Elrod Quotes & Sayings

We must embrace the fact that if we don't commit to thinking and living differently than most people now, we are setting ourselves up to endure a life of mediocrity, struggle, failure and regret-just like most people. — Hal Elrod

Those who overcome the temptations of mediocrity and achieve everything they want in life have an extraordinarily compelling why that drives them. They have defined a clear life purpose that is more powerful than the collective sum of their petty problems and the countless obstacles they will inevitably face, and they wake up each day and work towards their purpose. — Hal Elrod

People who complain often say things like, 'I'm not being negative, I'm just being realistic.' Really? How is it anymore 'realistic' to focus on and talk about things that discourage us and make us feel bad, than to focus on and talk about the POSITIVE aspects of life that make us feel GOOD? Both area equally REALISTIC, but which you choose to dwell on has a very different impact on the quality of YOUR life. — Hal Elrod

Remember that nearly all extraordinary accomplishments began by overcoming a series of challenges that discourage and tempt us to quit, before we succeed. Those that maintain faith, stay committed, follow through and keep moving forward are the few that achieve everything they want in life. Be one of the few. — Hal Elrod

There is a fine line between optimism and delusion. I cross it often. — Hal Elrod

There is no better day than today to do the things you've been putting off. Take action; it's the only way to change your life! — Hal Elrod

I don't have time to wake up early. - UNKNOWN — Hal Elrod

Every time we push personal development aside, we invite personal struggle into our lives. — Hal Elrod

The 1st secret to success is to simply master your ability to get started, to take the first step. If you want to get physically fit, simply pack a gym bag everyday and get in the car. Once you do, where else are you going to go? — Hal Elrod

Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them. — P.N. Elrod

How we start our day determines how we create our life. Are you snoozing through your morning ... snoozing through your life ... and snoozing through your unlimited potential ... Or are YOU committed to waking up each day with passion, purpose, and a plan so you can create the life you truly want & deserve? — Hal Elrod

No excuses. No regrets. Just an incredible, meaningful, and exciting life! — Hal Elrod

Research has shown that we virtually become like the average of the five people we spend the most time with. Who you spend your time with may be the single most determining factor in the person you become and in your quality of life. If you are surrounded with lazy, weak-minded, excuse-making people, you'll inevitably become like them. Spend time with positive, successful achievers and inevitably their attitudes and successful habits will reflect on you. You'll become more and more like them. — Hal Elrod

We spend too much time thinking about the actions we should be taking to create the results that we want, but then we don't take those actions. — Hal Elrod

If you want to attract, create, and sustain extraordinary levels of success and income, you must first figure out how to become the person that is capable of easily and consistently attracting, creating, and sustaining the extraordinary levels of success and income that you desire. — Hal Elrod

We must realize that the real impact and consequence of each of our choices and actions - and even our thoughts - is monumental, because every single thought, choice, and action is determining who we are becoming, which will ultimately determine the quality of our lives. — Hal Elrod

When you are consciously aware of all that you have to be grateful for, your life is in perfect harmony. — Hal Elrod

Your first thought in the morning is usually the last thought you had before you went to bed. — Hal Elrod

Always remember that who you're becoming is far more important than what you're doing, — Hal Elrod

Once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. - MUHAMMAD ALI — Hal Elrod

Dear Procrastinator: Taking action in and of itself is not difficult, but is in fact satisfying and is usually followed by a sense of pride & accomplishment. However, it is THINKING about the action that you should be taking and NOT taking it that's difficult, as it leaves you feeling guilty and unsatisfied. THE SOLUTION: Stop thinking and take action NOW. — Hal Elrod

Give up being perfect for being authentic. Be who you are. Love who you are. Others will too. — Hal Elrod

How you wake up each day and your morning routine (or lack thereof) dramatically affects your levels of success in every single area of your life. Focused, productive, successful mornings generate focused, productive, successful days-which inevitably create a successful life-in the same way that unfocused, unproductive, and mediocre mornings generate unfocused, unproductive, and mediocre days, and ultimately a mediocre quality of life. By simply changing the way you wake up in the morning, you can transform any area of your life, faster than you ever thought possible. — Hal Elrod

Often when people feel tired - at any time of the day - what they really need is more water, not more sleep. — Hal Elrod

Mediocrity has nothing to do with how you compare to other people; it's simply a result of not making the commitment to continuously learn, grow, and improve yourself. — Hal Elrod

to overcome mediocrity and live to our full potential. — Hal Elrod

Never underestimate the power of gaining a new perspective by simply changing your immediate environment. Going for a walk, reading a book, or talking to a friend can provide you with life-changing insights that you not otherwise attain while remaining stagnant. — Hal Elrod

compare waking up every day to the feeling they had as a kid, waking up on Christmas morning. — Hal Elrod

"My #1 guiding principle for a successful life (learned from J Brad Britton): "Do the right thing; not the easy thing." Everyday, you are constantly faced with choices to do either the right thing (any activity that moves you closer to where and who you want to be) or the easy thing (anything else). In every moment of choice, choose to do the right thing over the easy thing, and your becoming successful is inevitable. — Hal Elrod

