A mindset that can take you far in life:What I want doesn't exist, so I'll create it.

Start small and become the kind of person who shows up every day. Build a new identity.Then increase the intensity.

Consistency before intensity

Keep leaning your head against a topic for a long time. Certainly for weeks, possibly for years. And along the way, try many lines of attack. Continue to generate options, explore paths, and propose silly ideas. Copy and paste concepts from widely different disciplines and see if it gets you anywhere. All the while, continue to refine the best solution you’ve found thus far.What looks like genius may simply be the byproduct of persistence and variety.

Persistence and variety. These are the two primary ways to develop great ideas or solve important problems

The primary difference is not the task, but the enthusiasm and curiosity put into the task. The more engaged and interested you are, the more it becomes a craft.

Some things are a job, others are a craft

Happiness is simply the absence of desire... Happiness is not about the achievement of pleasure (which is joy or satisfaction), but about the lack of desire. It arrives when you have no urge to feel differently. Happiness is the state you enter when you no longer want to change your state

An idea from Atomic Habits

Start slow if you have to. Start small if you have to. Start privately if you have to.Just start.

Just Start

"When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy. You can be satisfied anytime your system is running."

Asking what makes someone successful is like asking which ingredient makes a recipe taste good. It’s not any single ingredient. It is the combination of many ingredients in the right proportions and in the right order—and the absence of anything that would ruin the mixture.

Recipe for Success 

Five minutes of exercise and you are back on the path. Five minutes of writing and the manuscript is moving forward again. Five minutes of conversation and the relationship is restored.It doesn't take much to feel good again.

It only takes five minutes to break the cycle

You just need to have the courage to eliminate everything that doesn't directly feed what you really want.

What’s more powerful? A manager or coach or teacher who tells you the right thing to do? Or one who shows you how to live and work by example?People gravitate toward the standard you set, not the standard you request.

Leadership begins with your behavior

"Good choices create opportunities. Good habits make the most of them."

But nobody accomplishes anything significant by accident either. Just because you need others doesn't mean you can wait for others to make it happen.You have to act as if you are a force of nature and try to bend the universe in your desired direction—while remaining pleasant and open to help along the way.

Nobody accomplishes anything significant alone

Highly focused people do not leave their options open. They select their priorities and are comfortable ignoring the rest. If you commit to nothing, you’ll be distracted by everything.

You don’t always get to choose the load, but you can choose how to carry it.

But to be a good listener, you have to stop talking and be interested.Genuine curiosity is the precursor to understanding, and a good listener helps the other person feel understood.

Anyone can listen. All you have to do is stop talking.

Do it right the first time and you won't have to do it over the next time.

The hard way is the fast way

The person who consumes from better sources gets better thoughts. The person who asks better questions gets better answers. The person who builds better habits gets better results.It's not the outcomes. It's the inputs.

The edge is in the inputs

Many brilliant people talk themselves out of getting started, and being smart doesn't help very much without the courage to act. You can't win if you're not in the game

Life Rewards Action, Not Intelligence 

Your calendar is a better measure of success than your bank account.

It only takes five minutes to break the cycle

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