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“People can't really multitask; all we can do is shift attention back and forth between tasks while wasting a lot of it on each shift.”
- Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation
"Elite Performers focus on what they should do. Others focus on what happened."
- Troy Bassham, Attainment
"All big things come from small beginnings. The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision. But as that decision is repeated, a habit sprouts and grows stronger. Roots entrench themselves and branches grow. The task of breaking a bad habit is like uprooting a powerful oak within us. And the task of building a good habit is like cultivating a delicate flower one day at a time."
- James Clear, Atomic Habits
“Decades of research involving over forty thousand participants has shown that people who set difficult and specific goals outperform people who set vague and non-challenging goals.”
- Brendon Burchard, High Performance Habits
"Fear is the greatest single obstacle to success. We must control fear rather than permit it to control us."
- Napoleon Hill, The Science of Success
"A goal without a plan is just a wish. A plan without action is just a dream."
- Brian Tracy, Focal Point
“Exercise releases endorphins and other chemicals that make us feel positive, helps us sleep better, and reduces stress and anxiety—all of which help our brains work at optimal levels.”
- Shawn Achor, The Happiness Advantage
"By going to bed and waking up at the same time each day, we train our bodies to recognize sleep cues and establish a healthy sleep routine that supports optimal physical and mental functioning."
- W. Chris Winter, The Sleep Solution
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”
- Joseph Campbell
"Goal setting provides focus, shapes our dreams and gives us the ability to hone in on the exact actions we need to take in order to get everything in life we desire."
- Jim Rohn, The Jim Rohn Guides Complete Set
"Fully 85 percent of your success and advancement is going to be determined by your attitude."
- Brian Tracy, Personal Success
"Exercise boosts your mood for up to 12 hours. So exercise early in the day to get the full benefits. It also improves your memory and brain function afterwards due to producing BDNF, so that’s another reason to exercise early."
- Tom Rath, Eat Move Sleep
"Findings from thirty years of research on life satisfaction show that happiness requires having clear-cut goals in life that give us a sense of purpose and direction."
- Caroline Adams Miller, Creating Your Best Life
"A happy - or happier - life is rarely shaped by some extraordinary life-changing event; rather, it is shaped incrementally, experience by experience, moment by moment. The more our days are filled with these experiences, the happier we become. This is all there is to it."
- Tal Ben-Shahar, Happier
"For most of us, checking our email or social media accounts first thing in the morning spells disaster for our early morning productivity."
- Benjamin Spall and Michael Xander, My Morning Routine
"Everything you have in your life today you have attracted to yourself by the person you are, by the way you think. You can change your life because you can change the person you are. You can change the thoughts that you think."
- Brian Tracy, Personal Success
"Recent surveys reveal that over 90% of people don’t know what they want in life. And if you don’t know where you want to be, then it’s impossible to create a roadmap to get there. That’s why creating the North Star — your guiding light, your roadmap for success, your step-by-step blueprint — is so important. This is about more than just goal setting. It’s about creating the perfect vision for your Perfect Life. And with that in place, you’ll finally be able to achieve your wildest dreams and overcome the temptations, procrastination, and obstacles in your way."
- Craig Ballantyne
"Remember The Law of Diminishing Intent—the longer you wait to take action after feeling inspired, the less likely you are to actually do something."
- Jim Rohn, Leading an Inspired Life
"Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most."
- Abraham Lincoln