There's no neutral when it comes to growth. You're either getting better or you're getting worse. Choose to get better more days than you get worse and you will keep growing.
Build
When you face adversity weakly, you build weakness. When you face adversity with strength, you build strength. Both are a simple choice that contributes to your foundations. Build wisely. "We don't always get to choose the adversity we face.We do always get to choose how we respond to it."Anthony Dyson
Environment
Changing your external environment may work in the short term, but more often than not it's an internal change that's really needed. Inversely, the above isn't always true as long as the external change is accompanied by an awareness of the internal requirements. Like anything, you own the choice, and that choice is only very... Continue Reading →
Perception of force
It's rarely an external force that causes us to act, rather our perception of that force. So if we focus our attention on that perception, we can change the acts. Why did something anger us? Was it the thing, or was it the perception of the thing? It’s the perception isn't it? That's good -... Continue Reading →
Individual Sacrifice
Communities don't function without individual sacrifice. It doesn't matter what that sentence gets related to, it's true. If you don't sacrifice for your community, then you are hoping someone else will. Luckily, for the most part, we still live in a society where there are more people willing to sacrifice than not. If that scale... Continue Reading →
Unhappiness is a choice
I've been thinking recently about how happiness is sometimes viewed as a special choice or gift and that unhappiness is seen as a default of sorts. That if we don't have this special ability to be happy, that we can't. I don't think that's true, and knowing that it's not can be uncomfortable. We choose... Continue Reading →
Lockdown Strong
The Inspired Lion "Lockdown Strong" tee has been designed. I came up with the idea for this shirt while working out in my garage a few weeks ago. I was thinking about all of the awesome videos and photos I'd been seeing of all the warriors out there finding a way to keep up their... Continue Reading →
If not us, then who?
If not us, then who? This is something that didn't mean much to me for most of my life but the last few years it has certainly hit me deeper. This whole thing, and by thing I mean the world, doesn't work unless we all pick up some slack; in our careers, with family and... Continue Reading →
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