“Your decisions shape your destiny. The future is what you make of it. Little, everyday decisions will either take you to the life you desire or to disaster by default. In fact, it’s the littlest decisions that shape our lives. From what you eat and where to work, to the people you spend your time with, to how you spend your afternoon, every choice shapes how you live today, but more important, how you live the rest of your life.”

- Tony Robbins

“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”

- Jim Rohn

“Personal success is built on the foundation of character, and character is the result of hundreds and hundreds of choices you make that gradually turn who you are at any given moment into who you want to be.”

- From Leading an Inspired Life by Jim Rohn 

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”

- Benjamin Franklin

“Here’s the key formula for success: a few disciplines practiced every day. Those disciplines have to be well-thought out. What should you spend your time doing? You don’t want to waste your time on things that aren’t going to matter. But a few simple disciplines can change your whole economic future. A few simple disciplines can change your future with your family, your business, your enterprise, your career. Success is a few simple habits—good habits—repeated every day…Here’s the formula for failure: errors in judgment repeated every day. All you’ve got to do is have a few errors in your judgment and repeat them every day, and I’m telling you, they’ll spin out of control in ten years.”

- Jim Rohn

“Imagine the following:

You buy a ticket to an NBA game… let’s say a Lakers game at Staples Center.

You fight traffic, land a $40 parking spot, grab some snacks and drinks, and finally get to your seat.

The game starts, and you look up in the rafters, and the scoreboard is… missing!

There’s nothing there.

The players are dribbling, passing and shooting, but no one’s keeping score. After some arbitrary amount of time, they decide to stop playing, and everyone goes home.

Tell me…

Would that be the same experience as attending a game where the teams are battling for every important point as the clock counts down to the final buzzer?

No, of course not! If you take away the scoreboard and the clock, all the drama, tension, urgency, and excitement vanishes as well.

So here’s my question to you: Are you playing your game with or without a scoreboard?

Track & Measure Everything!”

- From TomFerry.com, Tom Ferry

"A consistent morning routine is the key to unlocking your full potential."

- From Atomic Habits by James Clear

“Research shows that beginning your day with a victory puts you in a positive mood. This morning momentum leads to more victories and continued progress throughout the day. You also win your health battles early in the morning. Making time to exercise and choosing the right foods for the first meal of the day will help you make better decisions all day long. The right decisions will give you more energy so that you will be more productive, mentally sharp, and free from fatigue—and even pain—all day long. Your first victory sets the proverbial ball rolling. This first win is also the biggest win and one that no one can take away from you. That’s why you must start early and control your morning, so that (barring external emergencies) your day will go exactly as planned.”

- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne

“You can control what time you wake up, what habits you start the day with, what temptations enter your life, and what systems you have in place for dealing with those. You can control your belief in yourself. You can take more control over your schedule and energy than you might believe right now. And most importantly, you can control your morning, and in doing so, win your day.”

- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne

“How you wake up each day and your morning routine (or lack thereof) dramatically affects your levels of success in every single area of your life. Focused, productive, successful mornings generate focused, productive, successful days -- which inevitably create a successful life -- in the same way that unfocused, unproductive, and mediocre mornings generate unfocused, unproductive, and mediocre days, and ultimately a mediocre quality of life. By simply changing the way you wake up in the morning, you can transform any area of your life, faster than you ever thought possible.”

- From The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod

“Early morning is the most critical time of each day. How you spend the beginning hours of your day sets the stage for the remaining hours. If you purposefully establish a routine for spending your early morning as you want to, you will have taken a giant step toward spending the rest of your life the way you want to. How we spend our mornings is the litmus test for our degree of self-mastery. Do we wake up with a plan for the day or are we scrambling, wasting time figuring out what we must do? If we have a plan for the day, do we consistently follow it? Do we follow a purposefully predetermined, set routine which makes us more efficient and productive, and allows more time to think and relax? Or do we haphazardly scramble to get ready and out the door to make it to work just in time? Our mornings expose the power of our routines. Whether our routines are made up of good habits or bad habits is most evident in how we spend our early morning hours. If we are to get the most out of life and come closer to reaching our potential, it’s crucial that we establish good morning habits that allow us to more effectively utilize our early morning hours.”

- From The Power of Habit by Jack D. Hodge

“Among the most important personal choices you can make is to accept complete responsibility for everything you are and everything you will ever be. This is the great turning point in life. The acceptance of personal responsibility is what separates the superior person from the average person. Personal responsibility is the preeminent trait of leadership and the wellspring of high performance in every person in every situation. Accepting complete responsibility for your life means that you refuse to make excuses or blame others for anything in your life that you’re not happy about. You refuse, from this moment forward, to criticize others for any reason. You refuse to complain about your situation or about what has happened in the past. You eliminate all your if-onlys and what-ifs and focus instead on what you really want and where you are going. This decision to accept complete responsibility for yourself, your life, and your results, with no excuses, is absolutely essential if you want to double your income and double your time off. From now on, no matter what happens, say to yourself, ‘I am responsible.’”

- From Focal Point by Brian Tracy

“In twelve months from now, you will be one year older. But if you also want to be better, then you must accept that your life is your personal responsibility. If you want to change, it is up to YOU and you alone.”

- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne

“Time is the most precious commodity we have. Therefore, how we manage it has the most profound effect on how our lives turn out. Either you run your day or your day will run you. It’s really a matter of deciding to be in charge. When you work, work; and when you play; play.” 

- From 7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness by Jim Rohn

“Busy is a decision. We do the things we want to do, period. If we say we are too busy, it is shorthand for “not important enough”. It means you would rather be doing something else that you consider more important. You don’t find the time to do something; you make the time to do things. Make the time to do the things you want to do and then do them.”

- Debbie Millman

“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

- Peter Drucker

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of.”

- Benjamin Franklin

“Time management is really life management, personal management, management of yourself. People who value themselves highly allocate their time carefully. They give their time usage a lot of thought. When you love your life, you love every minute of it. You are very careful about misusing or wasting any of the precious minutes and hours of each day.”

- From Focal Point by Brian Tracy

“If you want to become mentally fit -- positive, poised, and centered -- decide to monitor the messages coming into your conscious mind so they’re consistent with the ideal life you want to live. Consider the TV you watch, the books you read, the people with whom you associate. Do they drag you down, or do they support your vision?”

- From The Winner’s Mindset by Peter Nicado

“Go on a Negativity Fast. For the next thirty days, do not watch, listen to, or read the news.  Avoid negative and sensationalized media. Ignore all gossip about misbehaving reality stars and their ilk; there is nothing positive there. Avoid all negative people whenever possible.  Refuse to say anything negative or engage in conversation with a negative slant. Think only positive thoughts. Optimistic thoughts lead to optimistic action, while pessimistic thoughts lead to self-defeating action or none at all. You can choose your own thoughts and replace those that don’t serve your purpose.”

- From The Only Sales Guide You’ll Ever Need by Anthony Iannarino