Jeff Olson

Plant, cultivate, harvest. And that second comma, the one between cultivate and harvest, often represents a loooong period of time.

Consistently repeated daily actions + time = inconquerable results.

The power of a plan is not that it will get you there. The power of a plan is that it will get you started.

If we would just keep doing the things that got us from failure up to survival in the first place, the things we already know how to do and were already doing, they would eventually carry us all the way to success.

Don’t try to figure out the whole race. Just figure out where to put your foot for the starting line. Just start. Take a bold step onto the path of mastery. The result looks incredibly complex, but it’s not. It never is. It’s always the simple little things that take you there.

One of the quickest and most direct routes to getting yourself up and onto the success curve is to get out of the past. Review the past, but only for the purpose of making a better plan.

In a constantly and rapidly changing world like ours, you simply cannot remain the same as you were yesterday. You are in motion—you have no choice in that. But motion in what direction? You have total choice in that.

People want to walk over coals, break boards, scream primally, and have their entire lives change because they wrote down a ‘vision statement’ on a piece of paper at a weekend seminar. But that’s not how things really work.

A real-life quantum leap is not Superman leaping a tall building. A real quantum leap is Edison perfecting the electric bulb after a thousand patient efforts—and then transforming the world with it.