THIS IS YOUR TIME | Best Motivational Speeches Of 2021 | Motivational Video Compilation

So much of life comes down to control, understanding what we can't control, and at the same

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capitalizing and making the most of the things we can. A constant awareness that is fundamental for our evolution. Epictetus wrote that we must be both cautious and brave in what does not depend. when choosing and be cautious as

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s and in many ways over the centuries, another one that many people have heard is the serenity prayer, Dear God, grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference, but regardless of how it is said and who it is said by, the point is the same, there are things we cannot control and that we must find a way to stop trying hard and stop draining our energy on them.

They are, as the saying goes, what they are, these obstacles are immovable and rather than continuing to push and push and push with all our strength and energy, our time is

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suited to learning how to navigate them effectively and then there are those things that are under our control. i think it was the power of now by eckhart tolle said and i'm paraphrasing if something can't be changed stop thinking about it properly the future represents anxiety it's worrying about things that haven't happened yet the past is essentially depression it's about worrying about things that has already happened, we can't do anything about the past or the future, all we have is the now and if it can be changed then act now to achieve the desired result, take that first step, create a semblance of momentum, don't It doesn't matter how small it is, but to Worry about what is behind or in front of you is actually crazy.

I remember loving the simplicity and precision of that message. Accept it, eliminate it, or adjust to it. Sometimes it helps when I think of things in metaphors and I tend to do that. Often

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morning I was drinking coconut water and I was thinking, man, it would be nice, you know, those little pieces of coconut floating there, it would be cool if they weren't there, right? So I have this idea, I just take a strainer and pour it through the strainer into the glass. I'm leaning over the counter watching the coconut pieces pile up in the strainer and I'm thinking about distracting myself, like imagining if those were my problems. just to be separated from my life like that, how nice it would be to be caught in a little net and then you know, discarded, thrown away, but you know, it didn't take me long to realize a couple of things, an idea like that would never happen in life. .

We will always have some obstacle to place before us, that is what life does, after all, the word is based on avoiding death, it is a struggle and necessary, which brings me to conclusion number two, we want difficulties, because You know, the purpose and the meaning is. derived from our willingness to overcome adversity and transform because of it, a life without struggle is a car without wheels and sure you can avoid fender benders, but you're not getting out of the garage properly, so that's a thumbs down , so I thought it was okay. What happens if I adjust that thought slightly?

What if it's a subset of problems that I can eliminate? That's when the opportunity at hand occurred to me, not the so-called problems, but my thoughts on them are what really make the difference here. Negative narratives that can be removed, pushed through the sieve again, are not novel or innovative, as I said a few minutes ago, this idea has been around for thousands of years, but sometimes things land perfectly at the right time and I knew that What I had to do was eliminate them. Worries and concerns related to events that I couldn't change still drain my energy dancing around and around with my thoughts about them.

You can't change the future. You can change right now, which ultimately becomes the future. And there is a difference I had with you. You know, take that back. I think most of our problems stem from anger or emotional attachment to the immovable. The immutable. One of my favorite sayings is that you can't change the direction of the wind, but you can always adjust

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sails and see when. You eliminate the torment you have over past things you wish you had done or not done when you eliminate the worry that the future won't be exactly what you want it to be, which tends to be what I lean on. you both, uh, you have one thing left: the right clarity present, you have officially empowered

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self because the things that you allocate your energy to can be changed, they can be improved or adjusted and that's what it's really about, you can't change the fact. that someone you loved or cared about let you down but when you think about it now you are also giving up on the present and you are preventing yourself from doing what is required of you now to improve your life you cannot control the The fact that your company is reducing its size and your department is being eliminated you can't control the fact that you know that eight percent will be accepted into any position you apply for, you can't control the fact that you will be criticized for doing something unpopular.

What you think is right and I say these things so as not to be depressing. Actually, I don't think there is anything sad about this, on the contrary, now that you have accepted these truths, you have accepted this as a reality, you can now move towards what is. It is

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for you to no longer dwell on the unchangeable, no longer fight wars that cannot be won, no, it is time to put yourself in a position to conquer whatever mountain is next, filtering out the things that cannot be changed, just you are left with what you cannot change. downsizing your company, but you can find something else, something better, you can set the stage for a new journey, you can't increase your acceptance rate, but you can increase your value, go further, put yourself in a position to succeed and, if they are not lost continue learning continue growing continue moving forward you can't stop the world's criticism but you can learn to toughen yourself emotionally learn to trust your intuition and decision making surround yourself with people you trust who lift you up see when you stop losing time and energy on the wrong things you get the right things, as Greg Mckeon says in essentialism, it is not what we can acquire, but often what we cut out, eliminating the things that weigh us down and that we drag with us everywhere.

Wow, they don't need to be there, I often tell myself that I have everything I need, it's there, some of it has materialized, some of it exists like a seed that I need to identify, water and nurture, but it's all right here, which means The problem will never be that I am incapable, it will never be that I am not good enough. No, when I'm wrong it's because I forgot to see it. Either I became consumed with the wrong things or I lost faith. in myself to do the right things and know that this has been a gift, it has been tremendous, it has helped me even in the darkest moments to reacquire what matters most, sometimes it takes hours, sometimes days, even weeks or more , but eventually I get there, I get there and I can too.

You have the ability to analyze why you feel that way to categorize the thoughts in your head. Can I change it? It's not right, it's gone and with everything that remains the journey begins, the good, the adversity and the problems that will make you who you are and don't get me wrong. I'm not saying it will be easy, but I am saying it will be worth it and that is essential to understand that your world is there to maneuver and adapt to remodel itself, but its transformation depends on a laser. like focusing on what is malleable, that is, do what you can where you are, with what you have, it will get you exactly where you need to be, even if you don't trust the path before you trust yourself to walk it today. not like any day I have ever lived before and why should it be this very second there are paths to explore that I have never taken before there are actions to take that I have never taken before and ideas to bring to life that I have never before given them the respect they deserve.

That's what my golden rule says. You are always one decision away from a totally different life. You are always just one realization away from pulling the lever to open the door and finding the answer you have been walking towards all your life. The problem is that you don't see today since today you see it as a continuation of yesterday the same movie with the same characters and the same rules without even realizing it you need to change the script Emerson said write it in your heart that every day is the best day of the year. Why, because it may be your job, is to remember that things will continue over and over again until we give them closure.

We must manually close the book of yesterday's history and start again because we can, we often don't. We realize it but we can and that is why the morning of each new day is so precious: it is taking the mistakes and sometimes the disappointments of yesterday and transforming them into the lessons of today and the opportunity to begin again a new journey seen through of a new lens walking through a new pair of shoes a new sense of yourself so here is your reminder that the words were and are are very different, that is why each dawn transcribes in the sky the hopes and dreams of the who you have always wanted to be, is not crazy. formula or some secret code is simply to untie your ship from yesterday's port and move towards tomorrow's horizon someday the things you currently don't understand will make sense someday the big things you are dealing with will no longer seem so big someday the doubts you have about yourself will be revealed as false one day you will see that the things you worry about don't matter at all one day you will see that the path before you was not something you had to travel smoothly but something you had to travel smoothly . something that you had to trust and believe in someday you will look in the mirror and see that you had it in you all the time that there was nothing you needed or you should have been hoping that yes, one day, all that will be true, but what? what's happening? some days in the past I remember that years ago I thought that one day I would venture into the world someday I would speak my mind someday I would start my own business I would surround myself with people who believed in what I believe someday I would make a little more money I have a little more time to do what I love someday I would have all that and when I look around I realize it looks a lot like someday but guess what, as we grow up some days it's a chase that never ends There is always something more, there is always something bigger and better.

The problem is not ambition. The problem is forgetting that in so many ways you have dreamed of being where you are. Now you have arrived. You are not the same person who 10 years ago was throwing some days into the universe. No, You have grown, you have learned, you have evolved, why does this matter? It's important because without recognizing how far you've come you can't gain the strength to go where you need to go when you don't. You feel good enough It's often because you haven't looked over your shoulder and you haven't opened your eyes The evidence is right there It's hiding in plain sight There's evidence that you've been there You've faced demons and conquered them You've endured your battles and defeated you did that and at one point not long ago you couldn't say you had done it you still weren't that person but things are different now what you have today was just that hope one day it was a fleeting thought it had no merit and no value yet you gave it life look what you have done understand how far you have come how you ran when you could you walked when it was possible you crawled when you had to and you continued until you reached a someday that is In this moment, my friend, you are a creator of invisible things , an architect of tomorrow and some days, so don't you dare, never give up the illusion that this gift suddenly stops, now, suddenly, the burden is too much, the mountain is too high, no. what you do is surpassed that is who you are you have done it for you you have done it for those you love and in some cases those who did not even understand that you kept marching through the fires of hell to turn some days into now and I understand that The path before you is uncertain, there is no way to know exactly how life will unfold, but that is aside from the point, a bird cannot predict every gust of wind it will encounter, spread its wings. he switches off and adapts because he can because he always has because that's what he does.

I'm not advocating that you should have all the answers. No. I'm suggesting that you trust yourself to find them and move forward into the haze around you to do. sense of the seemingly illogical, bringing reality from fantasy, someday you will have what you are looking for, but never let a today pass without realizing that you are always living a someday from your past, you are always arriving and leaving simultaneously to the accomplished and the student crossing the finish line and at the starting point with another race just around the corner another chance to stretch your legs and reach for the sky if you ever forget that I ask you to find within yourself the ability to look over your shoulder to remember what you once asked for and appreciate the journey you have taken, that you took, that you are now moving forward, you have a few more days to bring it to life.I was thinking this morning about a conversation I had with my grandfather, this example in particular.

