Loving yourself deeply enables you to love others with more authenticity and fewer judgements. When we become accepting of ourselves, we find it easier to accept others for who they are.
Start with a paragraph before you write a book.
Start with a week at the gym before you commit to a year.
Start with making £100 before you try to manifest £100,000.
Start now, even if you start small.
Looking back, most of the excuses I made...
not enough time
not enough money
not enough knowledge
not the right connections
...were just ways to avoid the real bottleneck.
Not enough courage.
There was always a small step I could have taken—if I had the guts to take it.
The challenge for anyone interested in making progress is to simultaneously have (1) the confidence to go after what you want and (2) the humility to accept who you are right now and (3) the willingness to build skills that bridge the gap between 1 and 2.
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Take all the energy you spend on...
-worrying about the past
-worrying about the future
-worrying about the news
-worrying about what others think
-worrying about if you might fail
... and channel that energy into one useful micro-action within your control.
Then repeat.
Before something can compound, it must be sustained.
This includes:
-Money compounding in your portfolio
-Productivity compounding in your organization
-Love compounding in your relationships
...and more.
In the long-run, the sustainable way is the fast way.
Lack of confidence kills more dreams than lack of ability.
Talent matters—especially at elite levels—but people talk themselves out of giving their best effort long before talent becomes the limiting factor.
You're capable of more than you know. Don't be your own bottleneck.
An important lesson I learned during my baseball career:
I would rather be pitching when we lose than not be on the field.
Blame me for the loss. That’s fine. But I want to be in the arena.
I’d rather have that responsibility and fail than not be trusted at all.
I was asked today one really simple question "what would you like to hear? What song would you like to listen to?" I was empty, no answer. What do I like. I no longer know. A journey to rediscover myself should begin.
#selfcare
What looks like a talent gap is often a focus gap.
The "all star" is often an average to above average performer who spends more time working on what is important and less time on distractions.
The talent is staying focused.
Can we get through this? Of course we can. Imagine being born in 1900.
Age 18: WWI starts, lasts 4 years, 22m die
Still 18: Spanish Flu epidemic kills 50m over 2 yrs
29: Great Depression; economic collapse over 4 yrs
39: WWII starts, lasts 6 yrs, 75m die
Are your choices yours or are they created by your social conditioning? Are you creating your reality or someone else's? If we don’t take full control of our mind & choices, we’ll never manifest what we truly desire. We’ll only experience the things that other people want for us.
Being low-key and working on yourself, without labelling it or convincing others about your moves, is a truer reflection of growth. When you’re in it for you, you don’t need validation from others.