DAILY MINDSET “Perfection can be spelled with the word paralysis.” - Churchill The act of “starting” is all to often the most challenging. As human beings, our survival mechanism kicks in when we approach change. It sounds the alarm, telling us we are in dangerous waters. We may find ourselves forecasting to the future, vividly conceptualizing the hardships, obstacles, and all the tough unknowns that path may bring. This defense mechanism is amazing for avoiding predators. It

DAILY MINDSET “Water the flowers, not the weeds.” Imagine your vision being a water hose. And wherever your attention goes, you water. Whatever we water… grows. There is truth behind this. Every day, we are going to spend our water (our thoughts), on something. There is a finite amount. If we choose to spend it on the weeds, the negatives in life, those thoughts will grow into reality. But the opposite is also true. Check in with ourselves today. Are we watering the flowers,

DAILY MINDSET “All progress depends on the irrational person.” The thought that a human could run a sub 4:00 mile was absurd. The attempts to put human beings in a giant metal tube and throw them into outer space was thought to be even more ridiculous. When we think back to the largest accomplishments in life, it was done by those who defied the status quo. It was done by those believed things could be done differently. We know that change is uncomfortable. It has to be. But

DAILY MINDSET "The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." Ralph Waldo Emerson Fate puts opportunity in front of us. Destiny is the result of what we choose to do with it. In turn, destiny is a choice. Not some predetermined thing of fairy tales and lore. We can sit and allow destiny to happen to us, or we can choose to have destiny happen for us. Don’t wait to be chosen. Choose. Decisions = Destiny. Metcon for CF Unlimited & CF Lite "Handle wi

DAILY MINDSET “What is important is seldom urgent, and what is urgent is seldom important.” - Dwight Eisenhower Dwight Eisenhower lived one of the most productive lives you can imagine. It comes with no surprise that his methods for time management have been studied by many. He creates for us a divide between two categories – urgent tasks, and important tasks. Urgent tasks are things that you feel like you need to react to. Emails, phone calls, texts, “the news”. Meanwhile, i

DAILY MINDSET **“It takes as much energy to wish, as it does to plan.” – Eleanor Roosevelt** The term “wishful thinking” is a bit of a broken statement. It’s the creation of an elaborate vision, a goal or something we want to reach… but without a plan. What Eleanor Roosevelt suggests in her quote is to stop day-dreaming, and bring those goals into reality through action steps. And if we can do that, we quickly remind ourselves that we are literally problem-solving-machines. T

DAILY MINDSET **“Give more. Give what you didn’t get. Drop the old story.” - Unknown** Self-identity is a weapon. A weapon that can be on either side of the trench. When we think about this quote, we might be thinking of our past. And if you're human, chances are that at some point in your life you held onto a “bad memory”. It would manifest into our daily lives in a unique way, and potentially frequently. Every individual and experience is different, yet there is a commonali

DAILY MINDSET **“People don’t fear change. People fear sudden change. People fear revolutions. People don’t fear evolutions.” - Simon Sinek** When we sit on this quote for a moment, we can draw a parallel to a recent experience. Think back to a recent experience that was full of change. Was it uncomfortable? Of course it was. Now take that same experience and pretend as if those changes were briefed to you on January 1st, and they steadily took place over the course of the c

DAILY MINDSET **“Character is the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life. It’s the source from which self-respect springs.” - Joan Didion** “Owning actions” often brings a somber tone to it. We can adjust that, for the better. And the quote above offers an angle on how we can do that. Instead of carrying a “fault” theme, we can take a different lens to ownership. That of positive control. Take for example “not getting the job”. We can decide that we won’t own

DAILY MINDSET **"The highest compliment you can pay me is that I work hard every day... that I never dog it." -- Wayne Gretzky** The more we study the great, the more we see this recurring theme. Across the board - from sport to conference room - there is something the great point at. The root they attribute their success to. It’s not something they did, but instead *how* they did it. At the end of our lives, as we look back, what will we think? What will we judge it by? When