Get Enough Sleep

Would you rather wake up early and get to work sleep-deprived and tough it out for 11 hours, OR get more sleep and work 9 hours?  Which do you think would be more productive and have you producing better results?

When you don’t get enough sleep you lose patience, compassion, gentleness, kindness, focus on details, ambition and aspiration.

If you can’t sleep later, go to bed earlier – but you must shut off all screens one hour before.

Get enough sleep.

Imagination Beats Reality

There’s no bogeyman.  But if you think there is, you will behave that way.

A mission is labeled very difficult by most, but you believe you can do and love the challenge – and you prevail.

You think today will be hard.  It is.

You think today is a great day.  It is.

You think something is impossible.  It is for you, while others are doing it.

Things are or are not, because thinking makes it so.

What are you imagining and believing?

Everybody is focused – but on what?

A big part of being successful is being focused.  “But I’m not very focused,” you say?

Most everybody, whether they are doing well or not, is focused on something.

A guy may not doing well in some areas, but he’s really great at playing video games – because he focuses on it.

A 16-year-old boy may be failing math because he is really focused on his first car, and spends all his free time with it, working on it, or thinking about it.

We’re all focused, but some are focused on things that don’t produce very good results over the short or long term, and some are.

What are you focused on?

What you want more than the truth

We would rather be right than be corrected with the truth.

Whatever we learn first and accept as the truth, we will defend in the face of any other idea.

Beliefs about ourselves, how the world is, what is possible for us, how other people are…all of it.

Funny, huh?

We’d rather be right, than get it right.

Hold your beliefs loosely, and stay open to new ideas.

Nature uses capital punishment

Take care of yourself.

Eat right, sleep enough and exercise 4x a week.

Left to yourself, you get stuck.

You can’t rely on what you already know for long.

Tune in to voices of value.

What are you learning today?

We are all essential workers

To make a country/world of XXXX millions of people work and have all enjoy a high standard of living, we all need to row the boat.

As we have seen with supply chain problems, and even getting a table at a restaurant or getting our car washed, we need all of us.

Look at any one product around you and we can trace it being there to the collective effort of thousands of hands and minds or more.

We all rely on each other. 

We need you.

What you do = what you get

There is an undeniable connection between what you do and what you get.

Actions determine outcomes.  

Outcomes inform actions.  (If I want X, I have to do Y).

Do you know clearly what you want?

What do you have to do to get what you want?

If it feels a little scary…

Being purposeful means doing things that do not feel natural.

If you are to break new ground in your life, then you have to do things that don’t feel exactly comfortable, because you have not done them before. 

Merry Christmas everybody!

Merry Christmas to all.  May the spirit of the season bring you peace and love.

Reach out to someone you haven’t talked to in a long time, and tell them you love them, offer forgiveness (silently or audibly to lighten your load), or just listen or tell a nice story.

May there be warm light in your home.