I am often working with coaching clients on building new habits. This is not easy to do. Here are ten quotes I’ve recently shared for inspiration…well, probably nine for inspiration and one for amusement. Enjoy and good luck with whatever you are learning right now. [2/1/21 edit: I couldn’t resist adding two bonus items at the bottom.]
Counselor Augusta F. Kantra:
Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most.
Actress Janna Cachola:
Discipline is not about the rules, it is about respect. It’s respect for those around you, the things you own and for yourself. Discipline is part of being a steward.
Artist Hans Hofmann:
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
Designer John Maeda:
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.
Leadership advisor Robin Sharma:
Success is created through the performance of a few small daily disciplines that stack up over time to produce achievements far beyond anything you could have ever planned for. Failure, on the other hand, is just as easy to slip into. Failure is nothing more than the inevitable outcome of a few small acts of daily neglect performed consistently over time so that they take you past the point of no return..
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail.
A blogger named Cheo:
Simplicity strips away the superfluous to reveal the essence.
Two from entrepreneur Jim Rohn:
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret and disappointment.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
And finally, enjoy this cartoon titled “Know Your Procrastination Style” from The New Yorker’s Dana Maier.
[2/1/21 edit: Plus two bonus items from @lizandmollie.]