Stop Doing That Sh*t Quotes

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

“It’s not the sucky life you seemingly have but your dialogue about your life that has you by the throat, and the vast majority of that dialogue is blissfully unnoticed and therefore unexplored by you. It’s running in the background.”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” —Viktor Frankl”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

“We are all building things only to burn them right back down. And we’re tired of it.”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

“There’s nothing quite so damaging as the human desire to be right.”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

“Perspective check: you currently exist on a planet inhabited by millions of species of animals, draped in oceans and mountains with gushing volcanoes and waterfalls and creeping deserts; spinning in an endless universe, with stars and suns and solar systems that stretch wildly beyond anything your limited little imagination can muster—and yet you’re fucked up because your job sucks or you are carrying more weight than you want or your nose is bigger than your friend’s or your phone is three models older than everyone else’s.”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

“There’s a reason why so few make it out of the trap of their own mind. The trap all too often seems to be just fine from day to day.”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

“A big part of living the life you want is taking ownership of your choices, now and in the future.”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

“Your past dominates your potential. You don’t live a life of “anything is possible”; you live a life of “some things are possible, given my past.”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

“Gossip is not fucking harmless or funny. You’re peddling in negative, self-righteous BS. Stop talking about other people. It’s a distraction from owning and changing your own life.”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

“Think. If you keep living this way, where is it all headed? I mean really headed? Not some wispy concept of your future but rather a down-in-the-dirt look at where your current actions are leading you.”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

“Real breakthroughs become available in your life when you interrupt yourself and your automatic responses to whatever life presents you with.”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

“If you spend your life wanting to be happy, by its very nature you’re constantly starting from a place of unhappy.”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

“People are little more than a living conversation, both internal and spoken. A dialogue in a body. A skin-and-bone bag that talks, and it talks about everything, and the limit of that talk is the limit of that life. Period.”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

“nature of conclusions. We saw this to be true when it comes to the negative conclusions we land on about ourselves. And it’s the same for the conclusion you’ve made up about other”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

“The reality is, you create your experience of life in your self-talk and then act accordingly.”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

“you and you alone have made your life what it has become.”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

“It takes as much effort to live a crappy life as it does a great one. And you’re the only one who can choose which you want to live.”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

“Perspective check: you currently exist on a planet inhabited by millions of species of animals, draped in oceans and mountains with gushing volcanoes and waterfalls and creeping deserts; spinning in an endless universe, with stars and suns and solar systems that stretch wildly beyond anything your limited little imagination can muster—and yet you’re fucked up because your job sucks or you are carrying more weight than you want or your nose is bigger than your friend’s or your phone is three models older than everyone else’s. That’s what this life of yours has come to. A competition. The pursuit of love or admiration or things. You’ve wrapped up this miracle—your life—in a mundane web of petty, shallow expressions of what it is to be alive. Then you wonder why you’re not happy or satisfied or fulfilled! I mean, it’s right in front of your face!”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

“You just can’t keep responding in ordinary ways if you are truly out to live an extraordinary life.”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

“You can’t be angry and loving simultaneously in a single moment. It’s one or the other. You can’t be forgiving and resentful or indifferent and sad. At any moment in time, you’re always being one way and ONLY one way.”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

“Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.” —Jonathan Swift”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back

“Those times when it seems like everything is going relatively well and then . . . BOOM, you throw a hand grenade in the whole fucking thing. And you can’t stop yourself.”
― Gary John Bishop, Stop Doing That Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back