Cry forward

“You can whine and cry, just cry while you’re still running forward.” – Robin Benincasa, adventure racer.

When it sucks, you can say so – but just don’t stop making progress.

Winning is forward!

Don’t look back.

Eyes on the prize!

Commitment starts when the fun stops

Anyone can say they are committed when it’s easy and fun.  But when it starts to hurt, suck, rain, get hot/cold/dark, and the non-believers start hitting you with sarcasm and doubt…well, that’s when you find out if you really want this, and how bad.

What do you say you want – and how bad do you want it?

Unlimiting the definition of who you are.

To make a real change in your life, you have to see yourself as a different person. 

While you thinking of yourself the way you are now makes you a good version of you, it also limits you from moving forward into being even better.

Make a new definition in your mind first, and repeat it very often until you believe it.  Then, you’ll step into your beliefs easily.

“She became a different person.  She wasn’t afraid of it anymore.  She did what she always really wanted but never thought it was her.  She became comfortable and even powerful in an area she was once weak.  She became bigger, taller, and energized by her new life.

Then..she opened her eyes…and did it.” – LJ

Are you a manufactured product, or free?

Do you primarily pay attention to information and messages coming inward and think and react accordingly?

Or do you set your attention on what you chose that supports you living to your potential, ignoring most of what is trying to get to you?

When ashes fall, legends rise.

When a catastrophe happens in your life, there is real hurt and pain. But it’s what you do with it that matters in the long term.

When something happens “TO” you, you can either be disabled by it – OR – you can look at what it does ‘FOR’ you, and you can LEARN FROM IT. It’s a choice you have to make.

You may not see it at first, and perhaps no explanation can come soon about what good could come of it. But if you work at it, you can USE what happened for good – for you and others. I can speak for the traumatic events that have happened in my life – they were doorways to something different and better.

What’s the worst thing that has ever happened to you? Can you see what it has done FOR you?

You decide if you can.

“Why does one assess the world with twice the gravity, and another thinks she can fly?” This is a line from my track, “The Beholder.” I shared it last Friday. 

It’s attitude. If you think you can’t, you most definitely will not.

If you think you can, you likely will.  

What do you think about your next important step?

What's most important to you?

If someone was watching you on a hidden camera, what would they say is most important to you?

Your schedule has to match your priorities

If something is important to you, shouldn’t you spend your time on it? 

Spending time thinking about what is MOST important (a continual reevaluation) is the first step.

Then, spend your time on what is most important. 

If something is to be left undone, let it be the less important things.

So, what is most important now? 

The Science of Fear

I’ve been reading this book called the Science of Fear.

In it, the author reveals the approach that advertisers and politicians use to get us to take action.  They create a problem/crisis/fear and say they will save you from it.

In a world where people are safer and healthier than ever, they have to create a problem, distort statistics, exaggerate, edit the data and scare you into thinking that life without them will be horrible.  They of course, are the answer.

This means when you expose yourself to their messages, you are being bombed with the idea that the world is not good and you are at risk.

Can you see that is happening wholesale today?