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Welcome to the Our First Motivational Friday with James Silvas!

Key Takeaways 

• Knowing your why
• Emotional Triggers
• Keep asking until you hit the root of what drives you
• How you should look at your goals
• Avoid someone being further along the journey than you
• Presence creates your best work
• Become aware of your self talk
  • 60k-70k thoughts a day and 90-95% are the same thoughts that you thought yesterday, which means we have to challenge ourselves daily!
  • 70% of our daily self talk is negative
• Good Wolf vs. Bad Wolf story from my college class
• The ‘lizard’ part of your brain is in charge of fear and aggression
  • Standing out is a ‘perceived’ threat
• It’s more painful over time to stay in your comfort zone
• Lizard brain systems
  • procrastination due to trying to create perfection
  • anxiety about what to wear to an event
  • excuses of lack of money
  • excessive networking with the goal of having everyone like you
  • lack of desire
  • starting committees instead of action
  • criticize others instead of raising your bar
  • focus on revenge rather than focusing on your own work
  • embrace an emotional attachment to the status quo
  • manufacture anxiety about people stealing your ideas
• Conditioning a new mindset
• What you fear most is what you most need to do
• Embracing the fear within
• Breakthroughs happen with you commit
• Remember the small wins

BOOKS MENTIONED

Start With Why by Simon Sinek

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin 

*Read 10 pages a day to read a book a month

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