The 1% Rule Quotes

“If you don’t fill your day with high-priority items, others will fill your day with low-priority items.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“The Talent Code (Coyle 2009), this means pushing yourself to the edge of discomfort during practice to the place where you want to give up.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“We’d rather say yes to something we know we’re going to hate and then cancel at the last second.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“1% progress + daily application (consistency) + persistence (focus) + time (endurance) = success.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“What can I execute on right now that will prove that my outcome and vision are not only possible, but coming true?”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“Don’t compare your start or middle to someone else’s ending, or you’ll never endure. In a social-media-fueled, all-access world, it becomes easy to take our evolution and compare it with someone else’s.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“The moment your desire for knowledge and wisdom matches the desire you just experienced for air, you will have it.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“When I focused on small daily actions tied to the larger vision, I felt invigorated and inspired, and I moved the needle. When I focused on the end result and the massive vision I’d created, I felt depleted and uninspired, and suffered from paralysis by analysis.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“The 1% Rule: 1% progress + daily application (consistency) + persistence (focus) + time (endurance) = success.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“you don’t have to hit a home run every single day—you simply have to get in the game.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“We don’t rise to the level of our expectations; we fall to the level of our training.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“Remember: if you lower your intensity and ambition to please a certain few, you’ll miss out on attracting the tribe that wants you to play all out.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“Little hinges swing big doors,”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“The how is where dreams go to die.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“Surrender does not mean giving up or giving in—it’s quite the opposite. Surrender means being “all in” to a point where you let go of the clenching grip you have on life and open up to the depths of what can happen.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“When you experience resistance, laugh at it. Smile at it. See it for what it is—a sign you’re growing.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“each time you persist in the face of adversity, you build a confidence in yourself that you will execute and grow when the chaos hits, and this will serve you for the entire journey.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“Instant gratification is an endurance killer.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“Don’t compare your start or middle to someone else’s ending, or you’ll never endure.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“Endurance is not only a principle, it’s a mindset of commitment.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“While intense, challenging, and tough, grit and persistence are beautiful and will give your journey meaning.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“Our feelings and emotions are like the ocean tide, while data and metrics are more like mountains.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“The big leaps will never happen if we don’t get used to taking the small ones.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“Once we see the unknown through the frame of unlimited possibility, a place where anything can happen, we open up our world.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“When you truly love who you’re becoming, you become unstoppable.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“FALL IN LOVE WITH DELAYED GRATIFICATION”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“Nothing which isn’t earned is highly valued.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“A warrior is an average man with laser like focus.” - Bruce Lee”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“In an instant-gratification, highlight-driven, shallow-work world, your pursuit of mastery puts you heads and shoulders above the others and stands the test of time.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“Indecision costs us more than we can ever imagine. This alarming cost includes time, energy, resources, stress, and the constant wasted bandwidth of overthinking.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams