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Dan Sullivan
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January 19 - January 25, 2022
“The day you stop racing is the day you win the race.” —Bob Marley
You’ve moved forward and the horizon moved with you.
Like your cars headlights on a dark road; you can only see about 10 yards ahead of you. But as you move forward, the roads' visible horizon moved forward with you.
You measure your own progress. You don’t compare yourself to something external. You don’t measure yourself against your ideals.
Consider: Everything you've seen, heard or read has been seen, heard and read by someone else (society's ideals), they don't belong to you. But what you FEEL belongs only to YOU. It's crazy absurd to accept what someone (or society) says is right before you identify what's TRUE! (Always ask yourself; how do I FEEL about what I am thinking? Learn to feel your progress to help you correct your thoughts)
It really doesn’t matter what the experience was; the choice is fully yours in how you frame it—whether in the GAP or the GAIN.
Like "it is not what you say, it's how you say it that makes all the difference. How you FRAME IT. Wheather you are talking to yourself or to someone else.(Many ideas or projects are rejected not based on merit but out of objections to the way they were framed upon presentation).
Everything in life happens FOR you, not TO you. Nothing can stop you so long as you transform every experience into a GAIN.
Like "preferred indifferents" and "dispreferred indifferents".
“All progress starts by telling the truth.”
It's insanity to decklare something being "right" before you know what is True! (Miguel Ruiz & Aztecs Four Agreements: 1)Make your WORD impeccable [especially to yourself]. 2) Take nothing personally. 3) Never ASSUME anything. 4) Always do your best.)
You can freely perform and be in the flow, rather than obsessing over how it will turn out.
Learn to get comfortable with UNCERTAINTY. It's everywhere and it's beautiful. Identify what you want. Identify what you need to do. (Learn.Practice. Prepare). Enjoy the "doing". Enjoy the journey. Never obsess about outcomes. Outcomes are all uncertain and unpredictable
The reference points for your own success are being created for you, not by you.
Accept that electromagnetic energy flows through you and around you (it's the force of the Universe - the force that created you) it's perfectly managed and smoothly dealt with on all dimensions of Space and Time.
The way you mentally filter experiences shapes your emotional and physical response to those experiences. There’s an entire field now based on this premise: epigenetics, which shows that our perception of events and situations shapes how those events affect us.7 Research shows that your interpretation of events, despite their objective characteristics, determines the impact of stress and illness on your body.8,9 The way you interpret an experience literally affects how your body metabolizes that experience. Perception shapes biology.
It's not what happens to you that's problematic; it's what you think about what happened to you that causes you problems. (Victor Frankle)
So much of experience comes down to the meaning or framing a person gives to it.
The Four Agreements (Miguel Ruiz)🚩
1.Make your words impeccable, even to yourself.I
2.Do NOT take anything personally.
3.Never assume anything. (Resesrch, investigate, Due Diligence Question and even then keep an open mind)
4.Always do your best. (Some days your best will be better than other days, no matter just do your best).
You could be going through a challenging and even stressful experience, but your body can positively handle that experience because you’re framing it as a GAIN.
The problem is NOT the problem; it is how you FRAME the problem that IS the problem!
“Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.” —Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican theologian and human rights activist
Always, always be Impeccably correct in the language YOU use in your self-talk! Be impeccable with the words you you use when talking to YOURSELF!
