Challenges are God’s greatest blessings. They give you an opportunity to see who you really are on the inside, in your gut, in your heart, in your mind. They allow you to test yourself. They give you an opportunity to rise to another level, test your limits, to expand your horizons, to raise your standards. They give you a chance to test your mettle out and prove something to yourself.

Compete at all moments, all of the time. Stay ready so you don’t have to get ready. Never prepare for just a sole event; instead, prepare for ALL events. Get ready for ANY situation life could possibly throw your way. You can’t “save it” for the big day; no, instead, you’ve got to be RELENTLESS in your pursuit of excellence and improvement. You cant’ wait until the last minute; you need to treat EVERY minute, every moment, every opportunity as though it is your last.

To keep yourself motivated, you definitely need to take a big picture perspective on your situation. Yes, it may require you to sacrifice multiple years of your life NOW, but it will prevent you from struggling financially on the back end.

Everything is “get paid”. The goal is to stack up as much cash as possible, as quickly as possible, and then make your real moves from THAT foundation. That requires both skill stacking and extreme discipline. It will mean major sacrifices as well.

You must be successful first. Your goal must be to become as productive as you possibly can. You have to build a level of leverage, and establish a point of value for yourself in order for anyone to give even a quarter of a fuck about what you’ve got going on.

It’s very important to focus and concentrate your energies on as few things as possible. Rather than trying to be a hack of all trades and trying to get 100 things accomplished at one time, if you’re able to focus all of your energy on just one objective, you’ll be able to get it done more quickly and efficiently. And over a long enough period of time, and with proper consistency, you’ll certainly be able to accomplish more goals over all.

You must set yourself apart. You need to become distinct. You have to be unique. You can’t walk around acting and speaking like everyone else does and expect that you are going to get treated any better or any differently than the rest of the group gets treated.

The fact that you are under is what makes people curious. You need to get little, disappear, and lay low from people sometimes. You can’t always be present because people will simply take your presence for granted. Even if you are incredibly consistent and are a high performing, high level member of people’s lives, at some point people will just take your consistency for granted. You have to remove yourself from the equation occasionally in order to eventually get the appreciation you deserve. Absence creates fascination and desire — use that to your advantage.

Don’t worry about tomorrow. Don’t put too much consideration into the future. Definitely PREPARE for the future, but don’t spend your mind’s energy living in it. Focus on the present. Focus on doing what you need to do today, do what you can in the moment. Put all of your energy into that and your future will take care of itself.

Ghost the word and everyone for the next six months. Take responsibility and full accountability for everything that’s happening in yourself. Get rid of all of the excuses in your head, and definitely never vocalize any of your excuses or complaints. Instead of moving away from pain, go towards the smoke. Don’t avoid challenges, embrace them. Train your ass off every day. Ignore your feelings, control your emotions, and put in all of the work that you can. Don’t focus on what you’re getting out of it, don’t worry about the results, don’t overthink it. Just put in as much work as you can for half of a year and watch where your life ends up.