High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way

by Brendon Burchard

Just because people want to put things on your plate because you’re good doesn’t mean you should let them. What’s achievable is not always what’s important.

Effectiveness in life does not come from focusing on what is automatic, easy, or natural for us. Rather, it is the result of how we consciously strive to meet life’s harder challenges, grow beyond our comforts, and deliberately work to overcome our biases and preferences, so that we may understand, love, serve, and lead others.