I lived in Los Angeles at the time my grandmother my grandfather flew in from Boston and you know, I think we're doing some family things but I wanted to hang out with my friends from the street, I wanted to go to Kyle's house to play tag. Wars, whatever we were doing and that felt like the world to me, like I didn't want to miss that because I felt like I would miss it if it wasn't there, I would miss something and I remember him taking me from the kitchen to the living room. It's like Eddie, you have to relax, he is like that, I promise you will always be there, the fun, the escape, the metaphorical going to Kyle's house, it will always be there, you have to do what is right for you and then when it is you need he's there, it was almost like all the nuances and the details required and why I bring this up and it's a bit of a spin, but you know I've seen throughout my life personally this kind of loss aversion, like I mentioned.

It's been a few days where you don't want to get out of a bad situation because you're afraid that you won't be able to get the most basic boxes you've checked right, it's like you might have a job that you're not happy with. you are dissatisfied there is nothing great about it you have lost your sense of self your purpose but you are getting a proper paycheck or you know that at least you have some direction in the day or in your life you can say who you are there is some identity there are some boxes very basic things that you're not happy with, but the basic boxes are ticked and what you're afraid of is that if you go looking for something different you might not be able to tick those boxes correctly again or you're in a relationship and it's like not okay. and you know when your core is not right but there are very basic boxes that are checked correctly you're not alone you're with someone um there's a certain predictability in your life like it's hard to lose those things and so That's really the gist of what I'm saying, having confidence in yourself because that's really what it comes down to understanding that if you move into the unknown you can recreate those things, you can check those basic boxes, but if you don't have the courage to get out of that situation, you will be chained to a world which isn't really for you, so I like the work thing and by the way, I'm always worried about saying this because there are people who love.

Their jobs I'm never going to earn from nine to five like it's my thing, right, that's what it was for me. I felt so limited and I'm like I love creating and being on the sidelines, that's how it motivates me, that's not how everyone works, so I don't want this to be performers. Hitting nine to five is just my story, but I realize I could have left and come back in a year after living in a university like Thailand and stuff. It would have been exactly the same when I returned. I could have gotten a similar job.

I could have found ways to check those same boxes. Those fundamental things are re-acquirable just like the relationship. Well it's as if it weren't like that. right for you there are eight billion people in the world eight billion do you think one of them doesn't share your value system one of those you can't have fun with hang out relax enjoy improve your life like of course you can , but you're worried about losing the most basic thing, the most basic boxes that you've checked and it's like you have to have the courage and the self-confidence to walk away from those things.

You have to believe in yourself enough to know that you can recreate. a reality with a similar foundation, but with the things that make you happy, make you feel alive, you know, which I am prone to, today I found a random quote on the Internet that says that I am learning to love the sound of my feet They stay away from the things that are not for me and it's that simple, you will never be able to get where you are going if you are chained to the things that do not move you, if you stay in a place of discontent. and the message is simple, believe in yourself, trust in yourself, there is nothing in your life that you cannot recover or rebuild, but what you will miss if you stay in that place is the opportunity, the advantages, the people who They will change your life, the places. uh, you've never seen the experiences, the journeys that make life worth living.

The good is too high. There is a quote attributed to Seneca that says that no man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity because he is not allowed to prove his worth. It is by pursuing the difficult that we gain meaningful recognition that we prove ourselves but we prove ourselves to whom this is the same Seneca who stated that we suffer more in imagination than in reality that the most powerful is he who has power about himself and That is one of the beautiful things about Stoicism: it makes us ask a very simple but often overlooked question who really is the adversary here who is the opposition we face as we fight our battles what is it that must be transformed is it the outside world or the way our eyes see the outside world that really holds us back circumstances our personal thoughts about the circumstances and I think this is where we misunderstand the challenges before us I want to delve deeper into this power of perspective to explain that we are the They are gatekeepers between us and our ideal lives and very often we do a good job of making sure the door stays closed.

We sabotage our own goals, our own dreams, our own happiness and at the same time point the finger at a million externalities. We see it when we look at the difficulties of life. and there's no doubt that life can be a very difficult thing, it's easy to see the world as this binary playing field right in front of the world and in fact we often visualize the world as the enemy pushing us around as if his motives were contrary. to ours, but many of these narratives, these stories, don't really say anything about the outside world and when we look deeper, it becomes clear that they actually say much more about us, it is the one who sees who manages to decipher what means the circumstance and so All the narratives are reflections of the observers that Jim Rohn used to tell a story about two brothers who had an alcoholic father, came home drunk, abused their children, had a terrible childhood and as each grew up and He had families of his own.

They own their slightly divergent paths, one became abusive and the other was kind and loving and caring, and when he confronted the now abusive brother he said, well look, how can you blame me? Don't you see how I was raised? But the kind, loving and affectionate brother. I said, of course, I'm like that, I could never put my family through what I went through as a child, same circumstances, different lens interpretations, which means different outcomes in the real world and the idea here is to emphasize how one of the most important abilities of a human being.

What he possesses is the ability to interpret the world around him. I think of us as subjects who navigate a world of objects as if the things around us have no meaning until we give them meaning, that is what humans create narratives from objects and that is an often overlooked skill. Seemingly insignificant puts a lot of power in our hands very rarely is it what we see is what we think and what we do about what we see do you ever hang out with people who tend to be happy, optimistic, positive energy, I have a very good friend Thus, where your first inclination is always to find the positive in moments when I have trained myself to pause, do a second analysis of the emotions, discover the value in a difficult situation, refocus and take a strategic step forward. you walk up to him and he's already there, he's been there for three minutes, he's washed away the negativity, it's his first instinct, he's the metaphorical kid jumping in puddles, whistling at the top of his lungs while everyone else hides from the rain or at least . trying to find the courage to run out into the street then there are people who always seem to find the negative it really doesn't matter what this situation is happiness is fleeting only to reveal the negativity that never seems to go away in the right way person that if they won the lottery Your first thought might be oh no, but what if I lose everything?

Both examples are people projecting themselves into the world around them in the same way that smoke covers and consumes an entire room, it's not the room that's to blame, here's another example from jim rohn, since we're on a kick of jim rohn, he's making a similar point and this all comes from a collection of

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he has on audible comparing humans to oranges, which probably isn't a comparison you've made recently, but he said that an orange has consistency and that it can be fill with one thing when you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out and that's it, it will never be apple juice or grapefruit juice, it will only emit what is inside, which is orange juice and while here is the connection when life presses us, challenges us or metaphorically squeezes us, we only emit the emotions that are contained and available, that are alive and well within us, if there is no jealousy contained in our thinking, we will not project jealousy in the world if there is no hatred within us we will not project hate onto others why it's so powerful it's powerful because again it's one of the most important things you can do certainly one of the most important things I've learned to do is take that finger blame the outside world slowly turn it around and point to myself and ask what thoughts what emotions what ideas am I letting live inside my head that is altering the narrative the story that I am telling about myself and the world that I live in and although one might think well, that is uncomfortable, it is unfair, a bit extreme, why should I point the finger at myself?

It's not my fault. I would challenge you, at least for the next few minutes, to see a change as empowering as your advantage as a bridge. from where you are to where you want to be, see if you always have feelings of, let's say, jealousy towards a particular person, that feeling in your stomach like, oh, they have it all, they're ahead, they live the way I want to live, they're like that. and that, and I hate them for that, you are naively giving the outside world the power you say, I feel the way I feel because of that cosmic injustice that exists, you are powerless because you are neglecting your personal agency as a factor, but when you turn that finger and you say I only feel this way because I allow myself to, then you can ask the question that many never think to ask why I feel this way, which illuminates a path to how I can fix it see the key to a better life is to realize that you don't have to be in the passenger seat pointing and blaming the driver complaining about the path being taken you can't sit in the driver's seat you can take the wheel you can take control inherit the responsibility and the stakes are higher there is greater vulnerability but the advantage is unfathomable and I find myself thinking all the time man people blame the wrong things they are blaming the wrong adversaries the real villain here is not the driver or the road or the weather, the real villain is the voice in your head that begs you not to take the wheel, begs you to go shotgun, and whines as the world passes you by, and of course it makes sense to qualify that with the inevitability that some things imposed on us are bigger than us and that we cannot control and you can make a list for as long as you want, natural disasters, decisions and actions of others, health problems, we often cannot choose the landscape so that the The Stoics would say understand that, understand what you can't control what you can because the beauty is that you can control how you navigate that landscape and that's the power, that's what makes the difference.

Look at the two brothers I mentioned a few moments earlier. landscape different navigation tactics different vision of what it all meant one took the wheel and the other didn't, so that quote from Seneca that says that no man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity because he is not allowed to prove his worth , it's perfectly clear so far. As far as I'm concerned, the question is not whether or not to face adversity, I think we all understand that what I hope we get from today is a better understanding of what true adversity is, a better understanding of the fact that we have in front of us.

There is always an answer, a key for every lock. Some people just don't think to look. They are so busy looking around every corner for external enemies and scapegoats that they don't give themselves permission to succeed. It may be unfortunate, but it's true. You can hit the target again and again, but if it's the wrong target it won't do you much good, you may have missed by 50 feet and I think that's what we overlook: you can't always fix the outside world. You don't change the unchangeable, but you can always change yourself, you can always fix yourself as Tolstoy said.

Everyone wants to change the world, but no one thinks about changing themselves. You are capable of being both your greatest adversary and ally, so choose wisely because of the world around you. You will do nothing but respond according to your decision, just make sure things feel strange at first,abstract at first, bad at first, it's incredibly difficult to separate yourself from the past, it's difficult to separate yourself from the deeply ingrained biological whisper of "hey, at least you knew that." what to expect there, but that whisper has preservation in mind, not happiness, and at some point we must stop preserving what is not ideal, so wow, the walls that once existed will crumble and this will be surprising at first, shocking at first, intimidating.

At first it's incredibly difficult to watch the fundamental structures crumble around us, especially when you know you're the one who lit the fuse. It's hard to get away from the faint murmur that says Hey, this was your house, how dare you leave it? But those words have the status quo in mind, not growth, and home is an idea you take with you, it's not a set of parameters, just go, the stories you told yourself, the narratives you thought would be forever, they will prove it. to be nothing more than the end of a disappointing chapter, this will feel abrupt at first, unfair at first, it will leave you deeply dissatisfied at first, it's incredibly hard to realize that happily ever afters aren't linear, they're cyclical, it's hard get away from them. the voices that beg you not to turn the page and claim that because their realities will remain the same, yours must too, but those are not the characters you will emerge victorious with, some movies need to be recast, the setting, reinvented to the hero, reinvent him and so on.

