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“If you don’t fill your day with high-priority items, others will fill your day with low-priority items.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“The Talent Code (Coyle 2009), this means pushing yourself to the edge of discomfort during practice to the place where you want to give up.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“Don’t compare your start or middle to someone else’s ending, or you’ll never endure. In a social-media-fueled, all-access world, it becomes easy to take our evolution and compare it with someone else’s.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“Our expectations are sky high, and we’re prone to giving up at the first sign of struggle or obstacles.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“FALL IN LOVE WITH DELAYED GRATIFICATION”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“The moment your desire for knowledge and wisdom matches the desire you just experienced for air, you will have it.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“each time you persist in the face of adversity, you build a confidence in yourself that you will execute and grow when the chaos hits, and this will serve you for the entire journey.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“1% progress + daily application (consistency) + persistence (focus) + time (endurance) = success.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“Instant gratification is an endurance killer.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“When you truly love who you’re becoming, you become unstoppable.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“Once we see the unknown through the frame of unlimited possibility, a place where anything can happen, we open up our world.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“While intense, challenging, and tough, grit and persistence are beautiful and will give your journey meaning.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“Surrender does not mean giving up or giving in—it’s quite the opposite. Surrender means being “all in” to a point where you let go of the clenching grip you have on life and open up to the depths of what can happen.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“A warrior is an average man with laser like focus.” - Bruce Lee”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“Remember: if you lower your intensity and ambition to please a certain few, you’ll miss out on attracting the tribe that wants you to play all out.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“When you experience resistance, laugh at it. Smile at it. See it for what it is—a sign you’re growing.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“In a commencement speech at the University of Texas in 2014, William H. McRaven explained this concept in a simple message he gave to those seeking success: “Make your bed in the morning.” McRaven argues this seemingly insignificant detail starts your day off with accomplishment. You start by fighting the resistance we’re all going to experience. By simply committing to action and rising up to the challenge of making our bed, we create a domino effect that leads to us challenging our bodies, minds, and spirits. This concept is simple: Your life will show proof of your principles and your deeply rooted integrity. If you can’t build the muscle of persistence during low-stakes situations, it’ll become incredibly difficult to show up when the stakes are high.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“While positive thinking and optimism are beautiful and required for a life of both success and achievement, there are times we must dig into the darker emotions we experience and use them as a creative source of power.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“The how is where dreams go to die.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“We only truly value that which is earned—and specifically, that which we earn through the process of becoming.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“you don’t have to hit a home run every single day—you simply have to get in the game.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“What can I execute on right now that will prove that my outcome and vision are not only possible, but coming true?”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“Our feelings and emotions are like the ocean tide, while data and metrics are more like mountains.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“Nothing which isn’t earned is highly valued.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“We don’t rise to the level of our expectations; we fall to the level of our training.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“In an instant-gratification, highlight-driven, shallow-work world, your pursuit of mastery puts you heads and shoulders above the others and stands the test of time.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“Don’t compare your start or middle to someone else’s ending, or you’ll never endure.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“Without starting and jumping into the cold water, you’ll never clearly see the pivot and the opportunity in front of you, no matter what area of life you’re in.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“The big leaps will never happen if we don’t get used to taking the small ones.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams

“The 1% Rule: 1% progress + daily application (consistency) + persistence (focus) + time (endurance) = success.”
― Tommy Baker, The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams