We need to stop spending so much of our time trying to make the right decisions and instead start spending our time making decisions and then making them right.

When it comes to making commitments to other people, sometimes one of the hardest things to learn to say is no when we mean no.

You always get paid for how hard you work, but it's not always right away.

The most self-disciplined people in the world aren't born with it, but at one point they start to think differently about self discipline. Easy, short-term choices lead to different long-term consequences. Difficult short-term choices lead to easy long-term consequences. What we thought was the easy way led to a much more difficult life. I think that motivation is sort of like a unicorn that people chance like a magic pill that will make them suddenly want to work hard. It's not out there.

Discipline is a choice. It's simply consistently choosing the hard right over the easy wrong.

We're busy being busy. Distraction is a dangerously deceptive saboteur of our goals, because we are not present to how much time we lose. We're distracted by things like being in meetings or on conference calls, or we get on Facebook related to business and the updates of friends captivate our attention and an hour goes by before we wake up.

The foundation of a disciplined life is integrity and doing what we say we're going to do.