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I recently heard someone say it's not about doing your best it's about doing what's required [Music] are they different very here's my take doing your best has an emotional component attached to it it's subjective what exactly is your best well it's a story that you tell yourself a narrative opening the door to limitation I've always found that when we put our backs against the wall and venturing the scenarios where it's essential that we get something done we somehow always find a way [Music] when we leave no plan B for ourselves we are required to make plan a work and so we do it's a testament to both the resilience and power contained in the human Spirit as well as the reality that we can Astound ourselves when we're unwilling to take no for an answer that it's not the resources that are the problem it's usually our unwillingness to move forward into the dark are hesitance to try explore test build and rebuild actions that are surprisingly unrelated to One's best and have everything to do with the accepting nothing less than an identified outcome [Music] one of the reasons I fell in love with the sport of running because it reinforced this notion in my life it became the template with which I could repeatedly amaze myself I talk a lot about earning confidence and oh how I earned it step by step mile by mile day by day in the sun in the rain in the desert in the woods through city streets all over the country and the world I came to understand the relationship between the turbulence of now and the satisfaction of later it was on those days that push beyond my usual level of comfort when that cloud of pain and Agony would hover over me I couldn't even really point to where my body hurt it just all seemed to come together into this one giant hell and to learn that I could not only endure that but grow in those moments to see myself rise above any preconceived notion or understanding of best in order to defeat My Demons conquer the day's objective it changes the way you see yourself in the world now could onlookers be tempted to call these self-created goals arbitrary even unnecessary sure then I get why they would but I'd also completely disagree those days were a master class in doing what is necessary realizing that when you shut your rational brain off and don't give your mind a chance to talk your body out of it see just how powerful you are you realize that story of your best is nothing more than a house built on Sand life is not about that story you've told yourself it's not about your personal records and Peak performances what you think you can do or how far you think you might be able to go it's about not stopping in the moments when it hurts doing what is required a decision that compounds over time to create what was once impossible [Music] one of my favorite quotes is by Admiral William mcraven an absolute Hero Of Mine and funny enough he says if you want to change the world you must be your very best in your darkest moments and what a beautiful idea to rise when life presents its periods of turbulence [Music] and sure it may be a matter of semantics but in those moments of Darkness I think of your best not in the traditional sense not as a personal metric but as a willingness to do what must be done a removal of the spotlight from you all together and instead pointed directly at the road ahead at the task at hand when you choose to make the journey not about what you can and cannot do but instead make it about what must be done the universe as Paulo coelo has so elegantly stated conspires to make it happen [Music] think back to my journey and at so many periods my best wasn't good enough I was so lost and so overwhelmed that the only thing I could do was not stop moving that was my superpower simply trudged through the fear of things falling apart the nagging pride and hurting ego and what I learned was that life is no different than all those miles I'd put in running how I felt and what my previous capabilities were what I deemed my best to be it was all noise it was all irrelevant what was required was that I moved forward through the chaos and to something better and so I did and in your world so can you the stories we tell ourselves are so powerful and in many ways valuable in our journey through life but there's one narrative that eliminates the necessity of so many others you can get to the top of whatever Mountain you are seeking to climb so long as you do not stop so long as you let go of the limitations tied to your quote-unquote best and instead do what is required to get there you'll see how adaptable and transformative that best really is how it's a lagging indicator it will take time but you're capable of being patient and it will have its moments of chaos but you are capable of weathering those storms it will present obstacles that leave you unclear uncertain sometimes unprepared but you're capable of picking your head up and moving through that Haze what you know of yourself now is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of what you're capable of doing [Music] and how far that goes will be determined not by putting a stake in the ground and calling it your personal best but as Emerson has said by hitching Your Wagon to a star and pulling yourself towards its light a little bit time [Music] when I was a kid I saw everything upside down thank you I remember spending all my time in the now right I hadn't yet learned to contemplate worst case scenarios and when I was a kid I was pretty much detached from reality and I'd have my Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers battling on the bedroom floor I hadn't learned that playing with action figures doesn't get you a job when I was a kid I wanted to be the next Steven Spielberg or playing Blink 182 or maybe be the president of the United States right what excited me I gravitated toward I hadn't yet learned that the statistical likelihood of accomplishing something like that was .0001 percent when I was a kid I was so happy captivated by imagination that I wouldn't even want to go to bed right the the excitement and the mere possibility of the World Around Me kept me awake I hadn't learned to settle down or go with the flow when I was a kid I did what felt right I was led by curiosity by a sense of exploration I hadn't yet learned to weigh the opinions of others or the pressure of conformity when I was a kid I saw everything upside down and when I was a kid I was right and perhaps there is no message more important than that so move forward without leaving the best of you behind not to grow away from what matters most but to grow into it see every so often I take a step back and I look at the world around me pushing pulling me to be something I'm not and I think back to my younger self a life without walls or barriers a life in Pursuit of Happiness and I'm always amazed at how fast an exceptional existence becomes a checklist look Life Changes responsibilities change parameters shift but it will never be wrong to