I've never bought into just positive thinking, if you just think positive and think great things happen through just positivity, you're missing another piece to the puzzle.
winners win through hard work. At the end of the day your effort and putting in hours and hours of work towards your craft in my opinion is a requirement. Nobody wins by working less and the concept working smarter, not harder is totally garbage delete this out of your framework of mindset.
Do Both.
What I mean by this is work harder and smarter. One thing I know about reading studying about the 1%ers is that, the Elon Musks, the Steve Jobs, the Ed Myletts, the Will Smiths is that they're incredibly smart guys when it comes to their profession but they also invest the most hours and that's why they beat the guys who were just naturally good at their job putting in mediocre amounts of work.
Will Smith told a story on Charlie Roses Show. The story's goes like this:
One Summer Will's dad tore down a wall connecting to his bakery, his dad told Will and his 9-year old brother to rebuild it, a job Will said would be impossible, it would take them years to complete. When Will told his Father that he couldn’t do it, that it was impossible, he stood in front of Will saying "Don't you ever tell me there is nothing you can't do."
You see the point that his father was making is that you don't try to build a wall, you don't set your goal on building that wall, it might be the end result, but you tell yourself that I'm going to lay this brick as perfectly as brick can be laid, and you do that every single day, and soon you will have a wall.
Results come from being consistent, and consistency comes from having deep, emotional reasons that get you hyped to wake up early in the morning.
TI comes down to this:
Why do you want to lose weight? Who are you doing it for? What actions can you take to ensure you keep that weight off for good?
Our goals don’t get us up in the morning, our reasons for having those goals do. I wanna share with you a story.
There was a young man, who at the age of thirty found out that his Uncle had a heart attack and at his funeral it was a very sad thing he was a father of a family, great family, and all of the children turned out to wonderfully but as a fifty year old man he passed away so he will not enjoy watching his children's children grow up, he won't enjoy the lovely house he worked so hard to obtain, he won't take on life's beauty with his wonderful wife, all of it was left behind.
After the young man left the funeral, all of the sudden his reticular activating system in his brain starting bringing up ideas of "hey, Ed, maybe you should get your heart checked? When was the last time you went to the doctor? When he was flying back from the funeral, he noticed that on the tv screen on the plane that the Oprah Winfrey Show was being played, and on the show they started talking about this new scan for your heart that reveals what could be deadly plaque in the arteries, and Ed was thinking to himself, "you know what, that's an incredible new discovery" and because of the reticular activating system immediately grabbing attention to heart scans he decided it was time to go see a doctor and get his heart checked.
They begin the visit and the doctor says "Hey so the ladies up front told me that you're kind of a successful young man" Ed says thank you very much. Doctor goes "you probably live in a big house" and Ed goes I live in a decent sized home sir, yes.
The doctor hasn't bothered showing Ed the results, but he then says "do you have any kids?" Yes, I have two a little boy and my wife's pregnant with my daughter wh
