Daily Mind Medicine

It is your job to build the environment you need to regulate the moods that you have.

Where there is growth, there is always sacrifice. What in your life do you need to let go of?

I would posit that most of the unhappiness in people's lives doesn't actually come from their circumstances, it comes from not having a clear definition of where they want to be.

Constraints are one of my favorite tools to get your mind to think deeper.

Do you view the passage of time as an ally, a friend, a tool, or do you view the passage of time as an enemy you are working against?

 When you become invested in longevity, it's amazing how your priorities shift around. it's of paramount importance that you prioritize rest.

We have to separate the identity of the human from the spectrum level of skillset because the reality is we're all changing, all growing.

If you are going through a season where you feel like there is an extra level of stress in your life, then you should learn to be grateful for that stress because if you can frame it in the right way then that stress will be one of the greatest supplements for your growth you can find.

There is something powerful about setting your timelines correctly and appropriately. Beware of trying to speed up a process that really should take 2 years, into 2 months just because you saw someone else do it.

The ability to train ourselves to enjoy the process is something that I believe will enhance and optimize your ability to get to the prize. In the situations where the process was most painful, the prize was most enjoyable.

Catalysts will always have a mixed review. If you are a catalyst you are always going to carry with you a little bit of mixed review.

We have to be aware of our instinctive reactionary responses because it gives us insight into the areas of our life that are unhealthy.

There are things that are valuable and there are things that are priceless. You have to know the difference between things that are valuable vs what is absolutely priceless.

What are you going to be called upon to do to get the things that you want? What are the requirements, what are the sacrifices at times that are necessary to get those things. The more clarity you can build now, the less discipline you will need later.

You've got to be willing to maintain your focus through the season where it feels like nothing is moving forward. That is the number one task of the vision focused, growth-oriented performer.

The more grounded the thing needs to be, the more safe the thing needs to be, the more important it is for the thing not to fail, the more time has got to be invested into the boring foundational work. If it needs to last the long haul, then you have to rewire yourself and reframe yourself that it is worth slowing down to build it right.

 Don't follow the mainstream agenda of go-go-go-go-go, grind-grind-grind-grind-grind-grind. The way for you to do business and the way for you to grow is to balance equal parts pushing with equal parts recovering.

It's your choices that are keeping you stuck. There's nothing being thrust upon you. It's not the economy, it's not the government, it's not the president, it's not your friends—It's you and your inability to follow in the footsteps of others who have done it before successfully.

Math is almost everything. I want to encourage you to wake up in the morning and start putting your thoughts together—what do I need to do today, what do I need to do tomorrow. The clarity you will get from this is incredible.

No matter where we end up, I have control over the most important pieces of my life: which are how I respond, how I act, how I decided, and ultimately the choices that I make.

It doesn't matter how educated, or talented, or intelligent you are if you do not know what direction you are headed. You have to know where you are at first to get a direction.

A large piece of attribution for why you are not hitting your targets is likely because you have not figured out how to frontload and pay the full price early.

We have to get to a place where we enforce the vision and the will we have on to our circumstances. We have to get to a place where we are not held hostage by circumstance.

We're either lacking an idea or we're lacking the execution of an idea.

There's nothing in the world worth robbing yourself of peace. No amount of money. No amount of fame or success.