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The great women and men of the world were all givers, not takers.
World-class begins where your comfort zone ends is a rule the successful, the influential and the happiest always remember.”
“Hard is good. Real greatness and the realization of your inherent genius is meant to be a difficult sport.
the place where your greatest discomfort lies is also the spot where your largest opportunity lives.
Walking into the very things that scare you is how you reclaim your forgotten power.
And how you get back the innocence and awe you lost after childhood.”
Picasso said you should learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist.
“The moment when you most feel like giving up is the instant when you must find it in you to press ahead.
Winning starts at your beginning. And your first hours are when heroes are made.
Wage a war against weakness and launch a campaign against fearfulness. You truly can get up early. And doing so is a necessity in your awesome pursuit toward legendary.
Take excellent care of the front end of your day, and the rest of your day will pretty much take care of itself. Own...
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F1 racer Mario Andretti said: ‘If everything seems under control you’re not going fast enough.’
With every challenge comes the gorgeous opportunity to rise into your next level as a leader, performer and human being. Obstacles are nothing more than tests designed to measure how seriously you want the rewards that your ambitions seek.
Makes me consider what the journalist Norman Cousins said: ‘The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.’”
the soreness of growth is so much less expensive than the devastating costs of regret.”
“All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.”
And never work only for the income. Labor for the impact.
An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production.
And her visage gave off a heavy, tired and injured look in that instant, on that spectacular beach.
Please consider that a bad day for the ego is a great day for the soul.
‘Give up the drop, become the ocean.
As the artist spoke these words, he spotted a catamaran overflowing with festively dressed tourists whizzing along in the distance.
I call this The 2x3x Mindset : to double your income and impact, triple your investment in two core areas—your personal mastery and your professional capability.”
Then he picked at a decrepit toenail.
Rest and recovery isn’t a luxury for anyone committed to mastery—it’s a necessity.
Neuroscientists call this peak mental state we’re speaking of, where our perception becomes heightened and our availability to original ideas rises and we access an all-new level of processing power, ‘Flow.’
