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 get bigger.

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.

You can't live in the "Push" forever. You will eventually burn out. We teach our people to sprinkle in the things that "Pull" you forward. The things that make you happy and excite you will pull you when the push lets up a bit. Place these things into your life and allow yourself to be excited for the future. The energy you get from the excitement for the future is often better than the thing itself. Be strategic about it.

Most of the limits in your life are connected to your thinking, but the minds of those around you can also affect your ability to grow. Scientifically, we define what is possible by modeling the things around us. The limits for you are in your mind but also in the minds around you. Be careful who you surround yourself with.

There are so many skills to develop as a leader. The number one most important skill is the ability to recognize and focus on what is real. In a world that is prioritizing feeling and optics, we have lost the ability to focus on what is real. Develop the most important skill and focus on what actually moves the needle.

You know that you are going to start winning when the list of things you want to change is internal.

There's something special about generosity.

Everything we do in life boils down to 2 categories:Things I get to doThings I must go throughDevelop enthusiasm for the process of achieving the things that are on the other side of these 2 categories.

The easiest thing to do is to look back on our lives and highlight the things that could have been different. We have an addiction to devoting our time to focusing on the things that we can't change - rather than focusing on the things that could be. Train yourself to advance by seeing the silver lining and opportunity in everything.

Achieving what you want is not the hardest part. The hardest part is achieving your goals without giving away your peace.

Victimhood is the most dangerous thing that you can fall into in your life. It blocks your ability to learn and to receive. The responsibility to grow through and move forward is not on the person or system that hurt you - it's on you. Take control and don't play the victim.

By the time they know your name, it will no longer matter to you. So many people chase status and the external gratification of success. Those who are truly successful know that what is happening on the inside is fa more important.

You may have met someone that has the ability to do something, but they don't have the capacity. Just becuase you can afford something, does not mean that you deserve it. Alternatively, you might deserve something that you don't yet have the capacity to attain. The ability to get it shows up after you have the capacity to hang onto it.

You can have all of the things that show external success and still be falling apart on the inside. You should be winning in your life, but only if you're committed to the hidden processes that no one sees.

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.