When you get great results with something, what do you do? Honestly.
A key mind-set difference I’ve seen between ultra successful people and everyone else, is that when the ultra successful get successful results they double down their efforts and work even harder to drive more.
Everyone else takes the foot off the gas and congratulates themselves.
What do you do?
What did you do last time you started to get great sales results, started to lose weight, started to get traction on a new project?
Because your answer to that will determine your success.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.
We often try to outrun the storm, emotionally, physically, spiritually.
We’re entering an age where machines do our thinking before we’ve even had a chance to try.
In church the other day, the pastor gave a sermon that really stuck with me. He talked about two people.