Make your days count

Marietta, GA – “Make your days count. Don’t count your days!”

Trevor Moawad wrote a terrific book called, “Getting to Neutral”. Trevor was battling cancer in his middle 40’s when he wrote this book with his best friend and NFL All-Pro, Russell Wilson. The premise of his book is that we can’t really live if we don’t live in the now. Golfer Greg Norman calls it, “Do it now, Do it proper”. Repetitive activities done well become habits which continues the flywheel effect and the momentum continues. This is quite different from “positive thinking”. It’s the absence of “negative thinking”. There is a difference. Trevor’s training centered on focusing on the task at hand as being neither “positive” or “negative”. The present situation is what it is. We have to make decisions and choices in the present moment. Will our thoughts and actions move us toward our objectives or away from them?

Doing what you need to do in the present has been misinterpreted as modern stoicism. Trevor would disagree. He passed away at 48 after impacting thousands of people with his mental training and conditioning for elite organizations like the Universities of Florida, Georgia and Alabama. My challenge to you is to live every moment in the present. The past is the past.  Learn from it and move on. The future is not determined. Don’t dwell on a future that is so far out as to become more dreams and fantasy than obtainable. A long distance runner can dream of marathons but unless he trains in the present, he will never be able to compete competitively for a full 26 miles. Every worthwhile goal in life is made up of many incremental steps that must be done to reach a successful completion.

1.- Trevor taught elite athletes how to hyper focus on executing at the highest levels by performing well incrementally.

2.- Living in the present moment is the only way to achieve your goals and objectives. 

3.- Every moment should be seen as an opportunity to move incrementally toward fulfilling your purpose.

#DoGoodWorkNow

Do well; repeat

Marietta, GA: “Do Well, Repeat” – Bryan E Wilson

Doing a good job is more rare than many people think.

It’s not easy to do good work each and every day.

Do Well, Repeat… makes a good life.

This post is dedicated to an old friend, Kevin Lewis, who has been an inspiration to me and always finds a way to make me laugh when we get a chance to catch up.

Bryan E Wilson

Character = Choices + Consequences

Marietta, GA: Character = Choices + Consequences

Our character is a “catalogue of choices” and the consequences.  Character is our behavior habits that we repeat over and over that becomes our life.

We are encouraged when our character is built on good choices and the results that come from those decisions.

Behavior from good choices leads to more good behavior and the momentum continues.

#EmboldenExcellence!

Bryan

Privilege = Responsibility

Kennesaw, GA – “Privilege = Responsibility”

“To whom much is given, much will be required.” – St. Luke

We that have privilege have a responsibility to give back.  Shirking this debt, we owe our society is unethical and immoral.

Giving back can take many forms but you determine for yourself how much you should contribute to our world.

To you continued success,

Bryan

bryanewilson@gmail.com

Arthur Ashe quote

Marietta, GA – A great quote from a Tennis Hall of Famer who broke many color barriers and served his country in the US Army.

“Start where you are.

Use what you have.

Do what you can.”

-Arthur Ashe

Relationship Value Formula

Marietta, GA – Relationship Value (RV) = (Positives) + (Negatives)

If we list the positives in a relationship versus the negatives, we create a balance sheet that we can see.

RV (Relationship Value) = x (Positive Experiences) + y (Negative Experiences)

Try using Trevor Moawad’s approach to outcome predictability and proactively remove the negative words, thoughts and experiences. Let the positive outcomes accumulate without any effort. 

Using the balance sheet example, the RV (Relationship Value) will turn positive (+) just by removing the negatives (-).  Benjamin Franklyn talks about this exercise in his autobiography about decision making. Take a sheet of paper, fold it lengthwise and list the pros on one half of the sheet and the cons on the other. If the pros (+) outnumber the cons (-), then you have your decision (answer). This equation can be used on any relationship or decision. 

Try this and let me know how it works for you. 

Thanks again for the great feedback and encouragement.

To your happiness,

Bryan

bryanewilson@gmail.com

#Encouragement

#RelationshipsMatter

Thoughts matter

Marietta, GA – Thoughts matter

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (121-180 AD)

Nineteen hundred years later and still I can’t add anything to this quote to make it any more relevant to our lives today. 

Here is a short video that I hope you enjoy.

We Become What We Think About Most Of The Time Positive Thinking Motivation

To your happiness,

Bryan

bryanewilson@gmail.com

#Encouragement

#GoodThoughts

The $100 Pay It Forward Challenge

Atlanta, GA – The $100 Pay It Forward Challenge

Does giving have financial as well as emotional benefits? 

Here is the challenge for this year. Begin with $100 and anonymously pay forward to a few deserving people that you come into contact.

Keep a register to track when unexpected cash comes back to you in tangible ways. Then give those proceeds away again.

You weren’t expecting the increases in the first place so why not pay it forward again? Do this for 3 or 6 months and see what happens.

The most this challenge will cost you is $100. Why not do it? The Lord tells us He will repay the lender. It doesn’t matter if you are a Christian, Jew, or Muslim. This appears to be a universal law. Let’s test it! 

Let me give you one quick example. I had some extra cash in my pocket once and overheard a waitress telling a coworker that she didn’t know how she was going to pay her electric bill. I left her a $100 tip when I left. Looking back as I was getting in my car, I saw her crying. She was a single mother with small children. A few days later, a large check came in the mail to me from an overpayment that I had made on an account months earlier that an “audit” revealed I was “owed”. Totally unexpected. 

“Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.”
– Proverbs 19:17

To your success,

Bryan

#Pay It Forward

Shout out today goes to my friend, Eric Fichtner, who has been a wonderful example to me of “giving back” to our community as a servant-leader.