Consistent, Not Different: Why We Stray from the Path and Reasons to Return
Dexter A. Daniels
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Consistency is genuinely improving yourself to become a good match for those with whom you are in relationships while distancing yourself from people when their actions become too toxic.”
“Different looks like talking about suicide once for annual training and then not paying attention to those around you for the rest of the year.”
“Create an environment where getting help and discussing suicide is something we do before a life is lost and not after.”
“At times we do crazy things. They make no sense. It reminds me of the definition of insanity, which is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting different results. People credit that to Einstein. I think it is true. I think people are painfully ignorant of how much they do the same thing but expect different results. Maybe willfully ignorant? However, this is a good thing. We are naturally created to do the same thing over and over. That is called consistency. My goal is to align our natural tendency with the ideas in this book, causing an adjustment to our actions which will produce a more propitious “same result”.”
“When you see the positive results from your time and effort, it produces motivation. Motivation oozes from you while it simultaneously infuses. Ultra instinct. It produces real fuel. Wait, you might interject, how come I don't feel this real fuel when I'm doing well without tracking my accomplishments?! That is a great question. The reason is that we do not see them. We have a bias towards what we are doing wrong. Unless we are deliberately looking for the good, we can easily overlook it, then over time we forget good things even happened.”
“Sometimes it's not what you do differently it's what you do consistently. I approached solving my life’s problems from many different angles. I used to try to be perfect, not in the literal sense, but coasting right below in that realistic level of high performance. That was my desire. It did not happen though, yet that desire did not die. Ironically, as I fell into deeper adversity, it grew. As I dug for China, I knew the comeback would make the suffering worth it. It’s like what Viktor E. Frankl wrote in Man’s Search for Meaning, “In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.” I felt the meaning for my self imposed suffering was the honorable character I would later possess; it had to be.”
“Rich Roll said you have to be more afraid of your current situation than you are afraid of change. I am sure we all can relate to events that crept up on us and forced us to make changes. The good news is that you don't have to wait until things creep up on you. You don't have to wait until the negative 1% adds up over time. You can change your state now.”
“It's like what Charles Duhigg was saying in The Power of Habit about advertising, you have to create a craving for the reward. This takes time and doing so is more productive than posting every day and having unrealistic expectations of your followers. Essentially, people expect others to treat them a certain way but are ironically ignorant to how impractical and uninspired they would be if they had to fulfill that same expectation for someone else.”
“Different looks like the mentality that repels your best future possible from connecting with your past.”
“Different looks like starting a new 90-day plan every 30 days because you think there is no value in doing the remaining 60 days.”
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