“Waste no more time arguing what a good [person] should be. Be one.”

To overcome “analysis paralysis” or freezing in the face of a blank page, start by lowering the bar to determine what the first step needs to be.

zero-based budgeting forces a clear-eyed assessment of costs and value during each new planning period.

To stubbornly insist on remaining “consistent,” even when presented with evidence to the contrary, is to hand the current ownership of your mind over to your prior, wrong way of thinking.

“Meanings are not determined by situations,” he wrote, “but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.”

nearly 50 percent of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they are doing,

To make the most of the gift on offer, there is a TRIED and True framework you can use: a.Take time after receiving the feedback to process. b.Reflect on what you heard—and think you heard. c.Identify the “grain of truth” in the criticism that is worth acting on. d.Echo back to the critic what you think you heard to get additional detail and clarif

the best way, and indeed the only way, to engage the conscious mind in these environments of high uncertainty and high stress was to narrow that field of uncertainty to its smallest possible scope.

when you focus only on the outcome, you relegate yourself to a mere tenant of circumstances outside your control.