Lost days hurt you more than successful days help you.
Sluggish days and bad workouts maintain the compound gains you accrued from previous good days.
(a.) Alt. of Atomical
Simply doing something – ten squats, five sprints, a push-up, anything really – is huge.
The more immediate and more costly a mistake is, the faster you will learn from it.
We repeat bad habits because they serve us in some way, and that makes them hard to abandon.
Knowing that someone else is watching you can be a powerful motivator.
Our environment determines the suitability of our genes and the utility of your natural talents.
The people at the top of any competitive field are not only well trained, they are also well suited to the task.
If you want to be truly great, selecting the right place to focus is crucial.
Genes do not determine your destiny; they determine your areas of opportunity.
Choose the habit that best suits you, not the one that is the most popular.
The work that hurts you less than it hurts others is the work you were made to do.
Even if you’re not the most naturally gifted, you can often win by being the best in a very narrow category.
If you find a more favorable environment, you can transform the situation from one where the odds are against you to one where they are in your favor.
You need to regularly search for challenges that push you to your edge while continuing to make enough progress to stay motivated.
At some point it comes down to who can handle the boredom of training every day, doing the same lifts over and over.
Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
The only way to become excellent is to be endlessly fascinated by doing the same thing over and over. You have to fall in love with boredom.
Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement. The same way that money multiplies through interest.
We make a few changes, but the results never seem to come quickly and so we slide back into our previous routines.
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