Dan Sullivan Quotes

10x quality and transformation is how you race to the top. 2x quantity and competition is how you race to the bottom. Atomic Habits

When you’re in the GAP about any experience, that experience becomes somewhat of a trauma to you. The word trauma may sound extreme, but trauma, by nature, is an experience you’ve framed as negative, which you avoid, and which creates ongoing dysfunction and debilitation in your

Everything in life happens FOR you, not TO you.

The ideal is like the sun that illuminates the path ahead of you to give you the encouragement to take the necessary steps to reach your destination.

When you draw on a memory, you always do so from the perspective of your present self. Psychologists call memory a “reconstruction,” because it is always reconstructed based on your present views, which influence how you see and perceive past events.14,15,16 As Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., stated, “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

When you choose freedom over security, then you embrace a life where you choose exactly what you want, rather than vying for what you think you need.

By seeing my son through the lens of the GAP, all I can see are his flaws. I don’t see him for who he truly is, right now. I don’t see his growth. I don’t see his progress.

How have you grown as a person over the past three years? What are the biggest things you’ve learned in the past 12 months? What are 10 important things you’ve accomplished in the past 12 months? What meaningful experiences have you had in the past 90 days? How are you clearer on your goals and vision than you were 90 days ago? In what ways is your life different and better than it was 30 days ago? What important progress have you made the past seven days? What progress have you made in the past 24 hours?

Whenever you imagine a bigger and better future, there’s a problem. You don’t currently know how to achieve the goal, because it’s bigger and better than your current situation and capabilities.

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

Michelangelo continued to take on projects far beyond — impossibly beyond — his skill level. Most people are afraid to commit fully to the 10x process because it inevitably requires letting go of your current identity, circumstances, and comfort zone.

The past is nothing more than the meaning you ascribe to it. Traumatic experiences can be changed. They are not fixed.

prolonged and extended exposure to stress overwhelms your system, which then has to compensate and overwork (i.e., “toxic stress”), which shortens your lifespan.2

Results, not effort, is the name of the game. You are rewarded in life by the results you produce, not the effort and time you put in.

When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported back, the rate of improvement accelerates.” — Pearson’s Law