Each moment is a choice.

Everything you say yes to, you say no to something else.

Some things are valuable and/or fulfilling, and many things aren’t. 

It’s your choice.

What will you say yes to today?

How do you see yourself?

You will never outperform your own expectations of yourself.

How do you see yourself?

Is it time to elevate that?

How YOU got to be YOU

This is how you got to be you.

You were born with certain onboard attributes.  That you had no control over.  THEN –

It’s what you learned +

The environment(s) you were in +

The people around you +

The decisions you made +

What happened to you +

The story you tell yourself about what happened (which is ongoing).

This all adds up to your current –

Beliefs and Expectations, which shape

Your Thinking, which causes

Your Actions, which determine

Your Results.

That’s how you became you.

If we want to get better results, we need to change the inputs.  You can change –

1) What you Learn

2) Your Environment

3) The people around you.

4) The story we tell ourselves.

What inputs can you improve to get better?

The Beholder

I hadn’t listen to this track in a while.  I played it today.  

Sometimes you are in a place to hear it and it hits home and influences you.

Check it out – The Beholder.

And get the whole album, Blueprint, on iTunes.  

Learn.  Enjoy.  Repeat.

Inner Winners

Some people win some things sometimes.

But a higher form of winning is to become one inside – where winning is not something they do sometimes, but who they are inside and outside.

They know how to do well, how to stay out of trouble, how to stay clear of negative drama, and how to make things work well around them no matter the circumstances they found in the beginning. 

They win the long game because of who they have become.

In the end, it’s not what you get, but who you become.

Have you BECOME a winner?

Keep working on you.

Develop good character, and make you proud.

“A wolf does not lose sleep over the opinions of lesser species.”

The average adult spends 3 hours a day on non-work screen time.  In that time you will invariably come across opinions and armchair critics.  Most people, with their desire to be liked (me included) will be affected by these wildly varying often baseless ideas.

People are mostly concerned with themselves and how they look compared to others.  Most critics don’t care about you, and after levying their criticism, move on and never think of you again.

Being your own Rock, is a good idea.  Develop good character, and let it be your measuring stick.

Make you proud.

Self-Disclipine

Self-discipline – the ability to do it when you don’t want to do it.  

If you know what to do, but don’t, you’ll start making excuses and blaming, and even deceiving yourself.

If you wait for motivation to strike, you’ll be waiting most of the time.

Winners do the small things, the habitual things, and yes, the big things, even when they don’t want to do it.

And when you do the right things over and over, you develop habits.  Habits allow you to do those things with less thought – so they become easier and even automatic the more you do them.

But it starts with self-discipline.

Discipline = Freedom

No discipline –  no control – and ultimately less or no freedom.

If I exercise self-discipline I can be free of others’ attempts to discipline me.

If I discipline myself with my diet, health, and fitness, I can be free of medications and limitations.

If I discipline myself now, I can be free later in life too.

I discipline myself so someone else doesn’t have to.

Sometimes you walk alone.

It is much better to walk alone in the right direction than to follow the herd in the wrong direction.

You’ll need the knowledge, character, and discernment to know which direction is right, and the courage to make the right choice.

Man in Motion

Have a clear goal – one that you have thought about all the reasons you want.  Write it and these reasons down.

See yourself doing it and accomplishing it.  Know all the hard work it will take and commit to paying the price ahead of time.  See yourself embracing this work – and loving it.

Got it clearly?

Now move on it.