One of the first mistakes we make is when we talk about what we are going to do or who we will be. Don’t even get me started on “should,” or “try!
If we can’t even be certain about what we “know” today, how can we know what will happen tomorrow?
Remember you can always change something when you can take ownership and responsibility for it.
The gap between how life is and how we think life is, is often the black hole in which we fruitlessly labor.
There aren’t any roadsigns when you’re trekking through uncharted territory. It’s all discovery and exploration.
There is no greater knowledge than the knowledge you have verified for yourself, in your own experience.
Sometimes our mind is like the equivalent of a funhouse mirror, distorting and contorting and blurring our lives and our potential.
Our minds would love to predict and plan for everything that’s going to happen. But it’s simply not possible. And these expectations not only have a negative effect on our emotional state, they actually leave us less powerful than we really could be.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” – Aristotle.
The impossible only becomes possible in the moment you believe it is.
Relentlessness doesn’t mean charging into the fray headfirst, swinging and flailing your arms every which way. It’s focused, determined action. Again and again and again.
It’s not the sucky life you seemingly have but your dialogue about your life that has you by the throat, and the vast majority of that dialogue is blissfully unnoticed and therefore unexplored by you. It’s running in the background.
You’ll get to experience the spine-tingling rush that comes when you first kiss someone you’re really attracted to. Or the connection, satisfaction, and peace of growing old with the person you love.
When you think about it, that’s basically what most of us do. We want to be driven. We think a more productive mood will chauffeur us through life, a confident mood will make things easier or more doable. But if you want to get to where you’re going, you’ll have to take the wheel.
I am willing.” “I am wired to win.” “I got this.” “I embrace the uncertainty.” “I am not my thoughts; I am what I do.” “I am relentless.” “I expect nothing and accept everything.
Go ahead, say it, embrace it: “I embrace the uncertainty.
On the other hand, the person who views success as if it were just around the corner will not only work his butt off to achieve it but be energized and alive to it and all the while acting on that fundamental view of success.
People are little more than a living conversation, both internal and spoken. A dialogue in a body. A skin-and-bone bag that talks, and it talks about everything, and the limit of that talk is the limit of that life. Period.
There’s a reason why so few make it out of the trap of their own mind. The trap all too often seems to be just fine from day to day.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor Frankl.