Shad Helmstetter quotes

Shad Helmstetter is a renowned author, psychologist, and motivational speaker known for his expertise in the field of self-help and personal development. With over 40 years of experience, he has written numerous best-selling books on topics such as self-esteem, motivation, and success. Shad Helmstetter's unique approach to personal growth has inspired millions of people to take control of their lives and achieve their goals. He is a leading authority on positive affirmations and has helped individuals worldwide transform their mindset and achieve lasting change. Whether through his books, seminars, or coaching programs, Shad Helmstetter continues to empower individuals to live their best lives.

The most important chemical process necessary to wiring or rewiring your brain is repetition. The brain is designed to pay attention to, and store, the messages that are repeated most often.

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Your success will always depend on what you think, what you tell yourself most. Expect the best and then tell yourself the best. If you do, there is a good chance that that is what you will get.

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You will become what you think about most; your success or failure in anything, large or small, will depend on your programming – what you accept from others, and what you say when you talk to yourself.

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Repetition is a convincing argument.

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Personal responsibility is the essence of self. I, for one, would rather not give that up. Why would we ever want someone else to do our thinking for us?

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Deep inside the workings of the human brain, there is no actual ‘truth.’ The part of the brain that stores all of the messages you have received, accepts what it is told most often. It then plays back to you the strongest messages it has received. And it plays those messages back to you as ‘truth’ or ‘fact’, whether the messages are actually true or not.

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Your subconscious mind is an incredibly powerful, goal-achieving mechanism. Programmed strongly enough, it will do anything necessary to help you achieve your goals. Unless you tell it what to do, it doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong.

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You may think that in life, a lot of things happen to you along the way. The truth is, in life, you happen to a lot of things along the way.

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You can be a graduate student of management and never attain the essential skills of managing others if you do not first master the management of yourself… The second essential ingredient of being a good manager is knowing how to develop the qualities and skills of others.

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You are everything that is, your thoughts, your life, your dreams come true. You are everything you choose to be. You are as unlimited as the endless universe.

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Whatever you put into your mind – in one way or another – is what you will get back out – in one way or another.

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What we become a part of becomes a part of us.

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We can change friends, spouses, jobs, or locations, and we still take the same inner selves along with us – the same internal identities which made us unhappy, helped us, or got us into trouble in the first place. If we take the old images of ourselves with us wherever we go and into what ever we do, how could we expect to do better the next time we try?

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We are trying to force the brain to do something that it has not been programmed to do. The brain simply believes what you tell it the most. And what you tell it about you it will create. It has no choice.

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We are most comfortable with the thoughts we have lived with the most. It makes no difference if those thoughts aren’t the best for us – it’s what we know, it’s what we are most secure in keeping at our side.

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There may be a thousand little choices in a day. All of them count.

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The human brain will do anything possible you tell it to do, if you tell it often enough and strongly enough!

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Some people choose to live by complaining. Other people choose to live.

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Mastering one’s future must surely start with managing one’s 'self'. And if we could accomplish that, we could manage and master at least a part of what we call 'life'.

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Learning to manage, control, and direct the resources of your mind is the greatest challenge you will ever face.

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It is your programming that has created your choices in the past. It is the choices you make today that are creating the programs of your future.

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If everything you tell yourself about yourself becomes a directive to your subconscious mind, then anytime you make a statement about yourself that is negative you are directing your subconscious mind to make you become the person you just described – negatively!

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I never demand perfection of myself, but I expect the very best of what I have to give—and that’s what I get! I never give myself excuses. I get things done on time and in the right way.

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I never blame anyone else for the circumstances of my life. I accept my failings and move past them as easily as I accept the rewards for my victories.

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I do not agree with those who tell us that all problems are "opportunities." Some problems represent potential opportunities, but not all of them. If a man with a gun in his hand were to walk in at this moment and point the gun at your head, that is not an opportunity – that is a problem!

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I can do anything I believe I can do! I’ve got it, and every day I get more of it. I have talent, skills, and ability. I set goals and I reach them. I know what I want out of life. I go after it and I get it.

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I am in control of myself in every way—at all times and in all situations. Each time I sit down to eat, I reaffirm my determination to achieve my goal.

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How we 'feel' – tired or energetic, listless or enthusiastic – is mental and chemical; it is physiological.

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How about being your own motivator? How about taking charge and putting yourself back in control? You can, just by learning that all true motivation – the only kind that lasts, the only kind you can count on – is internal motivation.

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Choosing to live your life by your own choice is the greatest freedom you will ever have.

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