One is Fear. It carries anxiety, concern, uncertainty, hesitancy, indecision and inaction. The other is Faith. It brings calm, conviction, confidence, enthusiasm, decisiveness, excitement and action. The grandson thought about it for a moment and then meekly asked his grandfather: “Which wolf wins?” The old Cherokee replied, “The one you feed.” -The One Thing, p.211 Continue reading The battle is between two wolves inside of us…
HIghly productive people don’t accept the limitations of their natural approach as the final word on their success. When they hit a ceiling of achievement, they look for new models and systems, better ways to do things to push them through. […] A different result requires doing something different. Too many people reach a level where their performance is “good enough” and then stop working on getting better. -The One Thing, p.179 Continue reading Are you doing this to simply do the best you can do, or are you doing this to do it the best it can be done?
Working toward your goals, you will get people upset. You might sincerely care about how someone is doing, but you won’t pick up the phone and call them to find out. You don’t have time for chit-chat or lunch or anything that distracts you from your single-minded focus. You won’t be good at nurturing relationships, but remember: You’d rather have someone’s respect than their friendship. 4h28mins, Relentless, Tim S. Grover Continue reading You’d rather have someone’s respect than someone’s friendship
When you prioritize process, you become flexible in where you are headed—you focus on the inputs and stop worrying about the outputs. Just keep laying one brick at a time—forward progress is all that matters. -Sahil Bloom, Adopt a Process Orientation,Twitter Continue reading Prioritize process, not outcomes
It states that humans experience peak motivation when working on tasks that are right on the edge of their current abilities. Not too hard. Not too easy. Just right. -Atomic Habits, p.231 Continue reading The Goldilocks Rule
When you are fully immersed in an activity. Scientist have tried to quantify this feeling. They found that to achieve a state of flow, a task must be roughly 4 percent beyond your current ability. In real life it’s typically not feasible to quantify the difficulty of an action in this way, but the core idea of the Goldilocks Rule remains: working on challenges of just manageable difficulty – something on the perimeter of your ability – seems crucial for maintaining motivation. -Atomic Habits, p.233 Continue reading You know that flow state, when you feel like you’re “in the zone”
There’s three types of people when something gets hard or stop growing: The Stresser-achiever They grind through everything. They are stressed the whole time. Eventually they burn out. (👋consultants 👋bankers) 2. The Dabbler This used to be me. Work hard. Have fun. Love making rapid progress. Progress stops. Motivation drops. Fuck this. I’m going to go do THAT instead. 3. The Master The master knows how progress actually happens. When a master hits a plateau: She does not panic like the stressor-achiever. She does not quit like the dabbler She simply says “ah…a plateau….to be expected.” She greets plateaus like an old friend. Part & … Continue reading You’re stuck? Be a Master, not a dabbler
Here’s what progress is really like: When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it—but all that had gone before. -Atomic Habits, p.21 Continue reading Feeling discourage by a lack of progress?
Talent won’t; nothing is more common than unsuccesful men with talent. Genius won’t; unrewarded genius is practically a cliche. Education won’t; the world is full of educated fools. Persistence and determination alone are all-powerful. -Raymond Kroc/Calvin Coolidge Continue reading Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
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