Warren buffet

• Write down your top goals, both long and short-term things.
• Focus on the top five goals and then deliberately ignore the rest. The remaining 20 items will end up distracting you from accomplishing the things you most want to do.

The biggest mistake that most people make is not building a foundation of strength. 

Build the capacity to do the work before you start testing your limits. Volume doesn't have to mean “do sets of 20 reps". You can think of volume over a period of weeks and months.