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the place where your greatest discomfort lies is also the spot where your largest opportunity lives.
‘one who sweats more in training bleeds less in war.’
“We only hear what we’re ready to hear,”
“All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.”
Your Mindset is an enormously potent tool for private greatness, prodigious productivity and creative victory—along with your Heartset, Healthset and Soulset.
“I heard a man say he needed to lose weight before he could start running. Imagine that. Lose the weight so he could initiate the running habit. That’s like a writer who waits for inspiration to begin the book, or the manager who waits for a promotion to lead the field, or a startup that waits for full funding before launching a status quo-disrupting product.
Health is the crown on the well person’s head that only the ill person can see,
Having lots of money doesn’t make you different. It just makes you more of who you were before you made the cash.”
The more powerful a person truly is, the less they need to promote it. And the stronger a leader is, the less they need to announce it.”
“The grade of work you offer to the world reflects the strength of the respect you have for yourself.
A quick example: ask the average person for directions and most of the time, you’ll discover, their instructions are unclear. That’s because the way they think is unclear,”
The reality is that many of the great virtuosos of the world had messy private lives.
‘GCA: Gargantuan Competitive Advantage.’
‘It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog’
“Victims have big TVs. Leaders own large libraries.”