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5 Major Tips To Stop Bad Eating Habits Permanently

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5 Major Tips To Stop Bad Eating Habits Permanently

5 Major Tips To Stop Bad Eating Habits Permanently

Diet is a big struggle for most people, especially those trying to lose weight. We all at least have some what of an idea of what a good food choice is and what a bad food choice is, but there’s one obvious element to diet that no one really talks about. That element is the psychology behind your food choices.

There are 5 major tips to stop bad eating habits and if you do them long enough, you can get rid of these habits permanently.

5 Major Tips To Stop Bad Eating Habits Permanently

Prioritize The Right Foods

Just simply cutting out the bad food from your diet doesn’t work so well for most people, and even if it works, it doesn’t work for very long. The reason this fails is because just removing things creates this empty void which eventually leads to intense food cravings. To avoid this pitfall, try eating in order of priority. 

Eat the most beneficial foods first and the least beneficial foods after. An example of this could be having a meal packed with fruit, veggies, raw nuts, seeds, high fiber grains, and legumes. Afterwards if you’re still having a craving for the not so beneficial food craving, indulge…a little.

Keep Good Choices On Deck

People tend to make bad food choices simply out of convenience. Stopping off at a fast food spot is way more convenient than cooking your ideal meal. Those of us with busy exhausting schedules are at the highest risk for this, but there is a simple solution to this. Keep good food choices handy wherever you go, this is even more important for people following a vegan plant based, or at least trying to.

Ideally you should be packing your food daily, but for the times that you might have dropped the ball on that, bring filling snack foods that you can just grab and go. These snacks can be simple foods like cashews, almond butter, a bag of apples, dried fruit like dates, some pre-packed carrots and celery with hummus on the side. These are just a few things that you can keep on hand to hold you over until you can get to your ideal meal. 

Time Your Meals In Your Favor

One of the worse things you can do is wait until you’re starving to decide what to eat. Get into the habit of planning your meals at least a day in advance. This premeditated approach to diet is going to give you a new level of control over your eating habits that you’ve never had before. I’ve put together an article on meal prep. Check that out here!

Setup A Reward System

Developing all this discipline over your diet and can feel like a real chore at times, and can even be a bit discouraging. You need a way to keep your morale up and stay in the game, so you may want to start thinking about setting some sort of reward system for yourself. The most typical method to this is the “cheat meal”. Basically a cheat meal is that one weekly meal where you allow yourself to eat the things you’ve been cutting out. The problem with the cheat meal is that it can end up becoming a cheat weekend and even the cheat week!

I’ve found a better approach to be a daily reward at the end of the day after you’ve stuck to your meal plan. Have those 4-5 cookies, or that donut at the end of the day, but only after you’ve eaten all the good stuff first. Doing this will make the challenge of impulse control easier because you’ll have something exciting to look forward to.

Study What Is Motivating Your Eating Habits

Its all about self awareness here. What eating habits are you trying to overcome? Now study and identify the mindset that is driving those habits. What is happening in your life when you follow these habits? A lot of us are emotional eaters, but you don’t have to beat yourself up about it. You just need to first practice awareness deliberately and then make the lifestyle changes that are going to help you develop the emotional discipline you need.

If a certain environment is triggering bad eating habits, get out of that environment, or develop a way to protect yourself in it. If a certain person, or people are triggering bad habits, get some distance. At the end of the day you need to develop a solid mindset and protect it. I’ve saved this solution for last because it is the best, but the catch is that it can be the most challenging one.

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7 Ways To Cut Negativity Out Of Your Life

7 Ways To Cut Negativity Out Of Your Life

7 Ways To Cut Negativity Out Of Your Life

Let’s talk about 7 ways to cut negativity out of your life. Negativity is successes worse enemy. It has the ability to destroy virtually anything positive and prosperous. The truth is that negativity is only as dangerous as you allow it to be. Us as individuals have the ability to completely control and cut out negativity with just a decision and a few simple habits.

Let me put a little disclaimer here and let you know that the only way to effectively remove negativity from your life, is to change yourself, not anyone else. Make the internal changes and the rest will fall into  place.

