Regardless of your age, background, career, education, financial situation, gender, history, or IQ, only about one-third of your intellect, potential, and memory is pre-determined by genetics and biology; two-thirds is in your control.

When what you think, what you say, and what you do are aligned, we experience harmony in life.

There's actually a Stanford University study that found that participants who walk through nature show lower levels of blood flow to the parts of the brain associated with rumination. Rumination is what we do when we can't stop thinking negative thoughts about ourselves, and we get stuck in this mental pattern, such as how depressed we are, how sad we are, and what's causing it.

If you procrastinate, put things off, and just do the easy things, life is hard. But if you do the hard things, life becomes easier.

I believe that difficult times either diminish you, define you, or develop you, and ultimately, we decide—that's the power we have.

A lot of people say they stopped playing because they grew older, but it's the opposite—you grow older because you stop playing.

If you can't explain something simply, you don't understand it well enough.

So, if you're struggling in some area of your life, my guess is it's not a matter of you working harder; my guess is you already do work hard. It's a matter of spending your time identifying and turning the right screws.

Don't let school get in the way of your education.

I notice when I'm going out for a run, even as a jog or brisk walk, I enjoy the wonderful way my mind lets thoughts just drift by with every step that helps me to clear my mind. There's actual research in neuroscience that's identified a strong link between aerobic exercise and cognitive clarity [and] that exercise also leads to neurogenesis, the birth of new brain cells.

Self-love and self-care are not selfish—you have to give to yourself before you give to somebody else.

In a way, our brains are like supercomputers. They're installed with this operating system, and it is this overwhelm, and it is this distraction. And to create a peaceful mind, we need to reinstall what's more in our nature: calm, harmony, balance.

Parents have to be very careful with the words they use—your external words become a child's internal words.

Your ability to assess, to determine, where to put that X in each part of your life, is the critical determinant of everything that you accomplish or you fail to accomplish. What do I mean by that? There are very specific focal points, certain screws you could turn, that yield disproportionate rewards and returns.

I have a quote in the book from a French philosopher that says 'Life is the C between B and D' ... 'B stands for birth. So, D stands for death, and C, life, stands for choice.

There's a gift in every struggle.

People will forget what you say, but they'll always remember how you made them feel.

I am hearing more and more and more from people they're not measuring success in terms of profit or prestige but rather peace of mind ... Your brain isn't designed to work at full steam all the time. So, regularly simmering down with a few science hacks is a really brilliant move for your well-being and really for your life and your career.

Take two minutes and make your bed, because that's a success habit. If we're talking about positive momentum, the science of momentum, getting things done, checking things off, doing it with excellence, then make your bed. It's worth the one or two minutes. Because, again, how you do anything is how you do everything.

In today's age, you are no longer rewarded for the hours you put into something but more for what you put into those hours. It's about working smart and not just hard.

The hustle 24/7 approach tends to be that constant intense work is positive and that breaks equate to laziness—and it's simply not true, because science disagrees. There's a lot of benefits to performance, productivity, and certainly peace of mind.

The same level of thinking that created your problem won't solve your problem.

Identity answers the question of who; beliefs and values answer the question of why; capabilities answer the question of how; behavior answers the question of what; the environment answers the question of when and where.

What the research says is that we are not really good at multitasking, and that multitasking is actually a myth—that really what we're doing is something called task-switching.

Neuroscience tells us to be more peaceful productive, creative, we need to give our brains a break. And so, this quiet time often produces the best insights and, also, I find, the most inspiration.

Read to succeed. If somebody has decades of experience, and they put it into a book, and you can sit down in a few days and read that book, then all of a sudden you could download decades in days.

I feel like, in this age of information, we're drowning in data and information, but we're starving for real wisdom.

The quickest way to success is by role-modeling and getting mentored by others. And if you don't have a mentor or coach, then go to the library and get a book.

Now, how much water do you need. Now, you see and you've heard many times it's 8 glasses of water. Now, that could be a baseline, but really, it depends on a number of factors. It depends, number one, on your body mass. Depending on your size, you might need more or might need less.

I always do an early morning meditation. I do it for about 20 minutes ... Mindfulness is so important. So, I want to have a clear mind as I enter the day. And so, meditation puts me in that space.

I don't believe knowledge is power—at all. It has the potential to be power, but all the podcasts, online programs, coaching seminars—none of it works unless we work it.

It's not how smart you are; it's how are you smart?

Your brain is like a supercomputer and your self-talk is a program it runs. So, if you tell yourself you're not good at remembering names, you won't remember the name of the next person you meet because you programmed your supercomputer not to.

If you knew how powerful your mind was, you wouldn't have a thought or say something you didn't want to be true.

If you have a to-do list, I would offer another strategy: Have a not to-do list. What's on your not to-do list? Multitasking.

The first thing I do when I wake up is I recall my dreams.

I just feel like that if I could get 3 of my work goals done on my to-do list and 3 of my personal things to do, then it's been a great day.

Isn't it interesting that one step in another direction can completely change your destiny?

To create any kind of results in our life, we need to behave a certain way, but in order to do a behavior, we need a belief that enables that to happen.