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“Your new life is going to cost you your old one.
It’s going to cost you your comfort zone and your sense
of direction.
It’s going to cost you relationships and friends.
It’s going to cost you being liked and understood.
It doesn’t matter.
The people who are meant for you are going to meet you
on the other side. You’re going to build a new comfort
zone around the things that actually move you forward.
Instead of being liked, you’re going to be loved. Instead of
being understood, you’re going to be seen.
All you’re going to lose is what was built for a person you
no longer are.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

“Happiness is not something you can chase. It is something you have to allow. This likely will come as a surprise to many people, as the world is so adamant about everything from positive psychology to motivational Pinterest boards. But happiness is not something you can coach yourself into. Happiness is your natural state. That means you will return to it on your own if you allow the other feelings you want to experience to come up, be felt, be processed, and not resisted. The less you resist your unhappiness, the happier you will be. It is often just trying too hard to feel one certain way that sets us up for failure.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

“progress starts only when you get clear on where you are right now.”
― Michael Hyatt, Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals

“start and end the day with prayer. Instead of bookending the day with what I failed to get—sleep or accomplishments or whatever—I try focusing on the blessings I do have and expressing them in prayer.”
― Michael Hyatt, Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals

“The first key difference between an unmet goal and personal success is the belief that it can be achieved.”
― Michael Hyatt, Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals

“By reaching for what appears to be impossible, we often actually do the impossible; and even when we don’t quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have done.”
― Michael Hyatt, Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals

“1. Connect with Your Why Start by identifying your key motivations. Why do you want to reach your goal in the first place? Why is it important personally? Get a notebook or pad of paper and list all the key motivations. But don’t just list them, prioritize them. You want the best reasons at the top of your list. Finally, connect with these motivations both intellectually and emotionally. 2. Master Your Motivation There are four key ways to stay motivated as you reach for your goals: Identify your reward and begin to anticipate it. Eventually, the task itself can become its own reward this way. Recognize that installing a new habit will probably take longer than a few weeks. It might even take five or six months. Set your expectations accordingly. Gamify the process with a habit app or calendar chain. As Dan Sullivan taught me, measure the gains, not the gap. Recognize the value of incremental wins. 3. Build Your Team It’s almost always easier to reach a goal if you have friends on the journey. Intentional relationships provide four ingredients essential for success: learning, encouragement, accountability, and competition. There are at least seven kinds of intentional relationships that can help you grow and reach your goals: ​‣ ​Online communities ​‣ ​Running and exercise groups ​‣ ​Masterminds ​‣ ​Coaching and mentoring circles ​‣ ​Reading and study groups ​‣ ​Accountability groups ​‣ ​Close friendships If you can’t find a group you need, don’t wait. Start your own.”
― Michael Hyatt, Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals

“One of the biggest reasons we don’t succeed with our goals is we doubt we can. We believe they’re out of reach.”
― Michael Hyatt, Your Best Year Ever: A 5-Step Plan for Achieving Your Most Important Goals

“I'm so grateful now, for every match and every win and every loss and every lesson that I have behind me. It feels so good, right now, to be thirty seven years old. To have figured at least some things out.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

“Why get jealous when your biggest ambition with any particular woman is a couple of hours of undiluted pleasure between the sheets? Isn’t one sexy and experienced person roughly as good as any other?”
― Ava Ryan, The Billionaire's Princess

“Mistakes belong in the past, young lady. Every tomorrow is a blank slate and a chance to start again, so don't cheat yourself by believing that you're stuck.”
― Iain Rob Wright, Zombie

“People always think they have to stick with the life they chose, but that's nonsense. A life is long, and it happens in chapters.”
― Iain Rob Wright, Zombie

“You’re not as good as you think. You don’t have it all figured out. Stay focused. Do better.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy