Self Discipline – You CAN Change In my last blog, I began my investigation into the premise that self discipline beats motivation. I discussed how I believe we can increase our levels of self discipline, and the real question isn’t whether we can do it, but whether we want to do it. Please understand, I’m …
Motivation Is Worthless Has this got your attention? I’m going to say it again; motivation is worthless.Has Deej finally lost the plot, you may be asking yourselves?Hopefully not.The first time I heard this concept was on one of Tom Bilyeu’s Impact Theory podcasts when Tom was interviewing Mel Robbins, famous for her Five Second Rule. …
… This is a continuation – for previous post, click here Stay Focused In my previous post I spoke about using To Do Lists and my search for strategies to make them work for me. Talking about this reminds me of a time about 15 years ago when I had a job implementing new computer …
In my search for strategies that work for me I have many times during my life flirted with the concept of the To Do List. Sometimes, for specific things like shopping, or what to make sure I’ve sorted for a holiday (vacation), having a list has really helped. When I get to the bottom of …
In my life as a driving instructor, at the end of every lesson I always took a few minutes to reflect with my client on the lesson that just took place. What went well? What needed further development? And possibly most importantly, what were we planning to do next time? This planning for next time …
Have you ever watched a particularly gifted person, maybe an athlete, artist or musician and marvelled at how amazing they are? Wondered at their innate talent and wished you could do something like that? Well here’s a question. How much of their gift or talent is really innate and how much is actually based on …
Life is a story. Kind of an autobiography that we write as we go. Stuff will happen in our stories over which we have no control, but what we can always control is how we respond. We have a choice. So, as we write our own story, we write our own hero, and we can …