If you hit a low point and your mind starts to stall in the negative, you are best to resist those thoughts and flood your mind with positive words.
It can be a challenge to do it, but if you don’t pull up, you can spiral into a negative oblivion.
Repeat favourite words and people. Remind yourself, repeatedly, that you are a good and worthy person.
The battle for your mind can be won by you alone.
There are many things to buy and many reasons to buy those things.
Let’s use a car for an example. When people want to buy a car, it is usually so they can get from A to B. It is a mode of transportation. In which case, any working car will do.
Then there are the considerations. If it’s new, it will cost more and depreciate fast but it is likely to be very reliable and come with a warranty so the time in the garage or costs of repairs will be minimal.
A 10 year old car will be much, much cheaper and will have depreciated quite a bit. On the other hand, it might require more time in the garage and cost hundreds or thousands more for repairs.
Another factor might be what you’ll pay for more luxury items. You decide you need heated seats, a sunroof, and air conditioning. You also prefer leather seats.
These are all fine options, if they are within your budget.
Finally, sometimes people want more than transport and more than their own personal luxury preferences, they want a flex.
Sometimes people want a car that lets people know something they think is important. It can be a demonstration of wealth, class, refined taste or cool.
Be careful with this last criteria. It often backfires. What you think other people will be impressed by, can sometimes turn their potential admiration into something far less pleasant (like envy or distance).
Buy the item you want in life, for your total enjoyment, not what it signals to other people.
Learning without action is like not learning at all. You need to put your knowledge into action, or why did you spend the time to acquire the action in the first place?
Take massive action immediately and start to gather momentum toward your goal. Then put habits in place to maintain or intensify the momentum.
Learn more and take more action. Your life will be unrecognisable!
You need to repeat new ideas, thoughts and habits many times before they lock in.
Do the work. Do the reps.
Even if the decision is easy and the execution is hard, do it anyway.
Don’t delay.
Get it done today.
Do it now.
Smile. Chin up. Be positive. Do your best.
Keep shining.
Drink lots of water every day.
Drink a glass as soon as you wake up to wash out the digested and to hydrate from 6-9 hours sleeping.
Stop drinking at 7pm. That way you won’t wake up as much at night, or at all !
There is always a silver lining. Sometimes you have to search very hard for it. Other times it doesn’t feel that great, regarding the silver under the circumstances, but it is there. We can seek to get something out of every experience.
Sometimes it does take days, weeks or years to discover the win or accept it. But when you look, you’ll find the win. Look for one every day.
Appreciate and take care of your things. Look after them. Place them back where they belong so you can easily find them every time you need them.
