Yesterday Influences Your Performance Today in Surprising Ways By Heidi Grant Halvorson, Ph.D.
It probably won’t surprise you if I tell you that thinking about your past successes and failures can influence your performance in the here and now.
There’s nothing like a winning season to give a player confidence going into that last game, and nothing like a string of awkward dates to make you nervous about how the next one is going to turn out. But thanks to new research, it’s become clear that the relationship between our past and present isn’t as obvious as you might think.
When my brother Scott and I started our business at ages 21 and 22 – we had a lot of people tell us that we would never succeed. They told us we were too young, inexperienced, and that it was too hard.
Your talents, intellect, wisdom and innovation are gifts.
As a very young man, still in college, I came to the conclusion that I wanted to pursue a career as an entrepreneur. I have done this for several decades and have never regretted it. While there have been the inevitable challenges and setbacks, I prefer to be the captain of my own ship.
To achieve all your goals and become everything you are capable of becoming you must get your time under control. 
Me-jection: Giving in to the fear of rejection by rejecting yourself before you even ask for what you want or need.
Your financial life has a certain trajectory, similar to a train on a track. There will be twists and turns, but you can easily determine where you will end up if you stay on the financial track you’re currently on. What if the traditional methods of working hard, cutting expenses, and saving don’t work for you? 
In our society today we tend to accentuate the negatives instead of the positives. One example is the “alarm clock” we use to wake ourselves up in the morning.