Focus on becoming more to achieve more while doing less — Hal Elrod

The greatest gift you can give to others is to fulfill YOUR potential, so that you can show them how to fulfill theirs. — Hal Elrod

The unconditional love of God leads to a life of freedom and transforms each day into a potentially wild adventure. — Randy Elrod

If you could have anything you wanted, do anything you wanted, and be anything you wanted - what would you have? What would you do? What would you be? — Hal Elrod

Believe in your potential, not your past. — Hal Elrod

Replace your judgments with empathy, upgrade your complaining to gratitude and trade in your fear for love. — Hal Elrod

Don't worry about trying to impress people ... Just focus on how you can add value to their lives. — Hal Elrod

Woodwake wants you in her office. What did you do?" "I invaded Egypt and they're very annoyed about it." "Who is? Them upstairs or the Egyptians?" "Both. — P.N. Elrod

You can't change the past but you can change everything else. Take your first step toward making a significant change in your life, today. — Hal Elrod

It's okay to be average, as long as you surround yourself with extraordinary people that you become the average of. — Hal Elrod

Problems tend to be put into their proper perspective the moment we get off SELF, and on PURPOSE. By choosing your purpose in life - a purpose that serves the greater good - and devoting the majority of your time, energy, and attention everyday toward living it, you discover the secret to a life of fulfillment. — Hal Elrod

Dysfunction comes when we intertwine the church and God and view them as one. — Randy Elrod

If you don't make the commitment today to start becoming the person you need to be to create the extraordinary life you really want, what makes you think that tomorrow - or next week, or next month, or next year - is going to be any different? They won't. And that's why you must draw your line in the sand TODAY. — Hal Elrod

It is often said that everything happens for a reason, but you must embrace the perspective that it's never a reason that is predetermined or out of your control. It is always your responsibility to choose the most empowering reasons for the occurrences of your life. — Hal Elrod

Wake up early everyday so that while others are still dreaming, you can make your dreams come true. — Hal Elrod

Remember, when you change your inner world - your life - then your outer world - your life situation - will improve in parallel. — Hal Elrod

Need nothing. Enjoy everything. Love all. — Hal Elrod

There is too much life to be lived for you to hit the snooze button. In fact, I believe it is 'seize the day', not 'snooze the day!' — Hal Elrod

Discipline creates lifestyle. — Hal Elrod

Give yourself permission to be happy. It doesn't matter what's going on around you, what matters is what's going on inside you. — Hal Elrod

They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU. — Hal Elrod

For too many people, the extraordinary, fulfilling abundant life that they really want - our Level 10 life - eludes them because they're so overwhelmed and overrun with their day-to-day life situation. Their life situation is eating up all of their time so that their life, and what matters most, isn't getting attended to. — Hal Elrod

To reach levels of success you've never reached before, you must be committed at a level you've never been committed at before. — Hal Elrod

Commit to being better. Your life gets better only after you get better. — Hal Elrod

Forever be happy, never be content, and always know the difference. — Hal Elrod

Those who only do what they feel like, don't do much. To be successful at anything you must take action even when you don't feel like it, knowing it is the action itself that will produce the motivation you need to follow through. — Hal Elrod

Religion is peer pressure on steroids. — R. Elise Elrod

Watch out world, we're here to change ya! — Hal Elrod

To become a champion, you must first think like a champion, and the best way to think like a champion is start talking like a champion. So start talking today like the champion you could be, and your thoughts and actions will follow. — Hal Elrod

We mistakenly believe that who we were is who we are, thus limiting our true potential in the present, based on the limitations of our past. — Hal Elrod

Being (who you need to be) and doing (what you need to do) are prerequisites for having what you want to have. — Hal Elrod

Nothing great happens when you hold back. — Scott Elrod

When in doubt, always choose love & gratitude. — Hal Elrod

Every time you choose to do the easy thing, instead of the right thing, you are shaping your identity, becoming the type of person who does what's easy, rather than what's right. On the other hand, when you do choose to do the right thing and follow through with your commitments - especially when you don't feel like it - you are developing the extraordinary discipline (which most people never develop) necessary for creating extraordinary results in your life. As my good friend, Peter Voogd, often teaches his clients: "Discipline creates lifestyle." For example, when the alarm clock goes off, and we hit the snooze button (the easy thing), most people mistakenly assume that this action is only affecting that moment. The reality is that this type of action is — Hal Elrod

Don't 'just do it.' First, plan it, then do it. — Hal Elrod

Most of us are so busy trying to manage, maintain, or even just survive our life situation, that we don't make time to focus on what's most important - our LIFE. — Hal Elrod

The moment you accept responsibility for EVERYTHING in your life, is the moment you gain the power to change ANYTHING in your life. — Hal Elrod

What if you had the ability to make EVERYDAY the BEST day of your life? You do! You see, we have the opportunity to make everyday our best, through the power of our perspective. The quality of our lives has little to do with what happens to us, but is always determined by the perspective we choose to view our lives from. — Hal Elrod

