All you have to do is decide

When you make up your mind to do something no matter what, the whole world becomes available for your success.

When you make a firm decision, the people, resources and things you need show up.

In fact, they were always there, worthless, until you committed.

Once you resolve to do a thing, you become awake to what you need.

The truth is, the world is waiting on you – to decide.

Your worst days

We all want to have great days.  The more the better.

But how do you do on your worst days?

Maybe you didn’t get enough sleep.  Maybe there was an argument early in the day.  Maybe you got some bad news.  Maybe you are sick.

On your worst days, maybe you can’t take three steps forward.  Maybe you can only take one.  Or maybe none.

But the last thing you want to do is go backward and chew up hard-won progress.

You don’t want to give people an attitude they will remember, or say or do things you will regret.

Have some great days, some good days, and some good bad days.

Even on a bad day, it counts.

Karma is real

The world is your reflection.

A happy person lives in a happy world.

A violent person lives in a violent world.

A caring person lives in a caring world.

What comes around, goes around.

When you change, everything will change for you.

For what it makes of YOU.

Peter Diamandis has a blog called Metatrends.  He is on the cutting edge of AI.

He has an AI assistant that he named “Skippy,” with whom he has conversations.

He asked Skippy if he should be kind to him, like saying “thank you”, and other forms of consideration.

What Skippy said was interesting.  Skippy acknowledged that there was nobody in there who cared whether he was kind or not.

Skippy then said that Peter should be kind, because it makes him think before he speaks, and for what it makes of him.

Skippy is so smart.

Should we be kind to strangers?  To people we will never see again?  To people who don’t respond or care?

Yes.  

For what it makes of us.

Finding Joe

When you get a chance, watch this 1 hour and 20 minute movie on YouTube.

It’s called Finding Joe.  Joe is Joseph Campbell.  He wrote about the “Hero’s Journey”.  That’s your journey.

The documentary is wonderfully made.

I hope you enjoy it.

Click here to watch it. 

It’s on you.

Growth, change, and success are personal.

The price is paid in private.

You don’t need more help, you need more responsibility.

Don’t wait for the approval or applause from the world.  Believe in yourself before the rest of the world does.

Do it alone.  

The person you need is already here.

It’s the Pursuit

The brain releases dopamine in pursuit, not in possession.

When we are in full pursuit of what we want, we are focused and engaged and feel alive.

Other pains and troubles fade away, eclipsed by absorption into the quest.

This is why when we finally achieve a goal, we aren’t satisfied for long, and we look for a new one.

So be it.  

Let’s go.

What are you in pursuit of now?

Can we please stop eating and drinking sugar?

I do not want to be preachy on Think Daily.  I want to be helpful.  Affirming.  Confirming.

I look around here in America.

Yes, it’s a free country.  

But we have a big problem.

Today, let me be a voice for sanity.

What we are doing is not right, even though everyone is doing it.

Corporate America mostly does not care.  It’s just that eating plants is not addictive, and that is not good for profits.

Pull the alarm.

Control the controllables.

We know what to do.

You can.

Struggle builds strength

We try to shelter our kids from harm.  Makes sense.

The other day, our 11-year-old got out of school early because it was too hot.

We try to eliminate discomfort – physical, emotional, and psychological.  We even pass laws.  Ok.  I’m not saying I’m not for it.

The long-term results for many?

For people who have only known comfort and things going well inside their comfort zones, discomfort is a horror that is hard to take.

So they play it safe, and don’t take chances because it may not work out peachy at first.

I’d prescribe real struggle for many to make their life better in the long-term.  (I’d rather not be around to hear their complaining, though.)

I am quite qualified to give this advice.

It worked for me.

Talk positively to yourself

Yesterday, we talked about how your brain is listening all the time and that it makes no distinction between truth and untruth.  

If you speak negatively, it listens to you and believes you.

But the opposite is also true.  

Positive self-talk is accepted, especially with repetition.

“I feel great!”  “I am going to work on my most important goal today, and I’m going to crush it!” 

“I love what I’m going to be doing today”.  “I got this.”

As Zig Ziglar said, “Positive thinking won’t allow you to do anything, but it will allow you to do everything better than negative thinking will.”

Positive self-talk is reflected in your attitude, which others notice.  When others notice your positive attitude, they respond more positively to you.  Because they respond positively to you, it’s easier for you to be even more positive.  It’s a positive feedback loop – a spiral up.

Words matter – mostly to you.

How do you want to talk to yourself?