Don’t believe everything you think.

Your best thinking got you here.

If you knew how to do it better, you would have – right?

But at this point you want to be/do/have something better – right?

You can’t be left to your own thoughts.  You can’t solve a problem with the same thinking that created it.

You’ll have to learn something new from other smart/experienced people.

When you learn something new you see the world differently and believe in new possibilities.

You think new thoughts that drive new action that create new results.

Your brain is hardware that will run any software you put in.

What do you need to learn to go where you want to go?

I know how you will die. It will be trying this –

When you’re a kid you think that you have unlimited time.

You’re not going to live forever.  

But you will die trying.

Unfortunately, we don’t try as hard to live long when we think death is far away.  We value today more than a distant tomorrow.

Take care of your health now.  Eat, sleep, and move well as habits – now.

Next, fully live now while you have the chance.  Tomorrow is not guaranteed.  Don’t waste a day.  

When my time comes, I hope I am very old.  And when it comes, I will say, “I took advantage of my chance.  I lived well.”

Ok.  Now go out and live well today.

Breakup with your habits

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.

A breakthrough demands a radical departure from our habits.

Stop doing what you always did and start doing something new.

Bedtime, coffee, social media, moving your body, gratitude calls daily, who you put around you, where you go each day…

Substitute your old routine for a new routine.

New habits, new you.

What is not serving your major goal?  What would?

What can you change today?

Manage your “seeables”

Your environment makes a big difference to how you feel and think.  

Clutter is probably killing clarity.  Mess is hurting your self-esteem.  Reminders of a difficult past project into today.

Color, light, and quality all matter.

Manage all the things you can see.

Your desk, the rooms in your home, your car, your yard, your office – wherever you spend time.

Be positively influenced through your eyes.

How to get out of a rut

We get stuck in a repeating situation that isn’t working when we use the same pattern of thinking.

All action is preceded by thought, and it’s the thoughts that are the problem.

“You can’t solve a problem with the same thinking that created it.” – Albert Einstein

What old Albert said is pretty fundamental when we have a problem.  We cause most of our own problems.

But our thinking comes from our beliefs and expectations.  They are also influenced by our environment.  And if we want to think anew to get out of a rut, our beliefs and expectations remain.

So how do we change them?  

We get new inputs.  We learn something new.  We talk to people we admire and respect for their advice.  We can read a book or listen to a podcast or watch a video and get other information and opinions.  With new information we can do some new thinking which leads to new action – and we can climb out of the rut.

How do you get out of a rut?  Break your pattern of thinking by learning something new and spending time in new places.

Master your situation to move up.

You will travel the same ground until your understanding of it is complete.

Once you have mastered being you in this situation, then you can move up to a higher level.

If you are struggling in it now, you can’t go higher.

Are you mastering your situation?

Small minds talk about other people

The wisest among us don’t spend their time talking about other people – gossiping, talking about other people stumbling, having trouble or failing.

They know they could waste endless hours trying to bring others down this way to make themselves feel relatively better.

They understand human nature, and the behaviors and trials of other people do not surprise them anyway.

The top people talk about ideas.  Ideas they have learned or are studying.

They talk about ideas to solve problems, get better, and elevate themselves and others.

What do you talk about?

Into the Dust 5

Have you seen this movie on YouTube yet?

“A most inspirational video!” – Gabriel

“Amazing video!” – Martin Warwick

“I have been waiting a very long time for this!”

Into the Dust 5

“I will prepare and my time will come”

You can create your own great opportunities.

Opportunity comes all the time, but it cannot be taken advantage of or even recognized by those who are not ready for them.

Learn.  Train.  Prepare.

Do it as if you know your time will come….and it will.

When new you conflicts with old you.

What holds us back is not so much that being a new you is hard, it just conflicts with old you.

Habits, thought patterns, behaviors, and your self-image – old you is so familiar and you know how to do it so well…

But you can’t be old you and new you at the same time.  

You have to let go of the old you by using self-discipline for a time until it’s easy to accept new you and let go of old you. 

The world is waiting…