07/25/2025
Stuck? Tried everything? Not this...
Try Clarity as a daily practice.
If you've lost your passion, if you get stuck in your head, if you are going around in circles with decisions that used to come easy, start your day by GETTING CLEAR.
Jim Rohn, a pretty motivational force if you listen to him. His morning practice started at nothing. Get up, get ready for work, go.
He read something inspiring, and started the day reading for 30 minutes. He did this until he got to a place where, whether he wanted to or not, he still did it.
Then he added exercising (moving his body somehow, it changed for him over his life) at least 20 minutes after at least 30 minutes of reading. He read, then moved his body, every day, until he did it whether he wanted to or not.
Then, he spent the rest of the hour (5-10 minutes) planning his day. Guess what he did next? Yep, he did that routine every day until he wanted to.
Over time, he got exponential results. His mind started connecting things he had read with other things he had read. His body stopped failing him and started supporting him fully in feeling better, and his goals he originally never set (so of course never achieved) started, in small then large ways, becoming realities.
"But I don't have an hour extra every morning". I said the same thing when I owned my human services business. I was spending my time taking care of the business, I thought. I ignored the fact that my primary job as a leader was to improve my leadership, and I paid the price for that in having less time, less energy, and feeling less successful.
Self Respect. Confidence. Self Trust. You know you can handle anything life throws at you. If you decide to keep that thought that you don't have an extra hour in your morning, will you be able to achieve all those things? (Honest question, is there a better way than small practices built daily to achieve large things? There's that saying, after all about how do you eat an elephant...)
When you make the choice to act in a small, consistent way that is different from how you act now, you will get small, and then incrementally greater shifts. Start small. Start you day with an extra 30 minutes reading what charges you up. Set your brain up to get in shape to do the next right thing.
Then get your body on board. Move. Core Centering and/or an exercise bike and/or a walk is what I use, but you can use whatever makes sense to you, and it could change.
When your brain and your body are on board, get them directed toward something you want. Start with the end of the day in mind. What will I write in my journal that I learned from today? What is my intention for the day? What do I WANT out of today? Any and all of these are helpful guides.
It's a choice. It's priorities. It's seeing daily routines (aka "discipline") the same way your brain naturally sees them: freedom through patterns. We carry around this great pattern recognition device between our ears. It is in a pattern right now. Does it work for you?
And here's the rub: It takes time. When you start thinking the growth that you're seeing is happening too slowly you might want to quit. This is when seeing this thought for what it is; your brain calling out for status quo, is all the more important.
This is not a practice for people who believe in it. This is a practice for people who do it.
But after several months or maybe years, the reputation you've developed with yourself starts paying dividends. "Luck is when preparation meets opportunity, and discipline is what creates the preparation".
This is one of the benefits of the first step of Clarity. This is one of the day to day supports that can get you into a mindset of a person who sees themself as someone who makes an impact on the world, has the ability to release control to your own universal guiding force, and belongs wherever they find themselves.
I never did it perfectly. I never DO it perfectly. But damned if I'm not progressing.
