Limitless

While it’s great to be open-minded and consider options, when you say yes to something, you need to be careful that you’re not inadvertently saying no to yourself and your own needs.

Motivation is a set of emotions (painful and pleasurable) that act as the fuel for our actions.

Really feel the pain that you will have if you don’t do something about it. This is the only way for you to make a change last and to get you to follow through.

Pain can be your teacher, if you use it and not let it use you. Use pain to drive you to make things happen. If you are honest, you may write something like:

Motivation comes from purpose, fully feeling and associating with the consequences of our actions (or inactions).

If you’re trying to force motivation, but you haven’t addressed these invisible, limiting identities, you won’t get very far.

When you feel stuck, come back to the way your goal fits into your values, and then ask yourself what needs to be brought back into alignment.

Write down a list of your most common “I am” statements. How do you feel about the ways in which these statements define you? Create a list of the things you value the most. Now prioritize that list and think about how this aligns with your definition of yourself. Get into the habit of asking the question “why” before you do anything.

“your brain functions best when it gets only premium fuel. Eating high-quality foods that contain lots of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants nourishes the brain and protects it from oxidative stress

regular aerobic exercise, the kind that gets your heart and your sweat glands pumping, appears to boost the size of the hippocampus, the brain area involved in verbal memory and learning.”

there’s a direct correlation between exercise and brain function.

even 10 minutes of aerobic exercise a day can have enormous benefits.

Set your phone alarm to remind yourself to move for a few minutes every hour.

ANTs are “automatic negative thoughts” and, if you’re like most people, you place limitations on yourself in the form of these thoughts at least some of the time.

If you fight for your limitations, you get to keep them. If you regularly tell yourself that you can’t do something, or that you’re too old to do something, or that you don’t have the smarts to do something, you won’t do that thing. Only when you move on from this kind of destructive self-talk can you truly accomplish what you want to accomplish.

What is your biggest ANT? What could you replace it with?

Removing clutter and distractions from your surroundings will make you feel lighter and improve your ability to focus,

Who you spend time with is who you become.

you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

just take a few minutes to think about who your peers are, how much influence they have on your life, and how this affects your desire to unlimit yourself.