DAILY MINDSET “Most of the time we feel tired not because we’ve done too much, but because we’ve done too little of what makes us come alive.” - Jim Kwik We’re not going to pretend the hard times go away. And that we won’t need to do things that we’d rather not. We have commitments, obligations, and bills to pay. But when we find ourselves in a daily loop of non-stop “work”... we won’t feel like ourselves. But it’s not the time we put in at work that causes this. It’s the tim

DAILY MINDSET “Don’t tell me who you are. Tell me what you are.” When we are asked “who” we are, we default to our past. We define ourselves by our resumes. Although our past may give us insight of where we’ve been, it cannot be what defines us… for it’s the past. When the question however asks “what” we are, we tend to give a different answer. We describe who we *really* are. It’s one of character, values and beliefs. Will we be defined by who we’ve been in the past, or by w

DAILY MINDSET “Give more. Give what you didn’t get. Love more. Drop the old story.” We often hold onto the past. And we all have felt ourselves do it. Sometimes they are worn as scars, sometimes like trophies. It’s not uncommon to use past events as a chip on your shoulder. “They didn’t believe in me”. All of those are potent motivators. But they only last so long, as they are fleeting and weaker forms of ammunition. When we “fight against” something, such as something in th

DAILY MINDSET “If you fight for your limitations, you get to keep them.” - Jim Kwik Our harshest critic is in between our ears. We’ve all been there... telling ourselves we suck. That we’re simply not good enough. Too old, too young, not good looking enough, not smart enough. Each time we tell ourselves these things, we add one more vote to become them. The mind has this incredible power to bring into this world whatever we fixate on. Yet what can be the harshest critic, can

DAILY MINDSET “If failure is not an option, neither is success.” We fear the one who is willing to lose it all. The one who is willing to play full out with no reserves. The one who swings for the fences. That’s a dangerous person. Dangerous enough… to accomplish something great. We all have a comfort zone. A status quo. It’s warm, cozy, and familiar. But it’s a box, with a ceiling and walls that we can see and touch. It’s a world that cannot grow further than what it’s alrea

DAILY MINDSET “Bread today is better than cake tomorrow” - Chinese Proverb There is a common misconception about drive. That if we pause to celebrate today, that we will lose our fire for tomorrow. We’ll lose our competitive edge. And we’ll be satisfied with where we are. Something we want to recognize: Gratitude is not linked to a lack of drive. Or a lack of performance. It’s actually quite the opposite. There’s a hormone in our brain called dopamine. It’s the “feel good” ho

DAILY MINDSET “There will never be better you, than you.” There is a lot to be said about authenticity. The first definition inside Merriam-Webster reads, “worthy of acceptance or belief.” If there’s one sure way to find failure in something, it’s through not being ourselves. It just doesn’t pan out in the long run. While we always remain a student, the harm lies when we blur the lines between emulating the traits of our mentors… with trying to actually be them. Our mentors d

DAILY MINDSET "Vision is the bottleneck of effort.” We talk a lot about effort. It’s the gasoline that will drive us to our destination. And there is no substitute. It’s often however not that effort is lacking when we aren’t reaching out goals… and instead, it’s a lack of direction. There are many highly capable people in this world. They have the gasoline and the horsepower behind it. But *where* they direct that energy is the misstep. When they wanted to travel from the Ea

DAILY MINDSET “You can easily judge the character of a person by how they treat those who can do nothing for them.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Cue, craving, response, reward. In “Atomic Habits”, by James Clear, this is the loop process that determines many of our actions. A large part of the above is the final piece - the reward. We can be reward oriented beings. It’s not a bad thing by itself, but we do find ourselves in trouble when it is the *only* thing. The quote above

DAILY MINDSET “Do not fear failure. But be terrified of regret.” - Ashley Soughtley Spaulding The reality of life is that we will hear more “no’s” than “yes’s”. And we will fail. A lot. But despite the hundreds of doors closed on our phase, the hundreds of times we are told “no way”, they will never haunt us. What we will regret will be the instances where we gave up. Where we told *ourselves” no. We don’t fear failure… we welcome it. It’s where the learning occurs. Where the