How big are you?

Got a big challenge?  A big problem?  

Decide you can handle it.  Decide that you will overcome it.  Decide that you are smart enough, tough enough, and committed enough to handle it.  Decide you will not suffer over it.

That major factor as to whether you can handle it and how much suffering it will cause, are the decisions you make about the challenge, and more importantly, the decisions you make about YOU.

Where does serotonin come from?

The natural happiness drug serotonin – where does it come from?  

Research shows 90% of it comes from our gut.  There is a huge amount of neurons in your gut and information is passed up to the brain through the vegas nerve.

Eating better may make a bigger difference in your happiness than any anti-depressant drug for your brain.

What are you eating for your next meal?

"Amora Fati"

Love your fate.

Often we suffer because we don’t accept what happens and we argue with reality. 

What if we act as if we had chosen everything that happens to us?

Learn how to learn

People who know how to get information, learn new things, and develop their value by increasing their knowledge will have a clear advantage over those that don’t.  

Today, unlike 100 years ago, we have easy access to information- an abundance of it.  So it’s not the haves and the have-nots, it’s the wills and the will-nots…

“Tomorrow’s illiterate will not be the man who can’t read; he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.” – Alvin Toffler

Self-Care

As I am busy tackling big goals, tending to my responsibilities, and living up to my commitments to others, I have to remember to take care of myself.

This means working out and eating right, but there is more than that.  Getting enough sleep is one very important component of feeling well and keeping a positive attitude.  

Then there is just being kind to yourself.  High performers often sacrifice for their goals and take hits in the name of progress or for others; but this can be exhausting to the mind, body and spirit.  Saying no is ok.  

Take care of yourself.  In the end, it’s the best way for you to take care of others and give your gift to the world.

The distortion of your own ego

Your ego wants to protect you from getting hurt emotionally.  So it makes you do things and see things to protect that from happening.  The problem is it keeps you from facing what you must to get rid of your fears, prejudices, jealousies, and limitations and from being free.

We all have to look through the lens of our own ego.  But turning our attention back toward ourselves to question this filter all our experience passes through and is created from, is far more productive than trying to make the world fit through our ever narrow definition of what makes us happy and why.

Throw your napsack over the wall

Are you 100% committed to your accomplishing a big goal?

Throw your napsack, filled with positive belief and action, over the wall of your dreams.

Critical Witness of Reality

If you don’t see things right, you can’t do the right thing about them.

If you are only seeing things from your point of view, or how your fearful ego sees them, or through any other distortion, you are likely overlooking elements of the situation and hurting your ability to understand it or make it better.

Move outside your interests, and be a critical witness of reality, including your own faults and shortcomings.

Overcoming adversity makes us stronger

“Any adversity overcome is a self-doubt removed and an important advance in self-esteem”. -Dr. Mardy Groethe

Knowing that you can overcome problems and challenges of the body, mind and heart makes you more confident and stronger the next time you face down something like it again.

You did it before, you can do it, and even more, again.

Forward…

Good checks evil

“For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing”. – Simon Wiesenthal

Are you good?  

Is fighting evil, then, your obligation?