Dan Sullivan Quotes

autonomy without clarity is ultimately a disaster.

required a full-on transformation of not only his skills and creativity, but also of his commitment, convictions, and identity.

Practice mental subtraction to remind yourself of the GAINS in your life. Create a GAIN Tiny Habit Recipe for getting out of the GAP, such as the five-minute rule the women’s soccer coach used.

Everything in life happens FOR you, not TO you. Nothing can stop you so long as you transform every experience into a GAIN.

I don't think we set and achieve goals in an effort to become happy. We do it because we are happy and want to expand our happiness

Always make your future bigger than your past.

If greatness is your goal, it can only be achieved today.

happiness is where you start, not where you finish.

The past, and how we view it, is more a reflection of where we currently are than of the past itself. As the psychologist Dr. Brent Slife states in the book Time and Psychological Explanation (emphasis mine): “We reinterpret or reconstruct our memory in light of what our mental set is in the present. In this sense, it is more accurate to say the present causes the meaning of the past, than it is to say that the past causes the meaning of the present. . . . Our memories are not stored and objective entities but living parts of ourselves in the present. This is the reason our present moods and future goals so affect our memories.

A core aspect of hope is pathways thinking,23 meaning highly hopeful people continually adjust their pathway until they ultimately find and create a way to their goal, even in the direst of circumstances.24

Even religion, which is supposed to bring people hope and healing, can be a reason people go into the GAP.

Maybe it was because I was always trying to fill a spiritual hole with a material thing.

The GAP is a habit. It’s a habit we can fall into literally hundreds of times per day. We can spend hours each day in the GAP — unhappy, resentful, regretful.

When you’re in the gain, you’re never measuring yourself against anything external. You’re only measuring yourself against yourself. More directly, you’re measuring

positive emotions are the starting point of learning, growth, and high performance.3