If you want a great outcome, you need to have a great commitment to the process. Without that, it's just empty words.
Master the basics
Greatness comes from a mastery of the basics. When the pressure is on, or you're getting flustered, or you feel like you're behind where you should be, the temptation can be quite daunting to do something fancy to get yourself out of the hole. Funnily enough, that's the opposite approach than what you should probably... Continue Reading →
Falling is necessary, failure is a choice.
I've spent the last month learning how to skateboard as part of Chapter V of my Project Lion Mind challenge, and the biggest thing I've learnt is that falling is necessary but failure is a choice. Every single thing we try to accomplish will present us with varying levels of resistance; the greater the potential... Continue Reading →
What would you tell your friend?
"What would you tell me if I was in a funk?" That's the simple advice I got a few weeks ago from a friend when I was having a down day. My first thought was "Yeah, whatever" but after some more pushing it became clear that I knew exactly what I needed to do to... Continue Reading →
Do it well
"The struggle always comes from looking too far into the future, from placing emphasis on expectation, when all that matters is how well I'm doing the thing that I'm doing right now." One of my biggest struggles is always what I'm going to do next and what I will become in the future. I... Continue Reading →
Hold the line
"Are people going to take advantage of the relaxed restrictions and cause a new problem?" We seem to be at a tipping point. The COVID-19 numbers are quite low here in Australia and from my purely non-medical perspective, seem to be under control. The logical next step for a nation in economic struggle is... Continue Reading →
Process
"I gain so much from the process of writing" This was one of the thoughts to myself while writing a daily journal entry in the last week. It was a cool moment where I was completely lost in time researching an old quote so I could grasp a better understanding of it while constructing the... Continue Reading →
Success
A colleague of mine posed this question today, "What does success mean to you?" This question gave me a good opportunity to think deeper about my own definition of success. In my early 20's, success for me was the gaining of a thing; a job title or promotion, a new car, house, wife and children,... Continue Reading →
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