You Have To Be Better

As I was outlining my 2019 goals, I could feel part of me start to shrink back.

There was a piece of me that said “you can’t do that.’ And I almost started to believe that I could.

But it was different than how I used to think about “you can’t do that.”

Instead of not just believing that I could do that. I looked at my current habits and realized that “you can’t do that” if you keep doing things like you’re currently doing them.

In some ways – that’s worse.

Cause there’s an element of reality involved in it.

And I was right in a way.

If I wanted to keep doing things in the same way I have been – I couldn’t just keep going about business as usual.

But instead of just giving up – I had another thought.

You have to be better.

Sometimes it’s not a trick. It’s not a tactic. Not a strategy.

Sometimes it’s a decision.

To be better.

To accept less excuses. To raise your standards. To stop accepting “who you are” as “who you will be.”

A decision to be better.

To do what needs to be done, you have to be better.

So go be it.