Breakfast of Champions:

This is a wonderful time to be alive.  There have never been more possibilities and opportunities for you to achieve more of your goals than exist today.  As perhaps never before in human history, you are actually drowning in options.  There are so many talented and incredible people doing things all over the globe that I just could never do!  But wait!  That's not exactly true is it.  I mean the part about awesome people all over the world is true, but why exactly couldn't I be one of them?  I caught myself thinking this almost automatically the other day and really started dissecting it when I came to a realization:  I had fallen into the mental trap of assuming that people who were doing better than me were actually better than me.  As I thought about it more, what I realized was that this was not necessarily true.  They were just doing things differently, and what they had learned to do, within reason, I could learn as well.

Now this is no shocker, to be sure, to realize that people can learn to do new things.  Or, learn to do things better, the surprise was at how quietly and sneakily the thinking that they were better than me had crept into my unconscious.  You know what happens when you start thinking defeatist like that?  You gradually stop trying and start procrastinating!  It's true!  Procrastination is one of those little things that goes un-noticed as the evil vile thing that it is.  Mostly because it seems harmless.  The truth, however, is that it is extremely harmfull to your goals and desires, the person it hurts the most is the person you were born to become.

Mark Twain once said that if the first thing you do each morning is to eat a live frog, you can go through the day with the satisfaction of knowing that that is probably the worst thing that is going to happen to you all day long.  Your "frog" is your biggest, most important task, the one you are most likely to procrastinate on if you don't do something about it.  It is also the one task that can have the greatest positive impact on your life and results at the moment.  It is amazing how often the thing you dread the most, is also the thing that will help you the most!  It is uncanny!  Almost as if there is a betrayer living inside your mind, trying to keep you from reaching your full potential.... .... .... hmm...

Anyway, back to the breakfast thing.  What do you want to do the least today?  get it done before 10 am.  And a little more on frog eating... The first rule of frog eating is this:  If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.  This is a funny way of saying, do the crap you want to do the least, first.  Do the thing that will have the greatest impact on your life, first.  otherwise you might not ever get to it!  This sounds terrible, but it's totally true, and I have good news about frog eating.  Our body, such a wondrous thing, has a little mechanism built into it to help us eat frogs easier and easier each time we do it.  This fabulous mechanism, these wonderful little boosters, are called endorphins.

Endorphins are the key!  When you finish something big and important, they go bonkers!!  Running all over your bloodstream making you feel invincible, unstoppable, confident, and otherwise fantastic!  They love you for doing what you had to do!  And the most helpful thing starts to kick in.  A well known bodily function kicks in that usually works against us, but we are going to make it work for us!  What eventually happens is you get hooked on those endorphins, it's called addiction, and your getting hooked on the feeling of enhanced clarity, confidence, and competence that they trigger.  When you develop this addiction, brought on by success and completion, you will at an unconscious level, begin to organize your life in such a way that you are continually starting and completing ever more important projects.  You will basically become addicted, in a very positive sense, to success and completion.

Remember Practice is the key to mastering any skill.  Fortunatly, your mind is like a muscle.  It grows stronger and more powerfull with use.  With practice, you can learn any behavior or develop any habit that you choose!  Including the habit of success and winning!!  This is as true for sports as it is for project management or business ownership!  Get good and addicted to winning and accomplishing your goals.  Let yourself get totally hooked on doing what you say you will do.  Just watch what happens when you cultivate the right addictions!  Let your body and mind work for you, rather than against you all the time!