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\u201cIf you manage yourself, you\u2019ll see the greatest results.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

Regardless of what we do, the most difficult person to manage is often ourselves. While we\u2019re eager to achieve success, we often lean on excuses and passivity instead of putting in the work and making the right choices to reach our goals. In this episode, Brian Buffini shares his tips for managing the world\u2019s most difficult person. You\u2019ll learn why success boils down to the choices we make, how to identify and leverage your strengths and why reverse scheduling might just help you get more done each day. Plus, he lists three books that are sure to help you put his tips into action.

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Inspirational quotes from today\u2019s interview:\xa0

\u201cSuccess is a choice.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cPeople are looking to change their circumstances, but not themselves.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cAll permanent and lasting change starts on the inside and works its way outside.\u201d \u2014 Lou Tice

\u201cHabits and routines are the secret elixir of the most successful people in the world.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cIf success is a choice, any area where we\u2019re not having success is also a choice.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cI chose to be overweight because I never ate anything by accident.\u201d \u2014 Zig Ziglar

\u201cIf you do what is easy, your life will be hard; but if you do what is hard, your life will be easy.\u201d \u2014 Les Brown

\u201cI need to manage myself.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cIf you want to have the good life, manage yourself.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cThe most honorable thing to do is face up to the strength potential inherent in your talents and then go find ways to realize it.\u201d \u2014 Donald Clifton

Play to your strengths. \u201cIn this world, you get compensated very well when you do what you do real well.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cWhen I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say I used everything you gave me.\u201d \u2014 Erma Bombeck

\u201cIdentify and acknowledge your weaknesses.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cThe idea that there are well-rounded people, people who have only strengths and no weaknesses, is a prescription for mediocrity if not for incompetence\u2026 Strong people always have strong weaknesses, too\u2026where there are peaks there are valleys\u201d \u2014 Peter Drucker

\u201cThe best leader is the one who has the sense enough to pick good people to do what needs to be done and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.\u201d \u2014 Theodore Roosevelt

\u201cDiscipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.\u201d \u2014 Jim Rohn

\u201cIf you make the fewest amount of decisions, you make it automatic.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

\u201cMotivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.\u201d \u2014 Jim Rohn

\u201cPut difficult things at the top of your list because doing difficult things is kind of like eating a frog. The longer you look at it, it ain\u2019t gonna get any prettier.\u201d \u2014 Zig Ziglar

\u201cThe more successful you become, the less you\u2019ll get done each day.\u201d \u2014 Brian Buffini

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Books mentioned in the episode:

Now Discover Your Strengths\xa0by Donald Clifton and Marcus Buckingham The Power of Full Engagement\xa0by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz The Power of Habit\xa0by Charles Duhigg

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