Quotes About Mindset

After I (ANCHOR), I will (NEW HABIT).

It's time for someone to say it: You've got to lower your expectations.

The important thing to remember about procrastination is that the perception of difficulty can be just as important as the actual difficulty. In addition, every day you don't do the task, it grows in your head, which makes the task seem more and more difficult.

Simplicity changes behavior.

Doing two push-ups against a wall is easy to accomplish so you're much more

If you do the Maui Habit and feel that it won't be a great day, I advise you to still say this phrase. I say it even on mornings when I feel exhausted or overwhelmed or anxious about the day ahead. In that moment, sitting on the edge of my bed, I try to feel optimistic. But if this feels phony, then I adjust the phrase and my intonation as I say, "It's going to be a great day—somehow.

MOTIVATION IS NOT THE WINNING TICKET FOR LONG-TERM CHANGE

People change best by feeling good, not by feeling bad.

Write this phrase on a small piece of paper: I change best by feeling good, not by feeling bad. Step 2: Tape the paper to your bathroom mirror or anywhere you will frequently see it. Step 3: Read the phrase often.

High thinking and high living are poles apart.

As the modern saying goes, we should live in the solution, not in the problem.

Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.

Perfecting: Always Be Happy with the Smallest Improvement

The moment you say, "I have got it," you have lost everything you had.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me.

The ranking... it's just a number.

I finished three years ranked No. 1, so the ranking doesn't matter anymore.

I'm not really focused on my ranking.

A lot of players are concerned about their ranking; I think you've got to just enjoy the sport and have fun.

Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have passports, the decision-makers, senior ranks in the administration, senators on Capitol Hill.

I was probably 15 when I started going to the studio with the older cats in my neighborhood. They heard me rap outside one time; I was just freestyling. And they invited me to the studio. It's good when you're accepted, no matter what crowd. That's the first step of believing you can do whatever you feel like putting your mind to.

My goal for the rap game is just to make a lot of really dope music. That's really where I keep my mindset at: Just being obsessed over making something crazy and new every day.

Once I get into the locker room, I turn on stuff to get me hyped up. Mainly, it's a lot of rap music.