the 20th of 21 other brothers and sisters, and caught infantile paralysis (caused by the polio virus) as a very young child. She recovered, but wore a brace on her left leg and foot which had become twisted as a result. By the time she was twelve years old, she had also survived scarlet fever, whooping cough, chickenpox, and measles. Her family drove her regularly from Clarksville, Tennessee to Nashville, Tennessee for treatments to straighten her twisted leg. She also had to have a leg brace on for three years(6 to 9).
1.2 Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23, 1940 – November 12, 1994) was an American athlete. Rudolph was considered the fastest woman in the world in the 1960s and competed in two Olympic Games, in 1956 and in 1960.
2. You can transform your life by mastering your beliefs
3. The power of belief changes everything.
4. The most powerful mindset if the belief we have about ourselves and what we can accomplish.
5. Belief is not just a concept its a science.
6. Belief is a physical thing that happens in your brain.
7. Turn an opinion into a belief, and turn that belief into conviction.
8. A belief gets its strength from the evidence that supports it.
9. You got to find more experiences and interpret those experiences in a way that supports your beliefs.
10. Pay attention to the associations and informations that comes in your life.

Dr. Janet Lapp

Since 1985, Dr. Janet Lapp and the Center for Leadership Development have been guiding high performing organizations through change.










1. Story about W Mitchell
1.1 W Mitchell (b. April 11, 1943) is an American motivational speaker and businessman. He is a former member of the United States Marine Corps, burn victim, paraplegic, and a former small-town mayor.
1.2 Made a list of things to accomplish
1.3 There were ten thousand things that I can do before these accidents, and now there are nine thousand things that I can do. I choose to fouces on the nine thousand things that I can do and not on the one thousand things that I can't do.
2. Success is an interior job, and has nothing to do with what you look like, how much education you have, or where you live. It has to do with attitude.
3. Passion comes from within
4. Keep the focus
5. Embrace change, be open to change


OJ Lopez
1. Find a place that can nurture my beliefs
2. Make a list of things to accomplish
2.1 Be an architect
2.2 Be a motivational speaker
2.3 Be a pilot
2.4 Travel 150 countries
2.5 Travel in space
2.6 Be a billionaire
2.7 Have six pack abs

The Course in Mastery Day 5: The Power of Associations

Day 5 of a 30 day challenge designed to help you gain balance in your life. Today, Tom Wood explains, what he calls, "the hidden blocker to success" and Darren Hardy explains "the 'You' factor".

Tom Wood

1. Your associations in life affect all of your outcomes
2. If you want more wealth you have to hang around with wealthy people, same with health, integrity, your associations affect your experiences in life.
3. 5 to 10 of your closest associations affect your income, wealth, health, humor, integrity, character
4. TV shows and books are associations too
5. You don't have to get rid of old friends, you just have to start putting more associations in your life.
6. Hang around with different people.
7. Start slowly but surely change your associations


Darren Hardy

Darren Hardy is the visionary force behind SUCCESS magazine as its Publisher and Editorial Director.

As a leader in the personal development industry, Darren gets the unique privilege of sitting down with the leading experts on human performance and achievement, as well as many of today’s top CEOs, revolutionary entrepreneurs, superstar athletes, entertainers and Olympic champions, to learn their unique secrets to their extraordinary success.

Darren is also an accomplished entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker, private equity investor, corporate advisor and peak performance mentor.






1. The results you produce will determine the lifestyle that you have.
2. If you want to produce results look at the actions that you have.
2.1 Are you doing the right things?
3. The attitude determines the actions that delivers results
4. YOU factor is your philosophy that creates your attitude
5. Improve your attitude:
5.1 Information
- Listen to something positive daily.
5.2 Environment
- Make sure your environment supports the kind of production you want to put out
5.3 Associations
- You become the combined average of the people you hang out the most


OJ Lopez

1. To deliver a LIFESTYLE, you have to produce RESULTS, which means you have to take ACTION, which means you have to work on your ATTITUDE, which means you have to focus on YOU, your PHILOSOPHY.

2. YOU have a PHILOSOPHY that creates your ATTITUDE that determine your ACTIONS that deliver the RESULTS that make up your LIFESTYLE.

3. Determine my associations.

4. Who do I need to spend less time with? Who do I need to spend more time with? Who do I need to attract?

The Course in Mastery Day 4: Taking Responsibility

Day 4 of a 30 day challenge designed to help you gain balance in your life. Today, Tom Wood and John Foppe show how taking personal responsibility in every area of your life gives you the power to take control of the direction your life takes.

Tom Wood

1. Study of Rock climbers
2. Top rock climbers took more personal responsibility for the rock climbing than the others, never complained about the weather, the rock, the situation.
3. Personal responsibility seperates you from every aspect of your life.
4. Take responsibility first before having great success
5. Take personal responsibility for EVERYTHING that happens in your life, your success and failures
6. Allow other people to take personal responsibility themselves
7.  Take personal responsibility and things will change in a big way


John Foppe

Born without arms, John Foppe has had to break down and re-think every aspect of day-to-day life. He learned that the inability to do something didn’t rest on the lack of resources or vision. Instead, it has more to do with one’s subconscious perception to meeting a challenge head on.

His compelling story and methods caught the attention of the legendary Zig Ziglar, who broke his long-standing rule of promoting from within and recruited and mentored John. He is the author of What’s Your Excuse?, which has been translated into six foreign languages. In addition, John has been a contributing editor for "U.S. Business Review".


1. If you don't have the best of everything, then make the best of everything you have.
2. If you will never change now, you'll never would.
3. While some of us cannot choose what we can do or where we will go, all of us can choose who we will be.
4. We can deceive, disappoint, even destroy each other, or we can give, build, discover, and love
5. In choosing to be different, we do things differently.


OJ Lopez

1. I am responsible for my success and more so for my failures
2. From now on, I will take personal responsibility for everything
3. I can choose whoever I want to be
4. I am the who decide whatever it is that I do
5. I am my own boss. I am the CEO of ME