High-Performance Lifestyle
Life is about constant motion.
It’s ever changing, fluid, unmolded, and always evolving.
Those that stagnate, are still moving. Just backwards, further away from what they desire.
Life is in constant motion, never still.
You are either moving towards or away from your goals, but you are never the same. – Chief
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
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…]
The most important thing that comes from reading is learning how to navigate difficult things or times.
That is why a lot of people read before making a career transition — the path ahead is murky, mysterious, and scary as hell. So people read to help ease their transition.
How about when starting something new?
It is much more uncommon. People would more than likely walk into something fresh-faced and eager, but woefully unprepared. They might be willing to learn but would have done zero work prior to showing up. This small difference separates the best from the rest.
Starting new things is not easy and it may be more difficult to open up your mind to the idea of reading ahead or preparing before beginning. The difference is in the details, it is a slight edge. [Read more…]
