Earn It
Reflection on sacrifice, ownership, and resilience.
Resilient Maxims
A new series I’m planning on beginning to release regularly is “Resilient Maxims.”
In these maxims, I plan to create concise, hard-hitting posts that amplify my perspectives, self-talk, reflective questions, and intentions around specific topic areas.
The focus for this post is sacrifice.
Like many terms, the word sacrifice is viewed differently based on one’s circumstance, experience, support systems, and established skills.
Sacrifice, in my opinion, is empowering. The ability to perceptually go above and beyond to provide, protect, and support others demonstrates agency with the proper mindset.
If you have something to offer, you’re not doing so bad.
We ALWAYS have something to offer.
Ownership, of anything and everything we have control over, is a sacrifice in and of itself. We tend to delegate our only belongings of thoughts, feelings, and subsequent behaviors to externals. Relinquishing control to circumstance is a surefire path to detrimental suffering.
The human experience can be miserable or remarkable.
It comes down to perspective.
Sacrifice and ownership are excellent underpinnings to sustained resilience.
Orient your self-talk to encourage resilient mental states.
This series will attempt to do just that…
Reflection
What do you have control over in your life?
Thought interpretation, mindset, and actions if you’re lucky.
What don’t you have control over?
Everything and everyone else.
Where then, is the best place to focus your efforts?
Within.
What and who is important to you?
Being a good man and my family, friends, and communities.
Earn It
How are you sacrificing for them daily?
Are you concerned with what others are doing for you more than what you can be doing for them?
It is not what your people can do for you, but what you can do for your people.
No one owes you anything.
Your past accomplishments are history.
Yesterday is dead.
If you’re keeping score with your loved ones, I can assure you that you’re losing.
If you’re able to do a task, do it.
Previous contributions don’t produce credits for future inaction.
Subjective excuses are weak.
Sustained ownership is strength.
When you need help, communicate.
When you don’t, execute.
Ignore or reframe negative thinking patterns that prevent productivity.
Your inner resistance is your lifelong opponent.
Battle it daily for the greater good.
Even maintaining a beneficial attitude can feel like a sacrifice.
Good.
Embrace the challenge within and then expand outward.
Know yourself, your priorities and your capabilities.
Now contribute.
Align your actions and exceed your self-expectations daily.
Why, who, how, what? In that order.
Earn the day.
Earn your loved ones.
Earn your life.
Provide for others to realize your true power.
Own your life and then sacrifice.
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Well, Kyle, you’ve provided us an excellent example of sacrifice. I’m amazed that you can create these posts while at the same time accomplishing your other more important priorities such as your family, your fitness regime and your military career. You clearly aren’t going to get rich doing this, so the only possible reason I can conceive that you do this is that you care about a lot of people that you’ll never see and probably never talk to. My driving goal has always been to leave the world a better place than the one I arrived in. You exemplify that. I salute you brother.