3 things you can do today to help you to be a more powerful, more loving, greater parent.
Whatever our kids hear the most, whatever our children get told the most is what they're going to believe the most.
Ask yourself:
*What would happen to your child if they really believe that they have a purpose, that they were meant for something great, that they could do something?
*Does your child know that they belong?
*Do your kids know that they can make a mistake without being guilted and shamed?
Behavior that is rewarded gets repeated.
Invest in your kids, spend time with them pour energy into them, and pour presence.
Go invest in your children. Go be with them.
Ask yourself:
*Are you investing in your children?
Give them your time and energy. Go be present with them.
Quit making up excuses about why you cannot do what's required.
There's always going to be a reason to not do the work.
You have to plant seeds, you have to nourish and nurture them every day.
You have to do the work every day.
If you plant the seeds and do the work, it is guaranteed you're going to get some results.
Ask yourself:
*Are you really planting the seeds?
*Are you really doing what's required?
It is up to you to go produce the fruits and the results of what you want.
Remember what you want, remember why it matters.
So how bad do you want it?
What do you want and why does it matter?
When windows open, you have to go through them.
You have to step through because windows don't open all the time.
Ask yourself:
*How badly do you want it? How hungry are you?
*How much work are you willing to do to become the master of your craft, your job, your business, your position, your sport?
Are you really going to do this? Are you really going to go be the best? Are you really going to go pay the price?
What are the specific things that you got to go do in your life right now to master your craft, your job, being a father, a spouse?
You are in charge of your life.
You only live the life that you choose to create on a daily basis.
Ask yourself:
*What do you not want?
*How do you want to feel?
Get up. Go to work. Take action. Find purpose. Do the work. Serve people, and make a difference.
Develop your mindset. Develop your skill sets, and expand your vision and your perspective.
Those who sweat more in times of peace bleed less in times of war.
Are you building financial wealth? Are you earning, saving, and investing? Are you learning how to live on less than you earn?
Ask yourself:
*Where in your life today can you sweat more?
*Are you doing the work to be a greater parent and a greater spouse?
*Are you preparing daily to be physically strong, to be spiritually in-tune and aligned and grounded, to be relationally sound, and be able to listen and understand and connect and relate with your loved ones?
are you developing the capacity and the skill sets and the mindsets to build financial wealth to really earn a good living?
The more voluntary pain you put yourself in, the less involuntary pain you experience.
We have a responsibility to provide, protect and preside.
Go do and produce results.
If you maximize voluntary pain, it minimizes involuntary pain.
Real men invest in themselves. And they invest in their families. Then they invest in assets.
A real man knows that he is the asset.
Life is going to be hard if you are soft.
Ask yourself:
*Are you soft? Do you have grit?
*Do you lead your family? Do you lead yourself? Do you lead your marriage?
Real men know how to provide.
Real men do not tolerate mediocrity.
Whatever room that you're in, that becomes your income.
Whoever you surround with, that becomes your outcome.
You become the sum of the five people you spend your time with.
If you want to get to a different level, you've got to get into a different room.
If you want to change your life and you want to change it fast, get into a different room. Surround yourself with different people.
Ask yourself:
*Are you willing to write a check?
*Are you clear about what you want?
*Are you willing to find those people?
Be committed to the thing that you want.
You're going to have to burn your boats.
Go all-in because you'll never know what could be possible until you burn the boats.
Don't go back to mediocrity. Don't go back to misery. Don't go back to being average.
Ask yourself:
*What would happen in your life if you were to go all-in?
*What would be possible if you were to burn the boats?
You got to make a decision. Go all-in.
If you do not pay the price now, it's going to be very costly. Later on.
Go do the hard stuff and pay the price now. To enjoy the prizes of life in the near future.
Ask yourself:
*What is the prize that you want in your life?
*What are the hard things you could do right now to develop skills to develop a mindset, to develop your character, to really build yourself up?
*Are you choosing the pain of discipline every day, or are you going to wait until later to have it be very costly?
Every prize has a price.
Stop being a victim.
Take responsibility for your life and own your life.
Stop being mediocre, stop being a victim, and get rid of the entitlement.
Strive for greatness.
Ask yourself:
*Are you willing to take responsibility for your life?
*Are you willing to strive for greatness?
Some day is right now or it is never. Some day is now.
Take responsibility for your life.
Finish the job.
Stop stopping.
Ask yourself:
*Can you commit every day?
*Can you act decisively in spite of thoughts, feelings, and moods?
Start small, start simple, and start where you are.
Define what's required to get what you want.
The quality of your life is going to come down to how well you operate within your non-negotiable.
One of the best things you could do is enroll partners, and build a group.
Ask yourself:
*What are the necessary required actions to get what you want?
*Do you have non-negotiables?
*Are you willing to pay the price?
What do you want? Why does it matter?
Clarity is the ability to be clear, clear about the life you have or the life you want to build.
Ask yourself:
*What do You want? What do you really want for your life?
*What do you absolutely not want for your life?
*Why does that matter?
You got to tell the truth. You got to be real, specific, honest, and transparent.
Clarity is power.
Even when you're tired and feeling discouraged, do the work. No matter what,
You got to find a reason to do the work no matter what, no matter the circumstances, no matter situations, no matter how tired you are, no matter if you don't feel like it.
Great people do the work no matter what great people do what's required, no matter the circumstances, no matter the situations about how they feel, regardless of thoughts, feelings, emotions, and moods.
Ask yourself:
*Do you let your thoughts, feelings, emotions, and moods govern you?
*Do you do whatever is required? No matter what.
*Do you know how to show up? No matter what.
You've got to do the work, no matter what.
Get strong.
If you are a man, you have a duty, you have an obligation, a moral obligation to be physically and mentally and emotionally strong.
Do something to become a more powerful, God-fearing, bold, and courageous man who knows how to contribute and create value in the marketplace.
Ask yourself:
*Are you willing to develop yourself so that you can create value? So that you can contribute to society?
Society crumbles when strong, powerful men are taken away.
Learn how to lead.
Have a coach who you trust and then trust them.
You have to find people to help you to become a greater version of yourself.
To go to another level, to get to a place that you haven't been before, to create a greater marriage to create greater wealth, to learn all the little tiny details that can make a huge difference.
Ask yourself:
*Who's your mentor? Who's the person who can see things that you can't see?
Have people in your life who you trust and become a person that people can trust.
Start asking questions. Just ask the questions that get you to see something you can't see.
Write things down. Write that question and then write your answers down.
Ask yourself:
*What's the thought that I'm having and believing that's caused me to feel this way?
*What are the experiences that have led me here?
Course correct. Reset. Realign.
How do you deal with the fear of failure?
The more that you fail and learn and course correct the more that you can win.
Ask yourself:
*Can you change your perspective? Are you willing to change it?
*Are the thoughts that you're having true?
Embrace failures. Get better every single day.
You never lose. You win or learn.
You get to decide the type of summer that you have.
You have the power to shape and forge the summer.
You have the power to shape and forge your life.
Ask yourself:
*Are you clear about what you want for your life?
*What type of summer are you going to have?
You have to have direction every day.
Clarity is power.
The truth will feel like and taste like poison. If you've been lying.
To know and to not do is to not know.
Get your house in order. Develop your skills.
You're in charge and you're in control.
Ask yourself:
*Do you live what you know?
You have the power to create the life you truly want to create with the results that truly matter to you.
Learn, go and do.