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“Mental toughness is the ability to focus on and execute solutions, especially in the face of adversity.

Greatness rarely happens on accident. If you want to achieve excellence, you will have to act like you really want it. How? Quite simply: by dedicating time and energy into consistently doing what needs to be done.

Excuses are the antithesis of accountability.

Important decisions aren’t supposed to be easy, but don’t let that stop you from making them.

When it comes to decisions, decide to always decide.

The second we stop growing, we start dying. Stagnation easily morphs into laziness, and once a person stops trying to grow and improve, he or she is nothing more than mediocre.

Develop the no-excuse mentality.

Do not let anything interrupt those tasks that are most critical for growth in the important areas of your life. Find a way, no matter what, to prioritize your daily process goals, even when you have a viable excuse to justify not doing it.

“If you don’t evaluate yourself, how in the heck are you ever going to know what you are doing well and what you need to improve?

Those who are most successful evaluate themselves daily. Daily evaluation is the key to daily success, and daily success is the key to success in life.

If you want to achieve greatness, push yourself to the limits of your potential by continuously looking for improvements.

Within 60 seconds, replace all problem-focused thought with solution-focused thinking.

When people focus on problems, their problems actually grow and reproduce. When you train your mind to focus on solutions, guess what expands?

Talking about your problems will lead to more problems, not to solutions. If you want solutions, start thinking and talking about your solutions.

Believe that every problem, no matter how large, has at the very least a +1 solution, you will find it easier to stay on the solution side of the chalkboard.

When you set your mind to do something, find a way to get it done…no matter what!

If you come up short on your discipline, keep fighting, kicking, and scratching to improve. Find the nearest mirror and look yourself in the eye while you tell yourself, “There is no excuse, and this will not happen again.” Get outside help if needed, but never, ever give up on being disciplined.

Greatness will not magically appear in your life without significant accountability, focus, and optimism on your part. Are you ready to commit fully to turning your potential into a leadership performance that will propel you to greatness.

Mental toughness is understanding that the only true obstacles in life are self-imposed. You always have the choice to stay down or rise above. In truth, the only real obstacles to your ultimate success will come from within yourself and fall into one of the following three categories: apathy, laziness and fear.

Laziness breeds more laziness. When you start the day by sleeping past the alarm or cutting corners in the morning, you’re more likely to continue that slothful attitude later in the day.”
― Jason Selk, Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance

“truth is, the most important tasks in each of our days are also typically the same tasks we fear and avoid the most.”
― Jason Selk, Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance

“the noise of urgency creates the illusion of importance.”
― Jason Selk, Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance

“The real key is to develop two or three process goals for each of your product goals.”
― Jason Selk, Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance

“David Kohl, professor emeritus at Virginia Tech University, has found that individuals who write down their goals will have nine times the success of those who don’t put their goals on paper.”
― Jason Selk, Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance

“You cannot achieve your goals until your current self-image reflects your ability to do so.”
― Jason Selk

“PROCESS GOALS: Process goals focus on what it will take on a daily basis to achieve the product goals. The”
― Jason Selk, Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance

“Greatness is predicated on consistently doing things others can’t or won’t do. Simply put, success is not about being brilliant. It is about being consistent.”
― Jason Selk, Organize Tomorrow Today: 8 Ways to Retrain Your Mind to Optimize Performance at Work and in Life

“completing process goals daily is the absolute best manner in which to control your destiny.”
― Jason Selk, Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance

“every time you get to the end it makes it more likely that you will get to the end next time.”
― Jason Selk, Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance

“Performance evaluations include three very distinct components:       1. What is being done well     2. What needs to be improved     3. How improvements will be made Although”
― Jason Selk, Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance

“Mental toughness fundamental #5 is to complete daily performance evaluations. COMPLETE”
― Jason Selk, Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance

“state your goals as though they have already been achieved.”
― Jason Selk, Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance

“Make the commitment to the daily and quarterly performance evaluations, and you will be well on your way to developing your accountability and becoming the person you so desire to become.”
― Jason Selk, Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance

“When you completed the work task exercise in the previous chapter, did you find, like so many do, that you weren’t completing the most important tasks each day? Although we can come up with all kinds of excuses for why we don’t do what’s important, we’re usually either allowing ourselves to get distracted or consciously or subconsciously steering around a stressful situation. Either way, your “avoidance of the important” causes the disparity between what you want and what you have. Being”
― Jason Selk, Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance

“You create a ritual when you get in the habit of behaving in certain ways consistently over time. I have found the only way of ritualizing in our busy schedules is to actually plug priority behaviors into our daily calendars. Please”
― Jason Selk, Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance

“In my opinion, the essence of mental toughness is the ability to replace negative thinking with thoughts that are centered on performance cues or that contribute to improved self-confidence.”
― Jason Selk, 10-Minute Toughness: The Mental Training Program for Winning Before the Game Begins

“Letting yourself be blown by the wind of the seemingly urgent is simply unacceptable if you want to reach your potential.”
― Jason Selk, Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance

“An Olympic gold medal wrestling coach once told me that there are two principal types of athletes, those with talent and those with work ethic, and the greatest possess both.”
― Jason Selk, 10-Minute Toughness: The Mental Training Program for Winning Before the Game Begins

“But we believe—and strongly recommend—that you reemphasize the personal element of your “3 Most Important / 1 Must” and make those connections directly, either face to face or over the phone. There’s often a direct correlation between in-person communication and your level of success.”
― Jason Selk, Organize Tomorrow Today: 8 Ways to Retrain Your Mind to Optimize Performance at Work and in Life

“From a mental standpoint, the most tried-and-true way to increase performance is to improve confidence. Self-talk is one of the most influential agents for honing self-confidence. Extensive research in the sport psychology world confirms that an athlete’s internal dialogue significantly influences performance.”
― Jason Selk, 10-Minute Toughness: The Mental Training Program for Winning Before the Game Begins

“golfer Ben Hogan wrote, "I stopped trying to do a great many difficult things perfectly because it had become clear in my mind that this ambitious over-thoroughness was neither possible nor advisable, or even necessary."3”
― Jason Selk, 10-Minute Toughness: The Mental Training Program for Winning Before the Game Begins

“Believe in yourself and your ability to make gradual improvements, and the results will follow.”
― Jason Selk, 10-Minute Toughness: The Mental Training Program for Winning Before the Game Begins

“Using a reality-based evaluation, assess exactly where you are on each one of your three product goals. On”
― Jason Selk, Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance

“Schedule It or Forget It Arm”
― Jason Selk, Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance

“Just as you need to dedicate time in your schedule to complete your process goals and success logs, you need to enter time for quarterly evaluations on your calendar. Identify”
― Jason Selk, Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance

“When we think about problems, our problems grow. When we think about solutions, our solutions grow. Thinking about solutions makes life much more enjoyable and allows us to become much more successful.”
― Jason Selk, 10-Minute Toughness: The Mental Training Program for Winning Before the Game Begins

“Accountability Exercise: Commit to full accountability for the next 24 hours. No matter what is on your schedule, make sure you follow through with every single thing you said you would do, and yes when you say to yourself or someone else that you will do something, you need to find a way to get it done.”
― Jason Selk, Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance

“Being a giant in any field is not supposed to be easy, but the status is available if you want it. You can choose to be permanently successful by maintaining the relentless solution focus.”
― Jason Selk, 10-Minute Toughness: The Mental Training Program for Winning Before the Game Begins

“Every product and process goal must have a number attached to it so that it can actually be measured. In”
― Jason Selk, Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance