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I discovered there were people using personal development and seminars as an escape, not as a tool to execute and create progress in their life.
When I focused on small daily actions tied to the larger vision, I felt invigorated and inspired, and I moved the needle.
Classic texts like The Slight Edge (Olsen, 2013) and The Compound Effect (Hardy, 2012) detail this brilliantly.
Any process of learning can be separated into three buckets: knowing, doing, and being. During this powerful process of integration, we take a concept from something we know to something we do, until, ultimately, it is who we are.
“Write a page every day,” he advises at the top of a list of eight writing tips he published in the New York Times recently. “That’s about 200 words, or 1,000 words a week. Do that for two years and you’ll have a novel that’s long enough. Nothing will happen until you are producing at least one page per day.”
We only truly value that which is earned—and specifically, that which we earn through the process of becoming.
Barry Schwartz, psychologist and author of The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (Schwartz 2016),
Dan Millman (Millman 2017) celebrated author of seventeen books, including the blockbuster Way of The Peaceful Warrior,
Peter Drucker famously said: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.”
Daniel Coyle in The Talent Code (Coyle 2009),
This book was Deep Work by Cal Newport (Newport 2016), an accomplished professor, writer, and researcher who seems to accomplish more than anyone in his field.
Furthermore, the quality of your output increases, as does the level of your feelings of purpose and fulfillment.
ruthless boundaries:
This intense clarity—with a
deeply rooted why that gets me emotional—allows me to endure. It takes a massive goal and puts me in the driver’s seat as I become obsessed with the process and nothing else.
In your life, once you have massive clarity on where you’re headed, combined with a deep and powerful why, you’ll begin to unlock the persistence and grit req...
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“The moment your desire for knowledge and wisdom matches the desire you just experienced for air, you will have it.”
When we truly, deeply, and authentically desire our visions, we will persist in the face of extraordinary challenges.
Enthusiasm is cultivated through meaningful work and progress.
It’s telling you bluntly that something is missing, and you’ve gotten too comfortable with the status quo.
Enthusiasm is common, endurance is rare.
The amateur sits around waiting to be inspired while the pro creates inspiration.
“It takes one message on one day to change one life.”
I’m here to help you unlock the greatness already within you, the one you’ve forgotten about, ignored, or run away from.
Reflection is as important as intentional action.
Did I do everything I could in this experience of life, given all the gifts I’ve been blessed with?