You must know that your greatest strength is the small steps that you are able to make, small decisions that you are capable of making. Remember that security is not safe when it prevents you from getting what you need and wrong times tend to evolve into always wrong times. Small concessions well, they turn into big mistakes, so if it's a sign you're waiting for, let it be so if there's a moment you're waiting for, let it be that moment now if it's someday you depend on, let today be that day as In fact, doing nothing is a decision, but only one of the many paths that lie before you, a single grain of sand where the edge of today's world touches the shores of tomorrow.

Sometimes it is about the ability to get up in front of the horizon and just go, go because it is only in leaving that you realize that you are capable of undertaking the journey and you finally see in yourself the strength that you longed for, it is in going that you realize Realize that yesterday's situation wasn't even really the problem, it was your fear of the unknown leaving that situation was living with the devil you knew instead of potentially having to face the devil you didn't know that's what happened to your Wings just felt safer hidden but it's in perspective that the tragedies, the devastation, the things that kept us going when we woke up at night, really weren't that bad, but how are we to know when you build walls around yourself? unknown before you is the water of that seed the key to that door what you fear is exactly what you need and so continues the beautiful dance through life not beautiful for its elegance it is rarely that but beautiful for its promise it is malleability beautiful because we can move without answers to find beautiful answers because what we become is directly proportional to what we are willing to endure and that means that the universe does not judge, it does not know us by our failures or our mistakes, but by our courage our courage to face all these things and move forward anyway to tirelessly explore the resilience of the human spirit an infinite light in an otherwise finite world a bridge being built beneath our feet in real time what weight is lifted from our shoulders to Knowing this we don't have to get it right we just have to walk out the door trusting that we will pick up enough pieces to put together something meaningful we just have to leave and in the world opens up like this, let go of the old embrace the new simple you think to yourself well yeah Of course, the best things in life are always simple, always have been, always will be, we just imagine them to be difficult, we have a knack for making simple decisions in complex matrices of cause and effect. and cons, victories and defeats, we learn to think for years until we finally come to the brilliant realization that happiness, the meaning of a life well lived, comes when we think least prepared to aim, there is no perfect path, only one direction adjusted, an endless series of changes. to learn that when you fall there is only one traffic sign that indicates where we should go next, you can't plan that, you can't chart a course that doesn't exist, no, you leave behind who you were yesterday and set sail, they ask you where you are.

You look five years from now and you'll think who knows, but not here, it couldn't be here, it must be somewhere evolved where parts of the world shaped your perspective and became the armor you now wear. New game New. rules new expectations new people new places and what really changed well how you see yourself it's funny how it all works how things come together when we look over our shoulders like it has to be like this has to be the way things are Not you, we could very easily have stayed dreaming looking out that window wishing we could leave waiting for answers that did not exist and that is why the complex now feels as simple as we wanted it to, we move forward without knowing but trusting and we look back with the feeling of understanding and confidence that were built over time in the game of life there are people who leave and people who stay people who build and people who don't I'm not saying that everything will be perfect or that everything will immediately fall into place, how could I?

But what I am saying is that as we move forward, we draw back the curtain on the opportunity available to us, we move from the physical limitations of the bodies we walk in and into the infinite power of the mind that drives them into who we become. who we were always meant to be, how do we know what that is, well, not until we look over our shoulders, of course, so go, make your mistakes, learn your lessons, feel your moments of pain, in your moments of happiness, your moments of doubt and your times of certainty because in doing so you will have done precisely what so few people can do with their limited time on this planet, truly live, so go, go, sometimes it's what we don't say that resonates with What we don't say is more powerful.

Doing that has the biggest consequences where we don't go and ultimately loses us. I remember when I was a teenager applying to college I was working on my admissions essay brainstorming with my grandmother talking about possible topics and approaches and she read me this quote that is sometimes attributed to mark twain, but that doesn't come to the point, the quote says that in 20 years you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw away the bow lines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails explore the dream discover I thought this was the perfect bridge to the next chapter of my life the last horizon the newest adventure I thought it was amazing and it was exactly what I needed and so on until the next adventure I went, but here's the thing as As life unfolded, this equation somehow morphed from exploration, dreaming, and discovery to the question, well, what am I supposed to do somehow without me paying attention?

Life became a checklist, a question I couldn't get wrong, a test. I needed to make sure I didn't fail. It's amazing how quickly we forget the infinite breadth of life because we focus on the dotted line before us, the one we're supposed to walk. Sometimes we are so obsessed with what the expectation is. May we not ask ourselves where these expectations come from, who is so important and wise that they know what is best for you to a greater extent than you do, so that is an important question and also one that you can lose in your periphery as you continue. . that dotted line before you when you have a destiny in mind hopes dreams ambitions well that's an adventure when someone else has a destiny in mind for you whether this authority is imaginary or not that is obedience and sometimes the greatest disservice we can to do to ourselves is not to stop and think so as not to stop and wonder where we are going and why remember when you were a child and you got in trouble, sometimes they sent you to your room and for me this was agony when it was a punishment that wanted to. be anywhere but I can find inside those walls I hated being sent to my room and finally the door opened my parents said Eddie, you can go out now I went out to play basketball for a while and then many times I find myself back in my room happy, you know, playing with my toys, whatever I was doing, I don't care in the world and it's like what changed was nothing but the context, the same me, the same room, the same toys, whatever I said.

Whatever he was doing, however, it was no longer a punishment and I think this understanding is worth exploring, we may not realize that we may not even be able to articulate it, but I think we crave control of our lives. , we long to walk our own path and in this situation the path took me back to where I was sometimes although the path takes us in the opposite direction to distant worlds the final destination is not as important as the fact that we choose it that we wonder about what and that we believe in the answer and immerse ourselves in its execution.

So when Mark Twain talks about the things we don't do that hold the most weight in our hearts, it's because those things we tend to leave out are often the same things that give life. to our souls. We will go to school to get good grades. get a nine to five salary get a promotion get a mortgage on a house but the audacity to open that photography studio the nerve to think that you could rent a van and travel around the country the illusion of thinking that you could start that routine that you in the physical form you have always dreamed of seeing we are lucky and lucky to have the things we have the quality of life we ​​live now far exceeds those that came before us life is convenient incredibly convenient but what is convenience if it comes at the expense of the purpose of meaning in life because that is what steers the ship a crisis of meaning ultimately mitigates everything else there is no exploration without meaning and without exploration tomorrow becomes a repetition of today not an evolution of today and What's amazing, really amazing is that our purpose can be rediscovered our paths redefined how by having a long conversation with you you guessed it yourself putting the phone in another room disconnecting the wifi and spending time with you something like "dear me, what matters in this world where I'm going now is where I'm going now aligned with what matters to me in this world and sometimes the answer is yes, sometimes no, great, but what we have now is a foundation to work from an awareness that should be celebrated for having created it's so easy to walk through life and never have that conversation it's so easy to sleepwalk to the sound of someone else's song to the beat of other people's drums but when you open your eyes you see the correlation between your thoughts and your actions your actions in your reality you realize that when you awaken that tendency to ask yourself what you have to do today to reflect on your problems those questions that you assumed were normal to which you never gave much thought because now you will see that you can dismantle that notion now you will see that if you can ask yourself what you have to do, with the same ease you can ask yourself what you want to do, what you can do, what life invites you to do, if you can reflect on your problems.

You are just as capable of reflecting on the opportunity available to you if you can take the time to think about whether you are walking the obligatory dotted line that has been drawn in front of you, you are just as capable of redrawing that line and allowing it to take yourself to a new dimension listen again in 20 years you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do so throw away the bow lines sail away from safe harbor catch the trade winds in your sails explore dream discover explore but for you, you wander along those paths that have sparked your curiosity for so long, try things that you once felt other people had the right to but that you had never given yourself permission to know that for you because no one will appear to you and I give you the green light to chance because without building your castles in the air as you carefully call them, you live your entire life on the ground, you will never achieve goals that you do not believe in and there will surely be a moment in which only you see the great destiny that is life, but with Each step forward, as it becomes more real to you, will also make sense to others.

Trust each step as if it were a miracle in itself and in time you will discover that it is exactly that. what each step was and finally discover who you are what you are capable of becoming as emerson said being yourself in a world that constantly tries to make youIn anything else it is the greatest achievement to forge your own path to build your own life to stay true to your own heart is courage, so sail on because you have the ability, because you are strong enough and because the story you are about to write does not continue. until you turn the page of today's chapter.

Many of life's failures are people I didn't realize how close they were to success when they gave up on thomas edison a quote I go to when I lost my why when my frustration at the lack of a particular outcome overshadows everything no I think we realize how transformative moments are when we are faced with them, we are presented with two options, give up or emerge better than we were not intuitive, right, it is not normal to think, I know this is difficult, but Well, I'm one adjustment away from getting it right, one step away from finding out. momentum is why in those moments I rely on others to remind me and that is why I remind you now to reiterate how little of a push it takes to simply get things moving to remind you that if you want this, it means something to you. and they know it. what are these the moments that you will remember with a tear in your eye a smile on your face and you will be grateful to get through these moments the darkest of nights the lowest of lows when we are lost, we are trapped I'm not sure it's them the ones that matter, so take it off, see the difference, the reason so many people turn away is because they don't know the secret.

I'm about to tell you the same secret that the previous ones have passed on to me. You don't need to do anything. but don't stop and if that seems too obvious or cliché, let me explain that it is in motion that we are forced to find solutions, we are forced to become more, it is incredibly difficult to stop a moving object, but the question is: can you ? Move forward when you don't have the answers When you're tired When what you've been looking for is nowhere to be found Can you imagine in that moment what the other side will be like looking back on your journey knowing where everyone else was?

