June Monthly Determination: Lives Are At Stake

Lives Are At Stake

This is to be reviewed every morning.  Get it in OneNote and make it a habit to read this before you even get out of bed.

You're prior "monthly determinations" are for conceptual values that bear little weight.  Your drive is that you do it for yourself, for your own happiness.  So what??  WHO CARES?  You're happy enough, you're super lucky in an incredible position in life.  You've already got it more or less as good as it gets.  So why even bother if it's just about you?

INSTEAD, this month we're going to look at the real world.  Base values on WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING.  On what's so.

It's time to wake up to the world in which you ACTUALLY live.  Out there, real people are dying.  Real people are suffering.  You will always care about others.  You will make that meaning.  And what you do... and what you do not do... has an impact on what meaning they make and what their lives look like.

In the real world, you are actually one of the few who could have a huge impact.  If people like you did not step up, the world would be a pretty nasty place.  You are in a position to massively impact the happiness of dozens, hundreds, even thousands of people, and you currently impact everyone around you at LEAF, and to some extent, everyone they interact with.  This is what's actually out there.  It's not some story, or some conceptual value.  You are in a unique position to make a difference, and if you do not value you this tremendously, if you do not fully get in touch with the impact of this fact, then many people will die and suffer.  It does not have to be that way, but it's up to you to embrace the impact, to really get in touch with how serious this is.

If a surgeon is late, the patient dies.  Insomniacs are already dying.   At LEAF, people's futures and happiness are at stake.  Yet, you let yourself slack off and remain isolated from the facts of the matter.  This month, I am determined to change that and fully embrace the impact.  Lives are at stake.

The Road Back: Vision and Drive

Epic hero's journeys used to be my heart.

The inspiring journey of the ordinary protagonist who's life takes a turn when the unexpected happens and is faced with a decision to take up action or live in defeat.  Through great challenges and adventure, our hero is trained, broken, and beaten again, and now he must grow and overcome the great losses and challenges he's been crushed by on his journey.  Pulling together what he has left, he takes towards the heart of the challenge, overcoming the climax of his adventure and emerging victorious.  Then, he returns home a new man.

Failure Abound - Time to focus on what drives me

Everywhere I look I am surrounded by twisted mazes of negativity and victimhood.  I am in a great position to sky rocket my success now, and yet I am a hopeless failure.

I think it's time to stop focusing on LEAF and "personal development" and start focusing on what really drives me, what's really motivating me, what still fires me up inside unlike anything else in my life.

And that is the thoughts related to what it would be like to be a business owner.

When I have fantasies about going viral, hiring officers, executing marketing strategies, innovating new revenue streams - even though these are ridiculous fantasies and not the actual means by which these things are achieved - they are what fire me up inside.

I think if I want to get my mindfulness back on track and become a positive force of nature I'm going to need to start fantasizing every day.  These thoughts, the ones that fire me up and get me going, are the ones that I should be focused on living in.

Think and grow rich ; the secret - these books talked about visualization.  But, the idea was boxed, and then it's real meaning was destroyed.  Visualization isn't some "mind movie" you make up and think about every morning to get driven.  It's not about that.  It's about thinking about the shit you really get fired up about so you naturally head in that direction in an unwavering fashion.

This is what you understood in 2009.  You were ALL ABOUT your vision.  You just didn't have the discipline to build the habits that create it.  Now you have the discipline, but not the vision to implement your vision.  I need the vision back.

At the very least, it's something really new and different that I haven't tried before, and I know it has a consistent effect on me that I am certainly seeking.  Definitely worth a shot.  Let's implement.