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Trying vs. Not Trying

Published on August 15, 2022

Not trying may appear safe, but it’s actually quite risky.

Trying may appear risky, but it’s actually quite safe.

Appearances can be deceiving. And how your mind (ego) responds to what appears to be risky is… avoid at all costs.

The mind likes to preserve what’s here—what’s guaranteed. It likes to maintain its reputation, stray from embarrassment, and stick to what makes it (you) look good.

But, by not trying you:

Never learn
Become less competent
Miss moments of self-discovery
Close opportunistic/ serendipitous doors
Leave open-thought loops around “what if…” (regret)

See, it’s by trying that you get the opposite of all of the above mentioned things…

Insight
Competence
Self-Awareness
New opportunities / serendipity
Understanding of how things would’ve played out (no regret)

…An undoubtedly much safer means to living your best life.

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

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.

Are You Lazy?

Published on August 13, 2022

Or are you…

Doing uninspired work?
Not getting enough sleep?
Emotionally disconnected?
Surrounded by emotional vampires?
Letting media suck the life from you?

Lazy is usually a symptom; not a character trait.

The Reality Of 1% Gains

Published on August 5, 2022

1% gains is the philosophy that guides my life.

Each day, I try to:

Improve my workout numbers by 1%
Eat 1% cleaner
Sleep 1% better
Etc.

But, I don’t always reach this goal.

Sometimes, what 1% gains ACTUALLY looks like is:

-2% on my workout numbers
-3% on how clean I ate
-5% on the amount of sleep I got

While 1% might feel infinitely achievable… the reality is, we’re imperfect creatures immersed in an imperfect world and we have to account for the ebb and flow of life.

There will be days when you’re feeling it and crush your daily tasks (maybe even with 2-5% gains)… and there will be days when you’re not feeling it and you dip into the negatives.

Don’t let this discourage you—stay the path.

Keep investing in yourself like you would your retirement investment account. Continue to reinvest with the goal of the overall average being a 1% increase rather than the actual increase being 1% every single day.

The real power of the gains come from the long-term compounding of regular reinvestments. Just ask your financial advisor. Trying to get a forever positive return on any stock/fund in the market simply isn’t practical. And neither is a forever positive return on any task you undertake in life.

You don’t get 1% returns each and every single day.

You get 1% returns on average over the course of years and years of regular investing.

THAT is how you get the real 10/15/30% gains and that is how you get the most out of your personal development habits in life.

Stay. The. Path.

Imperfect Help

Published on August 3, 2022

There are no perfect people helping imperfect people.

Only imperfect people helping other imperfect people.

Don’t let perfectionism hold you back from helping—it’s a lie.

You’ll always be imperfect and now is always a good time to help—no matter how imperfect you may feel.

Today’s post was inspired by this tweet from Jeremy Ginn. Thank you.

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.