The Success Story File
We owe it to the people we serve to stay consistently conscious of our own mastery and excellence – our badassness. Because it’s from that state of pure competency that we are most capable of serving powerfully.
We owe it to the people we serve to stay consistently conscious of our own mastery and excellence – our badassness. Because it’s from that state of pure competency that we are most capable of serving powerfully.
Successful people develop the ability to manipulate their emotions to suit them. In fact, the ability to choose your states governs how your entire life unfolds.
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By moving towards, we activate the mechanics that are inherent within our desires – the mechanics for their fulfillment.
There is no problem with this world; the only problem is the way I see it.
Become the person who doesn’t interpret the world problematically, but rather opportunistically. And then there no longer is a “wrong side of the bed”.
What if life was one big lucid dream? And for most of us the dream was one of those dreams where you need to run but for some reason, you can’t. And even though you know you’re dreaming – if even only on the faintest of levels – you still can’t get yourself to run. And it sucks.
Forget running. Why don’t we just fly?!
My gift to myself was my “Fifty or 50 Project” where I shed 50 pounds in 4 months (it was actually 56 lbs in a little less time than that)! And my birthday gift TO YOU is here in this message.
I have a mind, but I am not my mind. I have a brain, but I am not my brain. I have thoughts, but I am not my thoughts. A favorite mantra of mine, and an amazing rule of thumb: Whenever you are feeling anything even remotely unpleasant, it is for one reason and one reason only. In that moment you are believing a thought that is simply not true. That’s amazing news because…
I saw this article in the paper the other day. It was on the front page of a section about careers.
Don’t worry if you can’t read it. In fact, it’s really good that you can’t read it. Because it’s really really bad advice. It’s the kind of horrible advice that promotes victim thinking. It’s the kind of advice that explains exactly why 80% of American’s report disliking their jobs. And the funniest part is that this article was written by the same company that did that study – CareerBuilder!
Let’s go through each of the 7 pieces of advice, and I’ll tell you what they SHOULD have said (which is the opposite of what they did say).
If you use the phrase, “I woke up on the wrong side of the bed today,” go ahead and stop doing that. Stop saying that.
We’ve all heard the phrase, “There’s a time for work, and there’s a time for play.” That little piece of advice has implications inherent within it that just don’t jive with all the observations I’ve ever made into the realm of human peak performance.
So what’s an affirmation, anyway? A nice flowery little phrase? A sweet little jingle that’s gonna make everything alright? If I can just keep reciting it every day it’ll come true! Right. That’s a very popular lie…