“People who set goals are more likely to succeed than people who do not. Having explicit objectives that are challenging and specific - with clear timeline and performance criteria - leads to better performance. Setting a goal is about making a commitment in words, and words have the power to create a better future.”

- Tal Ben-Shahar, Happier

“Remember, there’s no greatness in the future. Or clarity. Or insight. Or happiness. Or peace. There is only this moment.”

- Ryan Holiday, Stillness is the Key

"Proactive people focus on the things they can change. Reactive people focus on the things they can't control."

- Tony Robbins

"Notifications are the gateway drug to distraction. The ability to focus is becoming rare—while being distracted is becoming the default."

- Cal Newport, Deep Work

“Productivity is achieved when you plan, organize, set priorities, and concentrate on the most valuable use of your time, all day long.”

- Brian Tracy, Master Your Time, Master Your Life

“Our life reflects where we invest energy, not where we have potential.”

- Sharran Srivatsaa

“Life is too short to be in a hurry.”

- Thoreau

“Positivity is like a radar in search of solutions to problems. Thus, positive thinkers can see solutions, where negative people see only problems.”

- Tom Corley, Rich Habits: The Daily Habits of Successful Individuals

“People do not decide their futures. They decide their habits; and their habits decide their futures.”

- F. M. Alexander

"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."

- Pablo Picasso

"Life is short. We're only allotted so much time to make our mark. I say that's all the more reason to get focused. Stop producing outputs that don't make your soul sing. Avoid trying to be effective or efficient doing things that you're not proud of and make no impact. Determine what outputs really matter to you at this stage in your life, chart your five moves to accomplish your big dreams, and go make it happen while getting insanely good at what you do. From there, the world is yours."

- Brendon Burchard, High Performance Habits

“New research in psychology and neuroscience shows that it works the other way around: We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.”

- Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage

"It’s the accumulated weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure.”

- Jim Rohn

"Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it."

- Daniel Kahneman

"It turns out that our brains are literally hardwired to perform at their best not when they are negative or even neutral, but when they are positive."

- Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage

“No matter what situation you find yourself in, there is almost always a behavior you can easily identify that, if you eliminate it, will set you on a better path.”

- Trevor Moawad

"It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go."

- Jim Rohn

“Minimizing distractions is an important part of curbing our online procrastination. To stay really connected to our goal pursuit, we need to disconnect from potential distractions like social-networking tools. This means that we should not have Facebook, Twitter, email, or whatever your favorite suite of tools is running in the background on your computer or smartphone while you are working. Shut them off.”

- Timothy Pychyl, Solving the Procrastination Puzzle

"New goals don't deliver new results. New lifestyles do. And a lifestyle is a process, not an outcome. For this reason, all of your energy should go into building better habits, not chasing better results."

- James Clear

“Lifestyle is really nothing more than the art of doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

- Darren Hardy, DarrenDaily