You have been working hard and this is where you dig in and hit the gut check if you have what it takes to finish this thing strong! It is so easy to wane and let the focus go.
We just got off a conference call with our mastermind group, and we worked on some mantras and phrases to live by, so we can seize our opportunities in life and always be living intense, and I want to share them with you in hopes that just one may be the essence that leads to your success in life!
1. Someone out there is out working harder than you! : Just when we think we are working hard, the reality check that your competition is out there probably working harder than you dawns; and lights a fire inside you to get back to work and get off your ass and not rest because you already think you arrived.
2. Win, Don’t Defend the Title: create your own journey, don’t try to recreate what you did before. Find a new way to success. Drew Brees, quarterback of the New Orleans Saints, who was voted “Athlete of the Year” and won the Super Bowl this year, after receiving his award at the ESPY’s and staying up to celebrate with his team, was in the gym at 7am the next morning to get back to work and prepare not to defend his championship, but to find a new way to win it again! What about you? Maybe you have reached a weight loss goal of 20lbs and have another 20lb to go. But, the second 20 are harder than the first 20. Versus trying to do the same exact thing you did for the first 20lb loss, it could be time to find the new path to your next level of success. Do you have what it takes to create a new path unlike the first?
3. Sweat the small stuff- I know most people say, don’t sweat the small stuff, but in fact the attention to detail is what it takes to be great! This is not about things you should be letting go of, like petty things between people. This is about making sure in order to be great, you notice the fine tuning it takes to keep getting better.
4. Love the process, don’t focus on the product- this is a huge one when we think about weight loss and a commitment to lifestyle. Are you trying to lose weight just for the lbs lost, or because you love the process it takes to live healthier, stronger, and a more fit life that allows you to be more productive, live more intense and love more fiercely? When you love the process, those small incremental steps that together form the massive success- are the reward.
5. Challenge Your Routine- ask yourself, does your routine stink? Could your very habits and the routine you follow every day be at the root of your problems? We say so often to find a routine, well what if the routine is the problem and it needs to be changed? Can you do it? Is your routine to always miss your workouts, and go out with friends for happy hour? Is your routine always to plan too many things, to much work, and get together with family with too much food lying around? Well maybe there is the issue, and it needs to be addressed? What about your routine needs to be looked at? Do you have what it takes to face the facts and make a change?
6. Create an Edge- find the thing that makes you 1% better! Was it that you said no to one more cocktail, because you have a mission to reach a goal? Was it you stayed up and read a book versus watching another TV show, so you could learn something new? Was it versus listening to music in the car on a 3 hour drive you listened to some self-mastery CD’s? What can you create each day to give yourself the edge?
7. Win the Day- just look at one day at a time and what it takes to seize that day. Was it you woke up exhausted, but you found a way to dig it out and do that thing to win that day! How can you win each day and string together small victories that have enormous results?
8. Everything you do speaks volumes about you. If you are always too lazy to go to the gym, you are probably too lazy to deliver on the company project. If you are always looking for excuses and ways out, blaming family for why you couldn’t fit fitness and wellness in your day, you are probably the typical person who scapegoats everything. If you are too scattered and can’t follow a to-do list, your life is probably a mess and you can’t commit to a team, work or a relationship. If you can’t get back to someone in a timely manner, you are probably not someone who can meet deadlines. What does your life and how you act say about you?
9. Stay Hungry, Don’t Believe the Hype- Even after you think you have arrived, don’t believe your own hype, keep at it and always strive to keep getting better.
10. Challenge One Another- simple and pure. Lift one another higher and it spreads like wildfire how amazing a world we can live in!
These are the top 10 thoughts we worked on today. I hope just one might ignite the fire and belief in you to go create something beautiful for each of your lives.
