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You Can’t Get Anywhere if You’re Not Going Anywhere

You Can’t Get Anywhere if You’re Not Going Anywhere

Day 23 drawing every day If you’re melting into your couch you’ll never get anywhere. Just like driving a car to the store. If you never get in the car and drive, you’ll never get to the store. You gotta move. Also I am starting to post

Most Valuable Skill in Life

Most Valuable Skill in Life

Day 22 drawing every day The ability to overcome yourself is probably the most important skill you can develop. It’s the ability to: * Say no to yourself * Admit you’re wrong * Fight anxiety and win, by not giving up * Fight depression and win, by not giving up * Get things

Stop Waiting to Understand the How

Stop Waiting to Understand the How

Day 21 drawing every day You don’t need to understand the how or why some things work in order to gain the benefits of it. You don’t need to understand habits for them to work. You just need to do the 2 minutes every day. It’ll do

The Illusion of Control

The Illusion of Control

How often do we clamp down on something in our life, or remove something from our lives in order get a sensation of control? Often times we do it in one area because we’re out of control in another area of our life… but we’re too scared to

Where You Are is Not Where You’re Going

Where You Are is Not Where You’re Going

Don’t accept defeat. Ever.

Stop Wanting Change, Be Change

Stop Wanting Change, Be Change

Day 18 drawing every day. Side note drawing hands and feet... rough. Anyways! Discipline comes from Habits. Habits come from taking one single tiny step repeatedly over time. Tiny steps are change. They are the opposite of melting into your couch and giving up. It’s wild to think how

Grit - Everyone Needs It, But What Is It?

Grit - Everyone Needs It, But What Is It?

Day 17 Drawing every day. Grit is the refusal to stay laying down defeated. Grit is the refusal to “accept my fate”. Grit is the refusal to let bad things happen because it’s scary to stop it. Grit is the refusal to accept comfortably miserable. Grit has bite. It

It Won’t Always Be Hard

It Won’t Always Be Hard

As I continue to grow I realize that once you move through something big it becomes easier. It becomes normal. You become stronger, wiser, more able to process and handle things. And the struggles of yesterday become minor things today and tomorrow. Is it hard to stop yourself from buying

Growth Requires Discomfort

Growth Requires Discomfort

You cannot grow without discomfort of body or emotion. Period.

Hope & Ambition Combined

Hope & Ambition Combined

When you combine hope and ambition you get a wonderfully intoxicating combination the warms your soul and lessens the weights off your shoulders. Allow yourself to hope. Allow yourself to be ambitious.

Late is Fine, Giving Up Isn’t

Late is Fine, Giving Up Isn’t

Day 13 drawing every day. Late but not stopping.

Ambition vs. Wanting

Ambition vs. Wanting

I have to admit it. I spent almost my entire life to date wanting things. But just wanting something is just a hope and a dream. It’s not the same as ambition. Wanting is craving or needing something or something to happen but we’re sitting back and waiting

I Deceive Myself

I Deceive Myself

Whenever I’m anxious or nervous about something I need to do, or I’m about to do I always make it out to be this monstrous impossible thing. Or that the aftermath of it will be to hard to bare. But I deceive myself by not remembering how things

Some Days Are Better Than Others

Some Days Are Better Than Others

Day 10. I hate this drawing. lol. But progress is progress All that matters is that I don't give up, and just keep going no matter what.

The First Step is the Hardest

The First Step is the Hardest

So many times The Lord has nudged me in my life. And that first step is always the hardest or the scariest. And for some reason I always forget in that moment that all the steps after that hard scary one are so much easier. But then after I take

Achieving My Goals

Achieving My Goals

Anyone Else?

Day 7. Onward! Focusing on 8:00pm posting times going forward.

Day 6

Day 6 drawing every day. Success Will Be Mine

Focused

Not Giving Up

I've got things to do.

Keeping It Going

Keeping It Going

Day 3 drawing and publishing something every day.

Do The Work

There comes a time when you just have to do it.

Good Morning!

What is God Plays Chess Backwards?

When god acts in your life yesterday, for your today.

Rebranding!

I am in the process of rebranding everything to: God Plays Chess Backwards Because that's how much he loves every single one of us. He plays chess backwards.

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