Rory Vaden Quotes

Success is not owned, it is rented - and that rent is due everyday.

Success comes down to choosing the hard right over the easy wrong. Consistently.

Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it.

You are much more likely to act your way into healthy thinking than to think your way into healthy acting.

It’s okay to be scared—do it scared. It’s okay to be unsure—do it unsure. It’s okay to be uncomfortable—do it uncomfortable. Just get started where you are. That is the attitude of the most disciplined and successful people on the planet. You

And the Law of Action says that it does not matter what we say we believe; our real beliefs are revealed by how we act. You

Because there is no such thing as time management; there is only self-management.

Ignore the noise. Conquer the critical. Manage the minutiae.

Distraction is a dangerously deceptive saboteur of our goals.

The number one risk that rich people are willing to take is to be paid for their results rather than or in addition to their time. They choose to take a chance on themselves. They believe in their own self-discipline and their own ability to produce results.

Why do so many of us succumb to fear? Because it’s more convenient and more comfortable for us to let our dreams disappear than to muster up the discipline and the work ethic to go out and transform them into reality.

You were put here on earth to do something that no one else can do. It is yours and yours alone to complete. It requires you to be your highest self and if you don’t do that thing, you are going to inhibit those around you from doing theirs. As a Multiplier, it is your obligation to spend time on things today that create more opportunity for those around you tomorrow. It is to do the things that are right, not only for now, but for the future.

If you’re like most people in the world today, then you have read fewer than five books cover to cover in your lifetime. According to one major American publisher, 95% of all books that are purchased are never completely read.

Action is the cure for fear. I

Your highest obligation to other people is to be your highest self.

Discipline is a perpetual process, and the growth is in the journey. Simple, but here’s the part that you won’t like hearing—you don’t get a day off. Ever.

Which brings us to the Pain Paradox of decision making that states the short-term easy leads to the long-term difficult, while the short-term difficult leads to the long-term easy.

The short-term easy leads to the long-term difficult, while the short-term difficult leads to the long-term easy. —RORY VADEN

It’s not even right to complain or whine to others about how busy you are. You and I have the same amount of time in a day as Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Michael Jordan or anyone else who has achieved greatness.

If there isn’t a defined objective or outcome for the activities you’re engaged in, stop doing them!

workforce, discipline is about focusing on what’s most important, learning to let go of minutiae, and being okay with delaying the less important tasks to an appropriate time

Because in our never-ending search for the next destination, we miss out on one of life’s great truths, which is, just as the legendary philosopher Hannah Montana said, “It’s all about the climb.

Winning is a habit; unfortunately so is losing.” Some people have the habit of victory and success, and although we’d like to believe that these people have a glamorizing mystical power, the truth is much more basic than that: They commit to whatever it is they want to do. If you ask me, that is the more impressive part—that they can commit and exercise self-discipline in just about anything they do. So, you must crush it where you’re at. You must dominate whatever it is that you are doing. You must do everything in your power to reach the top of whatever game it is you are playing.

realize all the things you are doing that are not taking you where you really want to go. It will help you see all the things you are doing that are not helping you create the results you want in your life. Those things will become more and more obvious to you, and once you get to that point, you will most likely have another powerful insight: Until you accomplish your next most Significant priority, everything else is a distraction. That brings us to the critical question you have to always be asking yourself: “Is what I’m doing right now the next most Significant use of my time?” Is it the thing that is moving you toward creating the best results? Is it the thing that is moving you toward making your greatest contribution? Is it the thing that is moving you toward making the impact you want to make?

Part of the process that we’ve used to help us eliminate unnecessary meetings and unnecessary attendance is a rigorous dogma to ‘codify and communicate.’ That means we really limit who are the ‘Need to Be-ers’ that truly must be in the meetings to make the decisions, and then we consistently practice reducing our decisions to concise writing that is then e-mailed out to the ‘Need to Know-ers.’ There may be ninety people who ‘need to know’ but only three people who ‘need to be’ [in the meeting]. So we get the three people in a room, discuss the issues, make a decision and then communicate—in written form—the decisions that were made to all of the people that really need to know. Think how much time that saves to focus on serving our customers! Not to mention the rate at which having fewer people in the room speeds up our decisions. The decision-making process slows down dramatically proportionate to the number of people in the room.

Success is no longer related to the volume of tasks you complete but rather the Significance of them. As Peter Drucker once said, “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” NEED

is never owned; it is only rented—and the rent is due every day.

What to Say When You Talk to Yourself

doing. You must do everything in your power to reach the top of whatever game it is you are playing. Because if you don’t, then you are not a successful person looking for a new challenge to take on; you’re a person with conditional commitment looking for a new set of circumstances, and most likely starting the same self-defeating pattern all over again. Success

A Take the Stairs mind-set can be

It is through the struggle that one develops its strength and independence. And to “help” a bird break out of its shell would be ultimately to cause its death. This

Slinky Principle - You always get paid for how hard you work, but it's not always right away.

Success isn't owned. It's leased. And rent is due every day.

to a Multiplier, success isn’t so much about efficiency or effectiveness; it’s about efficacy.

The scheduling process that Pete stumbled upon is very common among Multipliers and is something that we at Southwestern Consulting refer to as creating a “categorical schedule.” It allows you to feel more in control by blocking a certain amount of time each day or week for types of activities without locking yourself into hard specifics of what might feel “rigid” and “constricting,” as with traditional schedules.