At times you will be confused.

Life is full of ups and downs. At times you will be confused, you'll lose your bearings and feel like quitting.

You'll have to control your thought life if you want to succeed.

Why? Because your thought life will control your feelings about everything in your life.

I’ve learned not to let them in my personal cockpit.

When we entertain a doubt thought, it will always progress into full-blown fear. We'll begin to imagine the worst possible outcomes. Our thoughts then become self-fulfilling prophecies.

When thoughts of doubt enter my mind, I’ve learned to call them out for what they are — seeds of failure that I refuse to nurture.

Doubters miss out on the fact that our altitude gets determined by our attitude.

Attitude is a matter of focus. It’s what we allow to percolate in our minds regardless of our circumstances, failures, or setbacks. We might get a little delayed, but we are never denied.

Great faith will progress to expectation, a place where we expect to win despite our circumstances. And when we experience expectation, we’ll have peace … ZERO STRESS!

This peace will progress to perseverance, which means we’ll hold onto our dreams no matter what, just like a pit-bull holds onto whatever it sinks its teeth into.

It is that kind of perseverance that leads to success.

Winning the battle between faith and doubt is what sets apart the success-minded from the victims. Seek out mentors who have the battle scars from their journey, and learn from their mistakes.

Be open to reinventing you.

-Gerald