Derric Yuh Ndim

“Every day you make certain decisions and take specific actions that come about as a result of how you think, feel and the habits you tend to indulge”

“Many of us have allowed well-meaning parents,teachers, religious leaders and peers to tell us that there issomething fundamentally wrong with us if we don’t believe as they do. Simply put, we have forgotten how to think for ourselves.”

“Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after hisor her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste”

“A client of mine once joked, “If youremployer likes you, the rest is history, the raise and everythingelse will come.” That intangible attitude in the workplace is whatsets apart those who get promoted and those who don’t.”

“Our perceptions of reality are only a relationship to what is actually out there. Perceptions are influenced by context, by previous life experience, and by our tendency to seek outevidence to confirm our expectations. This drive to confirm, asargued by social physiologists, results in what is known as self fulfilling prophecy.”

“Living a life without setting goals is like sailing a ship without a planned course. You are likely to end up somewhere you didn’t intend to go!”

“I have learned its very difficult to become financially free by earning the minimum wage. Even if employers increased the minimum wage like the always do its the same thing. But once employees improve on their skills and self development, their wages inevitably go up and then financial independence is possible.”

“How you define an event produces emotionand determines how you feel going forward”

“Your self-esteem and emotional strength relies solely onhow you think and how you see things around you.”

“The most important thinganyone who is looking at a career, especially students, can do is toremember that strengthening and developing your employ-abilityis your personal responsibility.”

“How we feel (emotions) determines what we do (our actions/behavior) which directly determines the results manifested inour life.”

“Many self-help teachers say that our schools only focus on “preparing today’s youths to get good jobs by developing scholastic skills.” They think that’s a bad thing. It’s probably the right thing. Not everyone is suited for entrepreneurship, as statistics seem to suggest. Even future entrepreneurs usuallyneed to begin as employees to get their starting capital and tolearn while they work.”

“If you decide to do anything and follow throughwith actions with the same intensity as your decision, you willdefinitely end up with an excellent result.”

“If you don’t take control of yourcareer development, it’s highly unlikely that anyone else will!”

“we are entitled to a great life – that somehow, somewhere, someone (certainly not us) is responsible for filling our lives with continuous happiness, exciting career options, nurturingfamily time, and blissful personal relationships simply becausewe exist. But the real truth – and the one lesson that all thesuccess principles I have learnt are based on – is that there is onlyone person responsible for the quality of the life you live. Thatperson is you.”

“Our life is an odd mixture of different moments of action andinaction, work and rest.”

“Each child is a new being, a potentialprophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light.... Whoare we to decide that it is hopeless (impossible)?”

“It’s our decisions, not our conditions, that ultimately shape the quality of our lives.”

“if you are using probability arguments wit yourself, you are saying: “I want to live a life like everybody else!” By definition, an exceptional life is a life of low probability.”

“Work and Life are not separate spheres. They are integratedmoments in life that happen throughout the day.”