Daily Mind Medicine

Risk comes first. Opportunity comes second.

Failure is a great gift. Failure is a great teacher. Failure is a great way for you to open up the boundaries and push to the next level.

You've got to learn on your inner behaviors. Not focusing on your revenue, your assets, even any of the external byproducts. If you fall in love with the byproduct, eventually you wont have a byproduct. You have to fall in love with the process.

Where in your business are you currently struggling but if you're honest with yourself you believe that it is normal to be struggling. Its time to change your expectations.

Maybe you not getting what you think you want right now is actually a catalyst for maneuvering you into a position to have something better.

There two different fights every time you advance in your life: The fight to step into and the fight to hang onto.

 Think about the accidental in your life that have actually turned out to be great gifts. If we take a moment and think about this, you'll probably find that a good portion of the things you are most grateful for today are the exact byproduct of something that at first you were not grateful for.

Increase always creates a problem. There are two different types of problems: problems that are created, and problems that are allowed.

It's important to know when a season is ending. Endings are very important. You have to learn to let go.

If you want to go far, go deep. There is power in depth but it takes time and patience to cultivate. Do the hard work and go deep.

The difference is between doing right and being right. Do the right thing and advance.

The only thing you can control is yourself.

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.