Tripwires to Success
Most people want to achieve more, tackle an audacious goal, and become successful. What does that success process look like? There are a few important but little-known parts of the equation. They’re tripwires to success, since people trigger them because they’re unprepared for them.
The Process from Mediocrity to Mastery
The process is everything. You don’t end up a master. You achieve a level of mastery, at which you really start the higher learning. Mastery is not a place, but a process.
Achieving Your Goals
Set goals that are so compelling they pull you toward them. Bold, daring, audacious goals create emotion desire in both your subconscious and conscious minds. And when you engage both, you’re going to be motivated to take the daily habits that manifest them.
Dream Big, Act Deliberately
Don’t wait for some external factor to start. You don’t know if it will ever come. You have to create the event. You have to be that person.
Discovery, Adventure, and Action in 2019
What’s your wish for yourself in the New Year? Do you have a word to summarize where you want to go? What are some of the daily habits and behaviors you’re starting, to become the highest possible version of yourself?
Creating a New You, Part 2
I’m not a big fan of these approaches, because they usually end up being about conforming to labels and categories.
How about instead you simply create yourself? Into who you want to become; the highest possible version of yourself.
Creating a New You, Part 1
To me, the relevant metric is how the version of you on December 31st 2019, will be any different than the version reading these words now.
Change Your Story!
I spent my 16th birthday in jail, while I was awaiting trial for armed robbery. One day there was the sound of jangling keys and I looked up to find the guard letting a visitor into my cell. His name was Baxter, and he was the father of a girl went to high school with. She had beseeched him to try and help me.
The Delusion of Denial
We love to make excuses for other people’s successes, crediting them to luck, circumstance or simply random breaks. But how little we actually investigate enough to learn the many obstacles ultra-successful people actually had to overcome.
Dream Big and Dare to Be Different
Dream Big and Dare to Be Different
So many people today are doing the opposite. They’re trying to fit in, act normal, and be accepted by society. That’s actually a pretty horrific strategy if you want to be healthy, happy and prosperous.