1. Change Your Environment

If  you’ve been getting overrun with negativity, chances are you’ve been marinating in it, literally, and environmentally. Remove yourself from toxic social circles, or any place where you can see, hear, and or feel negativity. Find a peaceful, quiet place where you can focus on cultivating a positive mindset.

2. Keep Your Living Space Clean

Have you ever given your place a complete overhaul? I mean a thorough cleaning top to bottom, dusting, organizing,etc. How did it make you feel? Personally, it brought me great joy and clarity. I felt like I could breathe and get my life together. If you’re bogged down by negativity and need to feel that mental freedom and clarity, start picking up after yourself and get to cleaning. Let your living space reflect how you want to feel.

3. Start Working Out Daily

Endorphins are a type of hormone that causes a state of euphoria throughout the body. Things like sex and exercise are two of the main activities that can cause an endorphin rush. I recommend exercise here because unfortunately, not everyone has such a booming sex life.

A big part of shedding negativity is physical self transformation. People tend to have weight and body image issues which lead to low self esteem, and ultimately negativity. If you’re not happy with yourself, you may project those negative feelings onto other people, judging and criticizing them. Getting in shape gives us a sense of achievement, making us feel competent, resulting in positive self perception.

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4. Avoid Negative Media

Everything we expose ourselves to will always effect our state in some way shape or form. Many of us have a tendency to gravitate toward drama, and violence in the form of entertainment. This constant stream of negativity shows up in our behavior. It effects our mood, our ability to learn, and our productivity.

Watch enough war movies and you might start to develop a fetish for guns, be desensitized to violence, or even develop aggressive behavior towards others. All the time we spend watching negative nonsense is opportunity we miss to engage in something positive like learning and working towards our goals to reach a sense of fulfillment.

Everything we partake in, comes down to making a choice between positive and negative influence.

5. Stop Participating In Negative Speech

We get easily sucked into a prolonged state of negativity due to the fact that words have more power than we realize. Hearing negative speech has the capability of reprogramming our thought processes over time. Whether its someone else’s speech or our own, it works just the same and needs the same level of vigilance. This means that you have to avoid entertaining the negative speech of others, and it also means, no negative speech from you either.

You can either give thanks for the good in your life, or you can complain constantly and be consumed by how bad you feel about what you don’t have. 

6. Speak Positive To Yourself, About Yourself

No one is going to take care of you better than you can take care of yourself, therefore we should treat every morning that we wake as an opportunity to empower ourselves. Speak love to yourself, look in the mirror and speak words of confidence to yourself. “Nothing has the right or ability to defeat me!” “I am powerful, unique, and filled with greatness!” “I am getting everything I want out of life!” Repeat words like this to yourself daily and habitually without fail and watch your life change.

7. Listen To Positive Audio Everyday

Speaking positive to ourselves is powerful without question. Now couple that with the power and encouragement from others and you have the ability to completely erase and repel any negativity. To provide that external voice of power, very successful life coaches and motivational speakers have created audio books and things of that nature. In a world where negativity is so easily thrust onto us, empowering speech is mandatory for all of us, no exceptions. Even the most successful people on the planet abide by this rule and invest in positive audio. From personal experience I can tell you that applying this ritual everyday, is life changing. 

Apply these methods and incorporate them into your daily life, and watch your life change drastically. 

Drop a comment below and let me know which ones of these you see helping you. 

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Separating Abundance And Greed

Separating Abundance And Greed

Life is for those who desire! Passion will make every deep breath feel like the first breath you ever took, but for some of us, we have no idea what that could possibly feel like, that or they’ve forgotten…damn. So what’s getting in the way of that feeling? For some of us, wanting more is the same as being greedy. Some of us tell ourselves that we should be happy with what we have and unfortunately that’s where the story ends. I don’t accept that and neither should you, so let’s talk about separating abundance and greed.

Are You Really Being Greedy?

Greed is driven by desire yes, but its also driven by a level of narcissism that ultimately plagues the lives of anyone in an effective range. Even a beautiful vision can become a cancer. A greedy man could have the vision of growing and incredible garden, larger than anyone has ever seen in our lifetime. This garden would grow with petals, leaves, and seeds painted with all the colors of the entire universe. It would be such a marvel to the point that it would inspire people of all lands to travel to this garden simply to bare witness to it.

