The foundation of a disciplined life is integrity and doing what we say we’re going to do.
Your highest obligation to other people is to be your highest self.
Success is more a matter of choice than of circumstance.
We need to stop spending so much of our time trying to make the right decisions and instead start spending our time making decisions and then making them right.
You always get paid for how hard you work, but it’s not always right away.
It’s okay to be scared – do it scared. It’s okay to be unsure – do it unsure. It’s okay to be uncomfortable – do it uncomfortable. Just get started where you are. That is the attitude of the most disciplined and successful people on the planet. You.
You are much more likely to act your way into healthy thinking than to think your way into healthy acting.
Ignore the noise. Conquer the critical. Manage the minutiae.
You were put here on earth to do something that no one else can do. It is yours and yours alone to complete. It requires you to be your highest self and if you don’t do that thing, you are going to inhibit those around you from doing theirs. As a Multiplier, it is your obligation to spend time on things today that create more opportunity for those around you tomorrow. It is to do the things that are right, not only for now, but for the future.
If you’re like most people in the world today, then you have read fewer than five books cover to cover in your lifetime. According to one major American publisher, 95% of all books that are purchased are never completely read.
Success comes down to choosing the hard right over the easy wrong. Consistently.
The number one risk that rich people are willing to take is to be paid for their results rather than or in addition to their time. They choose to take a chance on themselves. They believe in their own self-discipline and their own ability to produce results.
Why do so many of us succumb to fear? Because it’s more convenient and more comfortable for us to let our dreams disappear than to muster up the discipline and the work ethic to go out and transform them into reality.
And the Law of Action says that it does not matter what we say we believe; our real beliefs are revealed by how we act. You.
Action is the cure for fear. I.
Distraction is a dangerously deceptive saboteur of our goals.
If there isn’t a defined objective or outcome for the activities you’re engaged in, stop doing them!
It’s not even right to complain or whine to others about how busy you are. You and I have the same amount of time in a day as Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Michael Jordan or anyone else who has achieved greatness.
Discipline is a perpetual process, and the growth is in the journey. Simple, but here’s the part that you won’t like hearing – you don’t get a day off. Ever.
Which brings us to the Pain Paradox of decision making that states the short-term easy leads to the long-term difficult, while the short-term difficult leads to the long-term easy.
Because in our never-ending search for the next destination, we miss out on one of life’s great truths, which is, just as the legendary philosopher Hannah Montana said, “It’s all about the climb.