Own the Day, Own Your Life Quotes

“When walking, walk. When eating, eat. ZEN PROVERB”
― Aubrey Marcus, Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimised practices for waking, working, learning, eating, training, playing, sleeping and sex

“Morning Mineral Cocktail 12 ounces filtered water 3 grams sea salt 1/4 lemon, squeezed”
― Aubrey Marcus, Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex

“Who among us wouldn’t want a little bit more of any of those? According to the authors of Stealing Fire, the answer is nobody. Everyone wants a little bit more, and they always have. The authors, Jamie Wheal and Steven Kotler, make the convincing argument that harnessing these endogenous chemicals, whether from activity or ingestion, is a fundamental evolutionary drive.”
― Aubrey Marcus, Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex

“Chronic stress is literally killing us, and the traditional medical model offers us very little help to deal with it. Counterintuitively, one of the best ways to deal with chronic stress is to seek certain forms of acute stress. Through a process called hormesis, acute stress will help you adapt and become stronger.”
― Aubrey Marcus, Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex

“Well begun is half done.”
― Aubrey Marcus, Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex

“small things, when compounded over time, tend to have big consequences”
― Aubrey Marcus, Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex

“To put it another way: if you don’t eat fat, you’re probably fat.”
― Aubrey Marcus, Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping, and Sex

“Time is the wrong metric to use when we evaluate work. Because it’s not just about how much time you work, it’s about how effectively you use that time.”
― Aubrey Marcus, Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimised practices for waking, working, learning, eating, training, playing, sleeping and sex