If you’re like most people, the idea of facing the unvarnished truth makes you anxious. To get over that, you need to understand intellectually why untruths are scarier than truths and then, through practice, get accustomed to living with them.
Self-Improvement
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Start one small habit, so small and insignificant you won’t even mention it. Like sitting with a correct posture. Begin it now and just gently remind yourself about it every morning. That’s it. This is how serious self-improvement begins.
The Daily Man-Up: Would you like YOU if you met YOU?
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Ask yourself this every morning, every now and then. We know you love yourself and that is very healthy. We all know you believe in the “nobody’s perfect” speech so I cannot be it all. But the question to you today is, if you met someone exactly like you;
Someone who has no positive goals;
Someone who is only willing to do to their ‘limit’, but not push the bar to realize their true potential (which is only limited to their own desire BTW);
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The Daily Man-Up: How To Become The Best Version Of Yourself
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1) Love yourself
You deserve the best. You should strive for your potential – the most fulfilled version of yourself – and that potential is virtually limitless. This is the single most important mindset to adopt, as it serves as a foundation for literally everything else. It’s not a case of arrogance or entitlement, but in the sense that you would want the best for a family member of SO that you deeply love.
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So, the reason why self-discipline is so important:
If you can master your ability to consistently act in a focused way toward your highest priorities – your highest wellness – then there’s practically no cap on how high you can go, how far you can reach. But if you don’t master this, and if you’re constantly going back-and-forth between celery and doughnuts, then it’s not practical to expect your life to improve.
Any simpleton can get motivated for a week. But to master your actions in the long-term is the difference that makes all the difference.
The Daily Man-Up: If You Don’t Do It Now, You Never Will
I always plan a ton before carrying out the actual tasks as a way to avoid doing the actual things so that I can have a perfect start for another task that I will never take action for or just give up half way through.
I always convince myself that I will do it when the minute hand hits 0, 15, 30 because it just doesn’t feel right starting anything when the time is as odd as something like 11:47. Guess what. I never do it even when it’s a perfect 12:00.
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The Daily Man-Up: Remember To Reflect When You Experience Pain
Remember this: The pain is all in your head. If you want to evolve, you need to go where the problems and the pain are. By confronting the pain, you will see more clearly the paradoxes and problems you face. Reflecting on them and resolving them will give you wisdom. The harder the pain and the challenge, the better.>
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The Daily Man-Up: Go To The Pain, Rather Than Avoid It
If you don’t let up on yourself and instead become comfortable always operating with some level of pain, you will evolve at a faster pace. That’s just the way it is.
Every time you confront something painful, you are at a potentially important juncture in your life—you have the opportunity to choose healthy and painful truth or unhealthy but comfortable delusion. The irony is that if you choose the healthy route, the pain will soon turn into pleasure. The pain is the signal! Like switching from not exercising to exercising, developing the habit of embracing the pain and learning from it will “get you to the other side.” By “getting to the other side,” I mean that you will become hooked on:
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The Daily Man-Up: Tell Me What You Did Today, And I’ll Tell You Who You Are
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“Each day is a day of decision, and our decisions determine our destiny.” — Russell Nelson
You live your life in 24 hour periods. How you use those 24 hour periods determines who you become and how successful you’ll be.
If you learn to master your day, you’ll learn how to master your weeks, months, years, and life.
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The Daily Man-Up: A 5-Point Plan to Get your Shit Together
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So this post is for you if you feel that you are particularly low on self-discipline and are not at all in control of your life. Things are out of control, and you likely have a lot of people demanding things of you, a lot of last-minute things, and your physical health is not close to what you’d like it to be. Everything is last-minute.
You may find yourself alternative between utter hopelessness “nothing works, nothing helps, this is impossible” and a freaked-out sense of urgency “I need change all this now! I’m running out of time!”
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