Fake it till you become it

In November, I will once again enter the longest non-stop cross country motorcycle race in the world with my son, Tanner – the Baja 1000 in Mexico. As you may know from our movie on YouTube “Into the Dust”, we were a two man team in 2015 and had a great race. Last year we both entered the Ironman Class where you do the whole course on your own. No teammates, just you and your dirt bike and the desert.

In all the years this class has existed, only about 15 people have ever finished this race – ever. If I had finished last year, I’d have become the oldest of them. This year I am trying again. But they have made the course 50% farther than last year – 1260 miles with a 48 hour time limit. To make matters more difficult, they have made it a midnight start; so you can’t get a good night’s sleep before the race.

What self-talk do I have about this? Whatever it is, it matters. We bring about what we think about.

So I put a post-it note on my bathroom mirror “Baja 1000 Ironman Finisher.” That little note has done wonders for me. I see it at the beginning and end of each day. I see myself conquering this course and crossing the finish line.

We need to put foreign thoughts in – ones we wouldn’t usually have. Thoughts that our current selves find hard to believe at first. Ones that represent what we want to be or have happen, not what is happening now. We need to chant, rehearse, repeat and immerse ourselves in these thoughts until we come to believe in them.

The mind cannot tell the difference between an idea that is real and one that is vividly imagined. We have the power to do this, so we have the power to change who we are. 

Fake it until you become it.

The best advice I gave last week

Someone I care about was having some trouble with someone else.  

I told them “conflict cannot continue without your participation.”

It’s something I learned from Wayne Dyer.  When we just give up our attachment or the meaning we assigned – or when we accept (which is not the same as agreeing), we can release ourselves.  

It takes two to disagree.

Stop talking about it

When something bad happens to us, often many of us will tell others all about it – over and over again until everyone knows.  But when we tell the story we are just re-stimulating the negative emotions and the sentiment “this should not be happening to me.”

Sure, sometimes we need to talk things out with someone we trust, but mostly we should let the negativity go and stop bringing it back up for ourselves.

Accept it. Learn from it. Let it go. 

No regrets

The sands of our hour glass are slipping away.  We are blessed to be here in the first place.  But when it’s all over, will we look back and say that there was something we wanted to do, or something inside of us that wanted to come out, but we just never got a chance?  

Well, the end isn’t here yet, and we do have the chance. We’re standing in it. What we need is clarity and courage.

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Defying Gravity

Today, I depart from convention.

The Broadway play Wicked, tells the untold back story of the Wizard of Oz. It has Glinda, the good witch, and Elphaba, the different (green) witch, as unlikely friends. The good witch conforms to popular society, and the “Wicked” witch tries mightily. After realizing she is different and will never “fit in,” Elphaba finally decides to leave them behind to be who she truly is.

So, for Think Daily today, download this specific version of this song – “Defying Gravity” by Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel.

It’s all the inspiration you’ll need today.

Predict your future

Expectations and beliefs for how things will be for us, what we will go after, and what kind of life we want to lead, are more important than circumstances.

Predict yourself into existence.

It works when you believe your predictions.

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Familiarity

When we are around something long enough, we begin to take it for granted. That’s not so good.

If the thing we become familiar with is a bad thing, we tend to think we are stuck with it or accept it.

If the thing we become familiar with is good, we lose our gratitude and appreciation for it.

That’s why it’s good for us to get out and experience new things, places and people. Then we can see how our own life is and decide to make changes, or come to appreciate what we have already.

Learning to be a good human

We weren’t born with an instruction manual. We are emotional creatures and we have dark and light in us. We must learn how to minimize and tame the dark and bring out and expand the light.

Jealousy, envy, hate and fear were necessary 5,000 years ago when resources were scarce and daily survival was priority number one. But we have changed our world to one where those emotions are not nearly as useful as they were to our distant ancestors.

We will mess up; it’s part of learning. But we should get back on track and be a better human right away.

Strive for the light.

You're controllable

We can’t always control our feeling and emotions.  But we can control our behavior.

We can take action, despite our feelings.  And we find that when we take action, our feelings and emotions change.

By exerting control over our actions, we can build a life we are proud of.

How lucky are you?

What are you grateful for?  Who has helped you?  What circumstances were fought for and put in place before you ever came here so you can live this way?  What about your body and health?  

Sitting down and filling up a journal page about what we are grateful for, or just calling out a few things you don’t normally each day, are a great way to keep those things, and attract more of what you want.

What are you grateful for?