Getting out of the fog

Take the next step.  

Then you can see farther.

Go ahead…

A bridge between despair and hope

“The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night’s sleep.” – Matthew Walker

We’ve talked about this before.  When we are angry or sad or hopeless, don’t make any decisions and don’t talk to people and blow up relationships.  Go to bed.  When you wake up it will look different and better.

When your behind on sleep, it causes lots of thinking problems.

Are you sleeping enough and well?

What do you expect for yourself?

When I was a kid I knew I’d do something special/important/big, and I moved toward it every since.

You’ll never outperform your own expectations of yourself.

It’s not too late to change your expectations with some quality thinking.

"The ability to create oneself"

“People often say that this or that person hasn’t yet found themselves. But the self of not something one finds.  It is something one creates.” – Thomas Szasz

Are you creating your life intentionally?

"Under Oath"

With your speech, act as if you are under oath at all times.

Be impeccable with your word.

Your life will not get better until you do.

How are you getting better today?

Are you learning?  How?

Are you trying something new?  What?

Are you spending time with new people who are smarter/better than you?  Who?

Afraid? Worried? Get on it!

“We generate fears while we sit.  We overcome them by action.  Fear is nature’s way of warning us to get busy.” – Dr. Henry Link

What are you afraid of now? 

Get to work and stop being vulnerable to it.

Plans are great, until they don't work anymore

“Everybody has a plan, until they get in the ring and get punched in the face” – Mike Tyson

New information, new decisions.  When it doesn’t go like you had hoped, you better be courageous, flexible, and persistent.

Stay true to the fundamental goal, not the plan. 

The Master in the Art of Living

“The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion.  He hardly knows which is which.  He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing.  To him, he’s always doing both.” – James Michener

Pro Choice

When you don’t have any money, you don’t have any choices.

So one of the things we have to be good at is creating value that others want and getting paid for it.

How are you doing on that?