Tag: achievement

• Progress In The Dip

  Don’t let pride hinder your progress.

  Whatever you are working to achieve will come with difficulty and unavoidable setbacks.

  The more lofty your goals, the greater the challenges you will face along the way.

  As you start to make progress, you will feel good, and motivation will be easy to come by.

  But then comes the inevitable dip wherein progress slows, motivation wanes, and things get hard.

  If you take this personally, if you perceive this as a sign of your personal inadequacy, you will quit.

  If, however, you understand that growth is difficult and setbacks are part of the process, you will trust that it is in the dip that the real work is done and where the most progress is made.

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  April 5, 2024

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• Deciding And Becoming

  If you make a decision about who you want to be, you only have to make it once.

  Now it is time to take action.

  Every day, when you wake up, you don’t have to think about who you are.

  The decision has already been made.

  You simply have to do the work to prove that you were serious.

  Do this work day after day without exception or excuse.

  You become who you decide that you are.

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  April 2, 2024

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• Not A Straight Line

  Have a plan.

  Take action.

  Meet resistance.

  Adjust.

  Repeat.

  Do this until you are successful.

  Success is not a straight line.

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  March 22, 2024

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• Unhappy With More

  If you find yourself unhappy regardless of what you achieve, lack of achievement may not be your problem.

  Achievement is a deceptive thing.

  From the outside, achievement looks like it will bring you satisfaction, but that which drives you toward achievement is not satisfied by outcomes.

  The part of you that pursues success does not actually want success.

  It simply wants more.

  More, however, does not, in fact it cannot, bring you happiness, at least not in a lasting, meaningful way.

  The desire for more is insatiable and happiness cannot be found in the insatiable.

  While achievement may feel good for a moment, and it certainly feels better than failure, it does not address the cause for your unhappiness.

  That you must address on your own, and it most likely will not be addressed with more.

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  October 26, 2023

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• Turning Beautiful Ugly

  The best of intentions can be ruined with a terrible attitude.

  You are not entitled to a positive outcome for your efforts.

  Everything must be worked for and earned.

  Simply because you mean to do well and want to do good in the world does not mean this result is guaranteed.

  Plenty of things can go wrong along the way.

  Life always gets a say.

  Aside from all of the obstacles and challenges life throws your way, you can also mess things up if you are not careful.

  Even with the purest of intentions, it is difficult to create and sustain something beautiful in this world of conflict and strife.

  And a bad attitude can turn even the most beautiful venture ugly in an instant.

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  October 21, 2023

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