Brian Tracy Quotes

I always try to find a less frustrating way to look at things.

The second you change the way you look at a situation, your stress levels drop.

The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.

When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.

Occupying my mind with complex problems has been my best and most powerful and most reliable defense against my mental illness.

Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind.

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

Mistakes and pressure are inevitable; the secret to getting past them is to stay calm.

Perhaps trying to move away from my problems and focus on the positive is the best I can do.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

Although focusing is best pursued as a deliberate strategy over a period of time, it is also valuable as a kind of psychological first-aid, as useful to a distressed, 'stuck' person as a tourniquet to an accident victim.

You can't think your way into acting positively, but you can act your way into thinking positively.

Depression seems to be related to fear, anger and frustration. When you're in a bad mood, even if you meet with your friends, you don't take pleasure in their company. But when you're in a good mood, even if things go wrong, you can cope with them without difficulty. This is why putting yourself in a good mood, making a point of developing a sense of loving kindness gives you greater inner strength.

You can think your way into or out of almost any circumstance, good or bad.

It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed. I am not limited by any past thinking. I choose my thoughts with care. I constantly have new insights and new ways of looking at my world. I am willing to change and grow.

Your problem isn't the problem, it's your attitude about the problem.

If things get too much for you and you feel the whole world's against you, go stand on your head. If you can think of anything crazier to do, do it.

Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It's really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.

Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.

Our goal is not to ignore the problems of life, but to put ourselves in better mental and emotional states where we can not only come up with solutions, but act upon them.

The good news is that it doesn't cost much money to change your thinking. In fact, it can be done for free.

You can't control the things that happen to you, but you can control the way you feel about them.

Health, happiness and success depend upon the fighting spirit of each person. The big thing is not what happens to us in life, but what we do about what happens to us.