Micro Class: Sacrifices vs. Decisions

Hi, this is Brian.

Welcome back to another micro class. This one's on sacrifices versus decisions. It's inspired by Georges St. Pierre, GSP's the Way of the Fight. Awesome book. Check out the note below. He made a great distinction in this book between sacrifices and decisions. So basically, GSP created a target. Remember Greek word talos equals target, right? Which is basically his mission, his purpose, whatever you want to call it. But basically he decided that he was going to be the best fighter he could possibly be. The best in the world, world champion.

At what he does.

That was his target. It was a very clear aim. And he's sitting here and he's identifying, well, what do I need to do to get there? And then anything that got in the way of him achieving that outcome was removed. But he didn't do it with like a whiny, oh, I'm making sacrifices, I can no longer party and I have to get up early to train. Those weren't sacrifices. Those were decisions that he made as a powerful creator in pursuit of his ideal vision. So remember, the word decision comes from the Latin de sir, to cut, right? There's your scissors, cutting off certain things from your life. So for you, what's your target? What's your purpose? What's your sacred calling? As Stephen Cope puts it into the great work of your life. He tells us the story of all these great human beings from Gandhi and Darwin and all these other great guys who structured their entire lives just like GSP did. To do this, they'd stop doing this.

Stuff, and they did this.

They made a decision to cut certain things out of their life. So for you, might be helpful to make a list. What are the things you're going to do more of and what are the things you're going to stop doing? Anytime I use that to pursue big goals, and I also use that anytime I feel myself a little off balance, I say, look, what's one thing I need to do more of and what's one thing I need do less of? Constantly come back to that, to recalibrate, get the equanimity and continue to perform on a high level. So for you, what is it? This is your target. This is where you are. This. Hello. This is what you're committed to doing. What goes and what gets amplified. Make the decision. Don't ever call them sacrifices again. They're not. They're conscious decisions. You, you're excited about it. Let's go out and optimize and actualize sacrifices versus decisions.

Hope you enjoyed. I look forward to sharing more Soon.

Have another awesome day. See ya.

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