Gary John Bishop Quotes

Life won’t stop for your pauses and procrastinations. It won’t stop for your confusion or fear. It will continue right along without you. Whether you play an active part or not, the show will go on.

You have the life you’re willing to put up with.

you must first accept that while there are things that have happened in your life that you had no say in, you are 100 percent responsible for what you do with your life in the aftermath of those events. Always, every time, no excuses.

You change your life by doing, not by thinking about doing.

In simple terms, the language you use to describe your circumstances determines how you see, experience, and participate in them and dramatically affects how you deal with your life and confront problems both big and small.

Remember, everything is solve-able, and if you can’t see a solution, it only means you haven’t worked it out yet.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

If you took the time to be with what I’m saying, you’d realize that what causes most of your worry is trying to predict the future and then refusing to accept things when they don’t or aren’t going to go your way.

you are 100 percent responsible for what you do with your life

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.” - Marcus Aurelius

We often view ourselves as procrastinators or lazy or unmotivated. When in reality, we’re simply unwilling. We put things off or avoid them completely because we tell ourselves we just don’t want to do it or that we can’t do it.

Our biggest successes are born out of discomfort, uncertainty, and risk.

Love the life you have, not the one you expected to have.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.” - Epictetus

If you can’t even stop watching TV long enough to get your life together, you obviously don’t want to change. That’s basic shit. It’s the bare minimum, to be honest.

am not my thoughts; I am what I do.

Here’s the deal: true relentlessness comes when the only thing you have left is relentlessness. When it seems all is lost and all hope and evidence for success have long since vanished, relentlessness is the fuel that drives you through.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” - Theodore Roosevelt

Think about this: your thoughts (and the resulting feelings) are not always aligned with what is in the best interests of your life, your health, your finances, or your potential.

Remember you can always change something when you can take ownership and responsibility for it.

There is no greater knowledge than the knowledge you have verified for yourself, in your own experience.

I expect nothing and accept everything.

Circumstances don’t make the man; they only reveal him to himself.” - Epictetus

Sometimes our mind is like the equivalent of a funhouse mirror, distorting and contorting and blurring our lives and our potential.

Most of the time, the task we’re actually facing is a lot simpler than we think it is. The problem is, we usually don’t take the time to really look at it.

There aren't any roadsigns when you're trekking through uncharted territory. It's all discovery and exploration.

I am willing.” “I am wired to win.” “I got this.” “I embrace the uncertainty.” “I am not my thoughts; I am what I do.” “I am relentless.” “I expect nothing and accept everything.

found that positive self-talk can dramatically improve mood, boost confidence, increase productivity, and more. Much more. In fact, as evidenced by Professor Hart and his studies, it can be one of the key components to a happy, successful life. The bad news is, the reverse is also true: Negative self-talk can not only put us in a bad mood, it can leave us feeling helpless. It can make small problems seem bigger – and even create problems where none existed before. Here’s the breaking news, your self-talk is fucking you over and in ways you can’t even begin to imagine. With

You change your life by doing, not by thinking about doing. In fact, when you become closely associated with the actions you are taking, something magical starts to become apparent. Thoughts without actions are just that, thoughts, and your negative thoughts about yourself, others, or your circumstances will have no impact on your success as long as you leave them where they lie.

That little mess can influence all areas of your life until your emotions surrounding that one area become the lens through which you see everything. You end up thinking... “Life is too hard” “I’ll never make it through this” “Everyone’s a jerk” “I’m done with this s***

On some occasions you have to realize that the game has changed (sometimes dramatically so) and you need to pivot. Deal with your reality.

Here’s the coaching—CUT IT OUT! Let go of those expectations NOW!

the language you use to describe your circumstances determines how you see, experience, and participate in them and dramatically affects how you deal with your life and confront problems both big and small.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” - Aristotle

The gap between how life is and how we think life is, is often the black hole in which we fruitlessly labor.

Stop doing all that shit you know you shouldn’t be doing and start doing all the shit you know you should be doing.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

If we can’t even be certain about what we “know” today, how can we know what will happen tomorrow?

Go ahead, say it, embrace it: “I embrace the uncertainty.

You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” - Carl Jung

It’s not the sucky life you seemingly have but your dialogue about your life that has you by the throat, and the vast majority of that dialogue is blissfully unnoticed and therefore unexplored by you. It’s running in the background.

Our minds would love to predict and plan for everything that’s going to happen. But it’s simply not possible. And these expectations not only have a negative effect on our emotional state, they actually leave us less powerful than we really could be.

