Chop Wood Carry Water: How to Fall In Love With the Process of Becoming Great

You fuel your heart with six things: what you watch, what you read, what you listen to, who you surround yourself with, how you talk to yourself, and what you visualize.

believe He feels the same way about you, and already unconditionally loves you. It has never been about your performance, and it never will be about your performance. You can’t do anything to make Him love you any more, and you can’t do anything to make Him love you any less. Therefore, you are free to accept His love, love Him back, love yourself, and finally be freed to love others with no strings attached.

When your identity gets wrapped up in what you do, it clouds every decision you make. It is easy to see some of the reasons that a person would make very compromising decisions when their identity comes from what they do. You must fight that instinct

you look at something as a test, then you will focus only on passing the test instead of maximizing your growth through the experience. O

The secret is to understand that nothing is a test, but only an opportunity to learn and grow. Many people never fulfill their potential, because they look at every situation in life as a test.

Focus on what you can control.

Dream BIG. Start small. Be ridiculously faithful.

The problem with small is that it isn’t sexy, and it’s often repetitively boring.

The only thing that is truly significant about today, or any other day, is who you become in the process.

For a long time, I was really frustrated because I felt like nobody took me seriously. Now looking back, I realize the real problem was that I didn’t take myself seriously. When I started taking myself seriously I drastically changed how I used my time, and everyone started to take me very seriously as a byproduct.
We have control over how we use our time, but we don’t have control over our goals. We know it is counter-cultural and potentially crazy to let go of goals. It goes against everything most parents, mentors, self-help books and expensive special consultants implore us to do. That is why Jamie and I wrote the book, Burn Your Goals. What it really comes down to is this…
Everyone wants to be great, until it’s time to do what greatness requires.