You stopped, you held on where the cost was too much for so many, you risked everything, these are the decisions you have to make now, so don't listen to that voice that rationalizes you and begs you to take it down a notch or go back to yesterday's normality. let this message resonate hear me accept the fact that you are always one step away from regaining the momentum of finding yourself again everything you need is there have the patience to find it the patience to do what you do best find the way I'll never forget hearing Jim Rohn was out for a walk in the middle of the day.

He needed to get out, decompress, rethink, realign and this message came through my headphones. He said that we must all suffer one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret the difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons and I needed that I needed that because sometimes we forget why in the middle of everyday life the trials and tribulations of life we ​​forget why we endure and there is a strange dichotomy that exists because you know that you cannot measure the discomfort that has not yet come you cannot identify the regret that has not yet materialized in a way that you have to do it in Somehow you have to make it tangible you have to know that today's sacrifices will free you from the anguish of desire or if only or maybe I could have done it.

I've heard it said that humans' ability to delay gratification is what makes us so unique. Even amazing, but that doesn't mean it's easy. I walked I recognized myself with the confidence I had in myself in the future and the steps I was taking, it wasn't that I had reached a great ending but that I gave myself permission to stop constantly expecting one to care when things weren't that way . going as planned, feeling upset with myself when I fell short, after all this is part of a process and if you stay the course you build a foundation of discipline to guide you towards what you believe, things will evolve, we feel insecure because the new things don't do it.

I have at least a non-personal precedent and that feeling of you know I wish I knew or had some predictability is real, it is common, but if minimizing regret is what means the most then it also means that we must have the discipline to walk steadily towards unpredictability of tomorrow a long term sustained discipline and one of my favorite interviews bronnie ware who wrote the top five regrets of the dying was talking about surrender and how he mentioned in his book letting go and I asked him can you explain what the angle is because the way I look at life, there's always something you can do, you can always improve your situation in some way and she basically said it's not about what you can control, what you can do, but about putting yourself in a position to live the life you want to live. and then letting go of what you cannot control is about not worrying about outside forces as you walk your path because all you can do in life is walk your path and that became the marker or the question: Am I walking my path? walk right now?

It's like that first a vision gives you direction purpose keeps you excited injects meaning into life second discipline keeps you moving becomes the small steps that carry you through your search for meaning and third confidence in the process you are in here to give everything you have to give give and then the rest, as brony says, must be given, but the reason I mention this is because everything fits together like a puzzle, like the three pillars of a parthenon, and when people comes up to me all the time, they're upset because they're not as disciplined as they'd like to be and they listen to the

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Because, as far as I'm concerned, it's impossible to be disciplined if you don't have a reason. You know when Jim Rohn says pain is in ounces. Well, there is an implicit compared to what is. correctly asked in comparison to that top of the mountain that you would presumably miss so if the top of the mountain is not defined you are in nonsense that's why I had so many problems with my old career for example it's hard to be disciplined no You have to accept the purpose using my previous metaphor, they are small steps, of course, but if you don't know, it is only practical to look around and ask yourself why I am taking them, why not go drinking with my friends, why not transmit this series. on Netflix until 4 a.m. m.

Why not skip training? You can hear people on YouTube yelling at you to do more and be more and try harder all day long, but without that peace a vision, the discipline to achieve it, and trust in the process won't get you very far, and you could say the same about someone who may have a clear vision, a dream, a perfect idea of ​​what he wants, but never acts correctly, the discipline never materializes, makes effort just like meaningless things don't change until you take it. that big picture that vision and you break it down into little things that you can do every day that's it and it's not so amazing the most important and influential people from the friends and family who inspire us to the best athletes and artists and our best thinkers and Creators All world leaders do is a handful of things consistently every day in the direction of something that is meaningful to them.

A process that has been talked about since the beginning of time. The compound effect, as Darren Hardy calls it. That breakthrough was huge for me. Realizing that I don't need to jump any mountains, I just need to climb one small rock at a time and that's not a superhuman ability, it's a one-time decision, so the question here is not: can you be more disciplined, of course you can. ? the question is what things are most meaningful to you, what will you focus on every day so that they expand and inject value into you and the world and lastly there is trust, sometimes the most difficult, seeing the invisible, maintain confidence in the unknown. an incredibly challenging expectation in an instantaneous world, a world where things are immediate, feedback is immediate, messages are sent to the entire planet instantly, goods and services arrive in a matter of hours, we have forgotten patience because it is disintegrating In our own eyes, we are a society of the now, but the best things in life take time require that we keep our end of the bargain and trust that life will work itself out in a process that will come to mean more than anything we can imagine. arrive in 30 seconds a vision could never be pursued and disciplined and trust the process, so maybe you're behind on your midday walk, your little excursion into the soul to ask yourself what you're moving toward, why you're doing what you're doing. , it means something and if perhaps it is not necessary to make some adjustment perhaps you have lost sight of that north star that illuminates our lives and lights the way, take comfort in the fact that life is not as serious as we imagine it, in the that we do not live. a world of right and wrong, right and wrong, yes and no, but a continuum, an opportunity to seek and find the beautiful trades and the significant lows, to set our sights on the horizons that matter, to see when the little things feel too much. complex or heavy, it is because the big things are misaligned and that is a powerful idea to understand, it is never that life is too difficult, but that we have closed our eyes, so do not be fooled by those who sell you reality as a problem, an obligation that must be dealt with today.

It is the greatest gift of your life and the same will be true every day in the future and, to echo Jim Rohn absolutely, it is a gift compounded of sacrifice and discomfort along the way, but that is a small price to pay. Pay admission to the show for the ability to embrace the mystery and embark on the adventure when you are pointed at the right North Star. Well, the road feels less treacherous on your feet. Hills are less strenuous on your legs. What we often consider a lack of preparation, ability, strength, could well simply be a lack of alignment, so adjust because this flexible and limitless world invites you to do just that, it invites you to explore until you have discovered your vision. , to pursue it as if nothing else mattered, to avoid obstacles, reverse setbacks and, finally, find hope.

When it seems there is no one to raise your sails, follow your path, run your race and surrender to that which is beyond your control and you will find that with a vision with discipline and confidence in the process there is no situation or circumstance out of reach. . than is possible for you, the little e on the car dashboard reminds me that I'm pointing east as I sit at the red light perpendicular to Ocean Ave looking at the water, this is it, this is as far as I can go , there are no more streets or towns or cities there can be no more stops along the way just miles and miles of ocean.

It's interesting for me to think about all the changes I've made so far growing up outside of Los Angeles, on the opposite coast. relocating again and again sometimes very specific methodical movements sometimes just for change but always moving always going there is a saying that wherever you go you take with you you can change the scenery the circumstances the environment but ultimately you will never be able to leave back to yourself You are accompanying yourself on whatever journey awaits you and it is often not until you run out of real estate, when there is no further path or options, that you are forced to look in the mirror and recognize that you are You who must change, it is you who must evolve. and become that person that needs you to become and that can be a scary thing after all, anyone can get in a car and head east, anyone can point the compass away from the chaos of now, away from their demons, but what? how many of us can?

Finding the strength to look those demons in the eyes, how many of us can make ourselves bigger than their attempts to overwhelm us can do, but how many of us do? Are we running towards something or away from something because there's a difference and whatnot? The difference is no small one of my favorite speakers, Jim Rohn, when referencing our journeys through life, our drive to make more of ourselves, essentially said that it's not about what you get on the other side, it's who you get. you convert along the way, I think like everyone I've ever met. forgotten that from time to time over the years forgotten that courage is not simply in going but in becoming in the small brave steps that accumulate over time forgotten that the external world can inspire or excite that change can invigorate the soul that the path not taken can remind me of the beauty of life, but these externalities are only as valuable as you allow them to be.

They are only opportunities if you decide to make them so. Change inspires, but will you let it inspire you to do what you know you need to do?But what no? You're terrified of doing it, and that path might remind you of the beauty of life, but will you let that reminder be your invitation to share your own beauty with the world, whatever that means to you? Can you be so vulnerable? Can you take that leap in the story of your life? Coming to see that it is incredibly easy to look at the world and point out its flaws.

All those little problems and imperfections that tend to catch our attention, but can you identify what you yourself need? Can you be brave enough to ask yourself those questions? Does matters? For me, what does a meaningful life look like to me? Where am I falling short? That is a conversation that needs to be had and needs to be had often, otherwise we will drive and drive and drive until we reach the water in our strength to ask that. question because it's interesting that when we don't pause and make the changes that need to be made, life has a way of ensuring that we do it, but when it's a life mandate, it tends to be much more messy and chaotic at least than when we make the decision ourselves, but either way we can't run forever, either way we must put on a new pair of shoes and learn to walk in them confidently at night.

There are a lot of little mantras floating around out there, little tips and maybe it is best for us to weigh them individually to see what meets our needs and fits our criteria after all, life is not the same for everyone so one of my Favorite thing is to do one thing that scares you every day and I'll tell you. why because when we condition ourselves to turn our back on all the uncomfortable things in life, our prospects for a better tomorrow are synonymous with the seed rejecting water and saying no to what it needs most and what should be noted here is a of the reasons. "It's so dangerous that saying no is incredibly subtle, it's not a big event or explosion, there's not a fireworks show that happens every time you move away from what you need, no, it goes unnoticed and, again, one of the biggest challenges is quantifying what we don't need.

I can't do, how do you measure that what you walked away from? Well, unfortunately you can't, you can't, at least until you're staring out at the Atlantic with nowhere to run, no more escape on the agenda, you don't know until we're forced to pick up the pieces and do something with them and I say this to that can hopefully ignite that spark in your soul that you need most, whether you've previously recognized it or not. I say this to remind you how much bigger you are than your problems, how you have the ability to transform everything that exists around you when you transform there is a certain inevitability associated with how we see ourselves and I believe this is true both on a personal level.

