Change The Game

Doing overhead presses can be an easy way to injure yourself if you aren’t very careful, and in many ways the same results can be obtained with a different, less risky exercise. Where in your life are you unnecessarily pressing overhead when it isn’t going to serve you and will only lead to an injury? Once you get that massive weight up, it’s going to come right back down on you. Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

Other people's choices are not your responsibility. No matter how badly you want them to be and how much you think you could help them. You are responsible for your choices and your choices alone. You can give others all the information and guidance you want but in the end they are responsible for what they do with it. Where are you not taking responsibility for your own choices and allowing others to choose for you? Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

Coaching, systems, proven tools, nothing that you do matters if you don’t have leverage being applied by yourself or someone else. As soon as you have leverage, things shift. If you have the leverage of what you want in front of you, it’s going to pull you straight towards that goal. The pull of leverage is far more amicable than the abrasive push or other methods.  Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

The snooze button; that extra 9 minutes we all give ourselves to stay in bed every morning. There isn’t much technology in our lives that doesn’t have a snooze button at this point. We have all been there, where we just don’t feel like getting up, and hit the snooze button 1, 2, even 3 times. Just hitting the button once a day adds up to over an hour of lost time every week. What difference would those 9 minutes make over a year? Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

Sometimes in business and life we need to take a step back and recover for a while, just like we do with vigorous exercise. To recover we don’t need to do a full stop and just sit around, we can instead do an active recovery, without actually stopping completely. Learn something new, exercise, do something with the family. Always be self aware enough to know when you need to slow down to not burn out or do damage.  Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

Be very careful what you delegate and where in your life you delegate it. Delegating your responsibilities as a father and husband will just ensure that there is someone else there to pick up where you are absent. You can unintentionally delegate away a ton of power and results in your life if you aren’t careful. What step can you take today to take back ownership of something you were responsible for? Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

Scarcity is the most common disease on the planet and it has an amazing way of finding its way into every area of your life if you aren’t careful. Sometimes when the scarcity creeps in we need to step back and reframe the situation to see what is really happening more clearly. Some of our greatest victories can come on the heels of what we thought were massive defeats. Scarcity is never about facts, it is always about fear. Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

When we discipline our kids, it’s not just about holding them to the standards we want them to hold throughout their life, it’s also about holding ourselves to our standards as parents. Where in your life are you bailing on your own standards? What is one thing you can do about that in the next 30 days?   Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

Just because we have always done something a certain way doesn’t mean that is the only way we can or should do it. We have to be constantly analyzing what we are doing and if it still makes sense to do it the way we always have. You don’t have to eat turkey and dressing just because everyone else is. Today, identify 3 patterns that you want to challenge to see if there is a better way to do those 3 things. Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

Being dedicated to hustling is great as long as you have compassion for yourself and understand why you do what you do, otherwise it’ll just lead to burnout. The key is knowing why you are doing what you are doing and who you are doing it for. When you forget why you do what you do it’s very easy to slip into burnout mode. It’s not the work you put in that matters most, it’s what drives you.  Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

The absolute, number one, best way for you to get better at anything in life is to actually start. If you never start and gain the experience, you’ll never get better or learn anything new. Where in your life are you just waiting to know how to do something, rather than going out and just doing it? What can you do today to just get moving on something? Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

The earlier you choose to be happy each day, the better off you’ll be, and also those around you. If you don’t choose happiness, no one is going to choose it for you. The goal isn’t to be super happy every second of every day, the goal is to have some say in what you are at any given moment, in any situation.  Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

Collision is your friend. Collision does not mean there is a winner and loser within the collision. Collision often comes when both parties are feeling something but no one is saying anything about it, doing anything about it, or most importantly, telling the truth about it. Where in your business or life do you need to collide? Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

Pelicans’ lives are extremely simple: eat, sleep, look for food. We all look for simplicity in our lives to keep things effective and efficient, and simplicity has its place. However, being too simple really just equates to waiting to die. Pelicans have no drive to go above and beyond their simple lives. Don’t be a pelican, go hunt for your freedom to do what you want to do. Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

We all have stories we tell ourselves about life, how we live it, and how we want our loved ones to learn from it. These stories age with time and sometimes become obsolete or flat out wrong. Where in your life do you need to revisit some of your old stories and challenge them or even throw them out? Do you have the tools you need to revise your old stories or even write new ones?  Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

Today I just ask that you meditate on the following questions. When is your time, here on earth, up? What are you doing while you are here? Finally, why does it matter? Sit and really think about those questions and then use your answers to go out today and live your best life. Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

Be proud if your standards are high and never apologize for them. As long as they aren't unnecessarily high, they will serve you well and provide stability. Your standards set the tone in your home and business life. You are completely responsible for your standards, but not responsible at all for anyone else’s. What can you do today to raise your standards? Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

There are plenty of ways people can read you or get a feeling for who you are. The truest and most telling way people can know what you are thinking and who you are, is by what you do. They know you by your actions, and the results of those actions speak for themselves. Where in your business or life, can you let people know what you are thinking by what you are doing?  Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

Don’t get sucked into chasing everyone else’s measurements of success, it’ll just end in a no-win situation and unnecessary stress. You can hit a point where you see anything less than the ideal as a failure. When you only measure yourself against the ideal, you’ll never feel like you are winning; which leads to burn out and frustration. Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com

Success requires the right environment. If your current environment isn’t conducive to success you aren’t stuck there, you can change or even create an environment for success. Rest, food, the people around you and how they operate, and exercise are all part of your environment and you have control over all of them. Where in your life does the environment need attention?  Questions or comments? email me at michael@drmichaelbuffington.com