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by
Tommy Baker
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October 25 - October 26, 2018
Our expectations are sky high, and we’re prone to giving up at the first sign of struggle or obstacles.
The first iteration of your goals is never the end result—the magic is in the pivot.
Without starting and jumping into the cold water, you’ll never clearly see the pivot and the opportunity in front of you, no matter what area of life you’re in.
recognizing the adversity and ultimately using it as a catalyst for the next step.
We will experience challenges, adversity, and chaos at least once every single day. Operating under this ethos allows us to not be surprised, but rather to get excited when it comes.
you’ll systematically move your life forward with an inner knowing that nothing can phase you, and it’s only a matter of time.
When we feel we’re moving the needle forward in life, even a seemingly insignificant amount, we stay motivated. Progress keeps us inspired and on track.
the single most important is making progress in meaningful work.
The 1% Rule: 1% progress + daily application (consistency) + persistence (focus) + time (endurance) = success.
When I focused on small daily actions tied to the larger vision, I felt invigorated and inspired, and I moved the needle.
When I focused on the end result and the massive vision I’d created, I felt depleted and uninspired, and suffered from paralysis by analysis.
Any process of learning can be separated into three buckets: knowing, doing, and being.
We only truly value that which is earned—and specifically, that which we earn through the process of becoming.
The process is the metamorphosis of who you’ve been to who you’re becoming.
Without a doubt, the number one obstacle standing between people and their dreams is a lack of focus.
Contrary to popular belief, boundaries are not selfish—they are selfless.
Once you’ve proven you can do this for at least 45 days, add time.
Duration is less important than intensity and consistency.
Grit can be simply defined as perseverance and passion for long-term goals.”
When we truly, deeply, and authentically desire our visions, we will persist in the face of extraordinary challenges.
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
Enthusiasm is common, endurance is rare.
To achieve overnight success will require a decade of consistency.
We’re unwilling to delay gratification of our most basic human desires.
Everything costs something—and I mean, everything.
Focus on the next step—right here, right now.
If you don’t fill your day with high-priority items, others will fill your day with low-priority items.
Every time you level up, audit your circle and environment.
Lean in, and double down. Learn to love the resistance and understand the courage it takes to live a life on your terms.
Surrender means being “all in” to a point where you let go of the clenching grip you have on life and open up to the depths of what can happen.
The how is where dreams go to die.
Remember: you don’t have to hit a home run every single day—you simply have to get in the game.
It’s for the tenacious few who understand and embrace that the process of growth is never linear and requires the pillars of focus, persistence, and endurance to stand the test of time.
What’s simple is powerful, although never easy.
The moment you recognize someone else’s success and greatness as a reflection of what you’re capable of, everything changes. You’re inspired by them, and you’re compelled to believe in yourself more deeply. You fall in love with the possibility—they’re the real-life proof you can do the same.
Your pain is your power and contains a gift.
Here’s why your pain is a source of power: it centers you and helps you focus on what truly is important today. It brings you down to the right here, right now and eliminates distractions.
When the what and why are bold and vivid, the how starts to reveal itself.
It’s not about them—it’s about what they’re saying that we’ve already told ourselves.
“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
“You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by, you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last.”
“Urgency is not the natural state of affairs. It has to be created and recreated.”
Set daily targets, and celebrate crushing them.
Declare your outcomes, and put yourself on the line.
The more you succeed and grow, the more urgency must be manufactured with higher and higher levels of accountability.
Accountability is jet fuel for your results and requires the following four pillars.
a fast-paced world, reflection is as important as action.
Reflection is as important as intentional action.
“To change is to become greater than your environment.” (Dispenza 2017)
