Motivational Mondays
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in life, we face many challenges. Those challenges look different to everyone. One person's challenge could be another person's bump in the road. Their challenge is nonetheless, everyone faces different scenarios at some point. But we're not talking about these kind of challenges. What we're talking about is you and your desire for more. You go to work every day and keep hoping something will change. You keep doing the same thing every day every week, every month, hoping something will change. Have you challenged yourself? Have you decided to change how you do something to get what you want answer if you're listening to this is no, I know this because I'm like you I did not and do not challenge myself enough at every avenue I do what I can do within reason, I'm still getting things done. However, I'm never taking the time to up the ante, so to speak in life, certain challenges will happen no matter what an unexpected death in the family, an unexpected job loss, car breaks down the pandemic loss of money. If those are not the cases, what are you doing to challenge yourself to get what you want? You know, one of the challenges people face is financial. A lot of people say if not for the dollars, they would be following their dreams or whatever they desire personally. I say it's a lack of clearly looking at what they have and using that to their advantage so they don't even step up to challenge themselves Beyonce was singing a song and needed to get it right now. If you know anything time and money in a studio is very expensive. Yet her obsession was to stay in the studio and get the song right. She stayed in the studio for two days with only coffee and water to get the song down. She created the challenge and met it. Now athletes challenge themselves every day, every game, sometimes his performance, sometimes its stats. Now as much as I didn't like Kobe Bryant when he played, I've come to respect his dedication to being the best player ever. He broke it down to a science that pure science came down to him challenging himself. Now the average practice starts at 8:00 AM, You practice for about two hours, you do some media, you go home and do whatever you do for the rest of the day. But Kobe took it a step better, Kobe would wake up 3:00 AM, eat breakfast and go practice before practice. Now when practice starts at eight a.m. He's already 2 to 3 hours in, warmed up, ready to go, Practice ends at 10:00, Kobe stays and practice again, shooting up 3000 shots he goes home, have some lunch, takes a nap, wakes up and if he doesn't have a game goes and does practice again. In one instance, Jason Williams shows up to the arena before the game, he goes to the, to the floor to shoot around, Kobe is already in there in full sweat, Jason shoots around for an hour, hour and a half when he walks off, he notices Kobe is still shooting, doesn't say anything, plays his game. And after the game he asks Kobe, why did you keep shooting? He said, I wanted you to know you will never outwork me, Kobe challenged himself to outwork every player on that court, never allowing any other player to think they will come close to his work ethic, take that off the ball court and let's look at our life. Let's take me for example, I want to do public speaking in comedy. Well part of the issue in the comedy world as some of us become comfortable with the same mix that we go to around the same people and you can get better. You can get really good because you're constantly practicing. You used to be the small fish in the big pond. Now you're kind of like the big fish, same pond, but you're not growing, you need to jump in a bigger pond. Think about that for a second. You need to jump in a bigger pond where all of a sudden you're the small fish again, that's the challenge in order to get better. I think in life sometimes we look at things that make us uncomfortable and walk away from it because we don't know how to deal with that level of not knowing. So we walk away and that's what challenges do to you challenges create that uncertainty challenges automatically put you in a position that you're either going to step up or step away. So I say to you, what's your challenge?