A documentation of my journey to improve my life
Tag: fear
There are two ways to live life. You can either be bound by the limitations that others put upon you, or you can go out and discover how limitless your life can be. Of course, most of the world operates in the safe world of societies limitations. You’re supposed to get a secure job, settle down with a nice girl, and put away a reasonable 20% of your income every year so you can retire before age 60. For many, this...
“Do the thing you fear, and continue to do so. This is the quickest and surest way of all victory over fear.” — Dale Carnegie Fear is universal, whether you’re a multi-billion dollar investor or a convenience store clerk, everyone deals with some sort of fear in their lives. It’s this fear that can hold us back from leading the life we dream of, from taking risks, from achieving our goals and from attempting to build a business of our own. Some...
Winners and losers, this is how we’ve divided up the world. There is no grey area, no participation ribbons to be given out for good efforts (as much as we like to pretend that there are). We shower our winners with glory and quickly forget about those that strived but did not succeed. We are taught to idolize winners and to model ourselves after them, but what happens when we ourselves strive and falter? What happens when we attempt to reach for greatness...
Stuck In A Comfort Bubble So often in life we find ourselves living in a comfortable bubble that we’ve created for ourselves. We sit wrapped in our artificial security blankets living cautiously and conservatively, assuring that we are rarely forced to step far outside of our comfort zones. This can sometimes be a nice luxury affording us a sense of security and comfort, like a good job or a nice house, but often this is the very thing that holds us back from achieving what...
This whole year has been about challenging myself to be better, striving to get more out of life and pushing myself out of my comfort zone. Whether it’s been challenging myself to be a better cook or attempting to be more mindful and more productive I’ve tried to focus my challenges on areas I knew I had personal deficiencies with in an to attempt to slowly improve my life. This months swim challenge is in some ways very different though…This is the first...
