365 Days with Self-Discipline - Martin Meadows
Summary
- 365 points on how to build self-discipline. It has a lot of information as well as inspiration quotes and ideas
Details
- Develop the habit of paying the price as early as possible
- When you face a problem, struggle with it for as long as possible before asking for help
- Improve patience by doing things that take long to accomplish
- Our limits are psychological and come from what we expose ourselves to
- Exercise willpower by going on a 30-day vice fast
- Focus on where you are going not what you should avoid
- Incredible story of Julius Yego, the youtube taught Javelin thrower
- Monitoring and tracking makes change more likely
- You cannot remove bad habits. You can only change the habit to something positive
- You can recall everything you have worked hard and patiently for in your life, but how many things that you have attained with little or no effort can you remember - Thomas Sterner
- Working towards goals like driving in foggy weather. We may not see everything, but we can still make progress
- We are engineered as goal-seeking mechanisms - Maxwell Maltz
- Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius
- The benefits of walking
- Avoid oversleeping
- Know too much rather than too little
- Failure is a positive sign that you are trying to stretch and do something beyond your current abilities
- Treats and rewards can help us to have more self-control
Quotes
- Motivation is not permanent, but neither is bathing - Zig Ziglari
- Teach others what you are learning. You become what you teach. You teach what you are - Brian Tracy
- The only thing we know about the future is that it is going to be different. - Peter Drucker
- In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity - Sun Tzu
- Be impeccable with your word. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love - Miguel Angel Ruiz
- The thoughts you entertain most often will have the biggest impact on who you are as a person - Friedrich Nietzshce
- A growing body of research suggests that as little as 5 percent of our behaviors are consciously self-directed - Jim Loehr
- It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much - Alain de Botton
- A man’s life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it’s a sign that he tried to surpass himself - Georges Clemenceau
- Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure - Juvenal
- Amateurs think that if they were inspired all the time, they could be professionals. Professionals know that if they relied on inspiration, they’d be amateurs - Philip Pullman
- Professionals always seek to improve their craft
- Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations - Henry David Thoreau