Create A Greater Sense of Enjoyment

"When you have clear and challenging goals, you tend to be more focused and engaged, which leads to a greater sense of flow and enjoyment in what you’re doing."

-- Brendon Burchard

Live A Truthful Life

"The main motivation of human kind is to be free, to express our true selves and pursue our dreams without restriction—to experience what may be called personal freedom. Follow this impulse by consistently sharing your true thoughts, feelings, needs, and dreams with other people.  Do not play small to placate others. Live your truth."

-- Brendon Burchard

You Can Be Extraordinary

"You are only as strong and extraordinary as you give yourself reason to be. So determine your musts, my friend. Make them real. Feel them in your gut.  Because the world needs you to show up now." 

-- Brendon Burchard

How To View Struggle

"When you have the opportunity to learn and serve, you don’t complain about the effort involved. View struggle as a necessary, important, and positive part of your journey so that you can find true peace and personal power.  Don’t bemoan the inevitable hardships of self-improvement and chasing your dreams; have reverence for challenge."

-- Brendon Burchard

Reaching Your Full Potential

"Asked how they rose above others who were more privileged or qualified than they, such people often say, “I was hungry. I had to succeed. There was no other choice.” They had necessity. The flip side is how many people without this mentality never reach their full powers. No necessity, no drive, no fulfillment of their potential."

-- Brendon Burchard

Developing The Critical Skills

"Determine the five major skills you need to develop over the next three years to grow into the person you hope to become. Then set out to develop those skills with obsessive focus through the ten steps of progressive mastery. The most important thing is to always be developing the critical skills to your future success."

-- Brendon Burchard

Whether You Shine or Struggle

"Choose to surround yourself with people who bring joy and growth into your life and are secure enough in themselves to be real and solid whether you shine or struggle."

-- Brendon Burchard

Have Faith In Yourself and Your Future

"The universe is abundant and giving, so you can trust that good things are coming your way. I suppose that’s the ultimate message in times of difficulty: to have faith in yourself and the future. It’s something I wrote on an index card and carried in my wallet when I was struggling through my brain injury: Remember, you are stronger than you think, and the future holds good things for you."

-- Brendon Burchard

When You Become Supremely Skilled

"Never give up, add a tremendous amount of value, and stay on the path to mastery.  When you become supremely skilled and successful at what you do, doors will open and you’ll meet more and more extraordinary people."

-- Brendon Burchard

People With a Growth Mindset

"People with such a mindset believe they can improve, love a challenge, and engage with difficulty rather than run from it. They don’t fear failure as much as others do, because they know they can learn and, through hard work and training, become better. This makes them more motivated, more dogged in their pursuits, more resilient, and more successful over the long term in practically every area of their lives."

-- Brendon Burchard

Remember Your Cause

"We change and improve over time only when we must. When the internal and external forces on us are strong enough, we make it happen. We climb. And when it gets most difficult, we remember our cause. When we are afraid and battling hardship and darkness, we remember we came in the cause of light and we sustain positive performance over the long term."

-- Brendon Burchard

Find True Peace and Personal Power

"When we learn to see struggle as a necessary, important, and positive part of our journey, then we can find true peace and personal power."

-- Brendon Burchard

When People Tend To Maintain Motivation

"A tremendous amount of research shows that people tend to maintain motivation, give more effort, and achieve higher performance when they are held accountable for their outcomes, are evaluated more often, and have the opportunity to demonstrate their expertise or gain respect from those they serve. In other words, if you owe it to someone to do well, and you feel that doing well will exhibit your expertise, then you’ll feel greater necessity to perform at higher levels. For example, when we are evaluated more and held accountable to team performance, we work harder and better."

-- Brendon Burchard

Honor The Struggle

"No one who achieved greatness avoided struggle. They met it, engaged with it. They knew that it was necessary, because they knew that real challenge and hardship pushed them, extended their capabilities, made them rise. They learned to honor the struggle. They developed a mindset that anticipated the struggle, welcomed the struggle, leveraged the struggle into reasons to give more."

-- Brendon Burchard

Keep Experimenting in Life

"That’s why I encourage people to keep experimenting in life until they find something that sparks unusual interest. Then, if it aligns with your personal values and identity, jump in. Get curious. Let yourself geek out on something and go deep. Let that part of you that wants to obsess about and master something come alive again." 

-- Brendon Burchard

The Reason To Get Focused Now

"Life is short. We’re only allotted so much time to make our mark. I say that’s all the more reason to get focused. Stop producing outputs that don’t make your soul sing. Avoid trying to be effective or efficient doing things that you’re not proud of and make no impact. Determine what outputs really matter to you at this stage in your life, chart your five moves to accomplish your big dreams, and go make it happen while getting insanely good at what you do. From there, the world is yours."

-- Brendon Burchard

Make Your Dream A Necessity

"High performers have to succeed over the long term because they have the guts to expect something great from themselves. They repeatedly tell themselves they must do something and do it well because that action or achievement would be congruent with their ideal identity.  High performers’ dreams of living extraordinary lives aren’t mere wishes and hopes. They make their dream a necessity. Their future identity is tied to it, and they expect themselves to make it happen. And so they do."

-- Brendon Burchard

Everything is Trainable

"One principle lies at the heart of this effort: Everything is trainable. No matter what skill you want to learn, with enough training and practice and intention, you can become more proficient at it. If you don’t believe this, your journey to high performance stops here."

-- Brendon Burchard

Challenge Yourself To Develop Good Habits

"You should never wait to pursue a dream or add value out of fear that you lack the “right stuff.” High performance happens because of what you deliberately think and do on a routine basis in order to excel and serve at higher levels. It is this quest to challenge yourself to develop good habits that will make you feel enlivened and help you realize your full potential."

-- Brendon Burchard

A Serious Deficit of Your Income

"One thing is certain: Not having the requisite skills to reach success in your field is a serious deficit. Without greater skill acquisition, there’s no progress in your career, so it’s essential that you identify the major skills you need to develop so you can win today and in the future."

-- Brendon Burchard