Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable (Tim Grover Winning Series)

by Tim S. Grover

Let’s find out what he can do and put him in the system where he can succeed.

Successful people compensate for what they don’t have; unsuccessful people make excuses, blame everyone else, and never get past the deficiencies. A true leader can see past those deficiencies, identify the abilities, and get the most out of that individual.

Every minute, every hour, every day that you sit around trying to figure out what to do, someone else is already doing it.

Instincts don’t recognize positive or negative. There’s only a situation, your response, and an outcome.

And if you are thinking about it, you’re out of the Zone, distracted and wasting energy and emotion instead of focusing only on what you have to do.

Figure out what you do, then do it. And do it better than anyone else.

Sickness, physical or mental, is one of the best ways to put a person in the Zone: his survival instincts kick in and give him an extra gear for fighting back from a weakened state.

There’s nothing wrong with receiving a gift; that’s where the challenge begins.

Ask yourself honestly, what would you have to sacrifice to have what you really want? Your social life? Relationships? Credit cards? Free time? Sleep? Now answer this question: What are you willing to sacrifice? If those two lists don’t match up, you don’t want it badly enough.

Anyone can start something. Few can finish. Priorities change if you don’t constantly protect and defend them.

because he knew better than anyone else that all the outside stuff was the result of hard work on the inside, not the other way around.

Cleaner Law: When you’re going through a world of pain, you never hide. You show up to work ready to go, you face adversity and your critics and those who judge you, you step into the Zone and perform at that top level when everyone is expecting you to falter. That’s being a professional.

Do the work. There is no privilege greater than the pressure to excel, and no greater reward than earning the respect and fear of others who can only stand in awe of your results.

The loudest guy in the room is the one with the most to prove, and no way to prove it.

When people start broadcasting what they’re going to do, and how great they’re going to be when they do it, it’s a sure sign they’re still trying to convince themselves.

When you’re completely focused on one thing—your craft—it’s hard to pay attention to other people.

When others have to fight you by flinging insults, you’ve already won; it means they have no idea how else to compete with you.

Cleaners have this in common: at some point they learned they could only trust themselves.

Someone asks you to do something you don’t want to do, and you start explaining, that person is going to ask you again and again and again.

What most people think of as failure, a Cleaner sees as an opportunity to manage and control a situation, pulling it around to his advantage, doing something everyone else says is impossible.

Failure is what happens when you decide you failed. Until then, you’re still always looking for ways to get to where you want to be.

No one starts at unstoppable. You fuck up, you figure it out, you trust yourself.

People who admit defeat and say they had no choice just aren’t serious about success, excellence, or themselves. They say they’ll “try” and then give up when that doesn’t work.

You tried your best? Or did you do your best? Huge difference.

Most people are either content to stay with the safe thing, or they’re too scared to leave a bad thing, and they’ll put all that fear and doubt on you.