longed not only to lead masterful lives filled with creativity, productivity and prosperity but also to exist in a way that passionately elevated humanity. (Location 80)
“You were born into the opportunity as well as the responsibility to become legendary. (Location 90)
Limitation is nothing more than a mentality that too many good people practice daily until they believe it’s reality. It breaks my heart to see so many potentially powerful human beings stuck in a story about why they can’t be extraordinary, professionally and personally. You need to remember that your excuses are seducers, your fears are liars and your doubts are thieves.” (Location 107)
too many among us die at thirty and are buried at eighty. (Location 116)
“No matter where you are on the pathway of your life, please don’t let the pain of an imperfect past hinder the glory of your fabulous future. (Location 127)
“Ideas are worth nothing unless backed by application. The smallest of implementations is always worth more than the grandest of intentions. (Location 141)
World-class begins where your comfort zone ends is a rule the successful, the influential and the happiest always remember.” (Location 148)
“Hard is good. Real greatness and the realization of your inherent genius is meant to be a difficult sport. (Location 155)
“Anyway, let me simply say that the place where your greatest discomfort lies is also the spot where your largest opportunity lives. (Location 176)
Walking into the very things that scare you is how you reclaim your forgotten power. (Location 181)
‘You can fit in. Or you can change the world. You don’t get to do both.’ (Location 274)
“It’s not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes up short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” (Location 287)
“The moment when you most feel like giving up is the instant when you must find it in you to press ahead.” (Location 293)
Life’s way too valuable to hang with people who don’t get you. Who you just don’t vibe with. Who have different values and lower standards than you do. Who have different Mindsets, Heartsets, Healthsets and Soulsets. (Location 310)
Art feeds my soul. Great books battleproof my hope. Rich conversations magnify my creativity. Wonderful music uplifts my heart. Beautiful sights fortify my spirit. (Location 322)
‘Art frees us, through illusion, from the squalor of being. (Location 346)
Pain is the doorway into deep. Know what I mean? And tragedy is nature’s great purifier. It burns away the fakeness, fear and arrogance that is of the ego. Returns us to our brilliance and genius, if you have the courage to go into that which wounds you. Suffering yields many rewards, including empathy, originality, relatability and authenticity. (Location 353)
‘one who sweats more in training bleeds less in war.’ (Location 363)
“All learning meets us exactly where we’re at. And as we grow greater, we understand better.” (Location 367)
Winning starts at your beginning. And your first hours are when heroes are made. (Location 374)
Take excellent care of the front end of your day, and the rest of your day will pretty much take care of itself. Own your morning. Elevate your life. (Location 376)
‘If everything seems under control you’re not going fast enough.’ (Location 433)
With every challenge comes the gorgeous opportunity to rise into your next level as a leader, performer and human being. (Location 444)
‘Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.’ (Location 447)
the soreness of growth is so much less expensive than the devastating costs of regret.” (Location 475)
“All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.” (Location 509)
They secure their identity by who they are externally. (Location 514)
a lot more about committing to mastery over all you do—and in who you are. It’s about resisting the tyranny of the ordinary, refusing to allow negativity to hijack your sense of awe and preventing any form of slavery to mediocrity from infesting your life. (Location 529)
The way you begin your day really does determine the extent of focus, energy, excitement and excellence you bring to it. (Location 566)
And the larger angels of your grandest potential will begin to visit you regularly. (Location 580)
Nothing works for those who don’t do the work. (Location 617)
“Victims love entertainment. Victors adore education.” (Location 619)
they have been granted a gift: one that allows them to sense what others miss, experience the delights that most neglect and notice the majesty in ordinary moments. (Location 635)
“only people who are capable of loving strongly can suffer great sorrow,” (Location 637)
“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.” (Location 638)
Your Mindset is an enormously potent tool for private greatness, prodigious productivity and creative victory—along with your Heartset, Healthset and Soulset. (Location 702)