As a social, anyone can look in the mirror and see the past they have gone to. It's wrong how inadequate and ill-prepared they are, but the courage to look in the mirror and see the strength to identify and understand one's own shortcomings, but to know that you have the power to do something about it, to know how many times you fell or not. . make the cut, they do not indicate that the effort was in vain or unequivocally wrong. No, there is so much good tied to your search, so much beauty and courage rooted in your soul, but imagine, imagine a life in which you no longer flee from the voids. but close them imagine finding in yourself the beginning of that hero's journey and where you used to run for protection now you go on the offensive to grow where you used to avoid the possibility of failure now you chase the possibility of victory you can have that If you want it, you can be it, yes You choose to make sure, you may never be able to surpass yourself, but you can always adapt to be that person you always needed you to be.

Sometimes we just need the reminder that we are strong enough. have what is necessary and that what hurts us the most in the short term not only saves us pain in the long term but becomes what we live for and is where we find our meaning and that is why perhaps this ocean before me is not there to Remind me of my limitations that I have no way left but a reminder of how often we measure using incorrect metrics. Maybe I needed to see again that it's not where I end up but who I become along the way when the inner self takes a step. in shoes has been too intimidating to wear that when the inner world becomes the lighthouse you need to be the paths and the stops along the way, they matter a little less than the eyes that process everything that decide what it means how it will be used in the game of life and yes the little e on the car dashboard says I'm pointing east but as I sit at this red light perpendicular to the abs of the ocean looking out at the water I know this is just the beginning . everyone wants to be great everyone wants to be the best the one percent or as the saying goes everyone wants to be a beast until the time comes to do what the beasts see what life has revealed and continues to emphasize is that our most vital decisions they appear in the darkness of the night the chaos of battle they appear in the midst of our discomfort we know these moments the ones that seek to stop us in our tracks and make us spin are what we must be prepared for they are the gateway to excellence so let's see the big picture of a meticulous life in its entirety, because in consistently doing these simple and easy things, they are important the consistency of the simple is the basis, it is what we build the structure on, but it is far from everything moving along of us. we have the difficult things that push us to be more that show us who we are that pain that tests us temporary storms are the armor we come to wear are what prepare us to endure the trials and tribulations of life like a muscle that You have to grow and develop, but the hard stuff is far from all because finally, we have our defining moments, the moments that bring it all together, when the sky feels like it's falling, the body feels like it's failing. , the mind feels like it is dwindling, presenting the question you do the hard thing when you feel like you can't do the hard thing you are doing the hard thing when the situation around you screams at the top of its lungs you have gone too far you have separated yourself from normality in which you are wandering something that can no longer be considered predictable or safe seeing running is difficult but running when you are tired when you didn't sleep well last night you don't feel good when you are busy when your schedule is full when you have things to do when you are in the middle of your training and your lungs scream for air, the cloud of pain hangs over you as you advance for no other reason than you told yourself then that you would, that is not difficult, it is transformative.

Going to the gym is hard, but going to the gym when you don't want to, when you don't even feel like getting in the car, when your mind is trying to rationalize a day off, when you're wondering what the point was. To begin with, that is not difficult, that is transformative. Growing your business is hard, but growing your business when you've experienced monumental disappointment, when you did everything you could and were left empty-handed, when you were chewed up and spat out but showed up, kept your eyes fixed on that wind that It's not difficult it's transformative to see these monumental moments that break many of us and that we have come face to face with throughout our lives it's not about easy versus heart them It's about doing the hard thing when it seems that you can't do the hard thing, the world says no, your body says no, the screeching in your head says no, can you separate yourself from that pain, that anger and that disappointment?

Segment the negativity knowing that you will do what you can to remedy this situation, but that the curves of life cannot prevent you from moving forward for the simple reason that you will not leave them when life gets difficult, you have to be tougher than yourself. become bolder you have to learn to surprise yourself here is what I believe the goal is the pinnacle is what I aspire to be when life puts me through hell to dig deep and find the emotional IQ the awareness of knowing that right now is the invitation I've been longing for my chance to level up, so you might be wondering what brought this concept to my mind and well, it was one of life's inevitable setbacks and I had to look in the mirror and say: I'm not going.

Think about the technical problems that simply cost me thousands of dollars and thousands of hours of my time. No, I'm going to learn, but I'm going to set parameters so that it never happens again and to find the opportunity, we'll see when we rebuild, we tend to. To rebuild a stronger clean slate, a new lease on life, where can I be better than I was? Where can I identify and capitalize on value I once overlooked? When we adopt this mentality we become unstoppable, someone from the outside looking in might say it's over and it is, but so are the things I want, they might say it's not that simple, right, running away from our problems is simple, I'm not talking about that life, you could say it's impossible to do it all the time, to think that way every day. day and maybe that's the case, but if we bow our heads and walk away every time life isn't perfect, we'll never try anything.

I'm not looking for perfection. I'm looking for progress. Those who seek perfection tend to spend their entire lives. live doing exactly that aiming planning speculating wanting more for yourself means receiving more rejection from the world means elongated valleys of despair means deeper walks through the heart of the vast unknown across distant lands and across troubled waters means doing the hard thing when Circumstances are what mere mortals call impossible At some point we must transcend the versions of ourselves that we once were We must recategorize and redefine the adversity we face in life Be the ones who find something where others see nothing Find value in what apparently worthless to let We start from the premonition that there is always a solution and if there is always a solution there is always a way to bring it into existence some will stop it easily, well, some will stop it with force, great for everyone, but if If one dares to advance further and trudge into the night, they will be tasked with doing the difficult when circumstances are devastating.

You will be asked to not only sail the ship but sail it through the storm to not only build the tower but also build the heavens open the wind blows and the ground shakes that will be the difference that has always been the difference so what will you do When the moment comes? Who will you choose to become in his game measure by measure? Shakespeare wrote a line in 1603 that I think aptly sums up the reason why so many of us fall short of what we are capable of becoming. He wrote that our doubts are traitors and cause us to lose the good we could often gain by fearing to attempt our greatest tragedies and regrets in life.

Whatever our mistakes are, they are not when we try and we falter. Now the vast majority of the time they arise when we don't even try because fear prevents it. That first step is when we have that perpetual light shining on everything that can go wrong. while the positive and opportunity is found in the dark, out of frame and in a world where you get what you focus on only to focus on the worst possible outcome, it is a death sentence, it is debilitating in the way it I see it, there are a million ways to improve something there are infinite paths and paths and possibilities none of them are certain but here is the interesting thing although the only certainty the only certain thing is that if you don't go you won't get there you will never finish what you do Don't start listening This quote from Thoreau is from his book Walden, which he wrote after two years and two months of living in the woods next to Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts.

I learned this at least through my experiment: if one moves confidently in the direction of his dreams and efforts to live the life he has imagined he will find unexpected success in ordinary hours he will leave some things behind he will pass an invisible frontier new universal and more liberal laws will begin to be established around and within him or the old laws are expanded and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, in other words, the world does not dictate, it reacts, it becomes what we decide it will be and I was thinking about this recently.

Have you ever thought about utility? of water just water and how it is obviously essential for life, specifically humans cannot live more than three days without it, but we can also very easily drown in too much of it, the same thing that is required for life can easily take it away. It all depends on how it is being used and so when I think about this my mind goes to Shakespeare's message about our doubts making us traitors if we let them go to arthr's step about moving forward with conviction towards the things that matter towards our dreams and what I see is a intentional restructuring of the world around us the idea that life can work for us or against us can be our headwind or our wind againstPlease the reason we stay or the reason we leave and who decides you decide I often think about my first creative project once I took the entrepreneurial route years and years ago I referred to the project as quiet desperation in reference to another detailed quote that most men lead lives of quiet desperation because at that moment I realized how easy that could become reality and decided to do something about it for me it was a big step out of the routine in the cycle I finally asked myself who I was living for, where I got lost or I just never bothered to find myself and I don't know the answer to that, but I know that at the time if you ask me, you know, Eddie, what are you really excited about?

It's probably much easier for me to tell you the things I didn't like, I was afraid of it, I wasn't happy with it. I saw that that's what I focused on and that's the point until then I was immersed in the dreaded thought of Thoreau's common hour and so used to it that I didn't think about anything, there was no next step or anywhere else and then I came to that moment, that moment. I hope that at some point we all come to realize that there is very little to lose and much to gain and it drives me crazy how hard we have to fight to understand how easy life would be if it were intuitive, but it is not, it is a journey. muscle that must be built and that is why we must build it, we have to prove to ourselves that what is big and intimidating can be broken down, that what we visualize can materialize, that will always be true, but we must make ourselves believe that identity is written, Trust is earned not once but every day and we must understand that the pain associated with staying far exceeds the pain associated with moving towards our dreams, the first is destructive and the second is what we need, they are not the same, so being how we choose what we see how about a commitment not a commitment to being perfect not a commitment to having all the answers or avoiding mistakes no how about a commitment to allowing ourselves the courage to be imperfect a commitment to going when we don't have the answers a commitment to seeing mistakes as a necessity rather than a catastrophe in this world of subjectivity, make sure the movie playing in your head illuminates the opportunity, not the loss, so that when you fall the inclination is not to run away from what bad but look for the good because I promise. you will get what you seek that perspective will alter your actions which will alter how you see yourself which will alter the trajectory of your life let's leave that mediocrity behind that ordinary hour of thinking as we head towards higher ground the common thing is to be average is a wolf in sheep's clothing seems simpler, sure it seems easier, but those who are immersed in that world are depriving themselves of the answers they desperately need, they are rejecting the hand that perpetually reaches out when we turn our backs on the extraordinary, It's because Fear has taken over the steering wheel and now we are passengers on the ride.

Ride but you have the ability to be more. You have the ability to move towards what matters to you. Take the steps one at a time. Endure the discomfort one second at a time. Acclimate. one day at a time this is a journey that depends completely on you and your willingness to walk out the front door to finally see the things you previously ignored and when your eyes open you will see that you can be your ally or your enemy, this can be the beginning of a new chapter or the continuation of a current. This is your story, and by the way, that doesn't mean others wouldn't love to make it their own.

