Steps To Your Better You

Having a complete set of blueprints for your dream house does you no good if there is no house built to give you shelter from an upcoming storm. Having a general idea of how to put a plan in place for any goal you would like to achieve is just as useless.

Clutter is extremely stress-inducing and extremely hard to battle for most of too busy focused on the day to day battle of getting through life. The step in the right direction is not a deep cleaning of your entire space, but just taking time to organize the essential items on your desk.

Acquired knowledge needs to be shared, and the best way to test the mastery of your acquired knowledge is to test your ability to teach it to others.

Your body is built to survive for a set amount of time. It knows how to progress from progression to maturity, and then toward decline at the end of its intended usefulness. We may be able to slow down the process, but the process of eventual declaim cannot be stopped.

Being low on fuel in your vehicle does no negate your need to reach your destination. Being low on physical or mental energy does not negate your need to keep pushing toward your goal.

We've finally reached the milestone of 150 consecutive weeks of publishing 'Steps To Your Better You.' And we're going to celebrate that achievement . . . later. Today, its all about celebrating you, the listeners and subscribers to the podcast.

Milestones are arbitrarily and sometimes artificial determiners of success. Sometimes just living to fight another day is the best gauge of success. Luckily, you are the one who gets to determine whether or not your efforts are a true success.

Complaints never bring resolutions to a problem by themselves, but sometimes a problem you have in not necessarily a problem for you to fix. How you properly deal with a problem is often complicated, but complaining never helps.

In reality, getting past real or perceived wrongs is not a matter of short term memory. It is just a matter of not getting sucked into dwelling on the past situation.

The classic statement from Luke 12:48 gets lorded over people for various reasons. But there is a fundamental truth that many fail to understand as they try to live a life of neutrality. There is a real impact of winning or losing the birth lottery.

If someone isn’t living up to your perceived level of their standard, but they are not a burden to anyone, why do you have a problem? If someone else isn’t happy with you not living up to their perceived level of standard for you, and you are not a burden to anyone, why should you care if they have a problem?

Your reasoning behind your actions doesn’t have to be a good one and doesn’t have to be a reason anyone else would agree with. But you know what your reasoning is. This is the why that motivates you, and if it does not match up with the image you say you want to portray, you have a choice to make.

You may not be a famous person known for being a jerk to your fans, but you may be known as being a jerk to your friends and co-workers. Don’t be.

Why has it been such a personal struggle to get from Episode #140 to Episode #150? Because of a lack of focus on the real target, and too much distraction on what comes next and what else we could be doing now.

People tend to believe I know everything, but even I am not arrogant enough to think I can remember everything. But I can fake it by taking great notes and keeping them well organized.

Whatever you love will at some point become a pain to cont inue as it is. Take a break so that you can learn to love it again from a fresh perspective.

You don't want to air all dirty laundry. You do want to let people know what is real and what is not about your life.

Having a sphere of influence where the ideas are totally homogeneous gets pretty dull pretty quickly.

Technology is offering newly refreshed experiences for old formats, but most of these experiences aren’t exactly new.

Even with the best of intentions, we all offer a net-negative to the hard work of someone out there. You should find out who that person is, and determine if it should be your role to fix it.