Your DNA isn’t your destiny, you know. (Location 708)
‘Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. (Location 734)
Raise the joy of others and you’ll get even more joy. (Location 739)
Increase the state of your fellow human beings and, naturally, your own state of being ascends. Success is cool. But significance is rad. (Location 739)
Voluntary discomfort, whether by dressing as I did or by fasting once a week or by sleeping on the floor once a month, keeps me strong, disciplined and focused on the central few priorities my life’s built around. (Location 792)
An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production. (Location 895)
All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end. (Location 900)
To have the results The Top 5% of producers have, you must start doing what 95% of people are unwilling to do. (Location 902)
When you feel like surrendering, continue.Triumph loves the relentless. (Location 905)
Great power is unleashed with a simple start. When you begin to close the loop opened by your utmost aspirations by making them real, a secret heroic force within you makes itself known. (Location 979)
Nature notices your effortful actions and then goes ahead and replies to your faithful commitment with a series of unanticipated wins. Your willpower heightens. Your confidence climbs. And your brilliance soars. (Location 980)
a bad day for the ego is a great day for the soul. (Location 987)
“Genuine power—the stuff legends are made of—doesn’t arise from who you are outside and what you possess externally. (Location 1001)
True and enduring power expresses itself when you contact your original gifts and realize your most lavish talents as a human. (Location 1002)
being inspirational and masterful and fearless are all inside jobs. (Location 1016)
one of the primary aims of a wonderfully crafted life is contribution. (Location 1018)
Growth is the real sport that the best play, every day. (Location 1035)
The 2x3x Mindset: to double your income and impact, triple your investment in two core areas—your personal mastery and your professional capability.” (Location 1036)
Elite production without quiet vacation causes lasting depletion. (Location 1060)
Rest and recovery isn’t a luxury for anyone committed to mastery—it’s a necessity. (Location 1060)
“No idea works until you do the work” (Location 1086)
Having lots of money doesn’t make you different. It just makes you more of who you were before you made the cash.” (Location 1096)
has developed the ability to concentrate on optimizing their particular skill for long, uninterrupted periods of time. (Location 1138)
the increase of perception. As you see more you can materialize more. (Location 1292)
“The grade of work you offer to the world reflects the strength of the respect you have for yourself. Those with unfathomable personal esteem wouldn’t dare send out anything average. It would diminish them too much. (Location 1313)
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it,’” (Location 1344)
‘Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul,’” (Location 1346)
Mastery is a rarity, and people who play at a brilliant level are a scarcity. (Location 1444)
There’s a ton of competition at ordinary, but there’s almost none at extraordinary. (Location 1445)
Consistency really is the DNA of mastery. (Location 1453)
small, daily, seemingly insignificant improvements when done consistently over time yield staggering results. (Location 1454)
Tiny, daily wins and iterations stack into outcomes of excellence, over the long-term. (Location 1456)
“All shadows of insecurity dissolve in the warm glow of persistency. (Location 1471)
“Today is a glorious day and I’ll live it at excellence, with boundless enthusiasm and limitless integrity, true to my visions and with a heart full of love. (Location 1476)
what makes a legendary performer so good isn’t the amount of natural talent they are born into but the extent of that potential they actualize—and capitalize. (Location 1546)
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” (Location 1563)
“Dedication and discipline beats brilliance and giftedness every day of the week. (Location 1576)
Each time you resist a temptation and pursue an optimization you invigorate your heroism. (Location 1577)
our private story about our potential is the key performance indicator on whether we actually exploit that potential.” (Location 1581)
“Victims have big TVs. Leaders own large libraries.” (Location 1583)
“Human beings are hardwired to act in alignment with our self-identity, always. You’ll never rise higher than your personal story. Important insight there.” (Location 1590)
“Every human being has an instinct for greatness, a hunger for the heroic and a psychic need to rise toward the heavens of their finest capability, whether we remember this consciously or not. (Location 1606)
