The way to measure your progress is backward against where you started, not against your ideal. - Dan Sullivan

An ideal can’t be measured. It’s there for emotional, psychological, and intellectual motivation, but it’s not there for measurement.

In other words, the easiest way to get 2x growth is by going for 10x, because 10x forces you to stop almost everything you’re doing, which is ultimately a waste of time anyway.

If you focus on what you lack, you lose what you have. If you focus on what you have, you gain what you lack.