Sounds like a beautiful vision to have, but this greedy man would create nightmares in order to fulfill his vision. He would cause massive drought in the land of the disenfranchised in order to feed his garden. He would horde supplies and starve others with less leverage than him to feed his garden. If he could, he would move the sun away from others if it meant growing his garden faster.

This may be an extreme example of greed, but still practical enough for you to get the idea. 

The Abundant Mind

If only we had a better understanding of abundance, we would then understand that true abundance starts in the mind. True wealth and happiness stems from certain behavior and that behavior is an outward manifestation of an abundant mindset.

I’ve had the privilege of meeting people who understand and adopt this mindset and I’ve realized that they are able to achieve their dreams without impeding others. If that greedy man had an abundant mindset, he would be able to fulfill his vision of that beautiful garden and he’d be able to do it through the unity and prosperity of others, rather than to their detriment. 

You see, the abundant minded person operates with the belief that they have everything they need in order to get what they want. This is why an abundant minded person has no need for greed, or any other unethical behavior. 

Abundance VS Greed

Greed stems from the fear of lack combined with ones own love of their own flesh. This is a weakness to do your best to avoid being sucked into, but the answer is not to be overly humble to the point where you feel guilty for having desire. The only real protection from developing greed is to develop a mindset of abundance. Breathe deep and dream big, life is for those who desire.

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Creat Life Change With Pen And Paper

Creat Life Change With Pen And Paper

What I want to talk about right now is a simple method to attract what you want with pen and paper. In a nutshell, the method is to create and write out what I call a desire statement.

Writing a desire statement is a strange thing because it works in miraculous ways, but you can’t really explain why. There’s no scientific or mathematical proof of how it works, but the world’s most successful people can testify with unshakable conviction that it works.

Many people say it works through the law of attraction. Many people say it works through the law of vibration. These are just mere concepts that we have developed over time to help understand how our world operates, but make no mistake that the energy you adopt is real. As far as energy goes, I want to talk to you about the energy, the influence of writing your desire statement.

Talking To Myself Like A Crazy Person Is How It Started

Before I dive in, I want to tell you a bit about how I first experienced the law of attraction and the law of vibration. Ever since I was a child I would talk to myself out loud, kinda like what some people would call a crazy person.

I would ask myself questions and even had answers! These were full blown conversations with myself to the point where if you did hear me, you’d think I was on the phone or something.

I would always try to find a quiet Isolated place, usually walking a long distance. I noticed that the type of energy of the conversation would dictate what would happen next. If I had a whole lot of negative stuff to say, I would attract bad energy, bad things would happen, and I would make bad choices.

If the conversation was positive and I felt good and spoke with confidence, excitement, and determination, my life would improve drastically! I mean drastically! I’d work harder, I’d be more open minded, I’d enjoy everything so much more, it was unbelievable!

Now most of my life I did this without the intention of manifestation, or attraction. It was more of a subconscious thing that made me behave like that, but as I learned about internal energy, wealth manifestation, law of attraction and vibration, I understood it more. I still talk to myself like a crazy person, but I do it with clear intention now.

What Does This Have To Do With A Desire Statement?

It has everything to do with it! Just like speaking, writing works the same way, but it has more power in its own way. To me its almost like writing and solidifying an agreement with yourself and the universe. Its on paper as documented proof to the world that this is your desire! You believe in it, you declare it, and you live it. 

Hang it on your wall, by your work desk, or even over your bed. Take time to read it everyday and internalize that agreement, then go out and live in alignment to that agreement.

Here's An Example Of A Desire Statement

*Please note that it is important to write your desire statement in your own words. It has to come from the heart.

“I’m in the process of attracting all that I need to know, do, and have in order to attract my ideal body and lifestyle.

I love knowing that my ideal body and lifestyle allows me the freedom to enjoy life to the fullest capacity and create the influence to help others to do the same.

Abundance is a feeling I love and I love to feel that abundance all around me.

I love the feeling of being comfortable in my own skin and knowing true self love.

I’m so excited at the thought of looking in the mirror and seeing how much my body has changed.

I love knowing that my own personal growth brings me the opportunity to give and help others in need.

I love knowing that I have complete control over how I look and feel. Knowing that fills me with unbelievable joy.