That’s your personal assertion: “I embrace the uncertainty.” Meet it head on. Cherish it. Enjoy it.

Relentlessness doesn’t mean charging into the fray headfirst, swinging and flailing your arms every which way. It’s focused, determined action. Again and again and again.

The impossible only becomes possible in the moment you believe it is.

the harmony between thought and reality can be found in the grammar of the language.

One of the first mistakes we make is when we talk about what we are going to do or who we will be. Don’t even get me started on “should,” or “try!

When you have set out the goals that you are claiming is yours in life and, more importantly, relentlessly taking the actions to produce, it’s only a matter of when. We are wired to win. You are wired to win. Define your game. Embrace the challenge. And strive to understand yourself in deeper and more meaningful ways. True understanding of yourself and your personal constraints allows for ever unfolding degrees of freedom and success. The more aware you become of your hard wiring, the more space and opportunity become available in those areas. Step out there. Trust yourself. Give yourself fully to your vast capacity for victory. Set the the challenge of winning in new and exciting ways. Demand your greatness of yourself and repeat after me: I am wired to win.

Uncertainty is where things happen. Uncertainty is your personal pathway to opportunity. It's the environment in which you grow, experience new things and produce new, unprecedented results. Uncertainty is where new happens.

On the other hand, the person who views success as if it were just around the corner will not only work his butt off to achieve it but be energized and alive to it and all the while acting on that fundamental view of success.

if you want to win, you have to be willing to be judged by others and not let it get to you. If you want to do something truly great, you’ll have to accept that some people are going to think you’re delusional or an idiot or self-righteous.

make the time to take your time.

If you’re sometimes talking about how “unfair” life is, you’ll start to act according to that view,

You’re never going achieve your true potential if you’re hooked by what other people think.

There’s nothing quite so damaging as the human desire to be right.

A big part of living the life you want is taking ownership of your choices, now and in the future.

We are all building things only to burn them right back down. And we’re tired of it.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” —Viktor Frankl

When the responsibility for the quality of your life lies with anyone but you, you become the victim.

When you think about it, that’s basically what most of us do. We want to be driven. We think a more productive mood will chauffeur us through life, a confident mood will make things easier or more doable. But if you want to get to where you’re going, you’ll have to take the wheel.

When you make a plan, what do you have to gain from being welded to the expectations inherent in it? Nothing. When you are free from its expectations you are “in a dance” with life where you can simply execute the plan, and deal with what happens. If it succeeds, you can celebrate. If it fails, you can re-calibrate. Don’t expect victory or defeat. Plan for victory, learn from defeat.

If you’re not willing to take the actions to change your situation—in other words, if you’re willing to put up with your situation—then whether you like it or not, that is the life you have chosen.

You’ll get to experience the spine-tingling rush that comes when you first kiss someone you’re really attracted to. Or the connection, satisfaction, and peace of growing old with the person you love.

the language you use to describe your circumstances determines how you see, experience and participate in them and dramatically affects how you deal with your life and confront problems both big and small.

You’re never going achieve your true potential if you’re hooked by what other people think. In fact, you could change your life overnight if you simply abandoned the notion that other people’s opinions matter.

Create the reality you want to live in by beginning the process of having the kind of conversations (with yourself and others) that actually shape that reality. A simple way that I reframe my own everyday “problems” is by relating to them as opportunities. They instantly become items in my life that I use to educate and expand myself. I become curious and engaged with them rather than my usual default annoyed and frustrated self!

Don’t know what to do or where to start? Good, that’s your first action. Find out, understand. Trawl the internet, read books, ask questions, take courses, seek advice, do whatever you need to do to unfuck yourself and get into your life.

Often the reason you can’t see the solution is because you’re too close to the problem. Zoom out a little, zoom out a LOT and look at the big picture. This is a phenomenon similar to what psychologists call “cognitive restructuring”—shifting the way in which your problems are presenting themselves in your life.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

We are wired to win—we just have to point ourselves in the right direction so we can win at something we consciously choose.

Uncertainty is where new happens.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

There’s a reason why so few make it out of the trap of their own mind. The trap all too often seems to be just fine from day to day.

Your past dominates your potential. You don’t live a life of “anything is possible”; you live a life of “some things are possible, given my past.

We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.” - Aristotle

Tot ceea ce stiu ", spunea candva Socrate, e ca nu stiu nimic.

If you spend your life wanting to be happy, by its very nature you’re constantly starting from a place of unhappy.

if you’re willing to put up with your situation—then whether you like it or not, that is the life you have chosen.

the person who views success as if it were just around the corner will not only work his butt off to achieve it but be energized and alive to it and all the while acting on that fundamental view of success.

