Have You Really Tried Everything?

I am having trouble keeping my weight down.

Despite many factors that are in the way of doing all the heathier things necessary to maintain a healthier weight, this is all on me.

There are two questions you must ask yourself when faced with a situation where progress is not being made.

First, are you doing all that you can to put yourself in a better position for success? Because if you are, then there is a real problem with the goal, and you probably are targeting a useless one.

Second, what are you doing? Seriously, are you doing anything along the way to put yourself in any chance even to stumble upon success? Because the answer to this determines if the blame for your lack thereof goes solely to you if you are not putting in any effort to what you say your goal is.

I am having trouble keeping my weight down. I am not doing everything possible to succeed. Still, I am doing as much as possible despite every possible obstacle (including myself) that has become apart of my routine that makes it hard for me to establish a good eating and exercise routine.

I want to maintain a healthy weight and am actively working toward that goal, just not hard enough. And I know and understand that.

Do you have any suggestions for my weight loss journey? Email me at jclevelandpayne@gmail.com.

Cognitive Dissonance

You cannot be a person who values having plenty of open space to operate in and work hard to acquire more stuff that does little than take up space.

This is called cognitive dissonance: the mental stress or discomfort experienced by an individual who holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values at the same time, or is confronted by new information that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values.

You will tear your brain apart by trying to exist in two competing worlds with absolutely nothing in common.

Agree? Disagree? Email me at jclevelandpayne@gmail.com, and we can discuss. 

You’re A Cool One, MrBeast

A 20-year-old named Jimmy Donaldson who goes by MrBeast on YouTube with a channel that has 7.8 billion views and 60.9 million subscribers.

I am not a subscriber, and zero views have come from me.

So how do I know about this guy?

Because I am working on growing my following on YouTube, and I do subscribe to a few channels that offer up tips for improving YouTube channel success. And they are using his fame to bring in other viewers.

Yes, using other’s clout works.

Want to use my clout to pull people in? Email me at jclevelandpayne@gmail.com and let’s talk.

Selling The Youth On Their Legacies

Getting younger people to buy in on thinking about their legacy is a hard sell.

It’s hard to fathom that a decision when you are eight-years-old will affect how you are perceived when you are 80-years-old and how people may or may not still bring you up in conversation 80 years after that.  

And once you are clued into the myth of the permanent record being mostly a myth, most of your young adult years seem like time you get to throw away.

But they are not.

Everything important takes time. The more important is it, the more time it takes, and the more intentional you must be with time. 

If you have an idea to be something prominent, you must first have to have a good concept of time: how much time it will take, how much time you have, and how much time you spent doing other things before you decided you needed to do the prominent thing.

But the crucial part is having a good concept of how everything you were doing prior, despite seeming unrelated to your new prominent focus, was just the universe putting the right things in place on your journey.

And it helps if you are fortunate to have the wherewithal to think about your legacy while you are still young in years. Or at least have someone to nag you about your legacy before you get too far out of that window.

Are you focused on your legacy? Tell me about it at jclevelandpayne@gmail.com

Your To-Do And Your Not-To-Do Lists

An extremely useful and unsexy tool for getting things done is a to-do list. I talk about using them all the time, and few people seem to care.

A useful add on to a to-do list is what I call a not-to-do list. And this is simply a list of things you decide you will not do that are tied to a real reason that means something to you.

The reasons tied to your items on your not-to-do list should not come down to what you simply want to since many of the key factors to anyone’s success is doing work that no one wants to do, but getting it done regardless.

The reasons should be attached to real reasons not to do a thing. Like if it is bad for your health, psyche, or wallet (which themselves are bad for your health and psyche).

Just like you should plan out what activities you should do to ensure success, you should know what you should not do to hamper that success.

Need help crafting your to-do or your not-to-do lists? Email me at jclevelandpayne@gmail.com and I’ll help get you started.