Tapping Back Into Your Standard Will Give You Clarity, Energy and Direction

Fix Your Standards and Stop Playing Around

There’s so much value in having a standard for yourself, for your organization, for your operation, for your friendship groups, for your relationships, for you, and for how you carry yourself.

And it’s very obvious when you look out into the world, you see that there’s a lot of people who have zero standard for themselves. They hold themselves to no standard. They just are meandering through life, just allowing life to just dictate what is happening to them. And then there’s another subset of people who, they have a standard. They have a standard for how they study. They have a standard for how they train. They have a standard for how they treat themselves. You go into their house, and their house is, is clean and operational and smells good, and there’s, there’s a good vibration there, right?

There’s a direct correlation with people who have a standard for themselves and the lived outcomes that they experience. There’s also a direct correlation with people who have no standard for themselves. They don’t push themselves. They don’t exhaust themselves when it comes to their effort and their commitment and their application to their life. They’re exhausted, but the reason that they’re so exhausted is because they’re living a life with no effort. They’re living a life with, with no discipline, no dedication.

For me, what I think about every single day I wake up is that I have an opportunity in front of me. I have my freedom, tow legs, and the ability to do things I love. I never take this for granted. Every single day, there’s an opportunity, and when I look at myself on a day-to-day basis, I just think to myself, “How can I maximize myself today? How can I live up to my potential today? How can I improve today? How can I get better today?” And that doesn’t come from a place of, of inadequacy or lack. It comes from a place of understanding life. If you don’t, if you don’t use it, you will lose it. If you don’t stretch today, you’re not going to be flexible in 10 years. If you’re not doing cardiovascular training, your heart will, will be impacted by that in 10 years. If you’re not saving and investing now, your money will reflect that decision in 10 years. If you’re not eating well your body will reflect the poor choices. If you are not developing yourself what is actually happening? If you’re not investing in your kids now, don’t be surprised when they cut you off in 10 years. If you’re not invested in your relationship now what do you genuinely expect to happen?

So the way I look at things, I’m always looking at the long term. I’m looking at the long-term game. I never approach anything from a, a short-term perspective. It’s always the long game. For me, it’s always the long game. How can I get involved with this organization for the long game? How can I show up for whatever it is that I’m doing, building, or a part of for the long game? How do my, my actions and inactions right now make us, make us better, make us thrive, make us feel all the things that we want to feel now but also in the long game? Right? In the long game. And when you start thinking big picture, when you start thinking about how you can show up to the big picture, that gives you the biggest advantages because so many people are looking for the day-to-day. “What do I get out? What do I get?” That’s how most people think. “What do I get? What do I get? What do I get?”

But the next level, the next level of consciousness for you, the next level of love for you, the next level of finances for you, the next level of relationship comes when you stop thinking about yourself.

That’s why you haven’t got to where you wanted to get. That’s why you don’t have the things you want to have. It’s because you just think about yourself like a little kid, like a child. You’re just like a child. Have you ever be opening a bag of chips or something with some kids around? They don’t even know what it is but as soon as they know something is available they start begging for candy or the chips. They’re like, “Oh, I want some of that.” They don’t even know what it is, haha.

They just hear the noise and start begging but put in no effort. That’s how you operate. That’s how you operate. “Oh, I want some of that. I want some of that.” You’ve never actually sat down and asked yourself, “What am I willing to give?”

You know what you want to get, but you don’t know what you’re willing to give. And most people have life backwards because all they think about is what they want, but they never think about what they want to give, what they’re willing to give. What you’re willing to give is, if you look at your life right now, your life right now is a direct reflection of all the things that you gave in the past. Every single thing you have right now is a reflection of what you’ve given. And so if you love it, then love it, but if you don’t, if there’s something missing in some component or some avenue, some aspect of your life, you have to get back to giving. You have to get back to giving. You have to get back to serving. You have to get back to loving. You have to get back to showing up for what you want. No one can do this for you.

I hope you have a great week. I hope this week is fabulous for you. I hope you live in alignment. I hope you attract all the love that you need, all the discipline, all the financial success you need, all the health and healing that you need in your body. I hope that you wake up and you’re serious. You’re serious about your life. Now, now having seriousness doesn’t mean you can’t play. It doesn’t mean don’t have fun. In fact, I promote both. Have fun and have your seriousness. Have a little bit of both because that balance and combination is the sweet spot

This week or this weekend, what I want you to do, though, is I want you to get clear on how you’re going to operate, and most importantly, I want you to get clear on how you’re going to give, especially when it comes to your dreams and your passions, your outcomes, your business, your family, your relationships. What are you willing to give to make things go to the next level? Now, if you just want to be average this message is not for you.

But what I’m looking for and the people I’m looking for and the people I want my message to reach is the people who want to play life games at the highest level, who want to operate at the highest level, who want to do life at the highest level, the people who abundantly know that there is an abundance in the universe, and that I can use the law of attraction and attract this energy. I can use the law of assumption and assume that I deserve to win in all pillars of my life. That doesn’t mean that you won’t have adversity and speed bumps and turbulence, because we all will. That is just the natural texture of life. But can you respond to your adversity? Can you respond when things get a little windy? Can you respond when things get a little sticky, or do you just fold? Do you just fold to the level of your excuses and your lack of preparation, your lack of will, your lack of determination?

I hope you have a great week.

I hope you stay focused.

I hope you dialed in.

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I appreciate you for listening to the message today, and I hope you have a great day.

Keep that love and discipline up.

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