“When you can’t win by being better, you can win by being different.”

The problem with a goals-first mentality is that you’re continually putting happiness off until the next milestone.

Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.

In short: genes do not determine your destiny. They determine your areas of opportunity.

We all deal with setbacks but in the long run, the quality of our lives often depends on the quality of our habits

You don’t have to be the victim of your environment. You can also be the architect of it.

Good habits make time your ally. Bad habits make time your enemy.

Habits reduce cognitive load and free up mental capacity, so you can allocate your attention to other tasks.

The most practical way to change who you are is to change what you do.

Your culture sets your expectation for what is normal. Surround yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself.

Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress.

Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement.

You don’t have to build the habits everyone tells you to build. Choose the habit that best suits you, not the one that is most popular.

Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.

Habits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement.

At some point it comes down to who can handle the boredom of training every day, doing the same lifts over and over and over.

Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals.

The more you write tunes, the better they will become. The more you do gigs, the better you will become.

It is far better to render beings in your car competent than to protect them.

If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

He doesn’t yearn for a better, different life than the one he has – because he knows he’s got a home in this one.

I have heard a lot about love but I’m still learning to spell it, a bit by bit every day by getting, to know you better. -The Loving.

Learning to save some love for yourself has to start somewhere. What better time than now?

Don’t surround yourself with people who run away from growth. Don’t limit yourself knowing you can evolve, do better and be better. Because you deserve better.

Just improve yourself; that is the only thing you can do to better the world.