If you're going to do it, do it.

Say what you can do.

Do what you say.

You can't do it.

Don't say you can do it.

Don't over-leverage yourself.

Don't over-leverage a decision and then jump in and kind of dip a toe.

I think I'll try it out.

Now, think if you're going to try it out beforehand, but when it's time to go, dive.

Finish it, find out.

Come out the other side. Don't leave it and go, if I just foot it, uh-uh. That keeps me up at night. I think it keeps a lot of us up at night. When you half-assed something, you just don't know, whether you've failed or succeeded. Got what you want or didn't get what you want, finding out and looking in the mirror and going, I didn't half-hast it. I went all the way. I found out, and that ain't for me. Or I found out, and you damn right, that is for me. That's a great place to get to. I think part of the challenges in life is a lot of us are running around, half-assing ourselves, half-fooling ourselves, not full of ourselves, not studying ourselves enough, not holding ourselves to task enough, not patting our own self on the back when we do get what we want enough, not cracking our own whip on our backside when we do get out of line even though we knew better. I wish we were more full of ourselves that way. Someone said this to me before. Matthew, you're so full of yourself. And I, without thinking, I was like, well, who else am I supposed to be full of? That's a good line. And I stopped out, and I was like, that's exactly what I meant. And I wrote that down. I wish more people were more full of themselves.

I think we should take some time to be able to look in the mirror and own that thing that we pulled off and go, good job.

That's what you wanted.

It's what you got.

At the same time, be able to, as we do more often, look in the mirror.

When we fail and go, eh-uh, bogey, you did not pull that off.

Give others and yourself more credit.

Happiness, you can't guarantee it, but there is a science to satisfaction there you can look at habits that engineered less pain in your life maybe more pleasure but at least less pain and that's

a win so much easier to be supportive and gentle of other people than of ourselves.

You know, you will happily bestow this sort of gentle, reassuring pat on the shoulder when

somebody succeeds or falls short when they tried their best. Yet, given the fact that you tried

your best, you give yourself a kick on the way

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