Category: Motivation

Motivation, Random Thoughts

Don’t lose yourself while trying to find yourself

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Self-discovery can be good. It’s a good way to find your true self, your values, your needs, your wants.

When you’re trying to find yourself, you can be vulnerable or easily influenced. While it’s good to try to find yourself, don’t forget who you already are. Don’t lose those morals and values that you already have. Don’t let other influence you into becoming someone or something that you don’t want to be or shouldn’t be.

There are a lot of good things about us that are always there inside of us. Sometimes that’s what you realize while trying to find yourself.

Good luck on your journey of self-discovery. Just make sure you don’t lose yourself on that journey.

Motivation, Random Thoughts

Follow the instructions

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I never used to follow the cooking instructions when I first began to cook. As a result, my food never came out consistent. Something as simple as cooking a pot of oatmeal could be a challenge. One day the oatmeal would be too soupy, the next time the oatmeal would be too thick.

When I began to follow cooking instructions and recipes, I noticed a big improvement in the quality of the food I cooked and how consistent I could cook a good meal.

The cooking instructions are there for our success. We have to trust that they will lead us to a well cooked meal. Sometimes not following one small detail can change the entire outcome of a meal.

Life is the same way. We can either choose to live our lives any way that we want and get mixed results, or we can follow a set of instructions that will lead us to the ideal outcome for our lives. If you trust those instructions and follow them, the better off your life will be. If you veer off from the instructions, you may start to see results that you do not want.

You might have different beliefs than me, but no matter who you are and what your beliefs and values are, there is still some time of instructions or manual that you can follow to set you up for success. You don’t have to be the best “cook” to succeed in life, you just have to know how to follow instructions.

Motivation, Random Thoughts

Step by step

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Don’t get overwhelmed by that big goal or task that has to be done. Break it down into small, achievable actions, and get there step by step.

It’s the continuous progression forward that gets us to our destination. Not every step will be as big as the other, but as long as you’re trying to put your best foot forward, you’re good.

The race is not to the swift, so take your time and get to the finish line, step by step. Like Nipsey Hussle would say, “the marathon continues”.

Motivation, Random Thoughts

Who do you surround yourself with to get through life challenges?

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To get through life challenges, you have to surround yourself with believers. I think they should have faith in God and in you as an individual. They have to believe that you can get through any challenge.

You should surround yourself with people who have good character. When times get hard, it’s easy to try to find an easy way out of things. That might involve breaking your morals and ethics. This can hurt you even more, so you gotta make sure you are around others who make good choices and are good people.

You should should surround yourself with people who are driven and have goals. That’s the type of energy you need to be around to succeed. When you are around other driven people, it keeps you on the right track.

You should surround yourself with people who will hold you accountable. Sometimes we are the reason why we are in a challenging situation in life. We need others around us to point out our weak spots or actions we can change for improvement.

You should surround yourself with positivity and happiness. Things won’t always be good, but you should still have the right mindset no matter what.

You should surround yourself with people that have done and seen things that you haven’t. They can give you a different perspective on things, and also help you reach new heights.

It’s key to surround yourself with the right people to get through life challenges, but it’s also key to be the kind of person that people would want to surround themselves with to get through their own life challenges.

Faith, Motivation

Create a new past

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There are a lot of things that we’ve done in the past that we might regret or wish we have done differently. There might be a lot of people that are still judging you from your past and not letting you evolve into something else.

Each day we are blessed with is a chance for use to create a new past. What you do today and every day going forward is more important than what you’ve done in the past. Change your actions now and you’ll be creating a new past.

Keep growing, keep evolving, and keep changing your past for the better. It’s possible.

Motivation, Random Thoughts

It’s not you, it’s your gift

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If LeBron James wasn’t great at basketball, he probably wouldn’t have 148 million followers on Instagram and have fans all over the world. If Cristiano Ronaldo wasn’t great at soccer, he probably wouldn’t have 561 million followers on Instagram and have fans all over the world.

It’s our gifts that attract people. It’s our gifts that people follow. There’s nothing wrong with that though. You just have to remember that and keep things in perspective.

It’s good to have gifts, but we must use those gifts and influence for positive things. We have to be good leaders and followers of Christ. I’d never debate who the greatest basketball player of all time is, but I’ve always liked LeBron’s “Just a kid from Akron” mentality. I feel he is confident, but also humble. I think he uses his gift for positivity, and tries to be a leader, and that’s why God has blessed him with so many years of playing basketball at the highest level.

