Metal Motivation: Daily Screams for Living Aggressively

There is power in gratefulness.   Gratefulness means that we show appreciation and thankfulness for anything that does not come by our own effort—and there's a lot of that!   And gratefulness heals because false expectations are a wound. After all, we complain about what hurts us.   Gratefulness is something we express, which means the power to heal ourselves is completely in our hands.   One thin...

When you grow up, it's supposed to mean you stop acting like a child. But for a lot of us, we hang on to one aspect of childhood…   If you have kids, you know what complaining sounds like. We give to our children because we love them, but when you combine what they receive at home with what they receive in society, it can easily give rise to entitlement and expectation.   Then they complain when t...

As I said in the first episode, expectations are a strong belief that something will happen, and if that's directed towards others, or society, it will surely give rise to complaining.   But why is complaining so bad?   Complaining is bad because it means you're never going to develop yourself into who you have the capacity to be, and that's because you place too much stock in your environment.  ...

Complain, complain, complain. Whine, whine, whine.   Don't we hear enough of this on social media? Why is that?   Don't we live in an age of abundance? You're flooded with choices, resources, opportunities, and more, and yet a society has never whined so much as ours.   How do we explain this?   • Entitlement • Expectation   Entitlement is the belief that "one is inherently deserving of privileges...

If you're going to conquer your giant, you have to become a giant. Giants are exaggerated versions of something real. Well, then it's time to exaggerate who you are. You've got to start realizing that you too are a giant. It has to do with the heart, the strength of your core, and your vantage point. If your vantage point is better, then you're going to see yourself better. You're not going to foc...

People always want the secret. People always want something more glamorous, something more magical. There has got to be some mystery to all this. No, it's about a daily grind, focusing on the fundamentals, governing the little things. If you can't conquer these little things, you can't conquer the big things. You have to master and govern your present in order to conquer the giants blocking the wa...

The stronger you are, the more enthusiastic you'll be about facing what's intimidating you. You don't need to focus on your fears, you need to build up your strength to face your fears.

Fear doesn't have to do with what you know intellectually or rationally. It has to do with what you see in your mind's eye and is an exaggerated interpretation of something real.   The courageous person still has fears. It's just that they have a greater trust in their ability to move in the face of those fears. And that's a powerful, powerful difference.

Most fears are exaggerated interpretations of common circumstances. There are fears that lie within and without, and these fears are our giants that we all face. They are the intimidating things that we keep putting off or we refuse to face. Well, it's time to face them. If you're trying to overcome fear, the key is to focus on building strength and the fear will take care of itself. Courage is th...

It's a bad thing if you can't be corrected. It's a bad thing if people can't speak into your life. We see this all the time on and offline, people who cannot be corrected. They're never wrong. It's tough. You have to be open to correction and instruction. What makes this easier is if you believe there are objective standards to measure and judge ourselves. Judgment is necessary, but it doesn't hav...

If you were strong mentally to where you could understand that you were not perfect, but you still have a purpose and a function, and you have all the power and ability in the world to become everything that you have the power to be, you would not care what anyone else says. You wouldn't be bothered by the subjective standards of other people, right? Why are we so concerned trying to measure up to...

Nobody's perfect. Isn't that the excuse that everybody uses? When someone fails you hear, "Well, nobody's perfect." We understand nobody's perfect, but that doesn't mean you just let yourself get by with poor performance. If you want to feel good about yourself, then you need, first of all, that simple understanding, that way of looking at it, to know that we are always growing. We are always stri...

Life will judge you. Society will judge you. Those close to you are going to judge you. Some say you shouldn't judge others, but it'd be a terrible, terrible world if there wasn't judgment in it. You don't get to live like a devil and go without judgment. So, don't buy into this nonsense that people tout online all the time, that you should just feel good about yourself for no particular reason at...

So when it comes to feeling good about yourself, which standard are you operating by? Are you operating by the subjective opinion of someone else? Or are you operating in terms of the objective standard that exists in the world? Because if you're dealing with the objective standard that is in the world, then guess what? And this may sound like a shock. You may have good reason not to feel good abo...

There are enemies to your progress and you need to get fired up to go after them. You need to transform and transition into the warrior. This is not going to be easy because your rebellious mind is going to fight you at every point. It's going to fight to stay secure, it's going to fight to keep the status quo. It's going to fight to keep things at peace. It's going to fight to not upset other peo...

The purpose of the Native American's war dance was to transition the men from husbands and hunters into tribal warriors. They would go as so far as to paint their faces and bodies and dance around the fire. It became a passage into a different state of mind. For me, my war dance is just little things, for example, the metal cuffs I wear on my wrists, listening to heavy metal, reading empowering bo...

Anger can be healthy when it's balanced with an equal love for wisdom and the principles that govern achievement, success, and personal transformation. Seek them out, read about them, study them, apply them, and meditate on them. Shouldn't you love the wisdom that is found in the world, the great storehouses of knowledge and understanding that have been given to us by generations past? Should we n...

Some people have acquiesced and made peace with the circumstances that resist them, with the people that resist them, with the problems in themselves that resist them. They have made peace because they haven't been able to win, they haven't been able to overcome, they haven't been able to achieve. And so they just learn to settle. They learn to put up with it. I don't want you to settle. I don't w...

Anger is necessary so that you won't tolerate certain things in the world. We have made peace with what opposes us. So, I want to see you go on the warpath. I want to see you release some of that aggression against the enemies of your progress. As long as you are equally in love with the principles that govern and make a good world, your anger will be healthy, your fury will be in balance.

Discouragement is the loss of confidence and courage, and that happens not when you doubt yourself or others, but when you doubt that applying any principles will work for you. The result is that you take yourself out of the fight of life. Climbing out of discouragement is a reversal of the same way you got into it, which is by multiple disappointments. Therefore, you need little achievements to b...

I tend to speak more about ideals and principles than I do simple "how-to's." The reason is that I want to create a stronger version of you, and "how to's" don't achieve it. They are simple steps to get out of a particular situation. I do try to provide steps on how to do things, but what's most important is a transformation of your worldview, because that's what will create a stronger, better ver...

Discouragement doesn't come on all at once. We don't normally get discouraged after one disappointment. It takes time for continual disappointment to turn into discouragement. You may experience disappointment, but you still hang on to hope, and you still have your confidence. Over time, however, you can start to lose hope and confidence both in yourself and in the principles that govern life. But...

It's helpful for you to know that things you can't control will let you down. And what happens when you let yourself down? This is why personal development is so important. Your self-confidence is at risk when you continually disappoint yourself. People might consider motivational teachers like me to be "self-confident," but the truth is that it's not so much that I'm confident in myself as it is...

What's important when dealing with disappointment is not denying it but rather not letting it turn into something else: discouragement. There's a big difference between disappointment and discouragement. You can push past disappointment, but if you're discouraged, then something has been taken out of you. Discouragement means a loss of confidence and enthusiasm. It means to be dispirited—to lose o...

What are the enemies of your progress? Where do you find yourself wasting time that could be used to be productive and achieve more in life? Instead of talking about your hopes and dreams, why don't you cut out the time-wasting crap in your day and put some action into producing your desired results.