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Meeting yourself: when all the niceties and layers of comfort have been stripped away, you get to have a conversation with who you are. You can shape and mold this deep version of yourself, but only when you push hard enough to find it.

Hard things we practice every day develop the habit of taking action when we don’t want to

Focus on the micro actions you are doing every day in the present. Any goal worth achieving takes daily action over decades. Prove to yourself that you’re the type of person that can do something every day.

You can’t start achieving goals until you take control of yourself

“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced” - Van Gogh

If your kids see you work out every day, you are teaching the lesson that if you show up every day and put in the work you get results

Whether you’re chasing financial or physical goals, the more you think about them the more known and valuable they become to your brain. Over time you start to see opportunities that you never noticed bc your brain didn’t know you cared to see that info.

If you have only suffered one to two days of poor/no sleep, one 9 hour stretch can bring you back to normal. However, if nine hours of sleep is not a possibility for you, that outlook is a bit more grim

Our body will make its best attempt over and over to adapt to a poor health decision. However, you are merely slowing yourself down one wrong choice at a time. You are slowing down, but the fact that you are still moving, makes you think everything is still OK… Until that is your pancreas says screw this I’m out.

It turns out bringing your real A game is a daily discipline that develops over decades.