Featuring a transformational message to digest, questions to personalize the message, and an experiment to do this week. Average read time: 3 minutes
If you want to know how 2025 turned out, don’t just review your goals and results. Start with your discomfort–the moments you exerted maximum effort, had the hard conversations, and finally stopped negotiating with bad habits.
Why do we need to practice freedom? Isn’t freedom a set of rights granted by America’s democratic government, so people are free to do as they please, so long as they conform to laws? What skills comprising freedom require deliberate practice?
Benjamin Franklin’s list of life’s certainties hasn’t grown in hundreds of years: death + taxes. In this potential history-making moment, I will add one more item: comfort zones. Every human being has made plenty of choices to conform to their comfort zone.
I’ve always been fascinated by marathon runners. Why would anyone train to run 26 miles feeling out of breath, fatigue in their legs, and maybe even muscle cramps at the finish line?
The closing weeks of 2024 are considered prime time for conceiving annual goals for 2025. However, if that’s what you’re planning to do, I caution you to avoid making a big mistake.
Featuring a transformational message to digest, and questions to personalize the message, boldness and regrets play a vital role in achieving worthwhile goals and the standout, unforgettable moments in your life.
To ignite your absolute best effort, draw upon two underestimated sources of motivation. Ask yourself: What identity will empower me to consistently deliver my absolute best effort? What are the most effective intentions to guide my moment-by-moment actions?
“What is the unique thinking that leads someone to become an Olympic athlete?” I decided to inquire into that question while I was reading 75 quotes from 2024 Olympic athletes, mostly medal winners.
We have to be okay leaving the life we are living to embrace the life we dream of living. It’s so easy to dismiss advice that seems overly optimistic or requires lots of effort. Being receptive to life-changing advice takes extreme accountability to assess risks and benefits.
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