The key to becoming world-class in your endeavors is to build your performance around world-class routines. It can be difficult, even futile, to predict or control what will show up in the middle of your workday. But you can almost always control how your day starts and ends. I have routines for both.
Darren HardyTracking is a simple exercise. It works because it brings moment-to-moment awareness to the actions you take in the area of your life you want to improve
Darren HardyThe activities you are most afraid of are the activities that can cause a breakthrough in your success. Step into them.
Darren HardyThe day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life.
Darren HardySuccess is not only the financial wealth you accumulate, it is also about being a leader, improving your relationships, living healthfully, and making a real difference in the world.
Darren HardySuccess is not for those who want it, nor those who need it, but for those who are utterly determined to seize it--whatever it takes.
Darren HardyThe dream in your heart may be bigger than the environment in which you find yourself. Sometimes you have to get out of that environment to see that dream fulfilled. It’s like planting an oak sapling in a pot. Once it becomes rootbound, its growth is limited. It needs a great space to become a mighty oak. So do you.
Darren HardyYour waking adult life is going to be spent in what you do professionally, so you'd better like the journey and not just aim for the destination.
Darren HardyUnsuccessful people think about what they don’t want most of the time. They talk about problems, listen to news & gossip, & spend their time blaming circumstances, situations & others. Successful people think about what they want & how they will get it. They are intensely focused on their goals & the information needed to help obtain them. Which person are YOU?
Darren HardyDecide now that you are worthy of great wealth and it will be your first step toward great prosperity
Darren HardyWe all come into this world the same: naked, scared, and ignorant. After that grand entrance, the life we end up with is simply an accumulation of the choices we make.
Darren HardyThe path to success is through a continuum of mundane, unsexy, unexciting, and sometimes difficult daily disciplines compounded over time
Darren HardyEarning success is hard. The process is laborious, tedious, sometimes even boring. Becoming wealthy, influential, and world-class in your field is slow and arduous.
Darren HardyOld habits eat good intentions for lunch. Change your habits so you can change your outcomes.
Darren HardyEverything you need to be great is already inside you. Stop waiting for someone or something to light your fire. You have the match.
Darren HardyBroke people talk about people and problems. Rich people talk about ideas and goals. Your conversation chooses your destiny.
Darren HardyCommitment is doing the thing you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you.
Darren HardyA daily routine built on good habits and disciplines separates the most successful among us from everyone else. The routine is exceptionally powerful.
Darren HardyIf all the people around you are happy with you, you are not doing great work. When you stop being like other people, they stop liking you. That's just how it goes. There's no escaping it. And it's okay. What you need to understand about that disapproval is that it's a sign you're doing something right.
Darren HardyThe Compound Effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices
Darren HardyThe first step toward change is awareness. If you want to get from where you are to where you want to be, you have to start by becoming aware of the choices that lead you away from your desired destination.
Darren HardySince your outcomes are all a result of your moment-to-moment choices, you have incredible power to change your life by changing those choices. Step by step, day by day, your choices will shape your actions until they become habits, where practice makes them permanent.
Darren HardyOnly when you’re willing to take 100 percent responsibility for making the relationship work will it work. Otherwise, a relationship left to chance will always be vulnerable to disaster.
Darren HardyIf you truly want to be successful, spend less time following the lives of other people and more time leading your own.
Darren HardyAnd as long as you’re making choices unconsciously, you can’t consciously choose to change that ineffective behavior and turn it into productive habits.
Darren HardyOne of the best days of your life can be when you finally say, 'I've had it!' then stand up and fight.
Darren HardyLosing is a habit. So is winning. Now lets work on permanently instilling winning habits into your life. Eliminate sabotaging habits and instill the needed positive habits, and you can take your life in any direction you desire, to the heights of your greatest imagination.
Darren HardyYou are judged by what you produce, not what you said, intended or wanted to produce. It's Friday, add up the numbers. How'd you do?
Darren HardyYou can only be great at the big things by being great at the little things. Do something little with greatness today.
Darren HardySeek out positive people who have achieved the success you want to create in your own life. Remember the adage: “Never ask advice of someone with whom you wouldn’t want to trade places.
Darren HardyIf you haven’t already clearly defined your values, you may find yourself making choices that conflict with what you want. If, for example, honesty is a big thing for you, but you hang out with liars, there’s a conflict. When your actions conflict with your values, you’ll end up unhappy, frustrated, and despondent. In fact, psychologists tell us that nothing creates more stress than when our actions and behaviors aren’t congruent with our values.
Darren HardyForget about willpower. It's time for why-power. Your choices are only meaningful when you connect them to your desires and dreams. The wisest and most motivating choices are the ones aligned with that which you identify as your purpose, your core self, and your highest values. You've got to want something, and know why you want it, or you'll end up giving up too easily.
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