Each issue features a transformational message, questions to personalize the message, and an experiment to do each week. Average read time: 3 minutes. You will learn simple yet powerful practices to unleash your everyday courage. You will feel pride whenever you take stock of your mastery over long-standing fears/discomforts. As a leader, you will be the catalyst who makes the practice of taking extreme accountability contagious in your sphere of influence. Writing this newsletter is a breakthrough for me. I’m making big promises to my readers. I’m not blowing smoke.
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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.
Intentions are different from goals. Goals describe the desired result of a series of actions. If you’re not being intentional in your pursuit of goals, you’re just reacting to whatever thought, stimulus, or sensation grabs your attention as seconds pass by.
What is the one occasion in life where failure is impossible? Answer: An experiment. What if your life were an ongoing experiment where you knew you were safe and could not fail?
We set achievable goals to preserve our comfort by expending reasonable effort and avoiding failure. But we’re ripping ourselves off from discovering our absolute best effort which comes from pursuing unachievable goals that truly matter.
What is the most common mental trickery when we stop pursuing our dreams that take obvious effort to accomplish? We perpetrate the “Colossal Deception,” an unconscious choice to gain immediate comfort and assume no serious long-term consequences will occur.
What life do you want—the life dictated by rationalizations you dream up to stay comfortable OR the life of your dreams? This is a high stakes question most people never acknowledge until it is too late. Fortunately, you are reading this newsletter, so you won’t be one of them.
A breakthrough is a result that goes beyond what would logically be predicted based on past performance. You summon the courage to commit to achieve results you thought were impossible to accomplish.
The quality of your life is determined by how you engage with comfort zones. The ultimate outcome of many choices comes down to how you answer one question: Will you cave to discomfort or demolish discomfort?
Anyone who displays the courage to continually defy the dual constraints of nature and nurture is being heroic. Heroes are often the last ones to know when they are being heroic.
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