I can’t put off improving my health, my happiness, my confidence and even my love life.”

Make each quarter better than the last, and each year better than the previous one.

these exceptionalists began as ordinary people. And through relentless practice and constant drilling to wire in excellent daily habits, their power to manage themselves against their cravings and temptations grew stronger until the culture perceived them as superhumans.”

the writer Charles Bukowski said: ‘Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.’

He sported a gray t-shirt and ripped jeans, the type you can buy torn at your local shopping mall.

the poet John Keats, who wrote: ‘I almost wish we were butterflies and lived but three summer days—three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.’

eating fresh food, simply prepared, with interesting, real, thoughtful, creative and compassionate people who make you feel good.

The time you least feel like doing something is the best time to do it. And part of the reason for this, as you also now know, is because when you enlarge your willpower muscle in one important area, your self-discipline in every other area rises with you.

“Everyone dreams of being a legend until it comes time to do the work that legends do.”