Morning Mindset

Friday 12/22/23

Lisa Bilyeu

It took me a loooooong time not to feel badly about the habits I have that don’t serve me. But do not… I repeat do not take that to mean I accept it about myself! Oh helllll to the no! I just honestly admit what is holding me back and slowly slowly chip away at them. But it all starts with identifying what those habits are in the first place!

Friday 11/10/23

Tom Bilyeu

10 Things That You Can Control

Friday 9/29/23

Tom Bilyeu

As the saying goes, don’t sell out what you want most for what you want right now.

If you want to achieve anything meaningful, it’s going to take a consistent effort over time.

You’ve got to develop mechanisms for staying excited even as you’re buckling down and grinding it out. You’ve got to find a way to find some joy in that process.

One useful tactic I’ve developed is focusing on how badass it feels to be someone who does the intelligent hard thing over and over and over.

Another trick I use is to focus on how rad it’s going to be to have the thing I’m suffering to acquire. Use imagery. Use fantasy. Use anything you can, but stay focused on the big prize.

Don’t give into that sucker shit of chasing penny ante bullshit because you can grab it today. Shoot for the fucking moon, and then ride the rocket for as long as it takes to get there.

Friday 8/18/23

Gary Vaynerchuk

I prefer to look at life through the lens of optimism.

For example, what if your company failed, but your personal life actually improved?

You can’t predict the events that give you the best overall outcome in life.

That’s why I love leaning into optimism.

Even if I missed out on a huge investment opportunity, who knows what would’ve happened if I’d gotten it?

You don’t know if an event is “good” or “bad” because you never know the alternative.

Quitting your business might have led you to something incredible (like a lifelong friendship) or helped you avoid something horrible (like an accident or a disease.)

Optimism with action creates wonderful results

Friday 7/07/23

Gary Vaynerchuk

-The ability to not care about anybody else’s opinions is the singular gateway to happiness.

-The only decision that needs to be made, is the one that you will regret the least when you’re 90.

-Something that happened yesterday has nothing to do with tomorrow.

-If somebody’s unkind, remember – it’s just because they’re hurting.

-Roll up on your business idea and make it happen. Because being 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, and having regrets that you didn’t swing the bat is the worst regret of them all.

-You can be competitive while still being a kind person. I believe you build the tallest building in town by building it — not by tearing other people’s buildings down. You don’t have to be mean to “make it.” In fact, kindness is a much better companion to ambition than cruelty. When you see other businesses within your industry killing it, be happy for them. Be competitive, be an executor, be tenacious, yes… but be happy for others because there is enough success to go around.

Friday 5/26/23

Tom Bilyeu / Impact Theory

There is nothing better than having respect for yourself.⁣

Friday 4/14/23

David Goggins

We must move away from mediocrity.

I don’t know how many times I have awakened and not wanted to do the things I know I needed to do. A lot of you out here are trying to achieve certain goals – lose weight, run a marathon, do better in school, etc. That perfect day won’t always be there when you want to do all the things you need to do in order to move forward towards your goal.

While those feelings are normal on your less than perfect days, it is critical that we move past those feelings. We don’t have a lot of time on this planet so we must utilize all the precious time that we do have.

On those days when you don’t want to get after it for a multitude of reasons, it is very important to do even more than initially planned. We are training our minds to push beyond our feelings, to not give in to that whiney, weaker self that lies within each and every one of us.

We all have that devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other especially during those early morning wake up calls when that bed is warm and the pillow is soft. 9 times out of 10 the voice that is telling you that it is ok to bag that day is usually the wrong voice.

We must fight with all we have to achieve the very things we want to achieve. Just know that things are not going to get easier, you need to get harder!

Stay hard!

Friday 3/03/23

Tom Bilyeu

I have been thinking a lot about decision-making. What this has revealed to me is that much of my success has hinged on my ability to learn from mistakes and develop a system earned from those mistakes to make better decisions.

⁣You cannot be a passive observer in your life (be it business, relationship, etc.). By adopting that mindset you will let the world happen to you. Your mistakes will be seen as punishments the world has set upon you. You must instead claim authority over your life and run headfirst into living. Make mistakes. Learn. Keep running forward. This is the only way I have discovered to get the life you want.

Friday 1/20/23

David Goggins

A lot of people follow me because they are struggling with something in their lives. I am relatable because I have been through a lot of similar situations and tough times.

One situation was that I was fat. While I worked out a lot lifting heavy weights, I wasn’t happy with how I looked with my shirt off. The times I would try to run, my waistband would be so tight that my love-handles would hang over even more and jiggle as I attempted to run. The thing that bothered me the most was that I had humongous man boobs and every time I ran, there would be heavy bouncing going on and this is not the same bouncing that happens when someone has a nice muscular chest! I wanted to change my life circumstance and I did.

Many of you reach out to me telling me that you want to lose a specific amount of weight in a certain amount of time.

My first question to you is what have you been doing so far? 99% of the time the answer is “I haven’t started yet.”

I ask the question already knowing the answer. You have allowed yourself to wake up every morning and look at yourself in the mirror and not like what you see. This goes on for days, weeks, months and sometimes even years.

But you email me like it was a eureka moment. No, that is not how it works!!When you have gained weight and you are fat and don’t like how you look, there is no eureka moment. Very few of us are genetically predisposed to truly be unable to lose weight due to a true medical/health issue. For those of you who to whom that applies, I am not talking to you.

The sad but true reality is that most people are just lazy. I have people emailing me asking me how to lose weight as they are eating their sixth snack of the day and washing it down with their 800-calorie-flavored-coffee concoction! Yeah I know all too well how good that shit tastes!

But, if you truly wanted to lose the weight, you would be emailing me saying “I have already lost 30lbs, looking to see how to break that plateau where I have been stuck.”

While there are countless methods to losing weight, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know one thing. How you get started is to simply push away that shitty food (and we all know what shitty food is!) and burn more calories than you take in. You don’t just wake up one morning fat. It happens over a period of time as you know. It’s just most of you who are overweight have done nothing about it.

The choice is yours to make- eat shit and don’t workout, you will look like shit OR you can eat better, make the choice to workout and look better. Either way the choice is yours. This shit ain’t fun. It’s a necessity so stop asking questions and burn some fucking calories!