The Best Time To Build Resilience

"However, when I’m asked when is the best time to build resilience, I always respond: Before you need it. That’s because if you start to build your resilience reservoir before your levels are depleted, you put yourself in a stronger position to deal with challenges (although the second-best time is right now, so read on if your resilience needs a boost today). Think of it as strategically planning for a future drought and building your resilience reserves in advance – this is what the mastery pillar of resilience helps you to do."

-- Gemma Leigh Roberts

You Are Going To Experience Fear

"As long as I continued to push out into the world, as long as I continued to stretch my capabilities, as long as I continued to take new risks in making my dreams come true, I was going to experience fear.  What a revelation! Like Janet, and so many of you reading this book, I had grown up waiting for the fear to go away before I took any chances. “When I am no longer afraid … then!” For most of my life, I had played the WHEN/THEN game. And it never worked."

--  Susan Jeffers

Delegating Goal Pursuit

"Delegating goal pursuit to the unconscious parts of the mind is a great way to free up mental space and energy for all the things that constantly require your attention. It’s a great way to keep yourself on track when temptations and distractions arise. And just like when you find yourself pulling into your driveway at the end of a long day, you may find yourself achieving goals without really knowing quite how you got there."

-- Heidi Grant Halvorson

Those With Growth Mindset

"Those with a growth mindset place priority on learning and growing. As such, they seek to put themselves in positions to maximize their development. Rather than avoiding challenges or getting frustrated when facing challenges, they see them as opportunities to advance and progress and remain optimistic."

--  Ryan Gottfredson

Have The Right Catalyst

"No matter how much information there is, and no matter how good that information is, if the person consuming it doesn’t have the right catalyst, the catalyst that will allow them to apply that information effectively, then success will still elude their grasp.  It’s like eating the best food in the world without the intestinal capacity to digest or absorb it. It may be fantastic, incredibly accurate information with amazing insights and a track record of proven success, but it just goes right through you, leaving you as weak and hungry as you were before you ate it. I saw it happen hundreds, thousands of times."

-- Jeff Olson

The Biggest Cost Associated with a Setback

"In parallel manner, when you experience a setback, you are faced with not one challenge but two, and the second—preventing a flood of negative emotions—is usually more critical than the first. This emotional challenge may be secondary in terms of time and causation, but it is often the primary challenge in terms of its impact on us. Usually the harm done us by our emotions—if we allow them to be triggered—is the biggest cost associated with a setback. A sensible person will realize this, and on experiencing a setback, her first response will be to take the steps necessary to prevent the onset of negative emotions. Notice that I didn’t say she will find a way to conceal those emotions; she will prevent them from arising, so there won’t be any negative emotions to conceal."

-- William B Irvine

Creativity and Insight

"The level of the solution is never found at the level of the problem. Knowing this, you can escape many traps that people fall into. What exists at the level of the problem? Repetitive thinking that gets nowhere. Old conditioning that keeps applying yesterday’s outworn choices. Lots of obsessive thinking and stalled action. I could go on. But the relevant insight is that you have more than one level of awareness, and at a deeper level there is untapped creativity and insight."

-- Deepak Chopra

Once Your Sour Awakens

"Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise or the threat of danger hold you back from striving toward the summit of fulfillment."

-- John O’Donohue

You Choose Your Thoughts and Experience

"Thoughts are choices. The most accomplished people experience doubts every day, but they have learned how to choose a higher thought. Great actors experience huge performance anxiety, but they have learned how to choose a higher thought. Sports champions feel like quitting every day, but they too have learned how not to take these thoughts seriously. The same is true for successful artists, writers, teachers, physicians, and peacemakers. As you choose your thoughts, you choose your experience." 

-- Robert Holden

Do Everything You Could

"Remember, the greatest performers have a workman like mindset when it comes to preparation. They are gritty in their preparation, doing everything they could rather than just what they should."

-- Brian Levenson