Positively Unstoppable: The Art of Owning It

by Diamond Dallas Page

possibilities can and must be created through sheer determination and work ethic. When you are able to accomplish things others say are impossible, you start believing in yourself enough to challenge more of these ideas.

The first step toward owning it is believing that you can do anything. Because before you can honestly define what you want, you’ve got to believe in yourself.

life is 10% about what happens to you and 90% about how you react to it.

Change the story you tell yourself. Whatever’s happened to you in the past—whatever anyone’s ever done to you—your life belongs to you now.

Your mind is all your own. So own it.

Sadness and darkness are going to happen; no one can eliminate that from their lives. And sometimes you just need to go there. But you don’t need to stay there. You have to learn to tell yourself, “I want to get the fuck out now. I don’t want to feel like this.”

Achieving anything worthwhile depends on your ability to get back up after you’ve been knocked down. It’s a mindset you have to adopt: Failure is an opportunity, not an ending.

“My history is not my destiny.”