Category: Reframe your thoughts
Why Wait?
If you want to achieve something, why wait five years to start? What are you waiting for? Start working on it right now from today.
Start with the idea and set aside 30 minutes in your calendar today to research it online. Book the specific 30 minutes in, say from 8:30pm to 9:00pm.
Yes, you’ll miss that tv show you kind of like. However, this small sacrifice will also prove whether you are serious about pursuing this idea or you only sort of want to do it.
Then, put 15-130 minutes a day into your calendar for the next 7 days so you’re clear when you are working on this. And then do it!
Isn’t Life Incredible!?
Yes.
Although there can be desperate and hard times, tough situations, emotional and physical pain, there is also the flip-side.
There is joy, beauty, euphoria, love, bliss and moments you want to never end with people you adore.
What you choose to focus on will determine where your life goes. The more you think about the negative, the more pain and suffering you’ll need to endure, if only in your own head.
The more you focus on positive thoughts and gratitude, the stronger, happier and calmer you will be.
What’s crazy is you get to choose. Your circumstances don’t have to change, just the way you look at them.
And for some masochistic reason, there are many people who prefer to complain, point out the downside, see fear in everything and be unhappy.
When you can just flip the switch in your head and focus on the positive and gratitude and feel better almost instantly, it seems wild to me to choose the opposite. (Yes it does take daily training)
What do you usually focus on? Be honest.
Isn’t life incredible!?
Mix It Up
Change your habits, foods, clothes, route to work, Thursday nights, or even your favourite holiday destination.
Try something new.
Be On Time
It shows self respect, that you’re organised, and that you respect the other person’s request and their time.
And by being on time, that means show up 5-10 minutes early. Then there is no argument about whether you were on time or not.
It also indicates that you think that the person is importance and that you value their time in your life.
Of course the opposite to all of these is also true.
Be on time.
Let Them Cook
To add a little extra to Mel Robbins’ latest book, we should let them cook. Let your kids show you what they can do. Let your employees do their thing.
Let people play out their game before you jump in all judgey with complaints and comments.
You don’t run into the kitchen at your favourite restaurant and criticise the half made soup or partly cooked main. Let people do the full cook before you jump on your judgey wagon and explain how they did it all wrong in your (often less experienced) eyes.
If You Could Do Anything
What would you do?
Write it down quickly.
Make a brief plan.
Start making it happen today. First step first.
Go!
Find Your People
Find the people that uplift you and challenge you to be the best version of yourself. Surround yourself with people that will stretch you and encourage you to do the work on yourself and maintain the discipline required to succeed in your preferred field.
Find good people, not easy people. Look for those people that will call you out on your pity party nonsense. Don’t find an easy crowd, go where the stakes are high and the challenges stretch you every day.
Say Yes
Yes opens doors. Yes is a positive feeling.
Yes is powerful.
Results Or Distraction?
What do you focus on? How do you plan your day? Do you let diversions or drama interfere with your discipline?
The more results you achieve in a day, the faster you’ll grow your business. The more distractions you allow in your day, slows your business down, costs you more and weakens your brand and your reputation.
Use time wisely. Stack the results!