ask yourself what matters are you waking up for you or for something or someone else [Music] so stop look in the mirror and decide which way is up and which way is down because the journey awaits [Music] foreign that will always be true it will be true on your best days and your worst it will be true after Victory and it will be true after defeat it will be true when you have momentum and it'll be true when you're down on your luck doing everything in your power to create momentum that saying is your future begins now hey on the surface might not seem like much sure my future Starts Now I know that everyone knows that well if that's true if everyone does in fact know that why do we spend so much time stock reliving our past unable to break free why do we remain terrified to change why do we feel such a connection to who we were how others saw us why must we remain loyal to the character we've been playing in our mental autobiographies see here's the thing about the past and the future one is fixed can't be changed and the other well it's waiting for you to tell it what it is one is expired time one is planned to be determined and it's interesting how we continue to conflate the two Epictetus has said that the more things we value outside of our control the less control we have [Music] well I'm going to be the messenger here relaying the precious truth that yesterday is in fact out of our control what can be controlled is where we go from here The Next Step meaning today is not your failures it's where you take those lessons it's not your mistakes but it's what the stronger you can now endure because of them it's not the dreams you let slip away but where your Pursuit might take you now and yeah yesterday certainly contributes to your outlook as all information does it's value considered its impact assessed it guides you but it's not you and that difference is astronomical there's a question about the role the past plays in our lives that has to mean something right your past is in many ways your story it's why you think the way you do it's contributed to your understanding of the world it will always be a part of you and I believe that but I also believe the past is a story and just like reading one chapter in a book simply sets the stage for the next one without controlling its direction so does every day that has led you up to now life gives us the tools to experience to grow learn and then shed that which does not coincide with what's important your failures are not you but they are precious and that they push you towards what you'd like to be see you can experience something and not be that thing as kirkle guard says if you label me you negate me if you Proclaim me to BX you're essentially stealing from me the infinite possibility that is the future yesterday has nothing to do with what I can become and so taking it a step further never mind being labeled by someone else How Could You label yourself and see it as anything but self-sabotage see you're never defined by your past but always learning from it it's not who you are it's the cheat codes for what you can be without that Winding Road of Misfortune and mistakes the incredible expansion we long for doesn't materialize imagine if everyone who whoever felt down in life felt like a loser who temporarily lost hope imagine if they looked in the mirror and said okay this is who I am now there would be no Triumph in the world because anything meaningful requires the resiliency to map our way from the hell that was our darkest moments to what will become our proudest moments destiny Destiny Destiny means that you separate the finite from the infinite what you used to call yourself has prepared you to move towards the horizon but what you used to call yourself is also as irrelevant now as those seconds that you watch tick away [Music] seconds that maybe you're not proud of seconds that perhaps taught you about the world seconds that gave you a glimpse of what's possible unveiled the happiest of times to all of it in its own unique way it brought value but none of it is your future why because back to that beautiful all-powerful sentence your future begins now your destiny is awaiting its marching orders and all you have to decide as you stand today is where that ship will sail foreign [Music] [Music] Soul life is the sum of the decisions we make but which decisions how am I supposed to know [Music] well maybe a list will help some pros and some cons list one finding the courage to do something new okay cons could be a waste of time could embarrass myself could lose money could get criticized [Music] Pros could be life-changing finding the courage to go somewhere new okay cons might not like where I go might not know how to get there might regret going Pros could end up being the best decision I've ever made finding the courage to change myself okay cons might not like who I become might try fail and feel worse than I did to begin with it's possible Pros well it might become exactly who I need to be so looking at this it essentially comes down to conserving the old or making the new maintaining or capturing the upside but it isn't quite delineate my problem okay so different angle list two finding the courage to do something new if I fail is it reversible yes I can fail and if I do I'll simply go back to doing that which I had been doing all right finding the courage to go somewhere new if I don't like the destination is it reversible yes change my flights grab a train turn the car around I decide where I go finding the courage to change myself if I don't like the trajectory is it reversible yes if I don't like how I'm evolving I can stop I can start back at the beginning who you are is in your control okay so after two lists the pros have immense upside in the cons well they have relatively minor downside and they are reversible meaning if I try something I've always wanted to try go somewhere I've always wanted to go become the person I've always wanted to be things could fall apart but the damage is more annoying than it is life-altering it's not forever it's fixable on the other side if I hit that home run my life changes my world evolves what's possible expands and it's not that I will it's that I could and doesn't everything start with could a seed of possibility an idea that plants roots and when merged with courage and action takes shape of course but most importantly this information in front of me tells me something pretty incredible a story with few words and infinite meaning the key that unlocks some of the most important doors to be opened and it's this most of our inaction most of our regret most of our almost come from cowering amidst possible outcomes that are reversible running from potential consequences that we could wipe clean like a dry erase board and try again the downside it pills in comparison to the upside we're running from a slap on the wrist or the momentary anxiety associated with turning down the wrong street right that's the takeaway here that's where the magic lies not in the