Chase The Kangaroo

 “ When choosing a new habit many people seem to ask themselves, ‘What can I do on my best days?’ The trick is to ask, ‘What can I stick to even on my worst days?’ Start small. Master the art of showing up. Scale up when you have the time, energy, and interest.” ~ James Clear This is so true. When trying to establish a new habit, we are fired up and our enthusiastic-self takes the lead with little regard for reality and the strength of all of our other conflicting habits we’ve already established, intentionally or unintentionally. Those changes we want to make are typically unrealistic and/or so grandiose that we don’t think through how we are going to forge our new wanted habit. As James points out, what is that one thing that we can change or put into place that we can stick with, despite weather or a slow start to the morning, etc?

" He who gains time gains everything. " ~Benjamin Disraeli

"All men dream, but not equally." ~T.E. Lawrence

" However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. " ~Winston Churchill

What You Can Learn from the Daily Routines of Top Performers ~Outside | Repost What the greatest adventurers, artists, runners, and entrepreneurs prioritize throughout their day, and how to incorporate that into you life ~ Brad Stulberg Feb 10, 2017  Photo: L to R: ryan_holiday/flickr; Hyosub Shin/AP; David Hanson/Aurora Photos; Christian Pondella/Red Bull Content Pool; cmichel67/flickr Routines bring structure to our days so we can get the most out of them. In his book,  Daily Rituals , author Mason Currey examines the routines of more than 150 great performers across diverse fields—artists, scientists, poets, mathematicians—and concluded that “a solid routine fosters a well-worn groove for one’s mental energies and helps to stave off the tyranny of moods.” Although there is no single best routine—the best routine is the one that works for you—learning from others is still instructive. Here, we consider the daily routines of some of the top athletes, artists, autho...

The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness, by Jeff Olson  This edition published:November 4, 2013 Description:  “The Slight Edge” is a way of thinking, a way of processing information that enables you to make the daily choices that will lead you to the success and happiness you desire. Learn why some people make dream after dream come true, while others just continue dreaming and spend their lives building dreams for someone else. It s not just another self-help motivation tool of methods you must learn in order to travel the path to success. It shows you how to create powerful results from the simple daily activities of your life, by using tools that are already within you. Purchase:  Amazon Books Simply put, this is one of the best books I’ve read on the subject of making smart choices and seeing them thru.  Jeff Olson destroys the myth of the “over night success”, based on the principles of compound inte...

By Jenessa Connor,  Men's Journal  | Repost Small, healthy habits add up over time. Just ask Laird Hamilton, world-renowned big-wave surfer and our resident radical fitness evangelist. At 52, he’s in better shape than most guys half his age. He splits his time between Maui and Malibu, and when he’s not on the beach, he’s chilling with his model-slash-pro volleyball player wife and their picture-perfect family. He’s clearly doing something right. Check out the eight habits that keep Laird Hamilton healthy, strong, and happy. Eat Three Breakfasts Hamilton’s day starts at 5 a.m., so a bowl of cereal won’t hold him over until lunch. He divides his morning nutrition between three mini meals, each of which serves a specific purpose. First breakfast is his version of fat-infused “bulletproof” coffee, which fuels his gym or water workout. Second breakfast is all about muscle recovery and includes protein-rich eggs, quinoa, or yogurt with almond butter. And his third meal, a...

“ We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training. ” ~Archilochus Who is Archilochus? Archilochus (/ɑːrˈkɪləkəs/; Greek: Ἀρχίλοχος Arkhilokhos; c. 680 – c. 645 BC) was a Greek lyric poet from the island of Paros in the Archaic period. He is celebrated for his versatile and innovative use of poetic meters, and is the earliest known Greek author to compose almost entirely on the theme of his own emotions and experiences.

Easy to forecast that there will be about a million articles, blog posts, Facebook statuses and tweets dealing with New Year's Resolutions.  There will be triple the number of opinions on doing them or not doing...how you should do them or how you shouldn't do them...why you should do them or why shouldn't do them that way...and on and on. I'll tell you right off the bat, this posting is in favor of doing them.  Many of those opinions mentioned above will tell you not to waste your time.  They'll say that New Year's Resolutions just set you up for failure.  And, well, they are mostly correct.  Most of us get psyched about the New Year, the clean slate, new beginnings, we make a big grandiose list of our dreams and desires and wants.  But then the old habits trump the new desires and the gravity of the day to day pulls us back down to earth.  The next thing we know, is that it is March and we've forgotten all about our list. There in...

The Common Denominator of Success by Albert E.N. Gray This inspiring message first appeared as a major address at the 1940 NALU (National Association of Life Underwriters) annual convention in Philadelphia.   Several years ago I was brought face to face with the very disturbing realization that I was trying to supervise and direct the efforts of a large number of men who were trying to achieve success, without knowing myself what the secret of success really was. And that, naturally, brought me face to face with the further realization that regardless of what other knowledge I might have brought to my job, I was definitely lacking in the most important knowledge of all. Of course, like most of us, I had been brought up on the popular belief that the secret of success is hard work, but I had seen so many men work hard without succeeding and so many men succeed without working hard that I had become convinced that hard work was not the real secret even though in most ca...

"The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove."  ~Samuel Johnson

"We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time."  ~T. S. Eliot "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."  ~Aristotle "That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.  It is dearness only which gives everything its value.  Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods." ~Thomas Paine "I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor." ~Thoreau