Brendon Burchard Quotes

Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you've started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can't get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

Goal-setting and achieving those goals - that's just what I do.

Clarity of vision is the key to achieving your objectives.

I don't want to get lost in everything. I just want to keep the same work ethic.

I set goals for myself every three months. I write them down.

Cut your excuses in half and double your actions around your goals.

Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they're not critical to their most important goals.

If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.

It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

It's important in any project to remain focused.

I'm big on setting goals, but I also think that if you have too many lofty ambitions and set goals for everything, you can sabotage your efforts by overextending your brain.

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

Five days a week, I read my goals before I go to sleep and when I wake up. There are 10 goals around health, family and business with expiration dates, and I update them every six months.

I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

I think it's really important to keep on staying motivated.

The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.

I'm a terrible procrastinator.

Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.

My block was due to two overlapping factors: laziness and lack of discipline.

Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.

I'm not always as disciplined as I should be. I don't sit down and write every day, but I should.