I don't know much about how cars work, but I’m definitely aware of some of the things that cause them not to work. One of the most common issues people have with cars is they have a dead battery. Whether that be because someone made a mistake and left the headlights on overnight, negligence because the car wasn’t maintained well, or general wear and tear, having a dead battery renders the car non-functional.

What’s fascinating though is how a car is capable of producing its own energy but it loses that ability with a dead battery. It has so much wasted potential because it cannot self-start and initiate the process that could fix it. However, a small outside spark is all it takes to kick the engine into gear so that it can return to its normal energy producing processes.

I believe there’s a similar process within ourselves, but instead of it being useful when we’re out of electricity, an outside force can help to reignite our self-belief. 

We intrinsically have the ability to create more self-belief. We can take action in ways that drive results, build our confidence, and demonstrate our value. But in the face of a major setback or failure, sometimes we find ourselves completely drained of self-belief and incapable of restoring it.

This is where an outside spark comes in. All it takes is a little encouragement, a small pick me up to jumpstart your self-belief and get you back on a better path. We need more people in the world seeking out opportunities to help each other. We need more people seeing the good in others that they fail to see themselves. And the more people that are being uplifted, the more people that are available to spark other people’s self belief to create a more empowered world.

There may be someone in your life who is struggling. Someone who needs to be seen, acknowledged, and supported. Something so simple as checking in on them, telling them you love them, telling them you’re grateful for them and how much they mean to you could be the tiny spark that they’ve been missing.

My encouragement to you is to be that person that helps others, in big and small ways, to make the world a better place. Think about a text you can send or a phone call you can make to someone who might need it, and share your goodness with them right now!

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Something that many people struggle with is decision making. They overwhelm themselves with the different options and the tradeoffs of each and it can become really ineffective when you are stuck and can’t make a final choice.

At a certain point, you’ve gone through all of the information you have and the indecision comes from trying to understand what is uncertain. But fortunately there is a way to find confidence in the unknown so that you can move boldly forward into whatever’s next.

What if you believed that no matter what, you’re going to make it work? That regardless of which road you go down you’ll achieve your goal?

This completely shifts the dynamic in the decision from fear to possibility. You’re not choosing what’s less bad, you’re figuring out what’s more good. This allows you to arrive at a final informed decision sooner, without trying to fill in all of the blanks, because you believe that you’ll be able to craft a positive result.

And honestly, that’s how it needs to work. Just like innovation and iteration need us to get real feedback, it does not serve us to spend too much time evaluating unproven assumptions. The idea here is that if you take a step in the wrong direction, you’ll be able to take two in the right direction before you would have taken your first overthought step.

How do you do that? Think through the evidence you already have. You have survived everything you've experienced so far. You have countless examples of how the ‘worst case scenario’ never came to fruition. Remember that most decisions can be undone and redone, and people don't care as much as you think they do when you make a mistake because guess what - they make mistakes too.

So take the pressure off of yourself. When you trust your ability to figure it out (even when it doesn’t go perfectly at first) you will begin to accelerate progress because you’re facilitating a fast-learning feedback loop.

With anything in life, all we can do is our very best. There’s nothing more gratifying than knowing that you gave it your all and you’ve applied yourself fully.

Having said that, I want to open your mind to something that should be really encouraging. Your very best can get better. This means that just because you tried your absolute hardest on something does not mean that you’re going to be stuck achieving a certain quality of result. The ceiling of your capabilities is not fixed, it is dynamic and ready to be pushed and expanded upon.

On one hand, understanding this allows you to accept the results that you get. If you did your best and still fell short, that just means your best wasn’t good enough - yet. You can improve, your best can get better and grow to the extent that it meets and exceeds your goals! So don’t feel sorry for yourself if you aren’t there yet, because if you stick with it, one day you will be.

On the other hand, this should inspire you to really pursue your growth, to test your limits, and to expand what you’re capable of! At the end of the Best Self Breakthrough Challenge I talk about how the work we do in it increases your zone of capacity. 

The very best that you have to offer today exists within the constraints of your current life. There may be certain limitations or circumstances that cause you to only rise to a certain level. Like how an illness in the family may take up your time and keep you from maximizing your health routines.

