Martin Meadows

When you’re struggling, remind yourself that it’s your struggles which will make you a stronger, more resilient, and more successful person.

However, while you’re working on developing your self-efficacy, it might be a good idea to minimize the risk of failures and focus on achieving small, safe goals.

You won’t lose anything by making yourself as ready as possible to tackle the challenge, while you’ll lose a lot by letting negative self-talk instill a seed of doubt.

If you finish a non-fiction book and don’t act upon any of its suggestions, you’ve wasted time. When reading, always think about how you can apply the teachings in your own life — not about how you can finish the book faster so you can begin reading another one.

Inverse paranoid: someone who believes the world is conspiring to do him good. Sees every situation as being heaven-sent to teach some valuable lesson or make him successful. This is the most outwardly identifiable quality of a high-performing person

Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one’s temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word

While people usually associate self-discipline with the ability to resist temptations (such as laziness or overeating), another equally (if not more) important benefit of self-control is the increased ability to control your emotions.

What if, instead of thinking of yourself as a person with weak self-control, you’d call yourself a person deeply motivated to build self-discipline ?

Change your opinion about yourself and it will be easier to stick to actions that would otherwise feel unnatural and clash with who you think you are, deep down.

Life’s easy when you live it the hard way... and hard if you try to live it the easy way.

Your choices are made in a moment, but their consequences will transcend a lifetime.