Posted in Get The Girl!, Step Up, tagged action, discipline, drive, journey, masculinity, motivation on September 22, 2015| Leave a Comment »
The title to this piece may seem to fly in the face of street sense and even hard-thought wisdom, but allow me to elaborate.
For now, let’s set aside the “Master Your Mind” part of the equation.
Many guys, including those whom I consider to be among my most respected and well-loved friends, readily grasp that getting the girl cannot be had without stepping up. That is to say, they understand you can’t have something for nothing. You want the princess? Go become the prince.
Posted in Master Your Mind, tagged action, discipline, personal on June 24, 2015| Leave a Comment »
So I had a conversation with a good friend last night. I shared that I had been going to the gym consistently for the past 2 months. He asked me how I got myself to do that. I thought about my reward system of coffee and manga, about how I wanted to remain attractive to my girlfriend, about my health and longevity. But really, I told him, I think it’s because I tell myself that if I just show up at the gym, I consider that a success. Inevitably, I get in a good workout anyway, but that’s not what I tell myself in the morning when I’m tired and hating life.
He then shared that he had done his trampoline workout 112 days in a row.
“Today was your one hundred and twelfth day?!” I asked.
“Yup, 112 days,” he said.
“How did you do that?”
“Same as you. I just tell myself all I have to do is crawl out of bed and onto the trampoline. Then just stand up. Of course, I’ll start bouncing a few times and then I’ll go for longer.”
So there you go, dear reader. Like your work–creative or otherwise–all you have to do, no matter how lousy you feel, is just show up.
Posted in Master Your Mind, tagged balance, discipline, fun on June 3, 2015| Leave a Comment »
When I wrote The Vortex, I was of half a mind. The piece felt somehow incomplete–as day without night, protein without carbs, or winning without trying. Some people misunderstood, believing that I espoused a frantic, self-abnegating life. So today, I write this piece with the other half of my mind.
Posted in Master Your Mind, tagged balance, discipline, house of dreams, metaphor, procrastination, writing on November 12, 2014| 4 Comments »
Let’s say… you’re a writer. You’ve done a lot of reading, but you’ve never come across the book you want to write. There’s a unique emptiness out there that needs to be filled. You know you have the talent, the intellect, the creativity to fill this emptiness. You also secretly fear that if you don’t fill it, eventually someone else will. And yet, you idle.
Posted in Master Your Mind, tagged discipline, how to, metaphor, repetition, skill on November 23, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Understanding something is quite different from knowing it–not unlike the difference between studying horticulture and cultivating your own garden. Knowing means thoughts are inessential to induce you to act; actions erupt from you spontaneously like oak from acorn.
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