I love the thought of creating the best version of my self. I love knowing that my family will be proud and inspired by the changes I’ve made.

The law of attraction is unfolding and working to bring me everything I desire.”

As always, I appreciate you and thanks for reading

-Remson

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The Rules Of Verbal Attraction

The Rules Of Verbal Attraction

The Rules Of Verbal Attraction

Verbally attract what you want into your life. How? Speak and command your mind to generate behavior that allows you to vibrate at the frequency you need to attract what you desire. If you can open your mind up enough to believe it, you can take action to achieve it.

I’m gonna share a little bit of my story about how I came across this method and dive a bit deeper into how this works, so keep reading.

I Kept My Own Company For A Really Long Time

From the age of 5 or maybe even 6 I spoke to myself, not in my head, but out loud. Honestly they were back and forth conversations, the type of behavior that would be exhibited in a mental institution. I don’t believe I did this from some kind of psychosis or anything, it was just a coping mechanism that allowed me to sort out my thoughts, express myself, and help me understand my environment.

I’d find a quiet isolated place and ramble away. I wasn’t very good at socializing with other people, and didn’t get halfway decent at it until I was around 15 or 16 years old. Even after I developed a social life, I still socialized more to myself. It wasn’t until now in my late 20’s that I started using this form of communication to manifest and attract what I wanted.

How I Figured It Out

Honestly, I just started paying more attention to the type of speech I was giving myself. I started noticing how certain conversations made me feel. Positive confident speech brought life changing experiences. When I spoke words of power to myself, they had influenced my behavior drastically and even seemed to influence the world around me. Fortune came to me in the most random, but perfect ways.

The negative speech also worked the same way, tearing down whatever the positive speech had brought to me. It almost seemed as if the negativity speech was twice as dangerous. I’d fall in the clutches of negative speech whenever pissed off, or disappointed at how unfair the world would seem to be and because of that, my energy would drop. I’d lose my influence over people. I felt distant from everyone and often hopeless. The longer the negative speech went on, the worse my life got. It even effected my income.

In desperate times I knew I had to make a change, a BIG change. Fast forward to today, I am now the master of my life due to the words I speak to myself. I walk amongst nature, speaking plans and strategies to myself of how I can improve and achieve the next success. I’d repeat affirmations of confidence and abundance  to myself reinforcing the belief that my dreams are not fantasies, they are visions.

Speak To Your Subconscious Mind To Reprogram Your Behavior

When you speak like this out loud to yourself, you don’t just speak to the ears of your conscious mind, but you also speak to your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind is way more powerful than you realize, because it holds the codes to your autonomous behavior.

You ever get so used to doing something and never realize why you do it, or that you even do it at all? Most of our negative behaviors and limiting beliefs stem from your subconscious mind. Imagine if you can fix all of the problems in your life by directly reprogramming the subconscious mind? This is what I’ve discovered from personal experience.

Tell Yourself & The Universe What You Are In The Process Of Achieving

We’re so used to talking about what we want, but the universe only recognizes actions! Break out of the habit of talking about what you want and what you wish you had and start manifesting action!

Say what you’re in the process of doing and then do it! Tell yourself about the joy you feel from knowing what you’re in the process of getting. Verbally acknowledge how beautiful and brilliant you are and how fortunate you are to be just so!

It doesn’t have to make sense to your conscious mind! 

Let go of your ego and speak love to yourself. Say it as many times as you need to until you feel it. Act from those words. Live in alignment with those words, that power!

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5 Steps Of Personal Development

5 steps of personal development

Over 10+ years as a coach I’ve come to realize that almost every client I’ve worked is missing one of the most important aspects of success, and that is personal development. Of the many subjects we study in school, it truly breaks my heart that personal development is not one of them. Just in case you’re not aware, personal development is a way for people to assess their skills and qualities, consider their aims in life and set goals in order to realise and maximise their potential. Here, I’m going to share with you the 5 steps of personal development.

1. Develop Self Awareness

We are all self aware to a degree, but true self awareness is the beginning of self discipline and true self fulfillment. Self awareness is also a major key to getting rid of bad habits. Read my article on that here. To achieve self awareness you have to practice identifying and observing your behaviors and beliefs. From there you’ll have the ability to choose what you want to keep and what you want to let go.

