The Science of Self Talk: How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence and Stop Getting in Your Own Way (Master Your Self Discipline Book 5)

by Ian Tuhovsky

if you make an effort to improve yourself just a little bit every day, every improvement will build on the previous one. That will become the basis for the next improvement, until it becomes exponentially easier.

Talk to yourself the way you’d talk to someone you love.

Procrastination is just avoiding tasks that are presently demanding but will give a reward in the distant future, in favor of activities that give a more immediate reward.

“It doesn’t matter what other people think; what matters is what I think.”

One of the benefits of meditation is that it creates a gap between awareness and thought, between you and your self-talk.