$25,000 Secret from Earl Nightingale:
Put your top 6 goals on paper and number them 1-6 by importance to you or your work. Place the list in your pocket and look at it tomorrow. Work on item one. Then the next. Complete the list and start a new one. Try it for one week.

Ok. I have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."
Helen Keller

The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb

"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that." Dr. Norman Peale

Interesting ink.
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"Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed."
Brian Tracy

"It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal." Helen Keller

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
Zig Ziglar

"It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life ;it is how you handle what happens to you." Zig Ziglar

How much does my TV cost me per year? $40,000? More? What if I learned a new skill or two with that time instead?

Any day above ground is victory

"Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill." Charles Swindoll