Keep on keeping on
It’s a long season! You can’t win the Super Bowl after Week 1.
Yet, that’s the thing people are expecting when they start anything.
It’s a long season! You can’t win the Super Bowl after Week 1.
Yet, that’s the thing people are expecting when they start anything.
I was struggling to start a Podcast for 2 years from 2015-2017.
I let self-limiting beliefs from childhood creep in when I was on the brink of starting.
I kept making excuses.
I never started.
There are a lot of varying factors that go into the accomplishments of every successful person.
Hard work is a constant across all of their stories.
When people say they want to write a book what they mean is they want to publish a book.
When people say they want to run a marathon what they mean is they want to finish the marathon.
When people say they want to do something what they generally mean is they want the feeling of completing something.
There is a gap between the act of starting and the glory of finishing.
When we’re working toward something and enjoying the journey then we’ve already obtained success.
There isn’t some arbitrary fixed time when things should happen.
It doesn’t work that way.
Keep enjoying the process.
Consistency compounds over time.
It’s impossible to split up “Professional Life” and “Personal life”
These aren’t separate entities.
There is just Life.
You can create the mind and body you want from nothing.
Do not convince yourself otherwise.
It takes patience.
It takes hard work.
It takes confidence.
It takes a will to walk the lesser-worn path.
What was the 2013 version of ourselves doing back then?
What do you think the 2033 version will be doing?
We’ve come so far.
Imagine what some focused effort and decision-making can do for us over these next 10 years.
20 years into the future, our 2013 version will come to be unrecognizable.
Age is just a number. It’s meaningless.
If we believe that then we can push ourselves to the limits every day.
We can expand our minds.
We can become who we’ve always wanted to be.
Water is just water. Until it gets hot enough and starts to boil. It’s still water but now it’s boiling hot and creating a new, gaseous state that wasn’t there before.
We don’t know exactly when because there are many factors to get it to the exact temperature. It depends on the amount of water, the consistency of the heat applied, and outside factors (like salt).
We live in a world where we are told that quicker is better. Faster, faster, faster.
Fast food
The “hot” take
Crash dieting
Hyper growth
Someone is going to catch us if we slow down. Keep pressing down the accelerator.
When we are devouring some dessert in the aftermath of the Thanksgiving feast this year let that give us some perspective and a metaphor we can use for our lives.
The dessert didn’t make itself.
There were ingredients that were necessary to make that specific recipe and they didn’t peel, mix, whisk, or bake themselves.