"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."

- Albert Ellis


what is t.a.d.?

On goals and plans:

"You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal."

- Zig Ziglar

"If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

- Jim Rohn

"A goal is a dream with a deadline."

- Napolean Hill


what is t.a.d.?

"The only reason we don’t have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can’t have them."

- Tony Robbins


what is t.a.d.?

"Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."

- Steve Jobs.


what is t.a.d.?

On action:

"Many fine things can be done in a day if you don't always make that day tomorrow."

- Brian Koslow

"Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live."

- Nicolas de Chamfort

"If you only do what you know you can do, you never do very much."

- Tom Krause


what is t.a.d.?

"Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful."

- Mark Victor Hansen


what is t.a.d.?

"I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy."

- Marie Curie


what is t.a.d.?

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on."

- Samuel Goldwyn


what is t.a.d.?

"In every life we have some trouble, but when you worry you make it double. Don't worry. Be happy."

- Bobby McFerrin


what is t.a.d.?

"Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money, power, and influence."

- Henry Chester


what is t.a.d.?

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."

- Charles R. Swindoll


what is t.a.d.?

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

- Ferris Bueller


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