Derek Doepker > Quotes

“Seeking validation, inner peace, and happiness outside of yourself is like trying to find a bus to take you home when you're already at home.  The only source of inner peace and happiness exists within you already.”
― Derek Doepker, 50 Fitness Tips You Wish You Knew

“The feminine nature makes even little things significant.  To an extreme, it “blows things out of proportion.”  Typically women embody the feminine energy more than men, and this means that when they’re unbalanced, everything becomes a big deal, and they give a shit about so much stuff, it’s overwhelming and at times unmanageable.  They don’t have as many barriers in their brain to compartmentalize stuff, so giving a shit about one thing spills over to the other things they give a shit about.  It’s easy to become conflicted, over-burdened, and feeling like there is a constant tug-o-war, sometimes in 18 different directions, about what matters most.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“people who not only get results, but keep those results are those who've made health and fitness a habitual lifestyle rather than simply a means to an end. ”
― Derek Doepker, 50 Fitness Tips You Wish You Knew

“Distraction is morphine for the mind.  Distraction is used to cut off your awareness to a problem at the expense of cutting off your awareness to its solution. ”
― Derek Doepker, Why You're Stuck: Your Guide To Finding Freedom From Any Of Life's Challenges

“Why struggling authors can’t create a long-term business… and how you can set things up from the start to ensure you’re thriving off of book sales for years to come?”
― Derek Doepker, Why Authors Fail: 17 Mistakes Self Publishing Authors Make That Sabotage Their Success

“the more you hang out with, study, and expose yourself to other people’s ways of thinking, the more you expand your own thinking – if you’re open to it.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“The truth about detoxing? Tip #38 reveals whether detoxing is fact or fiction, and what has really been proven to detoxify heavy metals and toxins from the body safely and effectively!”
― Derek Doepker, Weight Loss Motivation Hacks

“In order to move closer to your goal, you must often move further from it... temporarily.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“We don’t like it when people try to force things upon us because, surprise, surprise, it removes the ability to choose.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“awareness isn’t just a one-time thing, it should be an on-going practice.  One of the benefits of practicing meditation is that is helps the brain become trained to me more present and mindful at all times.  In a sense, awareness is taking meditation to your everyday life so everything you do becomes meditation.  This has been promoted for thousands of years as a spiritual practice for one big reason – it works. ”
― Derek Doepker, 50 Fitness Tips You Wish You Knew

“If you were your thoughts and feelings, than who is it that is aware of those thoughts and feelings? Can thoughts be aware of themselves, or rather are you something greater than your thoughts?”
― Derek Doepker, Why You're Stuck: Your Guide To Finding Freedom From Any Of Life's Challenges

“myself, this is typically only 2-4 things”
― Derek Doepker, 50 Fitness Tips You Wish You Knew

“At first, you won’t often feel pain from complacency.  It’s masked by comfort.  This is why it’s so dangerous.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“The top 5 supplements you must take for good health? Tip #37 reveals the essential nutrients you're likely missing that can all be replaced for less than the price of a cup of coffee a day!”
― Derek Doepker, Weight Loss Motivation Hacks

“The key to effortlessness is relentless effort.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“It’s not what you know that matters, it’s what you do with what you know that counts.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“The 3 keys to freedom from being stuck are awareness, appreciation, and action (choice).”
― Derek Doepker, Why You're Stuck: Your Guide To Finding Freedom From Any Of Life's Challenges

“Distraction is morphine for the mind.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“If you’re in the habit of bullshitting yourself, you’ll probably bullshit others too.  If you bullshit others, you’re creating a habit of bullshitting yourself.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“Life is won and lost with the little things.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“It’s my exposure to other people’s perspective that opens my mind to new possibilities.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“If you don’t feel rewarded by doing small steps and making gradual improvements, then you’ll rarely stick with something long enough to feel the accomplishment of a big payoff.”
― Derek Doepker, The Healthy Habit Revolution: The Step by Step Blueprint to Create Better Habits in 5 Minutes a Day

“In the future, your relationships have all ended.  Your body is dirt.  Your possessions are buried, burned, or recycled after eons have passed.  In the big picture of time, you’ve already lost everything.  Fear of loss is clinging to what is already gone.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.” – Jim Rohn”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“The only way to change what’s in your way is to change your way.”
― Derek Doepker, Why You're Stuck: Your Guide To Finding Freedom From Any Of Life's Challenges

“The one thing I've found can turn everything around is simply changing one's language patterns from dis-empowering statements and dis-empowering questions to instead asking high quality questions. ”
― Derek Doepker, 50 Fitness Tips You Wish You Knew

“When you have a big enough reason why you’re doing something, you won’t let anything stop you.  When you find a cause that goes beyond your own needs, you’ll transcend the fear of losing out on your needs.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“Wisdom isn’t just about knowing what to do, it’s also about knowing what to ignore.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“when you really like your excuses because they keep you comfortable and “right,” you’ll keep yourself stuck in “what is” thinking.  When “what is” gets too painful, you’ll naturally jump to “what could be” thinking.”
― Derek Doepker, Break Through Your BS: Uncover Your Brain's Blind Spots and Unleash Your Inner Greatness

“Everything you gain for yourself dies with you. Everything you give to others lives beyond you.  The only lasting treasure is your impact. Although”
― Derek Doepker, Why You're Stuck: Your Guide To Finding Freedom From Any Of Life's Challenges