High-Performance Lifestyle
The more I read and learn, the more obvious it becomes that the key to fulfillment is an alignment with purpose.
It is a vocation, life’s task, hard thing, passion, or obsession.
Whatever it is, sustained success depends on it.
When you stagnate, when the desire to excel and push your life forward ends, so does many other things in your life.
You cannot live a high-performance life without an outlet to perform. – Chief
There is something about fear that is hard to explain.
We all know how it feels. We understand why it exist as we explain away some biological notion of self-interest we remember from high school science class.
The truth is, we don’t understand fear at all. [Read more…]
Imagine becoming a hero in your mind.
Imagine becoming the person you always wanted to become, rising above your self-limiting beliefs and conquering every obstacle in your way.
This picture of yourself was probably someone that you currently aren’t. But that is the power of an alter ego, where the person you think about is also the person you are working to become.
An alter ego doesn’t have to be someone beyond your physical reach, it could be someone that you are striving to become everyday.
Consistent daily effort is the key to becoming. Hold steady the picture of who you want to become and work relentlessly until that person is you.
The hero you want to become is on the other side of deliberate effort. [Read more…]
Helen Keller once noted that life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Too many of us start out truly believing in this as we make plans for trips around the world (after graduation of course), and then we make plans for daring adventures (after we get a good job of course) and then we make plans to save up (for a nice house of course) and then we make plans for a funeral. [Read more…]
Describing a year’s worth of reading with one sentence is a proven way to distill the key ideas, main concepts, and major takeaways.
Incorporating this practice without notes reinforces the idea that knowledge without action is meaningless.
If you cannot summarize what you read, you cannot take action on that information. Then what you read is useless.
The path to success is massive, determined action. – Tony Robbins
