Forever Driven Personal Development

09/15/2017

If it isn’t difficult then don’t desire it
If you don’t have to change to get it, then don’t go for it
If the answer is simple but stirs within your gut, then accept it
If it hurts but doesn’t kill you then deal with it
If you are compliant to all, then you may fall for anything
If you are defiant when it counts, then you may become ruler of everything
In your world

-The way of defiance

09/07/2017

Each day walks away from us. Make sure you give it something great to walk away with so that it can share with the next day to come.

08/30/2017

Discover as often as you can. Learning new things about yourself and life is paramount in living in full.

08/24/2017

What will you do in the fourth quarter? When you're tired and your legs don't work like they did when it started? Will you step it up or stand down? Will you go in or will you go home? Will you tap into your why or will you let others pass you by?

You see, it is in this part of the game where you can be down by a lot and still step up and take it all back! It is here where your year could have been rough and you have the opportunity to pack it into a major run and then end off on an absolutely amazing note. It is at this time you can make the choice to step up and own it all by overcoming the simple yet powerful desire to rest up and pack it in.

It's the 4th quarter. What are you going to do?....

08/13/2017

Power
We have it. But it is our choices that ultimately reveal that we do.

Passion
It is our emotional fuel. If directed the right way it makes champions and greats out of us.

Purpose
You can have power and passion but purpose is the aim that tames the potential instability of the two. Purpose is bigger than us therefore it drives us to do what we have to do using both power and passion.

Pride
Rightful pride is great. Rightful pride comes about when you humbly connect power, passion and purpose, and you create something that you can be proud of.

08/08/2017

The greatest challenge to all of us is to set that idea, that action into motion. Don't be so smart to the point where you overthink your moves. Overshoot and surprisingly you will overcome.

08/03/2017

"The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately." -Steve Harvey.

Dead on point!

https://youtu.be/ICtOXAxjLj4

After speaking to parents and students, a few involved students got a chance to take some pictures and we got to talking about what it takes to make it.

08/01/2017

Be strong enough to lift someone up who may not have the strength to lift themselves and you become their hero. However, be strong enough to lift them up over and over again until they can lift themselves then you become their legend! The weak put others and things down while the strong lifts others and things up!

07/30/2017

The following is a short passage about a way of soul searching:

I took a little trip recently. I went back in time. Totally contradicting what I talk about and what other experts have spoken about when they say, “Don’t look back because we can’t change the past. You cannot live in the past because you are here now in the present moment.” Well, I’ve decided to break my rule as well as theirs and step back in time a bit. I went back to yesterday. Why? Because there was a moment in time where my power was absolute and I had a drive out of this world. There was a moment in time when I had a feeling of connectivity to my purpose and nothing or no one could shake it. I was laser focused and it came to fruition in such a way that I couldn’t believe it myself. My life changed immediately by each second and I was in a honeymoon stage with my dream and my purpose.
I went back to remember the people, experience the feelings, express the gratitude and emotion that came with it all as I was carrying out the great work by which I was designed to do. I went to visit a friend who has been on his mission for quite some time. When I saw him I was reminded of the first time we really crossed paths and became more like brothers. It was during a 5am training session where in the middle of a “High end luxury brand fitness club” where I totally led him through a series of unconventional exercises that unlocked the primal survival instincts within him. Not to mention he is an ex marine soldier so we had fun with that. When I saw him leading his class, I smiled and it took me back several years to the crew we used to have and even the workout sessions we had in those days. I thought about the times he took my classes and the intensity in which I would teach at with him there along with my other friends.
It was in that moment I realized that in order to proceed forward, I need to bring some old feelings back. I need that hunger where I didn’t care about what was at stake I just wanted to do what I was born and bred to do. I wanted to cultivate all of what I have endured throughout my life and put it to work the way I used to. Unapologetically directly from the heart all in 1000%. My story is filled with wins and losses and it would seem like I’m an unlikely candidate to be where I am at this point. But I remain unsatisfied. I remain unsatisfied because I allowed myself to disconnect with parts of the original dream. I let my window become cloudy. I went back so that I could break the window and see, feel, taste and experience who I want to be! I went back so that today would start my best days going forward.

07/25/2017

When fear grips you the most that is the moment to make a move.

07/19/2017

Paying it forward doesn't require much. It simply requires that for a moment you reach beyond yourself and do for others and expect nothing in return.

However, if you reeeeallllyyyy pay attention, your paying it forward is paying you back in so many other ways.

The payback isn't a grand lump sum of things but rather little small things that makes your day a tiny bit brighter.

A few days ago, I found a baby's bottle and a dollar bill.

Normally I would ignore the bottle and take the money and go about my day saying "Hey! it's my lucky day!"

But something stirred in me to take a different route. Do something that was unusual even for me.

I looked around to see who had a baby seat in their car that was nearby where I found the two items.

The car that the stuff was behind was a Honda Civic which had a baby booster seat in the back.

So, I decided to go against my regular scheduled programming and I left the bottle and the dollar on the windshield and walked away feeling even better than I would have if I had just kept the dollar.

Over the next few days as I approached the gym where I currently teach classes, I kept getting prime parking spaces!

That's just one example of what has happened because of paying it forward.... and paying attention!