Sahil Bloom Quotes

My life improved dramatically when I learned to pause before reacting. Space creates perspective. Perspective creates better decisions. And better decisions compound into a better life.

The people who tell you to be realistic are usually just projecting their own ceiling on you. Your growth exposes their insecurity. Never adopt limits you didn’t choose for yourself.

Discipline is just consistently separating how you feel from what you do.

You'll achieve much more by being consistently reliable than by being occasionally extraordinary.

Treat your body like a house you have to live in for another seventy years." He added, "If something has a minor issue, repair it. Minor issues become major issues over time. This applies equally to love, friendships, health, and home.

Never let the quest for more distract you from the beauty of enough.

The arrival fallacy is the false assumption that reaching some achievement or goal will create durable feelings of satisfaction and contentment in our lives.

In a famous articulation often attributed to Peter Drucker, the Austrian-born management guru, "What gets measured gets managed.

the ideal future end looks remarkably aligned: Time, people, purpose, health.

Close your eyes and imagine your ideal day at eighty years old (or one hundred, in the case of the ninety-year-old!). Vividly imagine it. What are you doing? Who are you with? Where are you? How do you feel? The exercise forces you to begin with the ideal future end in mind — it establishes a personal definition of a successful life that can be used to reverse-engineer the actions in the present to achieve that desired end.

Ironically, that busyness, and the scattered attention it creates, is the very reason you lack control over your time — it is the maker of the modern struggle.

The greatest discoveries in life come not from finding the right answers but from asking the right questions.

Showing up is the key to life.
You can never bet against the person who just keeps showing up.

For ten years, you are your child's favorite person in the entire world. After that, children have other favorite people — best friends, girlfriends, boyfriends, partners, and, eventually, their own children. But during those ten years, you are everything to them. You occupy a unique place in their world. It is during this period that the foundation for the parent-child relationship — so central to many people's Social Wealth — is built.

Sight: My writing desk faces a window with dark walls on either side, some plants, and neutral art.