2.198. How to UnF**k Yourself and other Todayisms

I’m listening to Tony Robbins the way a person downs an energy drink to make it through that last hour of League of Legends late night play. I need the boost. I’ve been down on me for a while and that is not healthy. Of course the thing about being down is that you reinforce that feeling with that feeling. It quickly develops into quicksand and you find yourself flailing in your own despair and unworthiness. At this moment in my life I don’t have the time to stop it on my own. I can’t pull out a domino ahead of the tumbling line and insure this goes no further. I can’t plow my own psychological fire line. So, I called for backup.

First things first: It is always okay to ask for help. being strong means being able to recognize when you need help. I’ve had a hard road to learning that. This isn’t the Thich Nhat Hanh teaching. This isn’t about seeing within myself. No, that is a different kind of leaning. This is about needing straight up fire. Now that I have that recognition and that strength, I find that I turn to motivational speakers and researchers when I’m in need of such fire. I go to Daniel Pink, to Tony Robbins, even to Kevin Hart. This time I’m looking at Gary John Bishop. I’ll publish his tenets below. That’s really all I have time left to do…

 

In Unf*ck Yourself, Bishop leads you through a series of seven assertions:

  • I am willing
  • I am wired to win
  • I got this
  • I embrace the uncertainty
  • I am not my thoughts; I am what I do
  • I am relentless
  • I expect nothing and accept everything

Lead the life you were meant to have – Unf*ck Yourself.

©2016 Gary John Bishop (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers

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