The Next Level Quotes

“For some reason, a lot of driven business people take pride in how little sleep they get. They claim they do just fine with four or five hours of sleep per night and that, as a result, they are much more productive than most in any given twenty-four-hour period. There’s around a 95 percent chance that they’re wrong. Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have demonstrated that at least 95 percent of all people—business or otherwise—need at least seven hours of sleep each night, not only to be fully productive, energetic, and mentally acute the next day but to live to their full and healthy life expectancy. Anyone who thinks they can get by with less sleep than seven hours a night must be in the 5 percent of the population that has a rare genetic mutation that lets them get away with that. It’s pretty much guaranteed that all of those sleep-deprived warriors are not in the 5 percent. You need your”
― Scott Eblin, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success

“How do I need to perform to do that? These athletes have trained themselves to create a rich mental picture of what they’re doing and how they’re doing it when they’re performing at their best. This mental visualization process makes them feel more confident and primes them to physically perform at their best in the actual event.”
― Scott Eblin, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success

“Visualize How You Want to Show Up World-class athletes in just about every sport go through a process of visualization before they compete or start the next play. I’ve had the opportunity to talk with Olympic athletes about this process, and they tell me that there are two basic questions they’re thinking through in those last few moments before the competition or the play begins: • What am I trying to do?”
― Scott Eblin, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success

“Summarizing the work of Aristotle, philosopher Will Durant wrote, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” While”
― Scott Eblin, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success

“broader expectations that come with her new role. She has to put in place the processes and systems that enable her to be accountable for the results without acting as if she’s personally responsible for all of the results. If you’re accountable, you own it; if you’re responsible, you do it. Amy needs to own it more and do it less.”
― Scott Eblin, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success

“Visualise how you want to show up: World-class athletes in just about every sport go through a process of visualisation before they compete or start the next play. In golf, for example, it's called a swing thought.

Before swinging the club and hitting the ball, an accomplished golfer will visualise the desired result and the swing it will take to produce that result. While the result doesn't always match up to the thought, a positive swing thought is much more likely to yield a good outcome than a negative swing thought or no particular thought at all.”
― Scott Eblin, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success

“Visualise how you want to show up: World-class athletes in just about every sport go through a process of visualisation before they compete or start the next play. In golf, for example, it's called a swing thought. Before swinging the club and hitting the ball, an accomplished golfer will visualise the desired result and the swing it will take to produce that result. While the result doesn't always match up to the thought, a positive swing thought is much more likely to yield a good outcome than a negative swing thought or no particular thought at all.”
― Scott Eblin, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success

“Slowing Down to the Speed of Life by Richard Carlson and Joseph Bailey.”
― Scott Eblin, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success

“Primal Leadership. There”
― Scott Eblin, The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success