Reading 194, from Brian Tracy ( though long, read it fully )

…take your dreams out of the air and you crystallize them into clear, specific written goals. Perhaps the greatest discovery in human history is that, “You become what you think about most of the time.” The two factors that determine what happens to you in life, more than anything else, are what you think about and how you think about it. Successful people think about their goals most of the time. As a result, they are continually moving toward their goals and their goals are moving toward them. Whatever you think about most of the time grows and increases in your life. If you are thinking and talking and visualizing your goals, you tend to accomplish far, far more than the average person who is usually thinking and talking about their worries and problems most of the time.
Here is an exercise for you. Take a sheet of paper and write the word “Goals” at the top with today’s date. Then, make a list of 10 goals that you would like to achieve over the next 12 months. Write your goals in the present tense, as though a year has passed and you have already achieved them. Begin each goal with the word “I” to make it personal to you. By making out a list of 10 goals for yourself for the next year, you will have moved yourself into the top 3% of adults in our society. The sad fact is that 97% of adults have never made a list of goals in their entire lives….

… Refuse to make excuses or to blame other people for your problems or short comings. Stop complaining about things in your life that you are not happy about. Refuse to criticize other people for anything. You are responsible. If there is something in your life that you don’t like, it is up to you to do something about it.
But you are in charge…The biggest mistake you can ever make is to ever think that you work for anyone other than yourself. You are always self-employed. You are always the president of your own personal services corporation, no matter where you might be working at the moment. When you see yourself as self-employed, you develop the entrepreneur mentality, the mentality of the highly independent, self-responsible, self-starting individual. Instead of waiting for things to happen, you make things happen. You see yourself as the boss of your own life. You see yourself as completely in charge of your physical health, your financial well being, your career, your relationships, your house, your home, your car and
every element of your existence. This is the mindset of the truly excellent person.
Self-responsible people are intensely result oriented. They take high levels of initiative.

21 Success Secrets of Self-Made Millionaires

Brian Tracy