Wouldn't they love to tell you that life is out of your control. They wouldn't love it if you thought you were dependent on them. outside world that needs them and what they are willing to give you, but no, it is about you understanding that the first step begins with your decision that your autonomy is a strength and an opportunity to start over, change your way of thinking. and what it does. you get changes it is not magic but practical evolution when we force ourselves to see the positive when we look for a way we find it that is reality changing because you decided that it should be that way and that is what the power of perception is nothing more than opening the door that was previously placed before you there is no better time than this very moment to walk through it and rewrite its history as it should be written here is an idea that has changed my life as it has been attributed to Nelson Mandela, the saying goes, everything is impossible until If done well, we see impossibility as this abstract and terrifying concept that implies that something cannot happen, that it is not reality, that it is outside the scope of what we are capable of doing or creating and we feel that, when We are, we are in the middle of the trials and tribulations of life and we feel that push and pull, you know, we feel that when we are working on something and we feel not validated, we feel that everything is in vain, that we are investing time and energy , where is life rewarding us? uh you know, the top of the mountain, the metal, where's the applause?

I can't find it when we feel like you know the solution seems impossible, nothing short of impossible, and what I want to do is debunk that idea and show you how that summary works. the notion of something that seems too big seems insurmountable how can you take that and break it down into very doable and manageable daily tasks that change your life and your relationship with the word that you know exists eh, I want to give you two examples of books that I have read and have I talked a little bit about them on the channel before, but I don't think in this context of how human beings have done impossible, quote-unquote, impossible things and didn't even realize it until they came out.

Right until they crossed a finish line, an abstract marker looked back and said, "Oh my God," and the rest of the world said, "Oh my God," that's not realistic, you know? And what's incredible is that while the impossible was being done, the steps to get there were so small and so common that the people who carried out the impossible acts didn't even understand they didn't know that they were simply putting one foot in front of the other and That's why both stories are related to war and I feel like when you take the darkest elements of humanity, things that are inconceivable to many of us and see how people were able to overcome those situations, that puts things in perspective, right, no. we're dodging bullets here in our own world, um and and and that idea, you know, helps us connect well, so the first one is the book Unbroken by laura hillenbrand and uh, louise zamperini is the main character in that book, she's one of my favorite books and he's a track star who finally goes to fight in the war and his uh, the plane gets shot down, he goes to a Japanese internment camp and he just endures hellish physical and mental torture, he gets beaten, he starves to death, uh , he's, he's isolated, he just goes through mental hell from camp to camp, day after day, sometimes he thinks he would die, he really doesn't. knowing that he is malnourished, seeing people die around him, being beaten like it's an environment that would be difficult for us to understand and one part that really stood out to me in this story is when, at the end of the war, the prisoners They are released and he is talking to someone. about the trip and looks back and says I'd rather die than do that again like I can't do it again, it's quote-unquote impossible and I don't think I used that word, but that's the implication, there's just no way and en Like the reader, when you look back, you think that it is not something a human being can endure.

It just seems like too much when you look at it holistically, but what the prisoners did was take it one day at a time. one horrible, horrible, exhausting, unfathomable day at a time for years and then when the time finally came, you know they looked back and realized that what they had done was incredible one day at a time and it was just heartbreaking, It was so powerful. make him look back on his own journey and say they are imposs like he could never do that again I'd rather die than do it again that's how hard it was that's how traumatic it was but here he was standing another example is in the book The only survivor Marcus Latrell is a Navy Seal and you know he's in Afghanistan with three other Navy Seals who die in action and there's a point where he's alone, he got his tongue bitten off, his back was broken, he was torn apart and he's crawling seven miles through the mountains in Afghanistan while being shot at and taking enemy fire and the depiction of just slowly moving your body forward inch by inch towards safety again is something unfathomable, impossible, not something we can understand, not even realize.

HE. I think it's something that he can understand well and I'm certainly not going to speak for a Navy Seal, but the idea is that it's just unfathomable, but one step at a time, one movement at a time, you can create a different reality, so when you take these examples and bring them back to earth, you know, viktor frankl has a theme that he talks about in his book about how suffering is like a gas that fills any room, it's like everyone's suffering consumes them to a certain extent. period, so we may not be at war, but we are all fighting our own battles and when we are in the middle of difficult times it is easy not to think about getting to tomorrow, but to think about surviving the entire war, metaphorical war, not only crawl with one foot. but looking at the seven mile marker and thinking it's outrageous, a big part of life is convincing yourself to take a step forward and it's such a trivial thing to discuss, it's not sexy, it's not, at first glance, heroic or exciting, it's the mundane.

It gets worse over time and we need to remember it more when it's harder to understand and I talk about it all the time, right, that Nietzsche quote those who were seen dancing were considered crazy by those who couldn't hear the music, it's very difficult uh , stay obsessed with an outcome that is not there, is one of the most challenging things about changing your life in the world around you. You know, dreaming is putting things on earth that aren't on earth yet, that requires mental strength because every step you take You have to remind yourself that it's for something that means something when you desperately want a round of applause because look, it's human, you try hard, you use up enough energy, any rational person is going to say why the hell do they have the stars not aligned, I still don't understand what.

I have to do that's what's interesting people don't talk about the fact that it makes more sense to quit than to continue like the rational brain makes sense that we say no more correct I want to deal with the world that I'm not in one that's not built yet, but that is why we celebrate, we celebrate those moments when we move forward anyway, that we have the vision to see the invisible and do what so few people can do, that is what makes life beautiful. beautiful human beings, you know, we see life through stories, well, ones that can write and create narratives that have not been heard, seen or explored.

That's magic. I talk about the evolution of madness. I wrote about this years ago and it's still one of the most important things I think I've ever written, you know this idea if you take a woman who leaves her everyday life well, for example, and has this passion, this sense of purpose and wants to give it life so she can leave her ordinary world and start building and become obsessed with this idea and the people around her, by the way, who know her for what she was and what she did well, know her based on what they saw yesterday, they say This is strange, but she gets locked up and she gets up and focuses on life and keeps going and keeps going and nothing happens and people point out to her and they say look at her wasting time, right, she had it all before This is crazy and she goes on and on and builds and adjusts and throws her understandings and her knowledge and her experiences against the wall and when they shatter she picks them up and builds them up again and again and again and people say she's delusional. , she's crazy, she's lost her mind, but she holds on she dances without the music long enough to get there, so wherever she is she gets there and now the perception is different now it's exciting now she's not crazy with the world that surrounds her now she is supported on a pedestal now people want what she has, they want to understand how to build what she built how we can do what she did how we can do well what she did they call her lucky she says no that call me lucky it's crazy what she did was build the impossible with very common and very mundane steps never lose faith and remember, and this is the key concept, remember that all those small trivial steps mean something and when she comes out, because We all got there, we will get out and we will look back and we will reflect, we will look back at the impossible that we built. about the magic we create, that's what we need to remember that magic is made with very real practical components of life, simple decisions, it's like the human brain is much more than the sum of its parts, right, you can take any element, huh.

We know physically about the human brain and it doesn't seem that extraordinary, we can't even explain it or understand it, but you put it together and we have something that transcends biology in the physicality that we look at under amicroscope. It doesn't make sense that we haven't figured it out well all those little pieces become something meaningful and my point is that we all have our own journey, we are all fighting our own battles, we will all come to a point because it is human and in some way it is necessary When we look around and question and question the process and don't know if it's worth it, we forget why we started, we can't see the finish line because it's not there yet and we will only see it if we continue to hold that vision in our heads.

That's when it's important to remember what's impossible and how to do it, and every simple decision to step forward is creating the impossible. Today I called someone, a very successful person. True, very skilled and respected in his field, a brilliant platform, a great communicator, just an impressive human being in every way, he says yes, but I want to go a step further. I'm getting frustrated. I don't know what I can do to get there it's like I've been there, in fact I find myself there many times and I think it's amazing that you're looking and asking what pivots I can make, what adjustments I can make, but sometimes what you do not do.

It's more important than what you do and what you shouldn't do is lose sight of how much you've built what you shouldn't do is forget that one step at a time creates miracles that you're on the right track to where you are. I want to be and yes, ask that question, ask how I can evolve, ask how I can level up, but never let impatience overtake the bigger picture, never at the expense of who you are and what you've done, because sometimes life It's just about moving forward. it's about the trivial sometimes it's about the mundane that's what hurts that's what gets you most people don't quit because of a traumatic experience most people don't quit because they suffered monumental damage they quit because small thing does not reveal its value it is very difficult in the midst of the chaos of everyday life to remember what you are building remember each small step is a brick that will evolve into the impossible dance before the music plays believe in the song believe in the melody believe in yourself because there will be a point where you get there and there will be something very abstract and it means a lot of different things to a lot of different people, but there will be a point where you get there you will exhale and you will look back and you will remember what you have done.

What you have done and be grateful, so wherever you are, when you lose sight of your journey, think about that moment, think about how you will feel remembering what you have done and all those times you could have stopped and you didn't all those times. I wanted to say no, but you said yes, they mean something, I'm telling you they mean something, but that's not half as important as the fact that you know it means something, you just need to remember that fact, so here's a step more. In building the impossible, what if I told you that you already know what needs to be done? you just need to put yourself in a position to do it you need to unlearn the rules that paralyzed you the ideas that can find you we are in constant search of what will magically correct all our mistakes the answer that will give us something we have never had know everything you need you have now only you need to allow it to flourish declutter simplify eliminate all those unnecessary things and walk your Path Einstein once said that everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its entire life believing it is stupid and the good thing about this is the idea that who we are is not discovered, it is recognized, it is recognized. accepted and I believe that in our world there are so many fish, as Einstein says, trying to climb trees that it creates a sense of learned helplessness, we are judging ourselves using incorrect metrics, equipped with the skills, characteristics and abilities to win on our own. arenas but playing in someone else's How loyal are you to your own instincts Do you do what you know is right or what you feel compelled to pursue When was the last time you heard yourself on Tim Grover's Relentless?

