April 27, 2023 by Brian Weiner No CommentsChanging The World One Thought At A Time., Lessons From The Mountain

Your entire situation can change quickly when you acknowledge that there’s more inside of you and you’re brave enough to demand more of yourself. Heavy growth isn’t luck, it happens when you love yourself, commit to a positive mindset, and take consistent action on your goals.

KRISTEN BUTLER

How much more do you have on reserve, that you haven’t even begun to leverage yet?

We feel in many circumstances as if we have given something our all. And yet, that still doesn’t take us across the finish line. Only then do we start to discover that we actually had much more on tap than we had originally given ourselves credit for.

Yet, at an earlier stage, since we had already presumed we had given something our all, where did the additional energy or effort come from?

The measure of our core capabilities and resources is far more untapped than that of which we are cognizant. There are so many circumstances in life in which we might have sold ourselves the possibility that we are maxed out, but the truth is, this is just our mind telling us what our mind would like us to believe, and not necessarily what the actual meter of our wherewithal would indicate.

One of the things that I admired about Muhammad Ali was that he never measured any of his workout until he had hit that point of total exhaustion… and only from that point forward, he started to count how much further into the world of total exhaustion could he travel.

Regardless of whether the exertion you are making is mental or physical, the philosophy that Mohammed Ali exemplified is absolutely representational of how, and why, we must learn how much further our dedication and relentless pursuit of excellence will take us.

In each, and every circumstance, we are offered greater opportunity to find out what we are truly made of. In this opportunity, we must search our collective soul and evaluate not what our initial reaction is, but rather how much further we might still be willing to push ourselves in order to get to the proverbial promised land of whatever destination we have forecast for ourselves.

It is only through this continuous adjustment of our own focus, that we might ultimately rise to the greatest level of our potential and in the process, discover what we are truly made of.

Happy Thursday!

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Written by Brian Weiner

When I was 5 years old, I discovered that the lemon tree in the backyard + dixie cups + water and sugar and I was in business. I have been hooked on that ever since. In 1979, I borrowed $14,000 to create a brand new product... photographic greeting cards with no text on the inside, called Paradise Photography. That was the start of The Illusion Factory. Since then, The Illusion Factory has been entrusted by all of the major studios and broadcasters with the advertising and marketing of over $7 billion in filmed, live, broadcast, gaming, AR, VR and regulated gaming forms of entertainment, generating more than $100 Billion in revenue and 265 awards for creativity and technology for our clients. When I took a break from film school at UCLA to move to Hawaii, my mother did not lecture me. Instead, she took 150 of her favorite aphorisms and in her beautiful calligraphy, wrote them artistically throughout a blank journal. That is the origin of the Lessons from the Mountain series. Since then, on my journeys to the top of a mountain to watch the sunrise, I have spent countless hours contemplating words of wisdom from the sages of all races, genders and political persuasions, constantly accumulating the thoughts to guide me on my life path. I hope you enjoy my books. Please let me know your thoughts, as I highly value your feedback!