Real leaders never negotiate their standards. (Location 1610)
each one of us holds a profound capacity for leadership within us. (Location 1613)
‘Most people take the limits of their vision to be the limits of the world. A few do not. Join them.’” (Location 1623)
We’re all exactly where we need to be to receive the growth lessons we’re meant to learn. (Location 1644)
human beings have a tragic habit of remembering the things that would be smart to forget and forgetting the wonderful things it would be wise to remember. (Location 1646)
Having plenty of money is what life wants for you. Abundance is nature’s way. (Location 1649)
“High-impact performers and genuine world-builders aren’t very available to whoever seeks their attention (Location 1710)
They’re hard to reach, waste few moments and are far more focused on doing real work versus artificial work—so (Location 1711)
“Every time you become aware of yourself dropping into victim mode and make a more courageous choice, you rewrite the narrative. (Location 1725)
‘An addiction to distraction is the death of your creative production.’ (Location 1731)
“Filling valuable hours with meaningless moves is the drug of choice for most people,” (Location 1737)
“Intellectually we know we shouldn’t be wasting time on zero-value activities, but emotionally we just can’t beat the temptation. (Location 1737)
Accept fewer invitations, major in fewer leisure activities and study, then master, a smaller number of books versus skimming many. (Location 1756)
“Stop managing your time and start managing your focus,” (Location 1758)
Knowing we have higher reaches of talent and courage left to visit floods a human heart with immense excitement. (Location 1822)
you plan on being anything less than who you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.’ (Location 1824)
It’s who you’ll become by advancing through the fire of your fears and the heat of your trials along the process to mastery. (Location 1848)
“Solitude—the kind that you can access before the sun comes up—is a force multiplier around your power, expertise and connection to being human. (Location 1861)
‘Sweat more in practice, bleed less in war.’ (Location 1948)
the quality of your morning practice determines the caliber of your daily performance. (Location 1948)
Battles are won in the early light of intense training—when no one’s watching. (Location 1948)
Victories occur before warriors walk onto the field. (Location 1949)
Triumph belongs to the one who prepares the most. (Location 1949)
a performer must invest at least two hours and forty-four minutes of daily improvement on their chosen skill for ten years, as preeminent psychologist Anders Ericsson of Florida State University has taught us through his groundbreaking research. This is the minimum viable amount of practice required for the first signs of genius to appear within any domain. (Location 1951)
your fortune always follows your fearlessness. (Location 1972)
External always expresses internal, without always reflects within. (Location 1974)
if you lack faith in your ability to get your ambitions done, you’ll never achieve them. (Location 1976)
if your drive to capitalize on your genius is weak, your fire to train is dim and your stamina to optimize is low, it’s clear you’ll never take flight into the rare-air of outright mastery. (Location 1978)
“The only devils in the world are those running in our own hearts. That is where the battle should be fought.” (Location 1982)
every day is just dramatically better with some exercise in it. (Location 2080)
understand—the Shangri-las of greatness and Nirvanas of light that inhabit your sovereign self. (Location 2105)
The sages, saints and seers of history all rose at dawn to forge even weightier bonds with the hero we all have at our cores. (Location 2106)
She realized the hard points of her life had strengthened her and made her more insightful, interesting and wise. (Location 2196)
A fascinating and richly colorful life is stamped with many scars, (Location 2196)
“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” (Location 2258)
what makes the best the best is not their genetics but their habits. And not the extent of their gifts, but the strength of their grit. (Location 2345)
‘Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.’” (Location 2355)
The hero does not become great during periods of comfort. The illustrious and noble souls of our world became strong, brave and moral whilst standing resolutely in the storms of adversity, difficulty and doubt. It is in the moment that you face your deepest weakness that you receive the chance to forge your greatest strengths. (Location 2369)
The 5-3-1 Creed of The Willpower Warrior (Location 2382)
