°° Don't Try To Make It That Way °°

I'm going to talk to you about some things I've learned in my journey. Most from experience some of my art and passing, many of them, I'm still practicing, but all of them I do believe are true.

Life is not easy. It is not, don't try to make it that way. Life's not fair. It never was, it isn't now and it won't ever be, do not fall into the trap, the entitlement trap of feeling like you're a victim, you are not get over it and get on.

So the question that we got to ask ourselves is what success is to us what success is to you? Is it more money? That's fine, I got nothing against money. Maybe it's a healthy family. Maybe it's a happy marriage, maybe it's to help others to be famous to be spiritually sound.

Leave the world a little bit better place than you found me. Continue to ask yourself that question. Now your answer may change over time, and that's fine. But do yourself this favor? Whatever your answer is, don't choose anything that will jeopardize yourself. Prioritize who you are, who you want to be. And don't spend time with anything that antagonizes your character.

Be brave, take the hill. But first answer that question, what's my Hill. So first, we have to define success for ourselves. And then we have to put in the work to maintain take that daily tally, tend our guard, keep the things that are important to us in good shape. Where you are not is as important as where you are. It is just as important. Where we are not as it is where we are.

Look, the first step that leads to our identity life is usually not I know who I am, I know who I am. That's not the first step, the first steps, usually, I know who I am not. process of elimination. defining ourselves by what we are not, is the first step that leads us to really know and who we are, you know, that group of friends that you hang out with, and they really might not bring out the best in you know, they gossip too much, or that kind of shady, they really aren't going to be there for you in a pinch.

Or how about that bar. And we keep going to that we always seem to have the worst hangover from or that computer screen right? That computer screen that keeps giving us an excuse not to get out of the house and engage with the world and gets real human interaction. About the food that we keep eating and stuff that tastes so good going down, makes us feel like crap the next week, we feel lethargic when he put on weight.

Well, those people those places those things, stop giving them your time and energy. Just don't go there. I mean, put them down. And when you do this, when you do put them down when you put them there, and you quit and given them your time, you inadvertently find yourself spending more time and in more places that are healthy for you that bring you more joy.

Why? Because you just eliminated the who's the were the ones in the wind that were keeping you from your identity. Adjust me too many options. I promise, the too many options will make a tyrant of us all. So get rid of the excess, the wasted time, decrease your options. If you do this, you will have accidentally, almost innocent, put in front of you. What is important. I process elimination.

Knowing who we are is hard. It's hard. Give yourself a break. Eliminate who you are not. First, you're going to find yourself with envy. Instead of creating outcomes that take from us, let's create more outcomes that pay us back. Fill us up. Keep your fire lit turn you on for the most amount of time in your future. We try our best we don't always do it.

Architecture is a verb as well. Since we are the architects of our own lives, let's study the habits, the practices, the routines that we have that lead to and feed our success, our joy, our honest pain, our laughter, our earn tears. let's dissect that and give thanks for those things. And when we do that, guess what happens? We get better at them and we have more to dissect be discerning, choose it because you want it do it because you want to.

We're gonna make mistakes. You got to own them. And then you got to make amends. And then you've got to move on. Guilt and regret kills Many a man or their time. So turn the page, get off the ride. You are the author of the book of your life.