Quotes About Progress

The purpose of a Focus Map is to match yourself with easy behaviors that you want to do and that are effective in getting you to your aspiration.

We should be dreamy about aspirations but not about the behaviors that will get us there. Behaviors are grounded. Concrete. They are the handholds and footholds that get you up the rock face. Your path to the top is your own, and you choose your behaviors according to the particular rock you are climbing.

There's nothing wrong with taking bold action. Life and happiness occasionally demand it. But remember that you hear about people making big changes because this is the exception, not the rule. Narrative drama comes from bold action, not from the incremental progress that leads to sustainable success.

By keeping the bar low, you keep the habit alive.

Narrative drama comes from bold action, not from the incremental progress that leads to sustainable success.

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

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.

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

MOTIVATION IS NOT THE WINNING TICKET FOR LONG-TERM CHANGE

Start with three super easy habits—that's what most Habiteers begin with—and add three new habits each month.

Growth and decay is always in one's own hands. [It is an obvious statement. Nobody can ensure any body's growth if that person is destroying oneself. And if one is determined to grow nobody can cause that person's destruction.]

Asanas maintain the strength and health of the body, without which little progress can be made. Asanas keep the body in harmony with nature.

Action is movement with intelligence.

Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.

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

Perfecting: Always Be Happy with the Smallest Improvement

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

As you take great pains to learn, continue with devotion in what you have learned. Learning is very difficult, but it is twice as difficult to keep the ground gained.

There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all people's lives, whether they practice yoga or not. If we can understand how our mind and heart works, we have a chance to answer the question, "Why do I keep making the same old mistakes?

It is almost impossible to jump from "bad" to "best" without passing through "good." Also, as ignorance recedes, "good" is an infinitely more comfortable place to be than "bad." What we call "bad" is ignorance in action and, as a strategy for life, thrives only on darkness.

If the practice of today, damages the practice of tomorrow, it is not correct practice.

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.