Ed Mylett Quotes

When you're in the habit of keeping promises you make with yourself, you're on the pathway to self‐confidence.

Think about the “timely” words of British statesman Lord Chesterfield: “Take care of the minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Let me leave you with this one final thought about time from Charles Darwin. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

You must tune out the naysayers and all the negative distractions to focus on busting your piñata wide open. You'll feel disoriented at times, doubt may creep into your mind, and you may think that your goal is not worth it. Until you learn how to win those battles, you'll never enjoy what your piñata holds for you. If you stay with it long enough, you will enjoy the fruits of your labors. And everyone else in your circle who sticks around and supports you will enjoy those things as well.

Manage your triggers, or they'll eat you alive.

That's why you must guard your thoughts. Pull out the mental weeds that threaten to take over the good parts of your psyche.

The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.

Through proximity, you absorb the traits, actions, and beliefs of the people you associate with. Consciously and unconsciously, their knowledge and ideas become a part of who you are.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” Stop wasting time and start bending time to your advantage to get on with the important things in your life.

Here's an exercise I use to destroy self‐sabotage, discouragement, and doubt. I pay attention when I have a self‐sabotaging thought. I mentally record that thought. Then, I visualize and see myself scratching it out. The first time I record the thought and strike it out, I'll still see it. So I do this repeatedly, as many times as it takes, until I can no longer see the thought because it is so marked over and blacked out. When I get to the point where I can't see it, the thought has been stricken from my mind. My mind no longer lives with the thought, and that thought loses its limiting power on me.

this book. One of the core beliefs I hold is the importance of compounding. Compounding takes place when you attempt One More Try, time and time again. When you're successful in implementing a One More Try mentality, you'll create and compound more wins for yourself. Each of those wins creates an incremental advancement toward your goals. You stack them on top of each other to produce significant long‐term changes in your life.

One extra hour a day is 365 additional hours each year for you to WIN! Over a five-year period, that’s the equivalent of adding seventy-six productive work days to your business, or towards achieving your goals. It’s a way to literally get more time in your day.

Several people I know read the Bible, go to church, and are kind‐hearted and loving people. But do these same people extend their faith into their beliefs about personal fitness, finance, relationships, and business? In many cases, the answer is “No.” One of the keys to changing your identity is to let faith move mountains in all parts of your life.

organization's goals are and what the standards are to achieve those business goals? And just as important, can they live up to them? The greatest companies and the dynastic sports teams always set the highest standards.

Your beauty comes from your soul, intentions, your capacity to give, how you treat people, your beliefs, and your kind heart.

Few things are more expensive than opportunities you miss. You pay for them with regret, doubt, and a lingering, haunting feeling of what could have been.

Self‐confident people share one habit in common, and that is the ability to keep the promises they make to themselves. When you're in the habit of keeping promises you make with yourself, you're on the pathway to self‐confidence. Self‐confidence is also a form of self‐trust, and if you can't trust yourself, you need to do some hard thinking about your life.

What exactly is identity? I define it as the thoughts, concepts, and beliefs we hold as the most genuine parts of our inner being. You can put on a face or act a certain way for the rest of the world, but you can't lie to yourself when it comes to these things. Deep inside, you know what's true about you. Put another way, identity is this: What we perceive about ourselves is what we believe about ourselves.

What exactly is identity? I define it as the thoughts, concepts, and beliefs we hold as the most genuine parts of our inner being. You can put on a face or act a certain way for the rest of the world, but you can't lie to yourself when it comes to these things. Deep inside, you know what's true about you.

Instead of souring on life, flip your script. Tell yourself you intend to do good and to serve. That you intend to create a thriving business and have money in the bank. You intend to treat the people around you with care and are worthy of a loving and caring relationship. Apply good intentions to all parts of your life, and then watch what happens.

The key to One More Try is to be intentional. You must have the strength and the focus to take steps that will drive you closer to where you want to be in life. This is not always an easy thing to do. It requires a quiet determination to stay the course.

When you act and do the same things as everyone else, you'll get the same results as everyone else. When you implement a One More Try mentality, that's where you'll find your greatest successes and your most significant personal growth.

Confucius understood the battles that go on in a person's mind when he wrote, “The man who thinks he can and the man who thinks he can't are both right.

Your greatest gains and successes happen when you push yourself to new places and new limits.

remove procrastination from your life. As Victor Kiam, an entrepreneur and former owner of the New England Patriots, said, “Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.” Conversely, change is the instigator of opportunity.

What if you challenged that assumption? Not all the time, but in the areas of your life that are important to you. What if you gave yourself a mental time‐out and thought long and hard about the choices you face? What if you explored your options more deeply when it mattered?

Few things are more expensive than opportunities you miss.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Take care of the minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.

Or, as Mary Anne Radmacher once said, “Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’ 

I'm a big believer that everything you need is already in and around you right now if you can just put in the work to see it.

Consider the words of T. F. Hodge, “What surrounds us is what is within us.

Through proximity, you absorb the traits, actions, and beliefs of the people you associate with.

Unconsciously, we always find a way to get back to where our thermostat is set based on what we think we're worth.

Proverbs 23:7 says. “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.

The power of your mindset is immeasurable. It can either hold you back or propel you forward. The choice is yours.

Your mindset determines your reality. If you believe you can achieve something, then you will find a way to make it happen.

A fixed mindset limits your potential, while a growth mindset opens doors to endless possibilities.

A positive mindset is not just a state of mind, it's a way of life. Choose to see the good in every situation, and watch your life transform.

Your mindset is the foundation of your success. Without a positive and growth-oriented mindset, achieving your dreams will be an uphill battle.

The most successful people in the world have one thing in common: a mindset that believes anything is possible.

The greatest obstacle to success is not external factors, but rather our own limiting beliefs. Change your mindset, change your life.

I am chasing a guy. The man I am chasing is the better version of myself, the man I am capable of becoming, the man I was put on this earth to be.

If you don’t raise your identity, your internal self worth, then eventually you will turn the air conditioners on in your life, simply because you didn’t take charge and decide what identity you wanted. If your thermostat is set the right way, it will transcend conditions and you’ll find success no matter what the external conditions are. You can acquire all the talent, skills you want, but until they align with your identity, you’ll fall short of the goals you set.

Time is a constant. How we treat time, is a variable.

When you push yourself on empty everything you have inside, to the point you have nothing left. That’s when everything is created.

Conformity is cowardness

When our actions are based on good intentions, our soul has no regrets.