And similarly, your best is dependent on the tools you have access to and your ability to use them. Like how the internet has transformed our ability to access information and communicate with others.

The single most transformative thing I know of that will quickly and permanently elevate how good you are when you’re at your best, is to install a high-quality Self Improvement Operating System. It’s the baseline process and resource that you can use to accelerate improvement in any area of your life. 

This will take you from good to great, from lacking consistency to mastering self-discipline. I help you implement this Operating System step-by-step in the Best Self Breakthrough Challenge. Today, Monday July 10th is the first day of the Challenge and it’s not too late to join.

Register for free now so that you can breakthrough to the next level of your potential, and it takes just 5 minutes a day for 21 days.

So here’s the truth of it - Your life, circumstances, and results are a direct reflection of you. The things around you have been created by you, in conscious and unconscious ways, to perfectly represent the ways your skills, beliefs, and mindsets interface with the world.

This means that if you’re not exactly where you want to be in your health, finances, relationships, or your outlook on life - it’s because of you. And as long as you keep doing the same things and thinking the same ways you’re going to continue manifesting the same circumstances.

I imagine you don’t want to be where you are right now forever. You have dreams and aspirations beyond your current life. You want to explore yourself and the boundaries of who you can be, and what you can accomplish in the world. We’re not meant to sit still, our lives are dynamic and evolving, and if you want all of this change to be an improvement then you need to be really intentional about the direction of your growth. 

With that in mind I want to ask you a very important question - What does your ‘next level’ look like?

We talk about wanting to take things to the next level, but what does that mean for you? Have you defined it? What would that open up for you in your life?

It could be growing in your career or business so that you have more influence, authority, and control of your finances. It could be in your health so that you have more enthusiasm for the way you show up in every moment of every day. It could be in your relationships and learning how to put your ego, trauma, and judgment aside so that you can appreciate the people in your life for who they are.

Talk is cheap so let’s get real. If you’re ready to start doing things differently, that challenge you but shape you into the best version of yourself, so you can start changing your circumstances and tapping into your fullest potential every day, I have a suggestion.

Join me in the next cohort of the Best Self Breakthrough Challenge. This is a 21 day process to transform your mindset and daily routines so that you can truly reach your next level again (and again and again and again) until you’ve built the life of your dreams. It all starts with investing 21 days of focused, intentional action to install the core operating system that you can use to improve anything about your life.

The one thing that will never change about life is that change is constant. Life is so dynamic and responsive to the environment around us that we constantly need to evolve ourselves to keep up. 

This leaves us all with an interesting opportunity, if things are changing around us, what’s our role in it? There are two different ways that things go. You can just inherit the way that things naturally shift around you and try to do your best with it, or you can be the force that initiates change and shapes the way the future is being created.

With that in mind I want to share today’s positivity quote - “It all can be different tomorrow.” 

It’s within your power to wake up tomorrow morning and mend your relationships with that person who means so much to you. It can be the day that you get serious about your health and wellness by committing to a new fitness plan. That you take on that overwhelming task you’ve had on your mind to create peace of mind. That you find the confidence to stand up for the value you offer in your work.

That is you creating your future, being in charge of what happens to you with ownership and agency. And the day that you accept that responsibility as yours is the day that you begin to control your destiny.

Jim Rohn is an iconic personal development orator, impacting millions of people in his lifetime, and he has a classic line that goes “I didn't change your life. I was just the last person you were listening to when you chose to change your life.”

Perhaps, right now, I can be that person for you. If you know that you’re operating at a fraction of your potential and you just need an infusion of motivation, some accountability, some new habits and systems that are more representative of who you know you can be, then make the decision right now to change your life.

And the way that you make that decision is to focus on the foundational pieces of self-improvement that most people are overlooking, and it’s the reasons why they’re struggling to be more consistent and feeling held back. 

We can address that together in the Best Self Breakthrough Challenge. The Challenge only takes 5 minutes a day for 21 days but that’s all it takes to install of the life operating system that you can use to improve anything about your life, reach elite levels of consistency and productivity, and build momentum that inspires you to show up as the best version of yourself in every moment of every day.

