“In the end, it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away.” — Shing Xiong

“The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.” — Mike Murdock

“Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.” — Calvin Coolidge

Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Marie Forleo on her lessons learned in life. Marie is a best-selling author, speaker, online-entrepreneur, Nike Athlete and Master Trainer, fitness personality, dancer, and choreographer.

“Goals don’t care who has them.” — Zig Ziglar

“Humanities greatest advances are not in its discoveries, but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity.” – Bill Gates

Passion, intensity, and tenacity. That’s one way to describe Bill Gates.

“The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.” – Steve Jobs
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Jacob Sokol.  It’s the story of how he found his happiness path.
I say path because it’s a journey.  What Jacob figured out is how to drive from his happiness. That doesn’t mean there are no setbacks and things don’t go wrong.  They do.  But driving from happiness mean Jacob sets the stage to spend more of his time doing what …

“Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it’s always worth trying and trying now.” — Jane McGonigal

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Orna Drawas. Her focus is on helping working professionals become rock stars at work, while achieving work-life balance. She is the author of the book, Perform Like A Rock Star and Still Have Time for Lunch and her book was recently on the Amazon’s list of Top 10 Books for Business Success.

“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”– Napoleon Bonaparte

If you have five minutes to think about something, you actually have a lot.

“What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” — Napolean Hill

Visualization is actually a skill you can develop to improve your motivation and your results. Athletes and executives use visualization all the time to improve their motivation and results. You can too.

“It doesn’t really matter how fast you’re going if you’re heading in the wrong direction.” — Stephen Covey

It’s a new year and a fresh start. Now is a perfectly good time to establish what’s important for you or chart a new course.