Everyday we all deal with positive things and positive people. As well as negative things and negative people.
What you focus on, is a choice only you can make.
Some people choose to magnify negatives and get stressed out by their problems and challenges. If you allow this to happen, you will soon begin to attract more negatives.
Dedication does not have an off season!
Posted: May 09, 2024
The feeling of motivation is the willingness or desire to do something. I think everyone would say it’s a lot easier to accomplish a task when it feels like you have plenty of energy and time with the finish line of the project in sight. I love those days!!!! Take them when they come as a welcomed gift and be grateful.
The feeling of motivation will come and go, no one feels motivation 100% of the time. To continue to make progress we also need the ability to be able to “push through resistance” when things feel out of alignment. Resistance can come in many forms; it may be the resistance of needing to get something done despite not having the energy, it may be the resistance from a co-worker who doesn’t play their part in completing a project or it may be the feeling of doubt that will periodically occur as you pursue a worthy personal goal.
Motivation is fun to talk about, but if you are only able to workout, study, follow a nutritional plan etc. when you feel motivated you will be forever destined to put energy in when you feel good and lose all the gains you made when you don’t. A person who practices small, steady, daily sustainable action will beat those who waits to feel the motivation before they take action EVERY time. For those things that you are truly desiring to manifest in your life, dedication does not have an off season.
Failure IS a good thing!
Posted: May 03, 2024
A Personal Challenge: Actively pursue the opportunity to fail…
I think beginning in grade school, we were taught that you either pass or fail. Pass of course is good and failure of course is bad. Well when it comes to academic grades it is, but oddly enough when it comes to life some people are starting to question whether lack of failure is really a good thing.
Let’s look at competition in sport martial arts for a moment. If a student was competing as a white belt in the beginner division and over a 6 – 12 month period never lost, I think most people would be questioning why the student hasn’t moved up in Rank. 100% success yes, but where is the growth? The student could conceivably continue his winning ways for two more years, accumulate lots of trophies but never really get any better.
When Multi-Tasking Bad for you?
Posted: April 17, 2024
The more you use your brain in a specific manner, the more it gets accustomed to working and the task at hand tends to become easier and easier. Good and Bad.
Each time we multitask — by browsing the internet, scrolling on social media feeds, checking emails and so on — we train our brains to lose focus and get distracted. Here’s the bad news. Just like the effects of a drug, our brains can get addicted to the dopamine rush from switching tasks and losing focus. Once this happens, it becomes very difficult to break the cycle.
So, what does this mean and how does it relate to the Pillar of “Focus on You.”? From the perspective of giving yourself complete and total attention when you are goal setting, laying out your week, working out, meditating, etc., if your habit of thinking is based on jumping from one thing to another, it will be difficult to rewire your brain when you need it to be there exclusively for you. Next time you are tempted to hop quickly from one topic to another, please remember - there is a lot more at stake for you than simply getting things done.
We all have 24 hour per day and seven days in a week!
Posted: April 10, 2024
While life may in some cases, may not be fair, what is fair is we all have 24 hour per day and seven days in a week, no more, no less.
How we use our time determines the result we create. In today’s fast paced world, there is not a shortage of things to do.
We can literally be busy with activities that will eat away all of our valuable and needed rest and recharge time. To learning new skills or upgrade what we already know may require compressing some of the daily tasks so that we can create the block of time to take the class, read the book or invest in some face-to-face mentoring. We can all work hard every day doing the daily tasks but not make forward progress in our position or level of responsibilities.