This is a Bonus episode of Questions with Andy. I often get the question "How do you remain so positive?" Well, it's a struggle that goes back and forth, but I always give my mental and emotional well-being a priority treatment by holding me to the following 8 Basic Guidelines for Self Mastery.

1. Discipline

Once you master discipline, everything else comes easy. Discipline is NOT punishment. It’s actually fun when you understand it. Discipline is seeing the importance of doing a task or routine to be better prepared and be more at ease with whatever comes your way.

2. Focus

Learn to focus. Don’t let the surrounding noise take you away from what you need to accomplish. Learn the difference between what you need and what you want. Focus on your needs, but make sure to include things that you really want, to keep your focus healthy.

3. Complaining

Complain less, that’s the first rule. But if you need to complain, complain till your bucket is empty. Accept the issue and work on solving it. Don’t stay stuck in what you can’t change. When the time is right, you will earn what you deserve. If you complain in a healthy way, you take the pressure off.

4. Correct yourself

Correcting yourself does not mean punishing yourself. It is accepting you could have done something better. Once correcting yourself becomes a routine, you become your own teacher and your own student. If you can correct yourself, you reach a higher level of consciousness than most people around you. 

5. Accept

Accept yourself. Accept the world around you. Accept the situation the way it is. This does not mean that you don’t aim for improvement, it just means you accept what is, for what it is. If you want to accomplish anything, you will need to meet the situation where it’s at. Accept that, and you WILL accomplish greatness. 

6. Acknowledgment

Acknowledgment is the best healer. Acknowledge your pain. Acknowledge your joy. Acknowledge the task at hand, and you will have a stronger foundation to build on.

7. Believe

Believe. Believing is the beginning of the power to heal and to grow. Believe in something. It doesn’t matter what you want to call it, God, Universe or energy. Just believe you’ve been created for a reason, and your reason is to live and to thrive.

8. Respect

Respect yourself and respect the people surrounding you. Everyone has a reason and everyone has the right to live. Only by respecting others will you receive respect in return.

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