Book Titles

When you make a commitment to someone else to change a specific behavior, it creates a higher level of accountability.

Without ongoing self-awareness, the risk is that rituals eventually grow stale and become obsolete.

The ethic of more, bigger, faster has prompted us to spend far more energy than we adequately renew, in a frenzied and largely futile effort to keep up with relentlessly rising demand.

…most of us are more vigilant about refueling and maintaining our cars than we are about taking care of ourselves.

Taking care of yourself physically won’t turn you into a great performer – it’s just one piece of a more complex puzzle – but failing to do so assures that you can’t ever perform at your best.

…sleep is also one of the first behaviors many of us are willing to sacrifice, on the mistaken assumption that doing so will allow us to be more productive.

Numerous studies of great performers suggest they sleep more than the rest of us, not less.

Sleep is not simply cognitively restorative but also a time during which considerable learning occurs.

…most people continue to wrongly assume that working gore continuously – hunkering down, staying the course, burning the midnight oil – is the best way to generate more productivity.

We derive recovery not only by literally stopping whatever it is we’re doing, but also by simply changing channels.