Martin Meadows

When you’re struggling, remind yourself that it’s your struggles which will make you a stronger, more resilient, and more successful person.

However, while you’re working on developing your self-efficacy, it might be a good idea to minimize the risk of failures and focus on achieving small, safe goals.

You won’t lose anything by making yourself as ready as possible to tackle the challenge, while you’ll lose a lot by letting negative self-talk instill a seed of doubt.

Inverse paranoid: someone who believes the world is conspiring to do him good. Sees every situation as being heaven-sent to teach some valuable lesson or make him successful. This is the most outwardly identifiable quality of a high-performing person

Very often in everyday life one sees that by losing one’s temper with someone who has already lost his, one does not gain anything but only sets out upon the path of stupidity. He who has enough self-control to stand firm at the moment when the other person is in a temper, wins in the end. It is not he who has spoken a hundred words aloud who has won; it is he who has perhaps spoken only one word

While people usually associate self-discipline with the ability to resist temptations (such as laziness or overeating), another equally (if not more) important benefit of self-control is the increased ability to control your emotions.

Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most

In order to succeed, you must have a long-term focus. Most of the challenges in our lives come from a short-term focus

If you’re productive at work only because you’re afraid of your boss, how likely will you be to exhibit productivity when they aren’t around?

Be a hard master to yourself — and be lenient to everybody else.