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41 " Eating the right foods provides energy for your workout and improves the quality of your sleep. In turn, a sound night of sleep makes you more likely to eat right the next day. This is why the real magic lies at the intersection between eating, moving, and sleeping. If you can do all three well, it will improve your daily energy and your odds of living a long, healthy life. "
― Tom Rath , Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes
42 " A mere 20 minutes of moderate activity could significantly improve your mood for the next 12 hours. "
43 " When we can see an immediate payoff, we are more likely to change our behavior in the moment. This aligns our daily actions with our long-term interests. "
― Tom Rath , Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements
44 " At its fundamentally flawed core, the aim of almost any learning program is to help us become who we are not. "
― Tom Rath , Strengths Finder 2.0
45 " If you focus on people’s weaknesses, they lose confidence. "
― Tom Rath , Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow: A Landmark Study of Great Leaders, Teams, and the Reasons Why We Follow
46 " Across the board, having the opportunity to develop our strengths is more important to our success than our role, our title, or even our pay. "
― Tom Rath
47 " Working toward a shared mission with other people will add a positive charge to each day. "
― Tom Rath , Are You Fully Charged?: The 3 Keys to Energizing Your Work and Life
48 " There is nothing wrong with working on important individual milestones as long as you understand that they may not be the memories you treasure 25 years from now. "
49 " Think back to when you were a student. Someone likely told you to get a good night’s sleep and to eat a healthy breakfast before a test or final exam. The theory is, you need to be fresh to perform well. However, while getting sound sleep the night before a test is a good idea, it is too late to help you on the test. The real benefit comes from getting good sleep as you learn throughout the year, so the information can be encoded in your memory each night. If you file everything away properly as you go along, this knowledge will be there for you when you need it most. "
50 " The pursuit of meaning — not happiness — is what makes life worthwhile. "
51 " We were tired of living in a world that revolved around fixing our weaknesses. Society’s relentless focus on people’s shortcomings had turned into a global obsession. What’s more, we had discovered that people have several times more potential for growth when they invest energy in developing their strengths instead of correcting their deficiencies. "
52 " And it is likely that Rudy had teammates for whom the inverse was true—they were a 5 on talent and just a 2 on time invested, which is clearly a waste of talent. "
53 " Fight the Light at Night Keep artificial light before bedtime from ruining your sleep. Exposure to light in the hours before you go to sleep suppresses melatonin levels. Lower melatonin levels make it hard to fall asleep, decrease sleep quality, and could even increase the risk of high blood pressure and diabetes. "
54 " You cannot be anything you want to be—but you can be a lot more of who you already are. "
55 " Once your brain initially processes something, you are less likely to retain the information if you are not physically active in the period following this learning. If you learn then move, you will have more effective recall when you need it most. "
56 " Or as billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson said far more colorfully in an interview: “I don’t know why the tie was ever invented … now everyone looks the same and dresses the same. I often have a pair of scissors in my top pocket to go cutting people’s ties off. I do think that ties most likely are still inflicted on people because the bosses, they had to wear it for 40 years and when they get into positions of responsibility they’re damned if they’re going to not have the next generation suffer. "
57 " One challenge is that our ability to progress in our career is often determined by our effectiveness in responding to near-term needs. When high value is placed on solving these kinds of problems, it creates a culture in which leaders spend little or no time thinking about what could be done because they receive more accolades for simply doing what needs to be done. "
58 " In Finland, for every 45 minutes in the classroom, students are given a 15-minute break. "
59 " If I care about the people I work with, why tempt them to make a lousy choice? So I dumped the entire bucket of sweets into a garbage can in my office. Many foods are better off in the trash than in your stomach. The next time you receive unhealthy food as a gift, subtly dispose of it later. When you get a free dessert or candy with a meal, leave it behind. If the item is clearly bad for your health, don’t feel guilty. You are not wasting food. You may be saving lives. "
60 " If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything. While our society encourages us to be well-rounded, this approach inadvertently breeds mediocrity. Perhaps the greatest misconception of all is that of the well-rounded leader. "