Objective Secure Quotes

“Systems take time to showcase their worth.”
― Nick Lavery, Objective Secure: The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement

“When we push hard in these moments of solitude, we turn ourselves into our greatest adversary. We create a world in which nobody can push us as hard as we push ourselves. When we reach this point and get into the stride, we become invincible. From that point on, no instructor, or boss, or adversary can compete. They cannot induce the same degree of stress upon us as they can on others. We become bulletproof. The willingness to work hard when nobody is there is not found within everybody equally, which is why these moments provide opportunity. It is when nobody is watching, nobody is caring, when it is just you and your integrity. You and your desire. When you could easily give it 50% or not do it all and nobody would know the difference. It is these moments when you push yourself anyway that tend to lead to the most progress. We must know in our heart that what we are pursuing is right. Yes, it is difficult and it can be lonely, but it's worth it.”
― Nick Lavery, Objective Secure: The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement

“Our structure increases our efficiency. Greater detail minimizes the likelihood of wasting time and energy. What we are striving for is economy of motion, the process of minimizing unnecessary physical and perceptual stressors. No wasted movements.”
― Nick Lavery, Objective Secure: The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement

“Figure out where you are weak and improve it.”
― Nick Lavery, Objective Secure: The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement

“Where the mind goes, the body follows' was one of my many early mantras recognizing the power of the force of will.”
― Nick Lavery, Objective Secure: The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement

“Where the mind goes, the body follows.”
― Nick Lavery, Objective Secure: The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement

“We cannot win the war against the world if we cannot win the battle within our own minds. When we remain disciplined, we relinquish immediate satisfaction for long-term self-respect.”
― Nick Lavery, Objective Secure: The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement

“Whether anticipated or not, we must learn to leverage the crossroads: our decision points. They provide enormous opportunity to progress, and we can forecast their inevitability. They are coming. We know this with certainty. And when most people hit this point, they divert. They do what they like or what is safe, which is of course easy, because excuses are the most convincing when facing something difficult, uncomfortable, or unpleasant.”
― Nick Lavery, Objective Secure: The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement

“Our greatest adversary will always be life itself. No one makes it to the other side unscathed. We will suffer broken bodies, broken hearts, broken spirits from chasing a better version of ourselves. Or worse, we will suffer the mundane monotony of having tried nothing and done nothing at all.”
― Nick Lavery, Objective Secure: The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement

“For the greats, that's what practice is: controlled and intentional failure, because the only way to truly know our limitations is to reach the limit. We have to live at the edge of our capability.”
― Nick Lavery, Objective Secure: The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement

“The fact of the matter is this: we all have the same 24 hours in each day. The greats simply spend their 24 wisely.”
― Nick Lavery, Objective Secure: The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche”
― Nick Lavery, Objective Secure: The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement

“John C. Maxwell says, “Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.”
― Nick Lavery, Objective Secure: The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement

“Einstein said, failure is success in progress.”
― Nick Lavery, Objective Secure: The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement

“Apparently, “stump” is an offensive term for some, so use it with caution. I will call mine what I choose.”
― Nick Lavery, Objective Secure: The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement

“Improper planning: Parkinson’s law suggests work expands to fill the space and time available for its completion. In other words, if we were given sixty minutes to complete a task that requires only thirty minutes, we still take sixty minutes to complete it. Workaholic syndrome: High performers seek to create more value with less effort, whereas workaholics seek to simply do more. High performers invest significant focus on strategy and the mental game, allowing them to exert less effort in the physical game.”
― Nick Lavery, Objective Secure: The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement

“Laziness due to a lack of passion: In other words, we aren’t pursuing a dream, or we are pursuing the wrong dream. We have no objective to secure.”
― Nick Lavery, Objective Secure: The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement

“The greats create schedules and systems that maximize the use of their twenty-four. The greats have the discipline to squeeze every single ounce of progress out of every one of their twenty-four, because the greats are willing to make the sacrifice.”
― Nick Lavery, Objective Secure: The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement

“So when we say “I will never quit,” what we are saying is persist despite achievement, stay determined in the face of success, move with a sense of purpose—the time is now.”
― Nick Lavery, Objective Secure: The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement

“Failure is just one more way not to do something, or as Einstein said, failure is success in progress.”
― Nick Lavery, Objective Secure: The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement