Daily Mind Medicine

There are times to press the gas and times to press the brake. Do so in the wrong sequence and you'll end up somewhere you don't want to be. The danger of going too fast will lead straight to burnout and reckless behavior.

 If you get stuck in a rut, one of the greatest weapons is to turn our focus to someone else that is need. The temptation for our generosity is to invest in someone or something that will pay you back. If you want to get out of a rut, invest with no intention of reaping a reward.

Insecurity is the root of a lot of negative emotions. It's much easier for you to achieve what you want to achieve if you can wake up in the morning knowing that today you're going to be exactly who your potential says that you can be. Operating in a way that is pure and what you feel like is right, regardless of what the world thinks about me, will cause you to honor your potential.

Over the last few weeks, I've been getting less and less happy. Everyone has different fuel sources. If you're smart, you will diversify those fuel sources and allow them to propel you forward. Live by this - Wake up discontent and go to bed content. Learn to be happy in all seasons and appreciate the growth along your journey.

The human psyche wasn't designed to go hard all the time. At least one full day per week should be a time to decompress and release the pressure. When that full day off doesn't make you feel better, you are at the end of an energy cycle and it's OK to take a break. Most of us error on the side of expectation - not on the side of the issue itself.

Your "why" will drive you when material things or "success" won't. Don't forget the why behind the what.

You always have an option to compare yourself. You can either let other people decide what your standards are, or you can let the person that you're called to be decide. Don't let ego tell you that you've made it. The true definition of success is doing the little things with same amount of passion and vigor as you do the big things.

Most people give in to fear every day. It's an evolutionary part of our biology, but when it takes over and becomes irrational, it can paralyze you and take you out of the game. Rather than being fearful of fear... learn how to use it for your good.

Working hard is not always doing the hard work. There's a difference between the two. Take time to think and reverse engineer your way to your goals. You will be tempted by the workaholic devil - put your full effort into doing the hard work and you'll never have to work harder.

If you make your life easier, you make your world smaller. Stop looking at the external and asking how to make things easier. You should be asking questions that grow the internal - things that will allow you to work smarter. If you can make your life easier indirectly by becoming a person of greater strength and capacity, improving your ability to be agile and change quickly, then your world will...

Cause and effect is a simple concept. "In spite of" breaks the cause and effect. You are powerful "because of" the problems in your world. Overcome resistance and the troubles that come at you so that you can rise to the occasion "because of" the things you've gone through.

The questions that you ask on a regular basis define your emotional state. If you want better answers, start asking better questions.

A lot of times the moments that are most painful are the ones that are unexpected. All of a sudden, we're caught up in a moment of difficulty, but the rain is actually good for you. It will sweep away the things that don't need to be there. The storm removes things that don't have structural integrity and will allow you to grow even more than you thought.

You can't live in the "Push" forever. You will eventually burn out. We teach our people to sprinkle in the things that "Pull" you forward. The things that make you happy and excite you will pull you when the push lets up a bit. Place these things into your life and allow yourself to be excited for the future. The energy you get from the excitement for the future is often better than the thing itse...

Most of the limits in your life are connected to your thinking, but the minds of those around you can also affect your ability to grow. Scientifically, we define what is possible by modeling the things around us. The limits for you are in your mind but also in the minds around you. Be careful who you surround yourself with.

There are so many skills to develop as a leader. The number one most important skill is the ability to recognize and focus on what is real. In a world that is prioritizing feeling and optics, we have lost the ability to focus on what is real. Develop the most important skill and focus on what actually moves the needle.

You know that you are going to start winning when the list of things you want to change is internal.

There's something special about generosity.

Everything we do in life boils down to 2 categories: Things I get to do Things I must go through Develop enthusiasm for the process of achieving the things that are on the other side of these 2 categories.

The easiest thing to do is to look back on our lives and highlight the things that could have been different. We have an addiction to devoting our time to focusing on the things that we can't change - rather than focusing on the things that could be. Train yourself to advance by seeing the silver lining and opportunity in everything.

Achieving what you want is not the hardest part. The hardest part is achieving your goals without giving away your peace.

Victimhood is the most dangerous thing that you can fall into in your life. It blocks your ability to learn and to receive. The responsibility to grow through and move forward is not on the person or system that hurt you - it's on you. Take control and don't play the victim.

By the time they know your name, it will no longer matter to you. So many people chase status and the external gratification of success. Those who are truly successful know that what is happening on the inside is fa more important.

You may have met someone that has the ability to do something, but they don't have the capacity. Just becuase you can afford something, does not mean that you deserve it. Alternatively, you might deserve something that you don't yet have the capacity to attain. The ability to get it shows up after you have the capacity to hang onto it.

You can have all of the things that show external success and still be falling apart on the inside. You should be winning in your life, but only if you're committed to the hidden processes that no one sees.