🤔 Morning thoughts (November 25- December 1)
Every Sunday I share a quote and a reflection on it for each day of the week.
Themes of the week: Truth, Accountability, Self-awareness, Discipline, Focus, Resilience, Freedom
Sunday - December 1, 2024
"Like an anesthetic, avoiding the truth numbs us from pain, but it also cuts us off from freely and fully engaging in the world. In addition, denial and self-deception require energy, which is then no longer available for more productive activities. Happily, the opposite is also true. Opening to the truth about ourselves creates freedom.”
Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement
Honesty with himself is what separates the high energy, truly free individual from the masses chained to a reality they have no control over.
Saturday - November 30, 2024
"set aside judging yourself until after you’ve committed to the practice and done the work."
Seth Godin, The Practice
Your daily actions stem from your self talk but sometimes you have to suspend it and let the actions themselves speak for you.
Friday - November 29, 2024
"the most important boss whom each of us answers to is ourselves. And what it means to have a better boss is to have a boss who raises the bar for us but still gives us a break when we fail. What we need is a boss who is diligent and patient and insightful."
Seth Godin, The Practice
We don’t rise to the level of the external praise we get, we fall to the level of our self talk on our most challenging moments. Watch it.
Thursday - November 28, 2024
"Tunnel vision helps. Being a bit of a shit helps. A thick skin helps. Stamina is crucial, as is a capacity to work so hard that your best friends mock you, your lovers despair and the rest of your acquaintances watch furtively from the sidelines, half in awe and half in contempt. Luck helps - but only if you don't seek it."
Felix Dennis, How to Get Rich
To reach a level few fathom, you need to shift your mindset to play on a level few would even want to consider. As long as you do it for the right reasons and with the right work ethic and service attitude, don’t be afraid of a little isolation.
Wednesday - November 27, 2024
"Worrying is a way to hide from the fact that we are wavering on our practice."
Seth Godin, The Practice
Every trick our mind resorts to when it doesn’t want to work for us, has to do with how much importance we place on our ego and outcomes. Take the first step, methodically and dispassionately to see its all just smoke preventing you to see the next simple move.
Tuesday - November 26, 2024
"With growth-based decisions you feel it in your body: an expansion of your chest, ideas in your mind, a feeling of competence increasing. A feeling of freedom expanding."
James Altucher, Reinvent Yourself
Learn to feel the signs that you’re on the right path. Intuition and sensations are worth following when they come out of alignment.
Monday - November 25, 2024
"Executional excellence is all about the process, the daily rituals and sacrifices, and the commitment. It is your process that matters, not the goals."
MJ DeMarco, Unscripted
Success is in the systems. Spend more energy and time perfecting the way you operate and who you operate with. This includes perfecting yourself. The goal will materialize as a consequence.