Your ability to master yourself.

• To not be a slave to yourself or others.

• To be able to, even in the darkest and worst of circumstances, find contentment and love.

• To be able, even in the darkest and worst of circumstances, show compassion and love - even to those that believe they are holding you down.

• To have the ability to intentionally do life - to control what you can and accept what you can’t.

• To control your mind - as Dr. Mike told me, “You are not your mind.” And if your mind might be ill, accept what you can’t control and work with what you can.

• To control your mouth - garbage in/garbage out - don’t eat/speak garbage.

• To control your thoughts - garbage in/garbage out - consume and use wisdom that will help you master yourself and show more love to others.

As I think more and more about how to help people feel and be seen/perceived for all they can do, the more and more I see that what is needed is not someone to help them up. What I see is that people need a reason to believe in themselves, and a reason to demand responsibility (HT to Seth Godin).

P.S. You can find tons of useful meditations on self-mastery through a few books that I have fallen in love with:

• Letters of a Stoic

• Meditations (the book I recommend more than any other to people I coach)

• Mastery (musicians: this is like “Effortless Mastery” but far more in-depth and science-driven)