You don’t have to be a professional athlete for others to be attracted to your gift though. You could just have charisma, be funny, very intelligent..anything.

Understand that people are attracted to your gift, not you. Use your gifts to serve others and make the world a better place. Also, surround yourself by those who genuinely care about you as a person, cause they’ll be the ones that’s still there when your gift is gone.

Motivation

What’s taking so long?

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We all have these new things we want to do, goals we want to reach, ideas that we want to see come into fruition, lives we want to live, etc. So the question is: what’s taking so long??

When you think about it, 9 times out of 10, it’s you. There has be so many times I take forever to do something I set out to do, then once I complete that task, I look back and think “I been could have did that”. We have to realize that we have a lot of self-limiting beliefs. We also often have a lot of excuses.

The faster you act on those things that you want/need to do, the faster you’ll be happy and fulfilled. This will let you move on to something else to accomplish. I think we have so many blessings waiting for us in life, but we get too caught up on the first blessing that we can’t even reach the others.

I try not to talk too much or think too much anymore. I just have to do. Don’t keep telling everyone (and yourself) what you will do or want to do. Just show them (and yourself). Then, use that momentum and confidence to do even more. It’s possible.

Motivation

Consistently consistent

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Sometimes it’s hard to start a new action, habit, lifestyle, etc. Just starting is very good. After you start to do something, you have to be consistent to see results. Being consistent is only half of the battle. You have to be consistently consistent.

It’s easy to do something consistent for a short amount of time. You’ll see your greatest results when you can be consistent all the time. If I consistently exercise for a few months, that’s good. But if I then take a month or so off, all the hard work I put in will soon diminish and I’ll have to start all over. I might not have to start over to when I first began, but the momentum that I once had will be lost, and I won’t be where I would have been if I never took a break at all.

I like to play the long game in everything in life. I have faith in myself that I can be more consistent for a longer time than the competition. In college, our football team learned about The Law of The Price Tag. One thing I like about the Law of the price tag is that the price never decreases. You have to put the work in consistently, and more often than not, you have to increase your effort to continue to progress. That goes for anything in life.

Don’t just do something consistently for a short period of time, then take a break, then begin to be consistent again. Be consistent the entire time. That’s when you will see the best results. If not, you’ll be taking two steps forward and one step back, when you could just be taking all steps forward.

Faith, Motivation

Win the week

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There might be a few things that you wanted to accomplish last week that you did not. Maybe you didn’t workout as often as planned, or didn’t eat healthy enough, or had a lot of tasks to do that you didn’t complete. Maybe you didn’t have the attitude or energy that you wanted to have last week.

The good thing is that God blessed us with time. He also blessed us with new days, weeks, months, years, etc. This week is a clean slate to do all the things that you didn’t do last week. Don’t dwell on the past, move forward and win the week. I don’t know what a “win” is for you this week, but you do. Do all the things that you need to do this week, and don’t worry about last week. This will bring happiness and confidence that you can always improve.

I hope you have a blessed week. I hope you plan your week out, then go do everything that you planned to do. It’s possible. Win the week.

Faith, Motivation

You’re closer to your dreams than you think

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You could be one hit song away from being a superstar. You could be one touchdown away from the NFL. You could be one relationship away from your dream job.

A lot of times our big dreams seem far away and out of reach, but in reality they are much closer than we think. Every dream that I have achieved came much faster than I though it would. That doesn’t mean I just sat on my butt and did nothing. I had to put the work in and make the right choices. Most importantly I had to keep my faith in God.

We often want things in life, but do not fully or effectively pursue them. It’s important to try all ideas, invest in yourself as much as possible, meet new people, etc, because you don’t know what will be the tipping point to your success.

Most importantly, you have to believe that it’s possible. If I told you that it was guaranteed a million dollars at the end of a particular rainbow, you would do whatever you could to get to the end of that rainbow to get that money. That’s how I feel about our dreams. If you really believe you are that star athlete, or have a life changing idea, or a talented music artist, anything; your actions would be consistent to those beliefs and your faith would be unwavering.

The great thing about your dreams is that most likely someone has already achieved something similar. They are the blueprint. They can help make your dreams closer and more achievable. Study them and make similar moves. If my son wanted to go to the NFL, it would be much easier for him to make it than it was for me.

Pursue all those ideas, meet the right people, put the work in. Don’t give up. You are closer to your dreams than you think.