Value Yourself

Resolve to value yourself.

If you don't, you lessen yourself and reduce your value to others.

When you do, your true value soars.

Do not, except by choice:

- Work for nothing
- Do a job you hate
- Spend time with people who drag you down

Do, at every opportunity:

- Accept your true rewards
- Love what you are doing now
- Thrive in the company of those you love

And have a great life!

Roy

Aim Higher

Any project that is going to motivate you to keep at it has to challenge your sense of what's possible. Give yourself room for half-measures and shortcuts and you'll almost certainly find an excuse to use them.

That's why your mission and your standards have to be higher, purer and more difficult to achieve than other people's if you're going to do better, be better and make more of a difference.

Easy is boring, anyway.

Real success is achieving what you weren't sure you could.

Roy

Really Brave or Merely Fearless?

Are the people who do the amazing, deliver the extraordinary or accomplish the seemingly impossible different in some fundamental way from the rest of humanity?

That's a question I often ponder, especially when I read the advice of coaches and self-helpers (the ones who have achieved great things) and successful entrepreneurs, who say, in effect, that "Anyone can do it".

The ones who really have 'done it' often seem unaware of the essential difference that marks them out as special, or at least unusual.

I'm not sure there's a word to define this difference, actually, but 'fearlessness' is the closest I can get. Fearlessness meaning 'lack of fear', rather than 'courage' or 'bravery'. If you're not afraid you have no need to be brave, whereas most people are only too aware of the dangers - real and imagined.

But what if you're not like them and you do feel afraid? What if you still want to go ahead and do the difficult thing? Then you need to be very brave, or you need to learn the trick that those danger junkies seem to have learned without trying.

Turn fear into excitement. In Susan Jeffers' immortal words: "Feel the fear and do it anyway", by feeling your fear in a new way, as an energising force, like an actor taking to the stage. Use it to fight, not for flight.

Welcome your fear as a part of your journey, an experience that's as unique to you as the rest of your journey. Because, when you own your fear, it can't own you. 

Roy