He introduces a brilliant metaphor, says a The lion does not need to be taught to be a lion, he simply hunts, runs, wanders, explores, lives life the only way he knows how. Now if you capture a lion, bring it to the zoo or put it in a cage, it will behave differently. he will lie down he will move lazily he will slowly navigate his little space to passersby they would never know what that lion really is they will never know what he looks like in his element but despite all this he is still a lion he maintains that killer instinct, his characteristics have not disappeared and If he were freed from the cage he would go back to doing what lions do, being what lions are meant to be, he just needs to get rid of the cage and the point is maybe you too, there is a little light in your soul waiting day and night to explode into something meaningful where your nature meets your environment where I shouldn't do this the odds are impossible I'm not good enough I can't lose what I have now where all that fades away where it's left behind you and you're finally free to reign over your own territory your own life your own empire look we constantly feel like our glasses are empty like we're missing pieces needing something just one more thing that will be our answer that's all we need and I can confidently say no It's not about what you need, but what you no longer need, it's about mitigating the noise so that what matters can shine by eliminating those people in your life who drag you down or add to you. is worthless, it's about getting rid of the things that make your world unnecessarily complex, eliminating the need for immediate validation, success and praise, and instead embracing the little hinges of your life that you said your W Clement Stone, they will finally open the biggest doors that we all have the lock. the key and the map right there, in the middle of the trivialities of our daily lives and we pass by them, we look directly at them, we pick them up and leave them, but have we learned to truly see them?

It all begins with that awareness, my life. It didn't change until I recognized it until I started asking myself questions I had never asked myself before General questions Obvious questions But just because it's obvious doesn't mean it's always intuitive, right? What do I want from life? What is important to me? What is it? something that I love to do, that I can dedicate myself to, that I can commit to being great at long term, that I am so immersed in that when the inevitable moments of downtime, loss, when doubt and insecurity come, I invade, I can keep moving forward because I am so in love with the process, but I don't let little things like that define me, as Jordan Peterson says, choose your sacrifice, a life with meaning is not easy, but there is nothing more satisfying because when you embark on that journey allows the evolution of this self we can become something more this nietzsche says those who have a reason to live can endure almost any way we equip ourselves for anything the universe can throw at us we position ourselves to evolve viktor frankl says the main Man's concern is not to obtain pleasure to avoid pain, but rather to see meaning in his life to align and pursue what is his reason for living, this is how we transcend the everyday life that we know when we breathe. possibility of dancing with infinity and of course something of this magnitude consists of ups and downs, it is not the easy path but it is the one worth taking.

Our metaphorical lion does not achieve it every time he is looking for food but he does not turn around and die, he does not go back. He doesn't even stop being a lion, he gets up tomorrow and does it again because that's how the lion is and although life doesn't develop until you find the same thing for yourself and people say well, I don't know, that's the problem I don't have. idea that is not the problem that is the essence of life that is the beauty that you are here to explore and find for yourself but the power is knowing that you are not looking for something or someone to save you what you are looking for for an environment in that you can be better yourself you are looking for the right terrain to share your gift with the world if you have what you need then you are not looking for the product you are looking for the delivery mechanism the vehicle to nurture and transport your value to a world that needs it you are desperately seeking to strengthen yourself and in the process surprise yourself look what you are capable of is beyond comprehension it is limitless almost unfathomable but it is as Ryan Holiday says a trust that must be earned, so start now, earn it, let yourself succeed, your intuition Know what feels right to you and what doesn't, but you must plant the seed first, so set yourself up for success today by shutting down the idea that you're just one piece away. from completion to a minute from starting you're almost ready no, you're ready now you have what you need now you know what is necessary now you just have to be your own ally put yourself in a position to be yourself let your values ​​shine doubly in the What do you care, look, it's not a game of acquisition, it's a game of courage.

Do you have the courage to be who you are to follow that potential, that possibility, into the unknown? Sometimes what we need most is not what we think we need most. It's not that break we've been waiting for the universe to give us or the answer we've been desperately seeking no, sometimes we just need three words, don't give up, don't go back now and see, I know you want and that. the meaningful the right requires us to give all of ourselves metaphorically speaking it is the most exhausting sometimes heartbreaking but this is your reminder that there will come a point where you will remember this moment and the best thing you will have ever done in your life will be I have continued to put a foot in front of the other, continuing forward despite the circumstances, towards that, which means something to you.

I remember in South Florida a few years ago I moved here and I was exploring the area a little bit looking for a place to live and I found this kind of weird little park between a parking lot and the beach and I stopped and started walking and I ended up sitting on a bench that overlooked the ocean and just looked for a while, I remember Looking at the people who seemed so happy everyone seemed satisfied it seemed like they had it all together I looked at the ocean that was so much bigger than me so vast so powerful the incessant stream of planes flying above me that all seemed to have a direction, a purpose, had their courses plotted and I think I remember it so vividly because I had never felt more alone than I did in that moment, deeply painfully alone and not that I enjoy mentioning These types of experiences, I mention them. because time has repeatedly revealed that from these moments of doubt and sometimes even despair comes what we need most, as long as we don't run from what the world is trying to provide us, it is as if we must experience emptiness before we can feel fulfilled. .

I need to be overcome by this feeling that there is no way out before I realize that there is always a way, as long as we are willing to find it and the pain associated with that willingness, well, it outweighs the alternative. I often break things down into this. dichotomy between the easy and meaningless path versus the difficult and meaningful path, but that can be oversimplified as easy compared to difficult compared to it's easy to shut down when we're at our lowest it's easy to stop when it hurts but it easy now evolves into what is In fact, incredibly difficult tomorrow, difficult, heartbreaking, forever regretful, it is true that he is a controversial figure, but regardless of the fact that one of the most important quotes I have ever read was from Lance Armstrong in his book , it's not about the bike, it says the pain is temporary, it can last a minute. or an hour or a day or a year, but eventually it will diminish and something else will take its place if I let it, however it lasts forever, look how easy, how difficult, it's oversimplified, no imperative context, the question is in our minds. darkest moments.

Will we get up when it hurts so we can walk, run, and ultimately run toward what matters? There is an understanding that helped me because when we are in these situations the thinking is like this, things are wrong, things are broken, my life is not what it should be, I need to fix this and solve it, do it right so I can live a good life. life like everyone else, like there's a deep loneliness associated with that misconception, like the world is armed but I'm not okay, let me dispel that. Notion and purpose of that narrative: the world is a series of objects that mean nothing more than the value we give them.

Seven billion people, all fighting their own battles, all trying to make sense of things, all pretending to be the little fairy tale they've made up. their heads are real or the right thing when in reality we are all just passengers on a journey we don't understand fighting battles that we often don't understand and can't understand you are not broken you are a perfectly imperfect human equipped with the tools to take another step despite the chaos and the uncertainty steps that in the end become everything I remember reading about Jefferson, how he had migraines sosevere while he was president who did most of his important work in the morning because of the high probability that he could literally be incapacitated starting at noon and I thought, man, we're all fighting battles, we're all doing what we can to take advantage of the We make the most of our circumstances to redirect discomfort into opportunity and pain into progress, and what's most incredible is that we can. a saying that it's not supposed to be easy to get where you need to go requires the treacherous path associated with a hero's journey the big unknowns the questions that remain unanswered for long periods of time the villains that seemingly inject themselves into our lives please understand that this is not a reflection of you who you are and your capabilities this is the game of life this is today's difficulty in exchange for tomorrow's meaning the pressure that creates diamonds and you don't have to be sure of anything else You already know that, you will continue to take a step forward because you can, things will not always turn out well, but failures are the new tools to grow and redirect.

You will not always feel on top of the world, but it is in the valleys of despair where we see ourselves. forced to truly analyze think deeply re-approach and perhaps most importantly you may have days where you become disappointed, you fall short, you may lose sight of the courage to which you have tied your dreams, but that's okay, you are not defined by your dreams. errors but the present moment. not an impossible expectation of perfection, but for your ability to get up and get up again when it requires all of you to lift your heads and carry on, so go to that unknown where fear transforms into courage and doubt into strength, go because if This is not where and if not now, when you leave with everything you need and when life finds you sitting on a park bench looking at a world that feels too big and too complex, that seems impossible to navigate, find within you the ability to smile, smile so you've already overcome what you've been through who you are remember that you are exactly where you need to be looking towards the meaning of life instead of coming down to your feet now there are no miracles here no need to jump mountains nor cross oceans but if you won take one step forward and two believe in yourself to put the pieces together as they come there is nothing you cannot do or be there is no obstacle before you that is insurmountable just keep going and sure sometimes that's all we can do but it also turns out that your greatest superpower is simply finding a way to run if you can crawl if you have to, but find a way because deep down in your soul the pieces are there and it will be there at some point while you look supports the biggest decision you have ever made hold the vision but trust the process an idea that should act as our north star as we move forward in life proposes believing in a goal but at the same time understanding that its manifestation will be challenging unpredictable, It may not unfold the way we think for me, although the most challenging aspect of personal growth of building the things that matter, creating realities we dream of, is the obligatory dance we must do with time, the patience that is woven into the equation.

The empty spaces we tend to use to generate doubt and disbelief when life has given us nothing to react to is like creating monsters in our heads and it's really quite something if you think about it. I look back at the last decade. of my life in the most difficult parts and some were unbearable, they were pain stemming from what I knew I had not yet achieved, it was a feeling that I was not moving fast enough the winners in life had that there and everything that I had was this narrative here that was completely meaningless but I certainly felt a real discomfort with the delta or the gap between what I wanted and what I had, a feeling that randomly entered and left my conscious mind as I reduced my goals day after day. day and started to wonder how I can best position myself to grow.

Maintain that ambition, but also do it with less anxiety, as I said a few seconds ago. Keep that vision, but maybe improve my confidence and my relationship with the process. My ability to immerse myself in various activities without thinking about the fact that I hadn't done it. I still got there because look, I know this game, we all know it, there will always be another finish line to cross, that's great, but it can also be to our detriment when we don't look at it properly, there are always higher numbers to achieve. Again, an incredible opportunity, but with the wrong perspective, it is dangerous if you can't find a way to appreciate the now while climbing, you will be lost forever, there will always be a void that is never filled.

