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Pain Shield

Published on February 9, 2023

The amount of pain we can withstand isn’t a matter of capability… it’s a matter of tolerance.

We’re capable of tolerating WAY more pain than we think.

And the benefit of pushing past that thinking limit (e.g. hard exercise) is that new tolerances are reached.

This isn’t about being self-destructive or self-harmful. This is about building mental strength and fortitude.

Because the pain will come.

And having an increased tolerance is like having an upgraded shield that’s ready to withstand more of whatever life decides to throw our way.

And upgraded shields against life are always a good idea.

P.s. I asked people to: Tell us a story of a time when they were the target of a random act of kindness. The answers will restore your faith in humanity. :)

Skipping The Hard Part

Published on January 18, 2023

Arriving at the destination of your dreams MINUS the substantial hard work is a formula that thrusts an unrealized version of you into over-your-head dream situations.

It’s the “author” who can’t hold a deep conversation on the book topic.
It’s the fitness “influencer” who can’t teach a 1-hour fitness class.
It’s the business “coach” who has never built their own business.

It’s precisely the thing that makes arriving at the destination HARD that allows you to actualize your full inner strength and potential.

Skipping the hard part only makes your weaker, more incompetent, less insightful version show up to the opportunities you’ve always dreamed to have.

…Which will quickly turn into a nightmare after all.

This is all to say… stop trying to skip the hard part.

P.s. These are the 20 books I read in 2022. Which one would you like to read key insights from the most?

Stepping Stone Goals

Published on January 17, 2023

The thing about creating MASSIVE goals…

Is that doing the small things required to realize them feels disproportionately beneath them.

Focus less on the MASSIVE and focus more on the stepping-stone goals that make the non-negotiable small actions feel more substantial and worthy.

The Best Comfort

Published on December 7, 2022

Remember this about comfort:

It’s a lot more enjoyable when it’s closely preceded by discomfort.

E.g. Think about the couch after hard exercise or bed after the demanding day.

Comfort minus discomfort leads to a sort of long-term discomfort that’s far more brutal than anything we push ourselves through in the short-term.

Imagine this: your body naturally opposes anything that puts it outside of its comfort zone… so you make such gradual, incremental, deliberate changes that you essentially slip past your body’s comfort zone radar detectors and ninja your way to a better life without getting thwarted with every single one of your body’s exhausting resistance mechanisms.

I honestly think this is a viable path.

Get Ahead By Doing Less

Published on August 14, 2022

When you do less, you can rest more.

When you rest more, you’ll have more energy to do what’s hard.

When you do more of what’s hard, you’ll get ahead.

Don’t let people fool you into thinking you always have to do more—it’s a trap.

When you take your total energy and divide it amongst more tasks it equals less energy for all of the tasks: including (and most importantly) the hard ones.

And less energy for the hard tasks is how you fall behind.

Don’t fall for it.

Do less.

Becoming More

Published on August 1, 2022

When things are easy… less of you is required.

And if you only do what’s required… you’ll end up becoming less.

Less than what your god-given potential is capable of becoming.

Want to become more?

Well… Remember this when things get hard.

We’ll see how badly you really want it.

P.s. In case you missed it, you can read the best of what I posted to MoveMe Quotes last week, here.

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