While I mentioned in this week’s episodic musing about just going for it, you’ve also got to realize if along the road you make a mistake, it’s smart to improvise if it’s the right or practical thing to do.
Don’t let your ego get the best of you and be stubborn. If you’re working towards something, you won’t do everything perfectly. Admit the mistake, suck it up, and move on.
You only fail if you don’t learn lessons from your mistakes.
Hope everyone’s having a great week.
As always…
Stay awesome.
– Rego
Improve Your Lifestyle. Improve Yourself. This is Life. This is Rego’s Life.™
Well, happy new year (…add exclamation mark here).
I’ve been away for a while working on some things but I’m hoping everyone had a good Christmas and their new year was off to more than a good start.
I also hope everyone didn’t make any new year’s resolutions.
Why?
Good question…
Musings Episode 83: Guts Over Fear…
For the past few weeks now while picking up my daily necessities, I’ve had to endure the cringiness of various store marketing ads blaring over their speakers talk of new year’s resolutions and “getting fit” – while eloquently lacing in why you need that new yoga mat.
New Year’s resolutions are really just excuses to not actually apply yourself to anything.
They’re the unsaid safety net of “new year, new you” and if you don’t get it done then hey, that’s okay champ, at least you tried. Maybe next year, eh?
I’m not saying that relaxing is a bad thing – but they say these days, your average person spends 4 hours looking at screens – that’s *outside* of work.
That’s a lot of screen time. Half a workday to be precise. You could do a lot with that time. So why aren’t you?
The biggest obstacle I find people wrestle with is fear. The fear of starting. The fear of starting only to fail. The fear of starting, succeeding, and then having things crumble.
I’m not faultless – this includes me.
But like a fear of a big, scary new workout plan (or big, scary new place you’re moving to), ultimately it’s a fear that it’d be better to deal with than shove under the rug.
You’ve gotta have guts over fear. Ever seen the music video of Eminem‘s song “Guts Over Fear”?
I’m not a huge fan of his music, but that music video is a perfect depiction of guts over fear.
I know when it comes to starting anything new there’s the headache and questions of “How am I going to get it done? When am I going to get it done? Can I GET it done?”
It’s fairly ironic how some people don’t grasp this concept.
They’ll start a new job (motivation), work that job, some days dislike that job (motivation lost), then keep going to that job even when they’re no longer motivated.
…but then won’t maintain that same course of tenacity when it comes to enhancing something they want to do for themselves that’ll help them grow outside of that exact same job.
First off – really hope you guys have been doing alright – thanks for the emails asking where I’ve been – makes me feel appreciated just as much as I appreciate you. 😉
I must admit, lately, there have been some inner demons I’ve been wrestling with.
Sorry about that.
Well, not really – if I hadn’t, I’d probably have stopped writing altogether – now that would be something to apologize for.
Right, back to demons – it’s a bit of an interesting discovery…ready? Start.
Musings Episode 71: Fearless…
So demons – we all have them. This month has been a trying one – been having to take my own advice on a handful of things, and I’ve gotta say, it’s been a delicate balancing act.
There’s a time you reach in various stages of your life when sometimes you just feel overwhelmed – not from the amount of things you’ve got going on, but just a collective series of events that have happened.
There was a time when I used to think that “nothing just happens” – frankly, these days I’d say that’s a load of shit – at least the way I used to think of it.
But once you get it – once you understand how to acquire your own version of fearlessness, where you can take whatever life throws at you – guess what?
Or don’t feel like they’re being thrown at you at all.
Suddenly, they’re no longer crises, or headaches…no longer are they challenges or obstacles.
You no longer look at them as road blocks.
You develop a sort of filtration system, where after a while you just understand it’s something you must find a solution to – and start equating these “crises” to simple math problems. Or is it chemistry? Let’s say, both.
If you look for it externally, you will never find it.
The basis of these two things is peace of mind. Somehow, they all seem to fall into place at different times, sometimes lose their way, but overall find their place back with each other.
Don’t sweat it. You are your biggest critic – so just take the spotlight off your faults for a bit, and remember – life isn’t meant to be lived worrying.
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