You’re the casting director of your story

You get to say who is part of your story and how much.

Keep quality people around you. 

Stay around people who are a plus sign, and get away from people who are a minus sign.

You own the film rights

You own the publishing rights and the film rights to your autobiography.

It is an amazing and unprecedented time to be alive, with such choice and freedom.  And we don’t have the big problems, and have to spend every waking minute just trying to survive like our ancestors did.

Your life is yours.  Wow!

What happens next?

Grit and perseverance

If you line up with a bunch of people in a race or trek or journey, and many of the others decide not to start, and some others quit 1/3 the way in, and others quit 1/2 way there, and others decide to quit to go run a different race without finishing this one, you will win.

You weren’t the fastest, or the smartest – you just didn’t quit.

You kept going – farther, and getting better, and learning more about the journey you were on.

In a short-attention span world, grit is more important than ever.

 

Wisdom is knowledge of things that don’t change

We all think we know a lot. Some things we swear are true.

When I look back I see that there are things I thought were true that I believed in, but they changed.  They didn’t stand the test of time.  They conflicted with things that were more important than I just wasn’t concerned about at the time.

I hold onto my convictions looser today, looking out for the things that never change to eclipse them.

If you need a change, change your habits

Your life is what your habits have produced.

Your schedule, where you go, who you hang out with, what you eat and drink, what you watch/listen to/and read.

Stop doing what has produced the result you want to change, and start doing what takes you closer/produces the result you want instead.

Habits dear friend.   Habits.