Comparison is the thief of joy. - Dan Sullivan

Your behaviors before bed are coded into your long-term memory.1 While you’re sleeping, your brain processes everything you experienced that day. But not everything equally. This is why top-performing athletes — like Michael Phelps, the most winning Olympian of all time — create visualizations of success just before they go to sleep.

To make a goal effective, you’ve got to test its outer-limits. Push it out as far as you can. Only once you make your goal impossible will you stop operating based on your current assumptions and knowledge.

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