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.

If you finish a non-fiction book and don’t act upon any of its suggestions, you’ve wasted time. When reading, always think about how you can apply the teachings in your own life — not about how you can finish the book faster so you can begin reading another one.

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.

Whenever you’re going through hardships that are beyond your control, look at them as an exercise in reining in your emotions. There’s nothing you can do to change the situation, so at least you can learn something from it.

Whenever you’re going through hardships that are beyond your control, look at them as an exercise in reining in your emotions. There’s nothing you can do to change the situation, so at least you can learn something from it.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

—Gautama Buddha