The Gap and The Gain: The High Achievers' Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success

by Dan Sullivan

“The way to measure your progress is backward against where you started, not against your ideal.”

When your happiness is tied to something in the future, then your present is diminished. You don’t feel happy, confident, or successful. But maybe in the future you will be, or so the logic goes.

You’re in the GAP every time you measure yourself or your situation against an ideal.

“The day you stop racing is the day you win the race.”

“If you focus on what you lack, you lose what you have. If you focus on what you have, you gain what you lack.”