As I often sit back and read books written by brilliant minds, attend conferences that fill me up with a natural high and daydream about what life will look like five years from now, I am inundated with how life principles are constantly at play.

Back in 2017, I wrote an article titled, “Three Ways To Attract Success Into Your Life With Little Effort.” I’m infatuated with success — what it feels like, what it sounds like and what it looks like. For most, success equates to having wealth. But for others, success is simply doing better than the generation of people that came before them. In short, success is subjective to popular opinion.

It can be said that the most successful individuals have mounds of stories to tell that include bouts with tragedy, struggle and pain. Success doesn’t seem to come easy, nor does it happen to those who aren’t looking for it. My colleague Andrea, a two-time cancer survivor turned author and executive coach, once told me, “If you want to be successful, you first must believe that you can be. Your mindset is everything!”

Taking this one piece of advice changed the trajectory of my thinking. The problem with most of us is that we don’t believe that success is ours for the taking. We think that success is based on the luck of the draw or that it only happens by chance. Well, if Andrea and so many others, like Michael Jordan, Gary V, Oprah Winfrey and Steve Jobs suggest that success starts with the mind, how does one focus their mind on success so that it becomes attainable?

I think back to five timeless quotes by some of the world’s most respected and successful individuals. Use these quotes to start training your mind to think of success.

1. “Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life because you become what you believe.” – Oprah Winfrey

Your thoughts become reality. As a dreamer, I have found this to be true time and time again. I have a ritual of creating a vision board about two months before we turn over the leaf to a new year. At first, I thought it was just something cute and fun to do because “successful” people say that everyone should have one. But I noticed that as the year progressed, many of the things on my board had come to pass. Most times, I didn’t put energy toward them, they just happened. This proved to me that what I dream about, I can manifest.

2. “Whether you think you can or you can’t — you’re right.” – Henry Ford