“Don’t orbit around somebody else’s plan or somebody else’s worldview, and be proactive about setting up a Solar System that reflects your own understanding…your own “laws,” if you will.”

“After all, the ‘you’ that you dislike isn’t even the real you anyway – it’s only a garment holding your essential spirit. Remember, just as the wardrobe in your closet can change, so too can the character which adorns your soul.”

“You can’t play cut and paste with your life history, and you can’t relegate the parts that you’re ashamed of to some place in the back of your mind. If you do, they’ll continue to haunt and limit you from the subconscious realm…”

“…beating, verbal abuse, sexual abuse: people grow up in the most horrific environments that are definitely NOT conducive to success, happiness and accomplishment in life…their neighborhoods, drugs, alcohol, the media…

Most of us are affected by this and say, ‘Why? Why bother??? Why even try???’ What’s that old saying? ‘Life sucks and then you die…” ~ Mike Brescia

You don’t need to improve, evolve or succeed in order to grow in value as a human being: You are valuable as a human being simply because you exist…

“Every productive person I know has someone they work with, someone they went to school with or someone in their family (or all 3 and then some) that’s THE DIRECT OPPOSITE of what they’re aspiring towards, and that person motivates them in reverse.”

You may be thinking: “What if I’m just starting out, and I’m THE WORST person I know???” and the answer is that this still applies because your goal is to better yourself, not to be better then anyone else out there.

It’s interesting: we spend so much time trying to “be motivated” that we don’t see ourselves wasting all the motivation we naturally have stored inside.

Just realized the other day that I did a post on The 11 Core Mental Patterns of Failure, but never “flipped the script” and talked specifically about the core mental patterns of SUCCESS.

“Up until early 1987 I regularly used to beg the gods for an answer to the question of why I couldn’t get myself to do what I needed to do to get my simple goals met. Why was I so lazy and miserable? I was just…a bum.” ~ Mike Brescia