Stephen Guise > Quotes

“It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.” ― Anthony Robbins”
― Stephen Guise, Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

“We make the grave error of redefining partial success as “failure.”
― Stephen Guise, How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism

“Be the person with embarrassing goals and impressive results instead of one of the many people with impressive goals and embarrassing results.”
― Stephen Guise, Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

“If you don't execute your ideas, they die.” — Roger von Oech”
― Stephen Guise, Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

“Care less about results. Care more about putting in the work. Care less about problems. Care more about making progress despite them. Or if you must fix something, focus on the solution. Care less about what other people think. Care more about who you want to be and what you want to do. Care less about doing it right. Care more about doing it at all. Care less about failure. Care more about success. Care less about timing. Care more about the task. In general, the idea behind imperfectionism is to not care so much about conditions or results, and care more about what you can do right now to move forward with your identity and your life.”
― Stephen Guise, How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism

“Be happy, but never satisfied.”
― Stephen Guise, Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

“Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.” ~ Kim Collins”
― Stephen Guise, How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism

“...Every giant accomplishment is made of very small steps... and to take them one at a time like this is not weak, but precise.”
― Stephen Guise, Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

“Never forget this: It’s easier to change your mind and emotions by taking action than it is to change your actions by trying to think and feel differently.”
― Stephen Guise, How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism

“When you repeat a behavior over time, your brain learns to automate the process. It's more energy efficient to automatically do something than to manually weigh your options and decide to act the same way every time. When you make a decision very quickly, it is probably from habit, even if you think you're actively deciding. In a way, you made the decision a while ago.”
― Stephen Guise, Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

“We're quick to blame ourselves for lack of progress, but slow to blame our strategies. Then we repeat them over and over again, trying to make them work. But here's the thing—if you fail using a particular strategy more than a few times, you need to try another one. It doesn't matter if it works for everyone else if it doesn't work for you! This is a lesson I wish I had learned years ago.”
― Stephen Guise, Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

“Never use guilt as motivation.”
― Stephen Guise, How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism

“stupid small” steps work better for me than larger goals.”
― Stephen Guise, Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

“One small step + desired behavior = high probability of further steps”
― Stephen Guise, Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

“Imperfectionism is NOT laziness, low standards, contentment with failure, disinterest in excellence and improvement, or apathy. At its core, imperfectionism is pursuing and doing good things in life without so much as hoping for (let alone expecting) perfection. It’s prioritizing doing over doing well. This doesn’t rule out doing things well; it only takes away the crippling fear of not doing well.”
― Stephen Guise, How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism

“Perfectionism makes you stay home, not take chances, and procrastinate on projects; it makes you think your life is worse than it is; it keeps you from being yourself; it stresses you out; it tells you that good is bad; and it ignores the natural way in which things work.”
― Stephen Guise, How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism

“Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge." — Jim Rohn”
― Stephen Guise, Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

“There is no perfect plan and no perfect scenario, because life happens. As helpful it is to be able to plan, it’s equally important to adapt to changing circumstances and problems. It’s important to understand that you will be significantly and continually impacted by imperfection—from yourself, the world, and others.”
― Stephen Guise, How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism

“Doing a little bit is infinitely bigger and better than doing nothing”
― Stephen Guise, Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War”
― Stephen Guise, Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

“anything dependent on human emotion is completely unreliable.”
― Stephen Guise, Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

“When something is chance based, be stubbornly persistent. There’s no reason to quit a (free) chance-based venture. Ever. It’s irrational to quit unless it costs you something. It’s free to submit guest post articles, ask women to go to dinner with you, apply for dream jobs, or ask your boss for a raise. There can be many upsides if you get positive results, so take action without apologizing. Be the most aggressive person you know! When something fails, try a different approach. Concrete failure, as opposed to chance failure, gives you an opportunity to eliminate that way of doing things (Edison’s failed lightbulb prototypes are a popular example of this). When you suspect a negative result comes from a combination of chance and failure, be persistent, but try varying strategies to the degree that you think it’s failure.”
― Stephen Guise, How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism

“Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.” ― Dalai Lama XIV”
― Stephen Guise, Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

“A destructive habit to have is believing that you have to be motivated to act.”
― Stephen Guise, Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

“A common, false assumption is that aiming for perfection gets you closer to it. The opposite is true: Embracing imperfection will bring you closer to perfection than a perfectionist mindset will.”
― Stephen Guise, How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism

“isn't it easier just to move forward one centimeter and let momentum help you out?”
― Stephen Guise, Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

“a mini habit is a VERY small positive behavior that you force yourself to do every day. Small steps work every time, and habits are built by consistency, so the two were meant to be together.”
― Stephen Guise, Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

“The habit of rising one hour earlier each morning to read would give you 365 extra hours more per year. At the average reading speed of 300 words per minute, this extra time would allow you to read 6,570,000 words, or 131 more 50,000-word books per year.”
― Stephen Guise, Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

“you fail using a particular strategy more than a few times, you need to try another one.”
― Stephen Guise, Mini Habits: Smaller Habits, Bigger Results

“The key to building powerful confidence is to decide specifically what you can be confident about right now, and build from there.”
― Stephen Guise, How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism