This Is How We Do It: A Pep Talk

if you want to make an impact, you will have to deal with negativity and people exposing the worst things about you.

Mindset. Is. Everything.

You can decide to feel miserable and feel limited, or you can decide to feel optimistic

Positive mindset is so key because when you have it, it makes you completely free. It means you have somehow figured out a way to think about the bright side, no matter what.

Positive mindset is so key because when you have it, it makes you completely free. It means you have somehow figured out a way to think about the bright side, no matter what. You don’t let yourself get stuck walking in circles, dwelling on the negative. You keep your head up and keep moving forward.

all your major downs in life are just preparing you for the major ups.

With a positive mindset, you can’t be stopped. You can’t be knocked down, at least for long. How can you be held back when every obstacle becomes an opportunity?

Do I need to tackle this, or should I just make a left turn and not waste a second of my time?”

Nothing short of death is the end of the world. It’s not over. Don’t give up. It’s a long life that we live.

When you depart with the automatic mental position of wanting to be the best possible version of you that you can be, you will succeed.

Your arrow is going to land where you’ve set your sights. If you lower them by indulging in fear and negativity, then that’s where you’ll end up. If you raise them, stay positive, and keep your aim high, you’ll end up at that level.

Sometimes life is hard. But you know you can handle it and that every storm will pass.

What-is-ness is accepting everything for what it is. When shit inevitably happens: it is what it is. You are at peace with the nature of this new reality.

So why spend a second of time complaining about it, fighting it, or resisting it?

They want to be in denial about it, or be right about it, or wish it was different. Well, it ain’t.

your motherfucking time. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Keep walking in circles staring at the ground, foaming at the mouth, spouting off all that negativity. Let’s see how many years of your life you want to spend standing in place, avoiding happiness, and making yourself and everybody around you feel like shit. How are you going to learn if you can’t let yourself be wrong? How are you going to create the future if you’re stuck in the past? People can spend days and even years complaining about something that happened to them or why something is the way it is. It hasn’t even occurred to them to drop the ultimately self-harming tools of blame and victimhood.

Go ahead, I’ll wait. Keep walking in circles staring at the ground, foaming at the mouth, spouting off all that negativity. Let’s see how many years of your life you want to spend standing in place, avoiding happiness, and making yourself and everybody around you feel like shit. How are you going to learn if you can’t let yourself be wrong? How are you going to create the future if you’re stuck in the past? People can spend days and even years complaining about something that happened to them or why something is the way it is. It hasn’t even occurred to them to drop the ultimately self-harming tools of blame and victimhood.

Sometimes there isn’t anything to do but just sit there and take it. Some of the things that are in life aren’t problems to be solved but realities to allow.

Accept it. Make the best of it. You’re spending all this time being negative about something you have to do anyway. It’s not doing anything to change it. Make the best of it!”

when it comes to trying to improve your health and wellness, consistency is the goal, more than a single great day or performance. We are in a realm of incremental change, where patience and good habits pay off.