Scott Allan > Quotes

“If you spend your time with five successful entrepreneurs, you are the sixth. Spend your time with five productivity gurus whose focus is on getting things done, you’re the six. Spend your time with five complainers, and you’re the sixth complainer.”
― Scott Allan, Nothing Scares Me: Charge Forward With Confidence, Conquer Resistance, and Break Through Your Limitations

“Your belief is a deep conviction that convinces the subconscious of something that is supposed to be true. This doesn’t mean that it is true; it just means that it is true for you.”
― Scott Allan, Drive Your Destiny: Create a Vision for Your Life, Build Better Habits for Wealth and Health, and Unlock Your Inner Greatness

“When you buy into short-term pleasure, you are investing in long-term pain.”
― Scott Allan, Nothing Scares Me: Charge Forward With Confidence, Conquer Resistance, and Break Through Your Limitations

“Rejection expectation is an emotionally painful situation. It keeps you isolated, because the pain of being rejected is so great that it is better to be alone where nobody can get to you. When you expect people to not like you because you just don’t fit in, this expectation becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
― Scott Allan, Rejection Reset: Restore Social Confidence, Reshape Your Inferior Mindset, and Thrive In a Shame-Free Lifestyle

“What you perceive as rejection is really someone making choices based on their needs at that time”
― Scott Allan, Rejection Free: How To Choose Yourself First and Take Charge of Your Life By Asking For What You Want

“When you run from fear, you take it with you.”
― Scott Allan, Nothing Scares Me: Charge Forward With Confidence, Conquer Resistance, and Break Through Your Limitations

“The choices in the now are the choices of all your tomorrows combined”
― Scott Allan, Rejection Free: How To Choose Yourself First and Take Charge of Your Life By Asking For What You Want

“The fear of looking like a fool is related to low self-esteem and perfectionism.”
― Scott Allan, Nothing Scares Me: Charge Forward With Confidence, Conquer Resistance, and Break Through Your Limitations

“F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.” — Zig Ziglar”
― Scott Allan, Nothing Scares Me: Charge Forward With Confidence, Conquer Resistance, and Break Through Your Limitations

“Emotionally disconnect from the people that are filling your mind with self-doubt. This can be tough to do if they are coworkers or family, but when we listen to the naysayers, we become one of them. It will happen without you being aware of it.”
― Scott Allan, Nothing Scares Me: Charge Forward With Confidence, Conquer Resistance, and Break Through Your Limitations

“This belief that before we try it, we have to be totally perfect, full of confidence, and bursting with courage is one of the biggest lies that keeps us from doing anything, scared or not. When”
― Scott Allan, Nothing Scares Me: Charge Forward With Confidence, Conquer Resistance, and Break Through Your Limitations

“Bonding with people is an uphill battle for people dealing with rejection issues. We are always on guard, fighting our inner demons for dominance over a fragile mind. It is a vicious cycle of perpetual self-rejection. Other people have nothing to do with it. We might tag them as the problem, but in fact, you are at war with your own beliefs and insecurities.”
― Scott Allan, Rejection Reset: Restore Social Confidence, Reshape Your Inferior Mindset, and Thrive In a Shame-Free Lifestyle

“The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They’re full of eagerness, zest, productivity.
You can be, too.” — Norman Vincent Peale”
― Scott Allan, Do the Hard Things First: How to Win Over Procrastination and Master the Habit of Doing Difficult Work

“Self-isolation is used too often as self-medication. But it simply estranges you further from the truth. And showing vulnerability to people is growth.”
― Scott Allan, Do the Hard Things First: How to Win Over Procrastination and Master the Habit of Doing Difficult Work

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” — Zig Ziglar”
― Scott Allan, Do the Hard Things First: How to Win Over Procrastination and Master the Habit of Doing Difficult Work

“Within each project, what are the three tasks that must be completed? What is fixed on my schedule? This would be a weekly review session, weekly planning session, exercise, and regular breaks. Structure is critical to success. I worked for years without a proven structure and my productivity suffered as a result. When identifying blocks or obstacles in your weekly schedule, consider these questions: What distractions regularly pull me away from my work? What is the #1 habit that delivers 80% of my results?”
― Scott Allan, Do the Hard Things First: How to Win Over Procrastination and Master the Habit of Doing Difficult Work

“Distraction is a focus issue and not a result of having too many things to pursue. If you have ten rabbits running around in your field, you decide on the one to pursue.”
― Scott Allan, Do the Hard Things First: How to Win Over Procrastination and Master the Habit of Doing Difficult Work

“Morning is an important time of day because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you will have.” — Lemony Snicket”
― Scott Allan, Empower Your Mornings: Wake Up Early, Strengthen Your Focus, and Maximize the Quality of Your Life with a Dynamic Morning Routine

“And I think that if you don’t know what your purpose is, or you think you have nothing great to contribute to the world, you haven’t dug deep enough. It’s there. You need to find it. If you don’t, you risk spending the rest of your life at the mercy of someone else and their choices. In”
― Scott Allan, Nothing Scares Me: Charge Forward With Confidence, Conquer Resistance, and Break Through Your Limitations

“fallacy promise. It’s failure by false intention. By following this tenet, you end up tackling the easy tasks first to experience the transient euphoria of accomplishment or progress.”
― Scott Allan, Do the Hard Things First: How to Win Over Procrastination and Master the Habit of Doing Difficult Work

“Tony Robbins always says, “it’s not resources we are lacking, but resourcefulness.”
― Scott Allan, Do the Hard Things First: How to Win Over Procrastination and Master the Habit of Doing Difficult Work

“What is the point of having this gift of life if you are not willing to push yourself to grow?”
― Scott Allan, Fail Big: Fail Your Way to Success and Break All the Rules to Get There

“Break it down to the smallest action you can take. Even if you can’t complete the project or task 100%, what can you do?”
― Scott Allan, Do the Hard Things First: How to Win Over Procrastination and Master the Habit of Doing Difficult Work

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. — Stephen King”
― Scott Allan, Do the Hard Things First: How to Win Over Procrastination and Master the Habit of Doing Difficult Work

“The things we have done or not done trigger regret, and the things we have yet to face trigger anxiety and worry. Regardless whether you flip back and forth to past and future realities, neither timeframe is real. They are illusions created by the mind.”
― Scott Allan, Empower Your Thoughts: How to Build a Positive Mindset that Converts Great Ideas Into Successful Moneymaking Ventures

“No matter what challenges you are faced with,or the opinions people have of you,rejection in and of itself from others is not a valid system to predict your future.”
― Scott Allan, Rejection Free: How To Choose Yourself First and Take Charge of Your Life By Asking For What You Want

“a phenomenon called time inconsistency, according to behavioral psychology, this is the tendency of the brain to favor immediate rewards over future rewards.”
― Scott Allan, Do the Hard Things First: How to Win Over Procrastination and Master the Habit of Doing Difficult Work

“The path to greatness lies in doing what hurts.”
― Scott Allan, Do the Hard Things First: How to Win Over Procrastination and Master the Habit of Doing Difficult Work

“You’ve been lying to yourself about how great you can be.”
― Scott Allan, Nothing Scares Me: Charge Forward With Confidence, Conquer Resistance, and Break Through Your Limitations

“You lack for nothing and hold the keys to your eternal universe.”
― Scott Allan, Do the Hard Things First: How to Win Over Procrastination and Master the Habit of Doing Difficult Work