Confidence leads to more success

Confidence is earned, developed, and grown.

Confidence is an established belief in you about your own abilities based on prior results.

When you prepare and practice, you know you can do it; so when it’s game time, show time, risk time, real time, or time to do it in front of others, you are confident.

Step into fear – take action – develop skills.

Success begets confidence, and confidence leads to even more success.

Go do the thing – that develops confidence.

Your poison, or your fuel?

In the grand scheme of life, the adversity you have had doesn’t matter – only how you handle it.

How are you handling it?

Do you turn adversity into strength, opportunity, and/or mental toughness?

Is adversity your poison or your fuel?

Good sleep makes life better when you are awake!

Don’t forget sleep.  Do more of it.

Sleep does a body very, very good!

It heals the body and makes the mind sharper.  

Don’t give your sleep time away to screens or anything else.

Sleep enough – it makes life better when you are awake!

How to reduce stress

How to reduce stress –

Do what you have been putting off.

Quit trying to control everything.

Do what you can, give up what you can’t.

Lighten up – stop taking yourself so seriously.

Get more sleep.

Breathe.

Go outside in nature.

This too shall pass.  In 10 years you won’t even remember what you’re stressed out about today.

Who's to blame?

What percentage of the blame for the problems you have is you?

(If you don’t think it’s 100, just go back a little farther.)

How to change your life

This is from my School of Entrepreneurship class called “How to Change your Life”.

How do you do it – you change the variables.

Here they are – 

1) What you learn.

2) The people around you. (Some, probably not all.)

3) Your environment – where you go and where you spend time.

4) How you view the past – what you make it mean and the stories you tell yourself about the world and about people – especially about yourself.

Change those things for the better and your life changes for the better.

Which ones do you need to change?

The easy way to success

Sorry, there is no easy way to success.

Except one.

The easy way is to learn how to live the hard way.

The easy way is to embrace the discomfort and the work – to thrive on it.

The easy way is to learn all the time, try all the time, and give it your best even when you don’t feel like it.

The easy way to succeed is to love the process, no matter how hard it may seem.

One of my favorite podcast episodes

I was chatting with Jayne Kelley from Ion Bank and she was telling me how much she really enjoyed the Forward Obsessed podcast I did.  I loved it too.  See why. Here’s the link –

Podcast – Forward Obsessed – The Art of Never Giving Up – Episode 30

https://www.forwardobsessed.com/episodes/the-art-of-never-giving-up

Bring life to purpose

Finding your purpose is a big deal.  Many feel lost or get a crisis of confusion every so often until they know why they are here.

If you discover what you are really good at and enjoy doing, and use it to make a contribution to others, you are in your sweet spot – where you feel at home. 

Bring purpose to life.

But then bring life to purpose.

Do something with your talent.  Then something more.  Leverage through action and honing your skills where they can have a deeper or wider or higher impact.

Follow your purpose to generate self-esteem and self-worth.

A Productive Daily Routine

We all have our routines.  If you have small children, your routine is wrapped all around them.  But for most of your life your routine is your choice.  

Maybe your routine is good and healthy, but if you are reading this, it’s likely you want to get even better.

Your routine, repeated over and over again, leads to your health, your achievements, and your results.  

From what time you go to bed on average, to your grooming and how you dress, what you watch and listen to, what you eat, and what you do – it all accumulates.

Changing this routine can feel strange, uncomfortable or even like deprivation for a while.  But if you lead change by changing your mind first and can come to WANT something different enough to stick with it long enough to make it your NEW comfortable routine.  Then you can begin to accumulate new results.

What is your daily routine?

What has that routine done for you?