Being the best means engineering your life so you never stop until you get what you want, and then you keep going until you get what’s next. And then you go for even more.
I don’t care how good you think you are, or how great others think you are – you can improve, and you will. Being relentless means demanding more of yourself than anyone else could ever demand of you, knowing that every time you stop, you can still do more. You must do more. The minute your mind thinks, “Done,” your instincts say, “Next.
The greats never stop learning. Instinct and talent without technique just makes you reckless, like a teenager driving a powerful, high-performance vehicle. Instinct is raw clay that can be shaped into a masterpiece, if you develop skills that match your talent. That can only come from learning everything there is to know about what you do.
You don’t have to love it. You just have to believe it’s worth it in the end.
Greatness makes you a legend; being the best makes you an icon. If you want to be great, deliver the unexpected. If you want to be the best, deliver a miracle.
People who preach inner drive are dreamers with a lot of ideas and a lot of talk, and zero production.
I’m not telling you to love it. I’m telling you to crave the result so intensely that the work is irrelevant.
In anything you do, it takes no talent to work hard. You just have to want to do it.
Make a plan that truly reflects your goals and interests, and you’ll be more likely to execute. Why pretend you’re going to work out every single day when you know you’re only going to do it three times a week?
People who don’t pursue their own dreams probably won’t encourage you to pursue yours;.
The only way you can light other people on fire is to be lit yourself, from the inside.
Relentless is about never being satisfied, always driving to be the best, and then getting even better.
Don’t tell me the glass is half-full or half-empty; you either have something in that glass or you don’t.
Get comfortable being uncomfortable, or find another place to fail.
You make decisions, not suggestions; you know the answer while everyone else is still asking questions.
Tell yourself what to do, and stop waiting for others to lay it all out.
Cleaners have a dark side, and a zone you can’t enter. They get what they want, but they pay for it in solitude. Excellence is lonely. They never stop working, physically or mentally, because it gives them too much time to think about what they’ve had to endure and sacrifice to get to the top.
From this point, your strategy is to make everyone else get on your level; you’re not going down to theirs. You’re not competing with anyone else, ever again. They’re going to have to compete with you. From now on, the end result is all that matters.
And most people who claim to have killer instinct rarely do, because when you have that kind of power, you don’t talk about it. You don’t think about it. You just use it.
Mental dominance is what ultimately makes you unstoppable.