If you want to be rich but you want it NOW, you may be like my friend Sam. He wanted riches, but waiting wasn\'t his style... he thought.

As we grow, we do so in fits and starts, lurching forward then back, sometimes looking more like clowns than seekers. Learn to keep the progress you make.

When you jump out of bed every morning, all fired up with enthusiasm and eagerness to... Huh? What\'s that? You don\'t do much jumping in the mornings? Well, okay, when you ease out of bed every morning, all eager and enthusiastic to... Huh? What\'s that? You don\'t do that either? Well, okay, when you\'re lying there in bed every morning wondering why the heck you should get up...

When the award came, it caught Jack by surprise. \"I won a sales contest,\" he told us later, \"and I didn\'t even know I was in it.\"

My father ran a plumbing shop in the competitive western Chicago suburbs. Now and then, when a man didn\'t show up or called in sick, he\'d ask me to fill in for one or another of his regular laborers. One day he set me to work breaking a concrete floor. Now, you need to understand. My father was built like a tree stump, while I ran more along the lines of beanpole.

Statistically, failure is normal. That means one thing: you WILL fail.... unless you do something abnormal. Normal people are all busy taking shortcuts, cutting corners, trying to find an edge that\'ll make up for their being losers. And as long as you think cutting a corner is okay for you, then you\'re proclaiming to your inner mind that you truly are a loser.

When I started a new job selling door-to-door, it seemed like heaven. I was ecstatic from the first minute of the first day. Every house I walked up to, my heart sang and I said over and over to myself, \"I am SO-O-O-O-O-O glad to be out here and not trapped in that cubical.\" Then, after a few weeks, something quietly changed.

Tonight the beach is dark. No fireworks will dazzle the crowds tonight. No concession booths will sell snacks, and no families will congregate to enjoy the summertime display. All those plans. All the money invested in food, in merchandise, in giant fireworks that shoot two hundred meters into the air. When a typhoon comes, the merchants here just go to Plan B.

Captivating analogy of achieving life success by navigating through a maze.

A look at how to make Personal Development really about you, rather than someone elses idea of how you should develop.