2. Establish Your Identity

Do you really know yourself? Have you really taken the time for self reflection so you can truly identify who and what you truly are, and who and what you want to be? If you have done this, how often do you take the time do it? The only way we get answers is when we ask questions. 

Think about your beliefs, behaviors, desires, and struggles. All of these things paint a picture of who you are. Once you understand you are, you can decide who you want to be. If you don’t like something change it and what ever you like you keep and you build on. We are really malleable in that way.

3. Set Goals & Life Aspirations

It brings us a step closer to fulfillment every time we achieve a goal. We love to win because its empowering. Ever victory proves our competence thus helping us to improve and solidify our self esteem. 

Setting goals and life aspirations is pretty intense requires self awareness and knowledge of self. Once you have these to things you can accurately choose the direction you want head in. In another article I’ve outlined the 5 step process to successful goal setting.

4. Develop Strengths & Talents

You can’t create the life you truly want without the skills and tools you need to achieve your goals. You also won’t know what skills you need to develop unless you’ve gone through the first 3 steps. Take a look at your goals and the strengths you have so far and work out a game plan.

Some of us are really charismatic and can get people to help you achieve your vision. Some of us are not charismatic at all, but very crafty and resourceful. There’s always something to make up for what you don’t have and there’s always a way to develop what you do and even don’t have.

Take time to look in your toolbox.

5. Identify & Improve Potential

Identify and improving potential requires the ability to see value. Every extremely successful person has developed the ability to see value. Its like the phrase “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” Look at everything in front of you and really try to see the value in it all. In another article I explain 2 keys to train your mind to see value.

As always, thank you for reading and be well.

-Remson

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3 Steps To Create Life Change With The Values Vs Beliefs List

3 Steps To Create Life Change With The Values Vs Beliefs List

One of the biggest problems that we face in life is getting our behavior in check. Even though there are things that we really want in life, our behavior takes us in a completely different direction. A typical example of this is wanting to get in shape, but continuing to eat unhealthy and skipping workouts. In order to start fixing this behavior is to understand the important of values and beliefs as well as what’s driving your behavior. Let’s start with 3 steps to create life change with the values vs beliefs list.

What Values Are Exactly

Your values are a large part of what defines you as a person. They are your principles, your code, your essence. Some common values that people have are family, loyalty, trust, happiness, compassion, integrity, success, freedom, strength, health, and things of that nature. 

Ideally what we want to do is set goals in accordance to these values and that should manifests as our lifestyle. For example if some values of yours is compassion and integrity, you might decide to live a vegan lifestyle where you make the commitment to not indulge in animal exploitation.

What Beliefs Are Exactly

Your beliefs can either make or break you in everything you do. Beliefs are powerful things that can become submerged deep into your subconscious mind and make you behave in ways that often make you feel like you have no control over what you do or how you feel. This is often the root cause of a person’s failures and even sense of helplessness.

On the other hand your beliefs can empower you in unimaginable ways where your power seems completely limitless. Mastering your beliefs is seriously one of the most important things you can ever do in your life.

The Goal Behind "Values vs Beliefs List"

This list is all about identifying the differences between your values and beliefs and getting them to line up and work in harmony with each other. 

3 Steps To Create Life Change With The Values Vs Beliefs List

STEP 1

  • Take some time to write down a list of your highest held core values.

STEP 2 

  • Take some time to write down a list of your beliefs in relation to the values you’ve listed.

STEP 3

  • Decide what beliefs you want keep and which ones you want to change and once you do that, start working on changing the ones you want to change, one by one.

You’d be surprised at what you’d learn about yourself. Get started today and see what you come up with.

-Remson

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Top 10 Fitness Tips for Beginners

Top 10 Fitness Tips for Beginners

Top 10 Fitness Tips for Beginners

You’ve decided to start living the Strength & Wellness Lifestyle and I salute you for that! The biggest question is, where do you start? I’ve put together a list, just for you. My top 10 fitness training tips for beginners. Let’s begin!

