Break Through Your BS Quotes

“The feminine nature makes even little things significant.  To an extreme, it “blows things out of proportion.”  Typically women embody the feminine energy more than men, and this means that when they’re unbalanced, everything becomes a big deal, and they give a shit about so much stuff, it’s overwhelming and at times unmanageable.  They don’t have as many barriers in their brain to compartmentalize stuff, so giving a shit about one thing spills over to the other things they give a shit about.  It’s easy to become conflicted, over-burdened, and feeling like there is a constant tug-o-war, sometimes in 18 different directions, about what matters most.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“there are times when we want to avoid having to figure things out and want to be told exactly what to do because it: A) makes life easier and B) we don’t trust that we have the answers within us. ”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“Everything is a partial truth. ”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“As illogical as it seems in the short-term, almost everyone universally accepts that making yourself physically stronger requires making yourself physically weaker – temporarily.  The question is, do you realize this same principle is playing out in almost all areas of life?”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“In order to move closer to your goal, you must often move further from it... temporarily.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“Your mind is your enemy – potentially.  Potentially, it’s a great friend. ”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“Life is won and lost with the little things.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“The willingness to take an honest look at yourself and the ways you can improve is a great act of courage.  Some can approach personal development from a place of fixing what’s broken, but I think true personal development is making something great even better.  It’s the difference between demolishing a house and decorating one. ”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“Many people in this world are so full of bullshit, they would never pick up a book that would show them how to break through their BS because they feel they “don’t need it.” The”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“The idealist, when stuck in their idealism, escapes the moment to live in fantasy.  How things “should be” or “could be.”  They prefer to retreat to their fantasy world where it’s comfortable to escape the uncomfortable “reality” they sense before them. Some like to go back and forth between both these games.  Neither one is real.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“The realist in actuality doesn’t truly see “what is.”  They only see what was. As soon as the mind thinks about “what is,” the moment has already passed.  The realist only sees how things were, and then expects them to be.  Clinging to their love of the past, if even only clinging to what was just a moment ago.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“A great mind driven by fear may destroy the world.  A great mind driven by love may save the world.  Yet, “intelligent” decisions may be made by both minds.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“The key to effortlessness is relentless effort.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“Lessons feed you more than successes.  Be hungrier for lessons more than for successes, and you’ll never stop growing.  Improvement is the ultimate accomplishment achieved by those who make feedback matter more than the failure they must endure to get it.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“Those in a growth mindset seek out new knowledge.  They test their current ways of doing things to see if there’s an even better way.  They assume their current assumptions of what is and isn’t possible are wrong.  They judge their judgments.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“Just showing the world how much your shit is jacked up won’t work.  Just acting like your shit doesn’t stink won’t work either.  Having a combination of the two is where it’s at.  It’s about having some of each.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“Be hungrier for improvement than approval.  Be hungrier for lessons than successes.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“We don’t like it when people try to force things upon us because, surprise, surprise, it removes the ability to choose.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“I have to” is possibly the most poisonous phrase of disempowerment.  Similarly, the words “I can’t” are also disempowering due to the removal of the feeling of choice.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“You can hear a crazy person on the street say, “You’re stupid” and laugh it off.  It’s just the projections of a crazy person.  Then you hear a friend say “You’re stupid!” and it ruins your whole day, you cry yourself to sleep that night, and it takes three years of therapy to fully get over.  To receive those things means you have given up choice in what others, or you, wish to label yourself.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“When you have a big enough reason why you’re doing something, you won’t let anything stop you.  When you find a cause that goes beyond your own needs, you’ll transcend the fear of losing out on your needs.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“It’s when you have a willingness to give more, by your consideration of what’s beyond you and your immediate concerns, that you’ll receive more.  You must be asking, “How can I give even more?” in order to open yourself up to opportunities that exist right now to receive even more.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“Whatever you’re resenting, you’re robbing yourself from receiving.  What you resent in another, you resist having for yourself.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“This is all a game of perception.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“The greatest lie you can tell yourself is that you have something to lose when everything you have is being shared with you momentarily as a borrowed gift.  How can you lose what isn’t yours?  In every moment, you have nothing but an overabundance of gifts constantly being showered upon you.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“In the future, your relationships have all ended.  Your body is dirt.  Your possessions are buried, burned, or recycled after eons have passed.  In the big picture of time, you’ve already lost everything.  Fear of loss is clinging to what is already gone.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“Have you ever fought to make sure people know how shitty your life is?  Do you ever feel a need to defend how much pain you’re in?  Or does it show up as resentment for how comfortable others have it, and you remind yourself that your suffering makes you somehow better than them?  At the very least, have you seen others do this?”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“Distraction is morphine for the mind.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“Don’t compare where you want to be with where you’re at.  Compare where you want to be with where you’re actually going.  Then you will see the cost of moving towards mediocrity compared to moving towards greatness.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“The natural tendency, without proactively choosing the alternative, is to stagnate, regress, and ultimately move towards death – whether physical death, death of a relationship, death of a good habit, or any other type of breakdown.  All things are either growing or dying.  Improving or decaying.  Being nourished or being starved.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness