Metadata
- Author: Joshua Medcalf
- ASIN: B08L13TBJL
- Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08L13TBJL
- Kindle link
Highlights
Sometimes you might think you are building for your school, your family, your company, or your team, but you are always building your own house… I hope you build wisely.” — location: 109 ^ref-20805
“John, everyone wants to start the next Ikea, but few are willing to be faithful selling individual matchsticks door to door. — location: 129 ^ref-9183
Everyone wants to be great, until it’s time to do what greatness requires. — location: 143 ^ref-26650
Focus on what you can control. — location: 144 ^ref-64026
The secret is to understand that nothing is a test, but only an opportunity to learn and grow. Many people never fulfill their potential, because they look at every situation in life as a test. — location: 205 ^ref-47877
“Practice is good, but too much practice is not. Your muscles have torn, and they need time and rest in order to heal.” — location: 221 ^ref-50171
my value comes from who I am, not from what I do. — location: 231 ^ref-23827
Your value comes from who you are, not from what you do. — location: 236 ^ref-11089
When your identity gets wrapped up in what you do, it clouds every decision you make. — location: 240 ^ref-41317
Like thirsty people guzzling salt water, achievement only creates a greater desire for accomplishing more, dehydrating us of true satisfaction and fulfillment. — location: 261 ^ref-53557
You fuel your heart with six things: what you watch, what you read, what you listen to, who you surround yourself with, how you talk to yourself, and what you visualize. — location: 316 ^ref-8280
‘Humility is not thinking less of your self, but thinking of your self less.’ — location: 340 ^ref-44733
Your memories are not created through your experiences, rather they are created through the stories you tell yourself and others about those experiences. — location: 342 ^ref-30483
Worth Statement: My value comes from who I am, NOT from what I do. Growth Mindset: Anything that happens to me today is in my best interest and it is an opportunity for me to learn and grow. What Went Well: (Write out 15 specific things you did well today. Feel free to use examples of areas you got better in even if they weren’t the very best you are capable of.) — location: 381 ^ref-56817
‘Talent without character is like an expensive, fast car with no gas. It is useless without the fuel that drives it2.’” — location: 422 ^ref-16735
comparison is the thief of all joy, and the grass isn’t greener on the other side. The grass is greener where you water it. — location: 455 ^ref-60949
Talent can be a kind of lottery, John. A talented athlete is often less likely to develop the skills and work ethic that a less-talented one has to develop just to survive, and because of that, they may end up much worse off down the road. — location: 506 ^ref-62504
Believe it or not, the setbacks of today can quickly become the forging blades of greatness for tomorrow. — location: 510 ^ref-28346
Words put pictures in your mind. Pictures in your mind impact how you feel. How you feel impacts what you do. What you habitually do impacts your destiny. — location: 529 ^ref-45063
Worrying is a form of negative visualization, that helps create the scenario you see happening in your mind. — location: 538 ^ref-36422
use our words to put beneficial pictures in our minds, — location: 539 ^ref-14631
using beneficial and constructive self-talk instead of giving power to our inner critic is one of the most formidable strategies possible to use toward reaching our own potential. — location: 540 ^ref-62525
it moves in steps, not constants. — location: 577 ^ref-40513
Everything impacts everything. Everything is aiming. You have much to learn, John. Get some sleep, and tomorrow we chop wood, carry water.” — location: 604 ^ref-41150
not forgiving people is like swallowing a deadly drug and hoping the person who wronged you dies from it.” — location: 612 ^ref-22251
Greatness isn’t sexy John, it is the dirty, hard work that is often very boring. — location: 642 ^ref-64473
Talk to yourself instead of listening to yourself. — location: 671 ^ref-9743
Ask the question, “What is one thing I can do to make the situation better?” — location: 671 ^ref-4800
When you tell yourself that you have to do something, it creates a negative internal energy, but when you realize you want to do something it creates a more beneficial internal energy.” — location: 717 ^ref-15387
Goals actually allow you to shirk responsibility. But a mission? Only the person in the mirror can stop you from living that out. — location: 730 ^ref-61462
I believe a mission is something you can do right where you are, anywhere, using only what you have. You do not need anyone’s permission. — location: 736 ^ref-36295
The ultimate illusion of the human experience is control — location: 777 ^ref-61022
Things like winning, rebounding, sales, or beating your opponent’s records, can distract us from what is more important: the person we become on the journey. — location: 895 ^ref-32695
focusing on partially controllable goals can be much more trouble than it is worth!” — location: 906 ^ref-17394