Everyone wants to be a badass. Well, everyone listening to this podcast wants to be a badass, so I figured we should just talk about the steps. Step 1: Be a physical badass. Where does that start? Get into shape. You cannot be fat, overweight, and unhealthy if you want to be a badass. This week we are talking about controlling what you put in your body.
How you view yourself is a major part of this battle we fight daily. Are you seeing yourself as less than? Making the shift from I am less than to I am capable will be the first step in changing all of your results.
You hear a lot of talk about developing your mindset. However, you don’t get a lot of tangible ways that you can actually do it. Well, here you go, a tangible way that I started to develop my mindset.
One of my favorite books, “The Untethered Soul,” talks about what to do when you get a thorn in your arm. You flick it out. This begs the question, why don’t we do the same thing when we get a thorn in our hearts?
Everything must begin with desire. Without this first characteristic, everyone will quit. Everyone will become beaten down over time and give up to what is more accessible. You will fall victim to the road that most people travel. But, if you desire more, you will keep forging forward. You will travel the road that is less traveled and be able to accomplish what was once thought of as impossible.
At the end of the movie 8 Mile, Eminem is in the final of a rap battle. Rather than make fun of his opponent, Em took a different approach. He rapped about what his opponent was going to say about him. It left his opponent speechless; he had nothing to say. So, my question to you is, why don’t you let the world see your weakness so that, just like Eminem, the world won’t be able to use them against you?
You have failed at everything in your life except one thing. You have failed at being a good dad, a good spouse, and a good boss. The only thing you have never failed at is making it through a really bad day.
Stoicism is often misunderstood. It is often said that a stoic man does not feel emotions. This isn’t true. A stoic man incredibly feels his emotions; he just doesn’t let his emotions take over his actions.
If you want success, if you want more than what you have right now, you don’t have a choice. You don’t have a choice to have a bad day. You don’t have a choice to chill today. You must be waking up and grinding. You must wake up, start your day skillfully, and then get to work.
Every morning you get out of bed, you have a choice of what you will do in the day. Will you let the momentum of the previous day be the deciding factor? Will you let the way you are feeling be that factor? Or will you choose discipline?