Julia Dhar

And I'm going to look for opportunities to practice them.

I'm going to look for opportunities to demonstrate that that's consistent with how I would like to see myself.

So when we fail, which all of us will, declaring a fresh start and then reminding ourselves what expectations we have of ourselves.

makes us much more likely to be successful the next time.

And I think people think that it's jinxing it or it's a self-fulfilling prophecy, but it's like, well, wouldn't you rather the prophecy then actually was able to get back on track?

Like then it just be completely derailed by not having an if-then plan.

Yeah, it's almost refusing to think about it is itself kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

And it's exactly, you can have a prophecy or you can have a plan, but you can't have both of those.

And what we know for sure is that the plan path succeeds much more often than the prophecy path.

Oh my God, I love that.

That's an amazing quote.

That is so good.

Put it on a t-shirt.

I know, I'm like, much?

Is somebody coming after me?

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