The choices we have in this life are endless.
We can choose what to think, how we see ourselves, what to believe, what gets our attention, even where we want to point our lives.
We can believe we’re victims or victors, cowards or courageous. Most often, it seems, we believe in limitations.
I think it’s the fear aspect of the brain, the one developed when we were surrounded by beasts in the wild, each of which could kill us, and fear played a role in our survival.
Today, fear plays a role in our demise.
While you can believe whatever you want to believe, we most often believe the exact opposite of what we want to believe, the thing(s) that will get us what we genuinely want in life.
We let that fear voice limit risk, action, and effort.
We tell ourselves, ‘what’s the point’ because up to this point we see what we’ve done as less than spectacular, and so, we go on giving less than spectacular effort on diminished goals that keep us from the thing we fear most; failure.
Van Gogh said, If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
Vocalizing the thoughts you want to think really helps.
Vocalizing the characteristics you want to possess will block out the negative self-talk that seeps into every one of our minds.
Action is even more powerful.
If you want to do something, do it.
Do it once, that’s all it takes to prove that it can be done, and then don’t give up.
When I’m asked, how do I lose X amount of body fat, or, how do I become more confident, or a myriad of other questions we all ask others in search of a quick, easy-to-do formula, the answer is always the same:
CONSISTENCY.
You commit to being who you want to be, not wishing for the end result to occur.
You get up at 5am daily. You read 30 minutes a day. You workout 5 days a week (but do something else that’s active every single day).
You stop the negative self-talk by saying it’s opposite aloud.
Take pride in how you look, and how your home looks.
Don’t be a mess physically or have your physical surroundings be messy.
Be excellent in all things – which is what the Romans saw as manliness.
Being a man is far from being a male.
Being a man is a call to be excellent in everything you do, in every day you live.
You will trip up, fail, lose, and stumble, but you will get back up and hold yourself to that standard that is masculinity.
Get after it.
Be Legendary,
Chad Howse
