The way to excel is to use a professional’s mindset …even before you are pro/in the high tier of your field. That means you relegate motivation and inspiration. Simply show up to the work. Every day. @SPressfield explains.
Most people vastly under-exercise their dogs & it harms their mental and physical health. 30min, twice a day brisk walks (every day) is the bare minimum … & some need far more. @cesarmillan points out: If you truly love your dog, you’ll get it the exercise it needs.
Happy Birthday America, Land of the Free.
Don’t give up on the First, Second, Fourth, and Ninth Amendments.
They’re unique, and your freedom - and the worlds’ - depends on them.
Kevin O’Leary: "What was so brilliant about Jobs that I tell every CEO now, and I don't care if you're an S&P 500 CEO or you're just starting a business, his vision of Signal was the top three to five things you have to get done in the next 18 hours."
Real pleasure comes from overcoming challenges, feeling confidence in your abilities, gaining fluency in skills, and experiencing the power this brings.
Your worst thoughts are not your enemies. They are just bad chemistry. And chemistry can be changed.
Your body and nervous system can be brought into a balance from which you can tap into endless inspiration.
You can set yourself up to get rid of those negative thoughts and replace them with moments of inspiration.
How?
By utilizing nature to change your body’s chemistry.
Dip your hands in icy water. Take a cold shower. Stand barefoot in the winter air for a few minutes. The cold strips away distractions and quiets the mental noise.
This is not comfortable nor easy. But in that sharp experience, something shifts.
The daily routine and worries seem less relevant. The cold forces your presence to this intense moment. Clarity. Fresh and undeniable.
The cold doesn't judge you. It doesn't care about your status, your achievements, your failures. You show up as you are to meet it. Nothing else matters in that moment.
And in that meeting, your neurology changes.
The cold is really it. Together with the breathing.
I will guide you.
-Wim
"Until death, all defeat is psychological." - Marcus Aurelius
Refuse everything that would lead most people to give up.
Refuse it.
Rise from the dead 1000 times.
Commit to never stay down & never give up.
Everything you want is on the other side of struggle.
Society was built to make money.
Indifferent to your health and sanity.
For example, we did not evolve to:
+ sit 10 hours a day
+ have our attention fractured 300 times daily
+ compare ourselves to millions of others
+ travel 9 time zones in 13 hours
+ tolerate sounds above 85 dB causing hearing loss
+ outsmart algorithms hijacking our reward system
+ breathe fine particulate air pollution
+ live under 16+ hrs of artificial light a day
+ have 3 courses of antibiotics before age 2
+ eat ultra-processed foods for 60% of daily calories
+ consume 17 teaspoons of added sugar a day
So if you're feeling down in the dumps, maybe fatigued, a little or a lot depressed, anxious, that's why.