"Exercise is one of the best medicines…whatever you choose stick with it: make physical activity part of your routine so it becomes a habit. Exercise’s mood-boosting effect is critical to keep you calm and integral to productivity."

- Dr. Satchin Panda

"Because in reality your time is finite, doing anything requires sacrifice—the sacrifice of all the other things you could have been doing with that stretch of time. If you never stop to ask yourself if the sacrifice is worth it, your days will automatically begin to fill not just with more things, but with more trivial or tedious things. One can waste years this way, systematically postponing precisely the things one cares about the most."

- Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"Every man is what he is because of the dominating thoughts which he permits to occupy his mind. It is essential for you to encourage the positive emotions as dominating forces of your mind, and discourage—and eliminate negative emotions."

- Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich

"Finish something. Anything. Stop researching, planning, and preparing to do the work and just do the work. It doesn’t matter how good or how bad it is. Stop debating what you should make and just make something."

- James Clear

"An ingenious series of experiments conducted a number of years ago showed that when people mimicked the facial expressions associated with happiness, they felt happier—even when they did not know they were moving “happy muscles” in their face. Researchers have found that smiling itself produces feelings of happiness."

- Robert Emmons, Thanks!

"Focus on the process (the way you spend your time) instead of the product (what you want to accomplish)."

- Barbara Oakley

"Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of."

- C. S. Lewis

"Every person should prioritize the quantity, quality, and consistency of sleep like their life depended on it."

- Casey Means, MD, Good Energy

"For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value."

- Carol Dweck, Mindset

"Every decision to use a portion of time on anything represents the sacrifice of all the other ways in which you could have spent that time, but didn’t—and to willingly make that sacrifice is to take a stand, without reservation, on what matters most to you."

- Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"Stop consuming and start doing."

- Sharran Srivatsaa

"Fear is your real opponent. …It’s all about fear. If you kill fear, you win. If you kill fear, you have your best year ever. If you kill fear, you train like a madman. If you kill fear, you go to college for free. If you kill fear, you stand on the podium, you get paid, and you have strangers walk up to you and call you by name. When fear dies, you begin to live."

- Stan Beecham, Elite Minds

"Accept—then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life."

- Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

“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