People are little more than a living conversation, both internal and spoken. A dialogue in a body. A skin-and-bone bag that talks, and it talks about everything, and the limit of that talk is the limit of that life. Period.

When you start to view the world through the lens of what you’re willing and unwilling to pursue, rather than what it seems you want and don’t want, things start to become a lot clearer ! (Ask whether you're willing to do this?)

Anyone who’s ever gone to the gym knows that the results aren’t immediate. You don’t spend thirty minutes on the treadmill and look like a new person. But that doesn’t mean what you’re doing isn’t working. You’re making progress. With each exercise, each step, each movement, each action, you get a little better, a little closer. Until one day you look in the mirror and think, “Wow!” It’s the same thing with your business or your health, or your career or your relationships. Even when you don’t see anything happening, it is. Even when you’re not quite hitting the mark, you’re making progress. Until one day you look at your bank balance or your new job or your children or your new house and think, “Wow!” That’s why you have to keep going. Relentlessly.

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant. Either you control your destiny, or your destiny will control you. Life won't pause for your pauses and procrastinations. It won't stop for your confusions and fear. It will continue right along without you.

Perspective check: you currently exist on a planet inhabited by millions of species of animals, draped in oceans and mountains with gushing volcanoes and waterfalls and creeping deserts; spinning in an endless universe, with stars and suns and solar systems that stretch wildly beyond anything your limited little imagination can muster—and yet you’re fucked up because your job sucks or you are carrying more weight than you want or your nose is bigger than your friend’s or your phone is three models older than everyone else’s.

The next time you’re feeling or experiencing any sort of negative or diminishing thought that disempowers you, move on immediately. Act independently of that thought. More specifically, act in a way that’s in your best interests rather than in a way that is dominated by how you automatically think and feel.

When you expect nothing, you’re living in the moment. You’re not worrying about the future or rejecting the past. You’re simply embracing your situation as it comes. When you accept everything, that doesn’t mean you are okay with it or that you agree with it, but simply that you are owning it and in charge of it.

You don’t ask for that raise because you fear you might not get it. You don’t ask that person out because you’re afraid they’ll say no. You don’t start a business or write that book or apply to that college or even go to the gym because . . . what’s the fucking point, right? I mean, you’ll only fail again, won’t you?

Not all mountaineers make the summit; sometimes they turn back, retool, keep coming at it. They’re just never satisfied with standing at the bottom, hanging out with all the other nonclimbers and explaining their lack of ascent. No, they packed up their tent and moved forward, and they will pass from this world knowing they gave every ounce of their effort. That they played full out. They loved the climb.

When you stick to what you’re comfortable with, doing the same things you’ve always done, you’re in effect living in the past—not moving forward. You’re repeating things and behaviors that at one time in your life were risky since you didn’t know what they would lead to, but have since turned into routine. Think about it: How can you go to new places if you never leave the house? How can you make friends and start romances without meeting new people? How can you do anything new by doing what you’ve always done?

Look at your own, “dark spots”, the parts of your life where you are most ineffective, where it seems like you have lost or are currently losing. You see, our thoughts are so powerful that they are constantly pushing you toward your goals, even when you don’t realize what those goals actually are! Your brain is wired to win..! You’re always winning because your brain is wired to. The trouble comes when what you really want—on a subconscious level—and what you say you want are different, sometimes radically so..

Wittgenstein a spus că " armonia dintre gândire și realitate se reflecta în gramatica limbajului

De fiecare dată când adaugi " dar " la finalul unei afirmații, intri în rolul victimei.

Înțelept cel care nu tânjește după lucrurile pe care nu le are, ci se bucură de cele pe care le are. - Epictet

Odaă[ ce încadrezi obstacolele din viața ta în categoriile " vreau " și " nu vreau " -în loc să te demoralizezi singur cu opinii negative despre tine și circumstanțele vieții tale, poți rupe barierele auto-impuse care te țin pe loc, Începi să vezi dincolo de distragerile auto-discursului și ale dramatizărilor.

E una dintre ciudățeniile stărilor proaste - de multe ori ne păcălim singuri și ne provocăm nefericire spunându-ne lucruri care pur și simplu nu pot fi adevărate. - David D. Burns

Fiecare pas în necunoscut era un dans cu moartea

îți poți schimba viața peste noapte dacă pur și simplu abandonezi ideea că opinia celorlalți contează.

acționează în propriul interes, nu așa cum îți impun gândurile și emoțiile automate.

cele mai importante reușite ale noastre se nasc din disconfort, incertitudine și risc