Often, we fall into thinking patterns and start to believe things will always be the way they are now. We forget how fast the facts can change. In any 24 hour period, our world can turn upside down: - Win the lottery - Proposal (successful and unsuccessful) - Heart attack and death of a loved one - Land a monster sale - Earthquake - Bet pays off huge We have control over such few things that happen - so what we CAN influence we should, else we risk giving up our only opportunity to improve our lives for the better. Structuring our lives so we can break out of the mental hamster wheels we run is a must. For me, this can look like… - Meeting with a mentor who shifts my paradigm - Journaling and reexamining my beliefs, especially my most closely held ones (though they are hardest to access) - Traveling to a new place - Trying a new experience which introduces a challenge not yet faced - Otherwise ripping myself out of my comfort zone Anything to intellectually and emotionally grab and shake ourselves to snap out of it. The most common rut I see is around money. So many of us tell ourselves bullshit stories and keep ourselves poor for no good reason. For example. If we need more cash, we can at any point learn how to sell, find a public affiliate program which requires no permission to join (most software companies offer this, so does Amazon), and pound the proverbial pavement to rack up some extra cash. Sound easy? Truth be told, it’s simple. Maybe not easy. You understand the concept and with 15 minutes of googling you can figure out the logistics if you actually want to. The hard part is believing you can do it and then committing to the practice until you get the result you want. It is possible, yet 99.9% of readers probably won’t take action and change their lives. So we CAN do it. The opportunity is all around us. People are living right now of every race, sex, origin, nationality, geography, etc. who are doing it. We can only not do something if we allow ourselves to believe the stories of not being able to do it. They’re enticing but untrue. And unfortunately they typically don’t unwind themselves. We have to manually counter them and relearn new stories which actually help us. But once we do, the speed at which our lives can meaningfully change is fast as lightning. I believe in you.