The 5 Scientific Truths Behind Excellent Habits Truth #1: World-class willpower isn’t an inborn strength, but a skill developed through relentless practice. Getting up at dawn is perfect self-control training. (Location 2384)
Truth #2: Personal discipline is a muscle. The more you stretch it, the stronger it grows. Therefore, the samurais of self-regulation actively create conditions of hardship to build their natural power. Truth #3: Like other muscles, willpower weakens when tired. Recovery is, therefore, absolutely necessary for the expression of mastery. And to manage decision fatigue. Truth #4: Installing any great habit successfully follows a distinct four-part pattern for automation of the routine. Follow it explicitly for lasting results. Truth #5: Increasing self-control in one area of your life elevates self-control in all areas of your life. This is why joining The 5 AM Club is the game-changing habit that will lift everything else that you do. The 3 Values of Heroic Habit-Makers Value #1: Victory demands consistency and persistency. Value #2: Following through on what is started determines the size of the personal respect that will be generated. Value #3: The way you practice in private is precisely the way you’ll perform once you’re in public. The 1 General Theory of Self-Discipline Spartans To regularly do that which is hard but important when it feels most uncomfortable is how warriors are born. (Location 2386)
ambition without implementation is a ridiculous delusion. (Location 2422)
they formed the habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do.’” (Location 2444)
“Top producers make it a habit to do the high-value activities that average ones don’t feel like doing—even (Location 2446)
by practicing the desired behavior over and over, their self-mastery and personal discipline grows. And the new routine becomes automated.” (Location 2447)
“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” (Location 2464)
day, the future will be very hard, dangerous and frightening because they won’t know what hit them. (Location 2486)
Neglect your power long enough and you’ll eventually believe you don’t have any. (Location 2500)
Neurons that fire together, wire together, (Location 2510)
“You don’t have the brain you want, you have the brain you’ve earned. (Location 2516)
you don’t have the brain you desire, you have the brain you deserve—based (Location 2517)
you have the capacity for world-class self-control. (Location 2574)
bravery—and the capacity to do the difficult things that are necessary for the fullest expression of your greatness—isn’t (Location 2581)
Legendary performers practice being spectacular for so long that they no longer remember how to behave in non-spectacular ways.” (Location 2609)
“All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end,” (Location 2627)
impulses of your lower self and to free yourself of the cravings and temptations that are blocking your best is through ceaseless repetition of the new behavior you’re working hard to install. (Location 2644)
Each time you rise at dawn, you’ll purify your character, fortify your willpower and magnify the fires of your soul. (Location 2647)
You become undefeatable in the world by what you do when no one’s watching.” (Location 2650)
Your willpower really is weakest when you are most tired. (Location 2669)
Continue at all costs. Persistency sits at the threshold of mastery. (Location 2714)
doing difficult things that are very important was how the highest achievers and greatest heroes of our civilization embraced their power. (Location 2715)
when faced with a choice, always choose the one that pushes you the most, increases your growth and promotes the unfoldment of your gifts, talents and personal prowess. (Location 2716)
“For the A-Player, the top of one mountain is the bottom of the next. (Location 2779)
‘no idea works without doing the work’ (Location 2985)
your Victory Hour gives you one of life’s greatest windows of opportunity. (Location 3000)
as we create each day, so we craft our life, (Location 3006)
beginning your day intelligently, healthily and peacefully isn’t only about optimizing your public and private success. It’s also about protecting it.” (Location 3009)
If you really loved yourself, you’d relinquish all your feelings of not being good enough to be great and renounce all slavery to your weakness. (Location 3058)
Tranquility is the new luxury of our society. (Location 3169)
Removing the non-essentials to produce the gem takes years of dedication. (Location 3223)
“You need to feel a wound to heal a hurt,” (Location 3261)
‘One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself,’” (Location 3303)
Private desire without personal development is like dreaming of having a gorgeous garden but not planting any seeds. (Location 3312)