I can’t change your life, I wish I could, but I can be the person you listen to when you choose to change your life. You can take that step for yourself by registering right now for the Best Self Breakthrough Challenge. And seriously, do it right now because it’s a live challenge and we’re getting started on Monday, so don’t make a mistake and miss this opportunity.

One of the things that will most quickly, most fundamentally support you in being more productive and improve the quality of everything you do, is building systems. A system is a procedural way of doing things that allows for predictable outcomes to be produced with less effort and resources. If you feel like you don’t have enough time and energy in the day to do everything you want to do, your way out of it is systems.

Not only is this true on the side of making improvements to your life, it also applies to the challenging aspects too. In “Atomic Habits” James Clear says “You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” This means that if you want to turn your game up a notch, and deliver on it consistently, you need to have systems.

If systems are clearly so good and effective, why don’t we have more of them?

The answer is in human nature - we are lazy and because of that we’re often unwilling to put in the work required to build the system. In order for the work to be done efficiently, you need to invest in building the system. 

Instead of doing the thing, you apply your time and effort doing things that help you to do the thing. It seems like a waste until you have the system in place and it supports you in doing the thing over and over and over again, making each time way easier than it was before. But many people aren’t interested in doing the little extra in the short-term that creates huge efficiencies in the long-term.

So if you want to become more efficient and open up your capacity to do all of the things that are important to you - consistent exercise and self-care, reading more, progressing in your career - you need to implement a system. It’s going to take a little work, but if you have 5 minutes a day for 21 days, I will help you to implement a life operating system that gives you the motivation, accountability, and daily step-by-step routines you need to truly take things to the next level. 

Again, 5 minutes, 21 days to revolutionize your life and tap into the next level of your growth. This is the simple task in the 21 Day Super Habits Challenge.

You can be the person that does it all, and you don’t need to settle for less!

Do you ever look back at the end of the day and ask yourself “What happened?” Even though you had all of these great intentions for how the day was going to go, by the end of the day it all seemed to fall apart. Maybe you made unhealthy choices, you procrastinated bad on some important tasks, or you acted lazy rather than attacked the day.

Instead of having days that you later regret, how about you commit to living full, productive, meaningful days that make you proud when you look in the mirror?

Your days are a reflection of how you spent your hours, which are made up of minutes and moments. Do you know what dictates your moments? 

Choices.

Make better choices and you’ll have better moments, better minutes, better hours, and better days.

There are two types of choices that we make - the ones that we know we’re making and the one’s that we don’t. The choices we know we’re making are driven you your motivation and purpose, and needs. It’s a balance of tradeoffs that we think through and make decisions about. However, moments offer temptations, and your mission is to choose to pass on those in the short-term to support the overall goals you have in the long-term. That’s making the right choices.

The choices we aren’t making are driven by our beliefs and environment. They happen without our awareness but they determine our path all the same. Honestly the majority of our choices happen unconsciously which is why doing the inner work to change our state is so foundational to changing our lives. This is what people mean when they talk about your frequency or energy - it’s all related to how you unconsciously manifest certain results from the actions you do or don’t take, which are dictated by your choices. 

To start making choices that you’re proud of more often, there are two different things to address. First is to become more aware of the choices you’re making. Instead of having your unconscious mind influence your daily decisions without regulation, when you introduce moments of consciousness you can begin to see all of the ways your behavior came from the choices you did or didn’t make.

Then with that additional awareness, you can make the right choice easier to do. Set up your environment to make desired behaviors an extension of your surroundings, have clarity on exactly what you want to do so that you can follow through on it specifically, and introduce accountability in your life to keep yourself to a higher decision making standard.

If you want to start making better decisions more often to achieve the health, finances, and lifestyle you desire, I’d love to help you with that. The Self Improvement Operating system that you install in the 21 day Best Self Breakthrough Challenge gives you the specific awareness, clarity, accountability, and process you need to make better choices and reach elite levels of your self-improvement. If you want to be a high-performer across the board so that you fulfill your potential and make the very most out of life, your next step is to take 5 minutes a day for 21 days to implement this operating system through the challenge.

>> Click here to learn more about the challenge!

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