I think we need to be better at supporting ourselves through this. On this journey, no one can be there for me like me and I think that's true for everyone, we need to be our own best allies, so I posed this question as I usually do with some of my friends, with different perspectives on the topic. world a little different and basically ask her how can we get out of our own ways or elaine so that we are both tenacious in our quest for evolution to continue doing the things that excite and challenge us and at the same time be a little easier on ourselves by trusting that dance? we do it over time as the process unfolds so I present this question to one of my friends sitting across from me at the table and he thinks about it and says hey well that's what has you where you are , that feeling that there is always more, it is the reason for the success you have had and the success you will have in the future is what will drive you that is why you will be successful people who achieve things are never satisfied Jordan was never satisfied He was happy and in that context greatness and happiness are not compatible and you know I understood that, I certainly appreciated the perspective in many ways, I think he's right, in some ways it reminded me of the idea behind Tim Grover's book, relentless, by that it is an obsession that must take place, it leaves no room for Much more, incredibly valuable to understand, if anything, just to see, just to understand what it means to achieve in a world of obstacles, but the truth is that I was not of the everyone satisfied, how can we better visualize the process so that we can be more powerful allies? for ourselves, that's what I wanted to understand and before long I'm at the kitchen table going over some social media analytics, like the YouTube channel podcast, things like that, um and my dad, who just so happened to fly in from Boston. , it's at the kitchen table we were having coffee and I made a comment about the trajectory of the numbers, you know, I forgot that particular week, maybe it was higher or lower than expected, I don't really remember, but he did this comment about the patience I've had with the channel over the years is just a casual comment, you know, he said numbers are like the s p 500 in the stock market, there are days when it goes down or days when it goes up , but in the long term it is constant.

It pointed up and continues to point up and I found it very interesting. You know, I talk a lot about the little things on this channel, the small breakthroughs that pave the way for larger transformative ideas that change the way we see things and that ultimately change. the way we act changes the results we get and this turned out to be one of them, you know, it struck me perfectly what is perhaps the most important piece of the famous book the intelligent investor what is the idea that made buffett a billionaire is that you invest in things you believe in and you eliminate the emotion you ride out the dips just when the stock market takes a hit and everyone panics and acts emotionally and you sell you don't sell you buy more just when the world rushes emotionally you run in and when the world accelerate emotionally, you do well in life, there will be days when your metaphorical stocks fall, at least you feel like you're doing well, those YouTube numbers, maybe the numbers in the old bank account, maybe the fitness goals fail , maybe you're just We don't see a return on investment, but we are never defined by the events of the day, even the worst days are simply a small part of a much larger pattern and the truth is that sometimes success is so small that you can't see it.

Of course, you will be anxious if you believe that every day should be composed solely of mountain tops and finish lines, if you are always looking to compare, contrast, but sometimes success is point zero zero zero zero one percent better, sometimes the Success looks like the S P 500. Taking a hit Falling for a day a week or a month Sometimes the growth doesn't look like what we want it to be, but like smart investors, you are investing your money in the belief of that at some point in the future the value will increase. be taller than you are now and this idea has been everything to me, especially on days when I feel like things are going backwards for periods of time where I feel like I have been still where the voice in my head presents all.

There are types of scenarios where I could have been better or done more and maybe that's the case, but these times are nothing more than data points, they are steps along the way and knowing this essentially frees me from the illusion that growth It is always visible and I can always look. around and see a visible triumph uh, it allows me to march towards my goals and my dreams having a renewed relationship with each step, you know, there is a saying that we should keep our heads in the clouds and our feet on the ground, life is keep going. juggling extremes and I think this does it well, our strength is in the ability to take those steps, each one of them is a message to the universe that we are stronger than yesterday, but what makes our journeys truly divine is that they are not composed of or built with those steps like a house of cards where a false step or some delay will cause everything to fall and collapse.

What makes the journey divine is the infinity of paths that can lead to its there is no materialization Wrong paths Some arrive earlier Others arrive later Some halfway through the trip make us realize that the compass was not even pointing to the correct destination. Well, they change what it means to arrive, but the point is that every step is necessary. Every step is a miracle, but the power. It is not contained solely in one step, but rather in what we choose to do with all the steps combined, dips, lows and losses only have meaning if we give them importance;

Otherwise, it's just a few stops on the way to something beautiful, so why? exhausting energy on data points that have not yet reached destinations in the future, destinations we trust ourselves to discover anyway, our emphasis should be on the present moment, on gratitude for the fact that we can wake up and choose the activities we want. I have chosen and some days those pursuits will feel like the miracles they are, we will see the finish lines, the mountain tops will feel triumphant and some days those victories will be hidden in sight but they are there anyway as we move forward. towards the great unknown that is life rebuilding every second, every minute, every hour, together to become the path that takes us to where we most need to be, there has to come a moment when it is now or never, where you look at your reflection and you realize the cost of waiting.

Much more expensive than the cost of venturing into the vast unknown on each trip, that's when life actually begins, but here's why this is so complicated. What has taken me by surprise so many times in my life is the many forms that waiting takes, but waiting is not. Always sitting there and doing nothing at all, sometimes waiting is just the bare minimum, it moves so slightly and so slowly that you can essentially trick yourself into thinking you're making progress and thinking you're getting there, when you really have stopped. and see if you were honest with yourself if you really took a second to review to analyze you would see that you are leaving almost everything on the table you are not creating progress you are dancing with the idea of ​​progress sometimes waiting can I mean going fast enough to not having to look at the fear you hide behind.

Thats the reality. I think it's very normal, but I also think life is too short for normal. I believe we can do better than usual and I believe that with all my heart and soul, the world has for us the spectacular seat there on the top shelf waiting for those who can acquire the self-confidence and awareness to extend hand and grab it, and how crazy it is to realize that we could have been sitting. next to what we have needed for days, months, years, but we never learned to extend our hands and reach for them. When I look back, the most important moments of my life were not a tangible acquisition and I did not see the flashy things that try to capture our attention. money, condos, even social media growth, business growth, whatever it is forWhatever you're working on, those things are wonderful, they're reference points that hopefully align with your North Star, but they don't make a difference, they're not quite right, they were the byproduct of what really mattered, they weren't the moments that moved the needle, my best moments were mental changes, cognitive transformations, that's why I do this for a living.

I see how much can change when we step back and look at life a little differently, it was my realization that I was asking too little of myself that the world won't see greatness in me until I see it in me that change that pushed me to demand more from myself, seek bigger challenges, value my work more, charge more for my services and that mental change is what made some of those externalities possible, it is realizing that if you want more, it is on the table than yesterday. It does not define you that it is never too late to start again that you have everything you need right these are the ideas that really change lives they make a difference and if we do not become aware of these things we leave them in the rearview mirror we pass by them in other words The most important moments in my life were when someone or something shook me and effectively said Hey, look around you, if this is what you want, fine, enjoy it, but FYI, there is more out there and if you move forward a little , if you do a little more, if you pivot and come at this a little differently. will expand that reach, will create another ripple effect that will transform your life, but we need to stop and look around, a good friend of mine, and this was the other day, we were having lunch, we're talking about marketing and, uh, you.

I know we always joke that marketing is just a part of the business that I don't particularly enjoy, it's necessary but it's not my favorite, so we're going through different strategies, ideas, and he comes up with one and I'm like something like huh. You know I don't need to do that, it seems a little over the top and unfiltered, man, you're hurting your reach like, what's the point of that metaphorical restaurant that's not on anyone's radar? you're going to be the best pizzeria that no one knows and I just realized, it's like I need to look at that differently, maybe there's room to be a little more aggressive again, one example of many and not always the idea or opportunity is the right one or necessary one right, but at least you stopped, at least you thought about it, at least you contrasted where you are with the possible advantages of doing something different, that's where we leave the opportunity on the table, you know, most of the time we include painting regret like this, uh, the result of this blatant turning away from something, a deliberate statement, a kind of oh no, I'm not doing that in any way and sure sometimes that's the case, sometimes we are We are aware of our fear and refuse to move forward, but I wonder how often our neglect or rejection is softer, more subtle.

I wonder how much of our regret comes from simply not stopping and looking around us, not letting in alternative points of view that challenge us and force us to level up. How much of our regret comes from simply not understanding how short life is? is and how quickly time passes and if we don't create some abrupt change in our daily lives, if we don't create some momentum in our lives even when it seems less ideal to do so, you know the ship we needed. being on will set sail without us, so remember your hardest days, even the ones that took you out, that brought you to your knees, and you realized you survived every one of them.

You've spent four years acquiring the armor piece by piece to move toward something bigger, you've been learning, you've been evolving, but today, how about you sit down with yourself and have the discussion you don't want to have but need? How about you're wondering if it's time to jump where you once stepped? run where you once walked, how about you take a good look around you and ask yourself why you are living in ways that don't serve you? why you are giving up so much of what matters again, the evolution you want and need is there, it is always there and That is the key takeaway: it will always exist, but the question is: will your commitment to stop and think and reach for it be in there? of years?

Looking back, I think we will discover that our willingness to ask those questions mattered more than we could have. Have you ever imagined that silence often implies the lack of adversity necessary to evolve because the reality you want does not come to you, you must go to it and that means reapproaching the normality and comfort of today, seeing those things as what they are a continuation of the status quo. nothing changes until you change, so take a look around you, examine those pillars that hold up your worldview not once, but over and over again, and if one of them, many or all, needs to be torn down, then the point here is that you can construct the point. here is that life happens on your terms, whether you realize it or not, that to do nothing is to accept what things are, it is a nod and a nod of approval towards reality as it is, so ask yourself again what you want from life and if you are missing that. mark tearing down what needs to be torn down it may be difficult now it may hurt now it may be uncomfortable now but when you finally find yourself on an existence that aligns with who you are and what you want you will see how necessary it all is So it was there all along and thank you God you found within you the ability to reach out and take Him so that you could