High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way

by Brendon Burchard

what is achievable isn’t always what is important.

“If you leave your growth to randomness, you’ll always live in the land of mediocrity.”

Remember, people support what they create. When people get to contribute ideas, they have mental skin in the game. They want to back the ideas they helped shape. They feel that they’re part of the process, not a cog or some faceless minion.

To achieve excellence requires hard work, discipline, routines that can become boring, the continual frustrations that accompany learning, adversities that test every measure of our heart and soul, and, above all, courage.

Embrace the suck.

No one can quiet you without your permission. No one can minimize your self-image but you. And no one can open you up and release your full power but you.