Success means doing things you don't want to do.

Your problem is not that you are too busy; your problem is that you don't own your situation.

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.

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.

Are we going to give up, or are we going to be the kind of people who stand up and do what it takes, even if we don't feel like doing it?

A lot of "successful" people are tragedies, because what they've accomplished aren't the things they wanted. Intentionally create the question "how" instead of accidentally relenting to the question of "should." If I'm not intentionally choosing a good attitude, I'm almost always unintentionally choosing a negative one.

Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it.