1. Be Clear On Your Intentions & Commit To A Specific Goal

All of the worlds greatest achievements were attained through clear intent and a solid, unwavering commitment to a specific goal. You’ve got to truly decide what it is that you really want and go for it, without looking back. My advice to you is to sit down in front of a sheet of paper and write down and even draw what you want. Collect pictures of what you want from anywhere you can find. Now take all those things and put them together in a large picture frame or bulletin board, and hang it up somewhere where you’ll see it everyday. That my friend, is a Vision Board!

*No one ever learned how to swim with only half their body in the water.

2. Choose A Mode Of Training That Aligns With Your Goal

Your goal and intention serve as the direction in which you move. Your mode of training will determine how efficiently you move toward your goal. When you’re choosing a mode of training, think about how that mode of training relates to your goal. If you’re trying to get strong, you wouldn’t really want to spend most of your time on a cardio machine, just like if you were trying to drop body fat, you wouldn’t have a diet of sugary, toxic foods.

*When crossing a body of water, bring the boat, not the bus.

3. Make A Training & Nutrition Schedule

You got to get organized! Not having an organized schedule means guaranteed failure. The same way you have to be to work on time, is the same way you have to train and eat on time. Before you even step foot in a gym or pick up a weight, sit down and make a daily, weekly, monthly, and even annual schedule. Go out and get a planner and start filling that thing out!

*Our entire solar system runs on a set schedule, so why shouldn’t you?

4. Learn How To Program For Yourself

Programming is the science behind how to manipulate cause and effect. Sets, Reps, Tempo, Effort, are just a few factors in programming. Familiarize yourself with what works and use it. The better you get at your programming and understanding how it works, the easier it will be to get any result you want. The knowledge of programming is one of the main components to breeding a champion.

*The worlds greatest technology is valued by the effectiveness of its programming.

5. Learn Proper Technique & Habits

I see people all the time, in every gym, struggling along in such painful fashion, due to terrible technique. Don’t be that person who looks like an idiot because you never took the time to learn how to do it the right way. Bad technique results in failure, frustration, injury, and humiliation. Get coaching from someone who actually knows what they’re doing and knows how to teach form.

*You wouldn’t get on the road and drive without a license, so why would you get in the gym and fool around without training?

6. Be Consistent

Consistency is a major component to success. The little habits you have and efforts you make on a day to day basis have a compounding effect, which add up over time. Consistency builds momentum and momentum converts into ease of progressive movement. The only grind you should have is the big push in the beginning, in order to develop good habits, but once you have those good habits, your process becomes subconscious. F.Y.I it takes 21 days to develop a habit.

*Its like pushing a car. The worst thing you can do is stop pushing and then start again.

7. Stick To The Basics

My years in coaching has made it quite clear to me that simplicity is the most efficient way to create a positive result. Its very difficult to maintain any kind of consistency with something that’s complicated. Most people get burnt out and quit on complicated routines because we as human beings can only keep up with and process so much at a time. Any great mentor will tell you to follow the KISS method (Keep It Simple Stupid)

*Not even something as complicated as juggling is possible without a simplifying method. 

8. Do Not Get Side Tracked By More Advanced Training

The biggest struggle with sticking to the basics is distractions. Let’s say you see someone in the gym who looks like what you’d kill to be and they’re doing something advanced and amazing. You think to yourself, “What if I started doing what they’re doing? Maybe I’d be like them and reach my goal faster!” I don’t blame you for having the thought, but understand that they didn’t start with that, they had to earn the right to do that advanced training by nailing the simple stuff first. Take your time and be patient, you’ll get there.

*Don’t be the cat chasing the laser pointer.

9. Cultivate A Positive State & Stay In It

Living the Strength & Wellness Lifestyle is all about staying in the state that allows you to do so. Your thinking dictates everything you do, so its important to control what thoughts enter into your head on a daily basis. There is no room for self doubt, jealousy, frustration, or laziness. Be conscious of the shows and music you watch and listen to and make sure you’re not loading your mind with useless garbage. Read and educate yourself daily, listen to personal development and mindset audios daily.

*You wouldn’t willingly choose to drink dirty water, so why would you willing choose to consume dirty thoughts.

10. Be Relentless

I don’t know how to explain this other than saying, “Be Relentless!” Go hard for what you want and never let go! I don’t care how tough your life is, DO NOT QUIT!!!

*No one has ever celebrated a quitter!

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