possibility that everything could work out but the realization that if it doesn't life moves right along that contrary to the narrative so often making its home in the back of our minds life has reduced you can screw up you can reverse track and start again the only action you can't fix is the one you never take and well I'm looking at this list and I just don't see any upside in that foreign Maxwell's book the 21 irrefutable laws of leadership he talks about momentum and how they're saying if you can't take the heat then get out of the kitchen doesn't quite get it right advocating that it should instead be if you can't create the Heat then get out of the kitchen and being that we are all leaders in our own lives I think he hits on something that none of us should overlook the power of momentum of not waiting but creating reminding ourselves that we are not spectators sitting in the stands and simply reacting to or complaining about the events taking place below no we have the ability to change the things we do not like and create the ones that don't yet exist when we know they should [Music] too much of the time we react to that metaphorical heat in the kitchen as John alludes to forgetting that we can dial it up or down we're not only characters that have been created we are ourselves creators and I talk a lot about mental shifts that have changed my life and there are plenty but perhaps the most important was the realization that I can do something about the things I don't like and I know that sounds simple probably even obvious but I look back at various stages of my life and I'm Blown Away by the amount of things I tolerated for years in years simply because I gave it no thought there were so many questions that I never asked so many opportunities I never explored until I realized hey you can stop accepting those things you don't want it's amazing the power of a simple list that was created two columns left side all the things that bothered me that I wasn't happy with or that I knew should be there that had been lacking and then on the right column what I'm going to do about it every single item each one what's the step I'm going to take and I just poured my heart onto that paper and it's like you look down and feel like you have finally moved into the driver's seat there's something incredible about knowing that you have taken control something satisfying knowing that you're not just accepting what falls out of the sky and lands in your hands [Music] right especially since we seem to have this proclivity to box ourselves in human beings are amazing in their ability to adapt but the danger is when we adapt to and normalize the reality that falls short of what matters to us [Music] the danger is in forgetting that nothing happens without momentum and momentum is self-made one of my favorite stories is about a man walking through the circus and he sees these enormous elephants each with one end of a rope tied around one of their legs and the other end of that rope connected to a chair the man as he's walking by he's curious asks one of the trainers hey isn't that dangerous couldn't the elephant easily break free and get away if you want and the trainer says no see we started doing this when they were baby elephants and when they were babies they couldn't physically Break Free they weren't strong enough and so over the years as they grew and became bigger stronger it never dawned on them that by simply pulling on that rope or walking away they could break free These Chains might as well be invisible and that's what they were mental the Rope wasn't keeping the elephants to the chair the elephants were keeping the elephants to the chair and there's something there in that message for all of us for some of us in this particular moment maybe it's big picture for others maybe we're at a season of life where it's simply creating momentum in some type of smaller capacity and I travel through these ups and downs personally all the time I think that's a healthy thing it's a sign that you're looking for that growth you're checking the world around you for those imaginary ropes recently I went through a period where I just felt too long had gone by without something significant happening I needed to create momentum and so I asked well who was I reaching out to how was I pushing myself what was I doing that scared me what was I doing that was growing how can I take things up a level all these little levers of opportunity are all around us but we have to know to look for them to see them and pull and it's truly an incredible thing you do that and you start to feel the movement underneath you the momentum the excitement because you're trying new things you're taking new risks talking to new people and that's how that snowball grows we have to realize that we are Mighty big elephants perpetually tied to these comically small chairs we have to create that heat in the kitchen because we're not only capable we are ready we are equipped to move forward foreign the momentum will never come to be on its own those things wait they wait for you to stop watching life go by and click Start on the stopwatch [Music] the ad time has always ticked away but it will never mean as much as it's about to now tick talk Whispers the opportunity signifying that in order to evolve we must decide we are bold enough to go where we have not yet gone is strong enough to leave some things behind [Music] for in its imp [Music] that is forever and that's a trade that demands we look into the future and find Value in the Unseen it's a move that says the seconds ticking by mean too much to dishonor them by not making the most of what's around you and those answers are always there foreign at the end of the day that's what it's all about right we make decisions without even realizing we're making them to accept the current moment as fate is to choose to choose what you're given over what is possible over everything that's out there available for you it's never too late to pull on that rope around your foot to be who you as the saying goes might have been know that in your world nothing consistently shows up or exists without your stamp of approval that will always be true nothing carries on without you allowing it to do so and that understanding will be the difference between the ground level and the exponential Heights you are capable of reaching the creation the email the phone call the ride the book The Period of time the step out the door any and all of life seemingly unremarkable characteristics [Music] within them is your ticket to Greatness just know that you have to be the one that winds the clock you are the sun around which everything else revolves the architect that makes something of value from them there will always be momentum where you decide there should be momentum your head up open the door and step out into the world of potential that'll wait [Music]

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Length: 31min 30sec (1890 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 10 2023