The spirit has no age And yet is shackled To the age we tell it to act From the people who tell it to us From the people who told it to them From the people who made it up The spirit has no age Let it roam free To be as it may— Age-free and un-trapped.
Doubt comes with the territory of doing something new.
Don’t ignore the doubt.
Don’t vilify the doubt.
Don’t run from the doubt.
Welcome it. Lean into it. Inspect it.
What you might find is that doubt is actually a signal that you’re heading in the right direction.
Confidence comes from the pain.
Until eventually, the pain results in a success.
This success shouldn’t mark an end (to pain), but rather a new beginning.
For hiding from pain is the path towards atrophy—the antithesis of success.
Confronting the pain is the path towards hypertrophy—the best friend of success.
And as it is with exercise, working your muscles to hypertrophy once (one success) will have little long-term benefit.
It’s the repeated exposure to the pain (of exercise) that leads to the noteworthy gains in muscular size and ability.
And if you want to increase the “size” and “ability” of your life, you have to treat your confidence “muscles” the same.
…And follow the pain.
We don’t succeed because we have no weaknesses.
We succeed because we fully utilize our few strengths.
Trying to eliminate all weakness is a waste of time when you could be using all of that time to massively improve upon your strengths.
The brain is for having ideas—not holding ideas.
Find an app or a paper to do the holding.
And allow your brain to keep firing.
One of the greatest time and energy killers is in-the-moment self-negotiation.
Those who plan their day ahead—get ahead.
Not necessarily because of what they plan (we all have a pretty good grasp on what we should be doing daily) but because of the fact that they planned and there will be less time/ energy wasted on figuring things out as they go.
As trivial as this might sound—even one good decision and a couple of minutes saved every day adds up! …I’ll take 365 minutes of my time back per year thank you very much.
Never leave your important decision making to the moment—it’s an awful time and energy sucking guide.
Do your figuring out ahead of time and focus all of your time/ energy on executing what’s ahead.
…And get ahead.
What we pay for in attention We purchase in identity What we consume by choice We create from inevitably The person we see today Is a byproduct of yesterday And who we'll be tomorrow Is paid in full each day—invariably