"When you do what you’re best at when you’re at your best in the best conditions you can create, your work comes alive. And so do you."
— Carey Nieuwhof
"It is a lifelong quest for more knowledge, more courage, more humility, and more belief. Because when you summon the strength and discipline to live like that, the only thing limiting your horizons is you."
— David Goggins
If you’re willing to face yourself and unlearn the ways of a backwards world, you owe no explanation about that to anyone who is not also doing that work. Let them watch the becoming.
"Growth is driven by compounding, which always takes time. Destruction is driven by single points of failure, which can happen in seconds, and loss of confidence, which can happen in an instant."
— Morgan Housel
"The truth is that you are living in a system that is pouring acid on your attention every day, and then you are being told to blame yourself and to fiddle with your own habits while the world’s attention burns."
— Johann Hari
"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."
— Brian Tracy
"When it comes to careers, instead of searching for the job where we’ll be happiest, we might be better off pursuing the job where we expect to learn and contribute the most."
- Adam Grant
It is important to understand that there is a difference between interest and commitment:
When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstances permit, but when you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.
- Brian P. Morgan
"As I studied top performers, I realized they moved way past time management and were highly focused on managing not just their time but their energy. Usually they had one thing in common: they did what they were best at when they were at their best."
- Carey Nieuwhof