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Success is a decision, not a gift.Steve Backley
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Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions.Steve Backley
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Like everything in life, it is not what happens to you but how you respond to it that counts.Steve Backley
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It is never about who is right or wrong, it is about what is best.Steve Backley
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You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.Steve Backley
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The thrust of continuous action is the firewood which fuels motivation.Steve Backley
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There are three types of people in this world. Firstly, there are people who make things happen. Then there are people who watch things happen. Lastly, there are people who ask, what happened? Which do you want to be?Steve Backley
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Too often, people get stuck in a state of over-thinking, the result is that they never reach a decision.Steve Backley
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The first step is the most important. It is the most crucial and the most effective as it will initiate the direction you have chosen.Steve Backley
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If obstacles are large, jump higher.Steve Backley
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Share your aspirations only with those who will support you, not those who will respond with doubt or lack of interest.Steve Backley
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Act like a champion, and then become one.Steve Backley
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It is action that creates motivation.Steve Backley
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If not now, when?Steve Backley
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Your current apathy is simply your soul telling you that it is confused.Steve Backley
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If you want to continue to be the best in the world, then you have to train and compete like you are second best in the world.Steve Backley
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If you remain static and wait for success to come to you it will certainly not happen.Steve Backley
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Nothing could be any worse than having to turn to your friends, your colleagues and your loved ones and say —‘I gave up too soon’.Steve Backley
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Do you want to know what one of the secrets to achieving all of your goals is? You’ve got to be committed.Steve Backley
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The challenge for you is to decide not what is important, but what is most important and then focus your attention on that.Steve Backley
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Success is simply never giving in to failure - either in mind or body.Steve Backley
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It is one thing to know what should be done, it is another to do it.Steve Backley
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If not you, who?Steve Backley
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It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum.Steve Backley
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Mix with positive-minded people as a means to tap into your unexploited potential.Steve Backley
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The only test is what you see when you look in a mirror.Steve Backley
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See it, feel it, trust it!Steve Backley
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Just identify the very first physical action you need to take, and do it.Steve Backley
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You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them.Steve Backley
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If you are able to focus unswervingly on your goals, then all that you desire will become yours.Steve Backley
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The sprint is like life ... blink and you miss it.Steve Backley
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If you have positive energy you will always attract positive outcomes.Steve Backley
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Look for solutions, instead of being difficult; be more thoughtful, instead of allowing anger to burn you out. Look at things from a different perspective, embrace change, look out for opportunities and you will feel much more in control.Steve Backley
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A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.Steve Backley
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Invest your energy in the things you can control.Steve Backley
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See it first in your mind, then become it.Steve Backley
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Explore. Train your conscious mind and your subconscious mind to start working for you by getting those great powers to move in a new direction. Start creating your own good luck today.Steve Backley
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To think is good. To obsess is bad.Steve Backley
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Lucky people will focus on what’s in front of them rather than scrabbling about for what they’re searching for.Steve Backley
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Every time a champion makes a decision they have a chance to learn something new, regardless of the outcome.Steve Backley
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They don’t give Olympic medals out for talking a good game.Steve Backley
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When you think a positive thought, you become positive.Steve Backley
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Remember, if you don’t do anything — if you don’t change the way your mind works and direct your subconscious mind to create the life you want — then everything stays the same, nothing changes.Steve Backley
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Success is virulent. Once you get the bug then it’s in you.Steve Backley
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The way forward is to stop pestering yourself for answers and let it, the creative part of your mind, come up with the solution when the time is right.Steve Backley
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The people and successes in your life mirror your beliefs.Steve Backley
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Although you can’t go back in time and alter your natural level of potential, you can determine how much of that ability you tap into, exploit and develop for the future.Steve Backley
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Tell me your thinking, and I’ll tell you what your life looks like.Steve Backley
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These are the people who will encourage you to go after your dreams and will inspire you to succeed. Stick to them like a barnacle to a rock.Steve Backley
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If you decide not to take action, you are going to fail, and even if you do take action, if you can’t keep up your motivation, you will simply end up back where you started.Steve Backley
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Trust in your own beliefs or succumb to the influence of others’.Steve Backley
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For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable.Steve Backley
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To deliver your own personal maximum, you’ll realise there are no shortcuts; if you want to be a champion it is all about rolling your sleeves up and getting stuck in.Steve Backley
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Compete like you cannot fail.Steve Backley