What controls your attention, controls your life

Your 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.

It's no great achievement to go along with the crowd. Be the unusual guy, the extraordinary guy.

Have you ever been bitten by an elephant? How about a mosquito? It's the little things in life that will bite you. For most of us, it's the frequent, small and seemingly inconsequential choices that are of grave concern.

If we want to succeed, we need to recover our grandparents’ work ethic.

And as long as you’re making choices unconsciously, you can’t consciously choose to change that ineffective behavior and turn it into productive habits.

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.