Daily Mind Medicine

Supporting weight requires weight. The things that you want will crush you if you don't have the strength built up to support it. When you go through the seasons of crushing, you will grow to support the weight of your dreams - a support system.

What are you holding yourself to? How do you grade yourself in life? The standards you set will push you to be the best version of yourself. If you're going to compare, compare yourself to the people that are ahead of you - give yourself a runway to grow.

When you're constantly pushing the limits of what you can achieve, there is a downside. Shadow emotions are a real thing that a producer will have to deal with. Want to know the secret to motivation? When you enjoy the process more than the result, you have become masterful.

Construct your own environment in a way that brings your weaknesses to the surface. You need to be asking yourself what type of environment you are creating every day. Your discipline is going to be connected to the areas of your life where there is discontent. Expose what you don't like, fix it, and change your life.

How long does it take for you to learn a lesson? The quicker you are at learning lessons from mistakes and problems, the further you will go in the long run.

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.

Failure won't kill you, but the failure to change will. If you don't make a conscious decision of who you're going to become, someone else will make that decision for you. If you're only chasing trophies, you're chasing the byproduct of a version of yourself that you're not in control of.

If you're in a place of feeling unrecognized or under-compensated, this episode is for you. There are muscles in you that can only be developed in seasons when you're ignored. Be grateful for the hidden seasons. Be encouraged because you will develop strength in the obscurity.

Some people spend more time researching what pair of shoes to buy than they will in the mentors that they entrust their future to. Examine the history of the people that you follow. You will replicate the reality of the people that you listen to.

Winning requires a tremendous amount of losing. How you handle that failure creates the trajectory for the rest of your life. If you look back at history, some of the greatest leaders of all time have the longest lists of failures along the way. Handle failure the right way and build your future brick by brick and step by step.

Most of the professional problems that you have are actually created or allowed by your personal problems. You likely don't have an advertising issue (etc), you likely have a thinking issue. Everything is connected.

When it comes to information, we want to spend our entire lives consuming outlets that do nothing but fight with each other. The only way to make your life better is to help other people win. When you can focus and grow as a person, you can can multiply the amount of people that you can help. Be who you are called and designed to be.

When you're trying to lead and push against things that you believe are inherently "wrong", be wary. Those things can cloud your vision and cause you to become bitter in the process. If you're a leader that is pushing for change, don't allow bitterness to derail you from your main vision. Stay positive, find your footing, and speak the truth in love.

Are you more concerned with your optics than you are with the truth? Who are you in public, with family, friends, when your back is up against the wall, etc? The game is not just saying what you feel like you must say for fear of losing ground, the game is for you to consolidate yourself. Be the same in private as you are in public.

There are patterns that develop in our life and business. It seems like the "fun" thing is to achieve new levels, but growth requires great sacrifice. The moments that are the hardest are the moments when you grow the most (just before breakthrough). If more of us knew the cost, how many of us would still be willing to grow?

You know that you're doing something right when you look at your life and have to ask yourself, "How did this happen?" If you're not winning the big contracts in life, you're not honoring your own small contracts - your ability to do the little things like they are big things. You begin to build a force of momentum.

Are you pushing forward in your God-given lane or are you trying to be something that you're not? Find the thing that lights you up and pursue those things. When you invest into the thing that you are born to do, you extract a return in every area of your life.

A lot of people get some sort of success and forget where they came from. People that are going through hard times often forget the hard times that they've gone through in the past to get to where they are. Remembering is a necessary ingredient to staying healthy. Don't forget where you came from. Onward.

Can you be the same person after the achievement as you were before or are you swayed by the approval of others? Most people get a little taste of success and lose all control and focus. The crowd is a construct of your imagination - they will raise you up when you win, and kill you when you fail. What are you allowing to control your focus? Don't let it go to your head.

Most of us don't graduate to the next level soon enough. If you are driven by getting, having, and accumulating, you will never be able to become who you are supposed to be. Graduate into the next level of focus and identity rather than focusing on all of the peripherals.

Things that have not been bothersome for a long time begin to become a problem the moment you start moving in the direction that you are supposed to go. Judge the cost of what you decide that you want to be. You get what you pay for. If you can get to the end, it will be worth it.

You're not going to get anywhere if you focus on fixing the wrong things. If you look at yourself honestly, you're start finding that you are spending your time solving problems that are short-term focused and long-term deficient. You need 2 or 3 of the right things and to stop fixing the wrong things.

Don't get lost in the machine where everything that you do has to be tied to production or income. Embed safe zones in your week where you can focus on activities that have no strings attached - things that you do purely for enjoyment. If you are burning the candle at both ends and constantly trying to be "on" every single minute of every day, you will likely limit your growth potential.

How do you turn a lifetime of victim mentality into becoming a victor? Victory follows vigilance and it's the secret to overcoming the way you've always been.

People chase power, but the people that are ahead have developed purpose first and power follows purpose. Unhealthy people chase purpose in pursuit of power. It is impossible to have true power without first identifying your purpose.