Make today the BEST day of your life, because there is no good reason not to. — Hal Elrod

Give more than you get. Everyday. Everywhere. With everyone. Always. — Hal Elrod

Focusing on getting the most out of every situation is stressful. Focusing on giving the most in every situation is liberating. — Hal Elrod

Considering that our habits create our life, there is arguably no single skill that is more important for you to learn and master than controlling your habits. You must identify, implement, and maintain the habits necessary for creating the results you want in your life, while learning how to let go of any negative habits which are holding you back from achieving your true potential. — Hal Elrod

Who you become today will determine what you are capable of creating tomorrow. — Hal Elrod

Your level of success, will rarely exceed your level of personal development, because success is something you attract by the person you become," I stopped in my tracks. This one philosophy was going to change my entire life. — Hal Elrod

From that point on, having also added the belief that affirmations really work, not only did my memory continue to improve, but I created affirmations for every area of my life that I wanted to advance I began using affirmations to improve my health, finances, relationships, overall happiness, confidence, as well as any and all beliefs, mindsets and habits that needed an upgrade. Nothing was off limits. There are no limits! — Hal Elrod

am just as worthy, deserving, and capable of achieving extraordinary success as any other person, and I will prove it today with my actions. I am destined for greatness, and today I will live in alignment with my destiny. Selling isn't about me and what I want; it is about connecting with my prospect by finding out what's important to them, and then matching my product to meet their wants and needs. — Hal Elrod

If we're talking about brain performance, the best predictor of brain speed is aerobic capacity - how well you can run up a hill is very strongly correlated with brain speed and cognitive shifting ability, — Hal Elrod

Although actions may speak louder than words, it is our intentions that reveal our soul. — Hal Elrod

The A-B-C's of Living Life's Purpose: A=Accept all things you can't change. B=Be Grateful for all that you have. C=Constantly create progress towards to your goals & dreams. — Hal Elrod

Hard work pays off in the future but requires discomfort now. Laziness pays off now but guarantees discomfort in the future. — Hal Elrod

Gratitude and complaining cannot co-exist simultaneously. Choose the one that best serves you. — Hal Elrod

Focus on who you are becoming not what you are doing — Hal Elrod

Most people's strategy to achieve more is to do more. But when you focus on becoming more, you find that you can achieve more by doing less. — Hal Elrod

Establishing and maintaining clarity for yourself and what you want is the starting point for success. Thus, maintaining extraordinary clarity is necessary to achieve extraordinary success. The problem is that most people maintain a mediocre level of clarity, which inevitably leads to a mediocre level of success. — Hal Elrod

When you express gratitude everyday, you give yourself the gift of experiencing the joy of gratitude everyday. Give yourself that gift today! — Hal Elrod

Make bold moves toward your dreams each day, refuse to stop and nothing can stop you. — Hal Elrod

Could it be, as one writer puts it, that every knock at the door of a brothel is actually a knock at the heart of God? — Randy Elrod

I'll have to self-publish it because unless you're on the 'New York Times' bestseller lists, anthologies don't sell all that well. However, low sales to a big publisher are a major success to a small one! — P.N. Elrod

The moment you take 100 percent responsibility for everything in your life is the same moment you claim your power to change anything in your life. However, the crucial distinction is to realize that taking responsibility is not the same thing as accepting blame. while blame determines who is at fault for something, responsibility determines who is committed to improving a situation. It rarely matters who is at fault. All that matters is that you are committed to improving your situation. — Hal Elrod

Until you're willing to accept what already is - the things of your past that you can't change - there's no space for you to create what you want. Acceptance is the key to unlocking the door to true peace, happiness, and freedom. — Hal Elrod

Each morning when you wake, and everyday for the rest of your life ... Expect the best of yourself, and accept the rest from yourself. — Hal Elrod

Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike. — P.N. Elrod

Where you are is a result of who you were, but where you go depends entirely on who you choose to be. — Hal Elrod

Consider that worrying excessively about another person, especially a loved one, is a destructive act. It causes you emotional distress which prevents you from being at your best and contributing at the levels you're capable of. Instead of worrying, focus on accepting what is out of your control, and actively changing all that you can. — Hal Elrod

Who you're becoming is far more important than what you're doing, and yet, it is what you're doing that is determining who you're becoming. — Hal Elrod

Everyone wants to be financially secure, the problem is most people focus on "getting by" when they need to be focused on "getting rich." — Hal Elrod

As a leader, parent, or friend - don't let someone's poor attitude and poor performance hinder your commitment to holding them to higher standards. You don't need to make the person 'wrong' for the way they're behaving, simply point out that the behavior is ineffective. — Hal Elrod

When you live with integrity and value your word over your excuses, you have the power to speak your dreams into existence. — Hal Elrod

As God is my witness, the more I deal with women, the more I like my cat. — P.N. Elrod

If you don't consciously design and choose your affirmations you are susceptible to repeating and reliving the fears, insecurities, and limitations of your past. — Hal Elrod

Unfortunately the ppl who would do the most good w/ a large sum of $ are often the same ppl who have the biggest hang ups about making $. — Hal Elrod