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Because everything good, all great change, starts with a clear vision.
To have a clear vision is to have a picture of what you want your life to look like and a plan for how to get there.
The happiest and most successful people in the world do everything in their power to avoid bad decisions that confuse matters and drag them away from their goals.
Only you can create the life you want for yourself—no one is going to do it for you.
First, create little goals for yourself. Don’t worry about the big, broad stuff for now. Focus on making improvements and banking achievements one day at a time.
Once you’ve developed a rhythm with those little daily goals, create weekly and then monthly goals.
that’s when you take the second step: put the machines away and create space and time in your life, however small or short in the beginning, for inspiration to find its way in and for the discovery process to happen.
Going for a walk, going to the gym, reading, riding your bike, taking a Jacuzzi, I don’t care what you do.
If you can’t find what you’re looking for, at least give it a chance to find you.
You need to be able to see what you want to achieve before you do it, not as you do it. That’s the difference.
Wenn schon, denn schon. Roughly translated, it means “If you’re going to do something, DO IT. Go all out.”
If you only aim for the smaller goal, the big goal is automatically out of reach,
Naysayers are a fact of life. That doesn’t mean they get to have a say in your life.
Plan B is dangerous to every big dream. It is a plan for failure.
And if I can do what I did, why can’t you? Granted, I am a lunatic. I don’t do anything like a normal person.
working your ass off is the only thing that works 100 percent of the time for 100 percent of the things worth achieving.
The key is, they have to be good reps.
You have to complete the entire exercise. You have to give maximum effort.
You need to be all there, all in, every time.
The whole point of doing lots of reps is to give you a base that makes you stronger and more resistant to silly, unfortunate mistakes, whatever that means for you.
If you half-ass your reps and fail to pay attention to the details, the base you’re building will be unstable and unreliable.
This is where we need to get to. This is what we have to do. We have to embrace the boring stuff.
Nothing builds character like resilience or perseverance through pain.
Nothing destroys character like succumbing to pain and quitting.
The great Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami once wrote, “I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
Don’t be a lazy fuck. Do the work. The only time you are allowed to use the phrase “I took care of it” is when it is done.
I am a follow-through fanatic.
Follow up and follow through, fully.
Do just those two things, which I know you can do if your vision means enough to you, and it will set you apart from the pack.
Not surprisingly, the people who complain the most about not having enough time do the least amount of work.
It’s not hours in the day you lack, it’s a vision for your life that makes time irrelevant.
What about time for rest and relaxation? First of all, rest is for babies and relaxation is for retired people.
One of the easiest, most authentic ways to start selling it is to speak your inner voice out loud so others can hear it.
All those things you tell yourself about what you’re going to achieve, you should start saying to other people.
Publicly committing to a big goal is a great way to get moving.
And if you really want to supercharge your dream’s exposure to the world, don’t just tell them about it, act like it’s already come true.
It’s not “I will be a great bodybuilder.” It’s “I can see myself as a great bodybuilder.”
The Stoics have a term for this: amor fati. Love of fate.
None of us has ever done anything on our own when you really think about it. We have always had help or guidance.
it’s important for you to recognize that you have a responsibility to give back. To help others. To send the ladder back down and lift the next group up. To pay it forward.
Social scientists have a name for this phenomenon: they call it “helper’s high.”
“Break your mirrors!” he said. “Yes indeed—shatter the glass.
In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other.
