“What do the quality of your thoughts look like?
Do they match where you want to be in life?
If not, you need to do some housecleaning.”
course and the captain has to constantly course correct.
The wind and the waves are like life. Life never goes the
way we expect it to, and we are constantly being pushed off
course while trying to reach our goals. What most of us do
(myself included) is stand on the bow of our ships yelling at
the wind or blaming the waves for blowing us off course and
not reaching our goals. The true control is not in trying to
read the waves or predict where the wind will blow, but in the
bridge of the ship (the brain). We have to stop making
excuses and learn how to steer the ship with the controls that
we have so that we can make course corrections. If we
course-correct slightly each day, we can reach our goals.
P: What led to your discovery of how to “reprogram”
your thinking patterns?
R: I was a typical guy, trying to force my will on the world
and shave down square pegs to fit in round holes. I had been
building a tech startup for almost a decade outside of my day
job; I was sleeping only a few hours a night, dealing with
massive stress and drinking to shut my brain down so I could
sleep. This continued for years and many unforeseen things
happened to the business. Negative thoughts of stress and
failure became common noise in my head. I wasn’t even
aware that I had control of my thoughts; like so many, I was
asleep at the wheel and just reacting to everything I thought
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