The second day of Greatness and why are you giving me turtle doves?!

It’s Saturday morning and I am drinking coffee in a hotel and writing this to you before picking up my daughter for the day.

Last night I fell asleep with the TV on, which I never do. I woke up at 3am to an informercial from a man selling silver coins. He made this bold statement:

“We all want certainty in uncertain times”

His pitch was solid. I respect it, and then I rolled over and went back to sleep.

In 2018 I flew over 200,000 miles on Delta alone. I was the top 14% of fliers in the world. In 2019 I bumped it up to 300,000 miles. I spoke in India, Japan, Dubai, London. etc. and I was flying domestically 4 cities a week!

When I started down this path of flying globally and domestically one of my mentors said to me:

Neal - you need to be certain that this is not going to go as planned AND be grateful when it does.

WTF does that mean?!

And so I did. I trained my mind to be certain that every flight was cancelled, there was always going to be traffic, People were always going to be late for meetings. The food was not going to be good. The hotels were not going to be great.

I’d watch people have angry fits and scream in the airport when a flight got cancelled. People get in accidents rushing, or yelling at waitresses for food, or stressed because they missed the meeting.

And when any of that happened I pulled out a book, a banana, or my laptop and I was always prepared because I was certain it was not going to go as planned.

I was certain that it was all not going to go as I thought.

AND when it did! Everything became such a treat! ??

I’d be so grateful when everything went as planned and that was 75% of the time. The other 25% of the time I was certain it wouldn’t anyway ??

The outcome of this practice was that I was able to fly globally, domestically, speak on big stages, and build a $100M with a global footprint.

Taking that practice into this morning. ( do yours with me)

• I am so grateful that I woke up in this body
• I am so grateful for the water I drank this morning
• I am so grateful for the hot coffee
• I am so grateful for all of you reading this because it’s really affirming to my mission
• I am so grateful that I get to see my daughter today
• I am so grateful for the clients that I have
• I am so grateful for the week I had last week

I have already found seven reasons to be grateful and I promise you that you will always find exactly what you are looking for…I am certain of it ;)

TODO LIST!

1. What are 3 things that you have to be grateful for? Write them down OR share them with back with me! Make this a daily practice.
2. Reach out to someone you are grateful for today and tell them you are grateful to have them in your life.
3. Consider getting a journal and writing in it AND consider getting an accountability partner to build the practice of journaling better.
4. When you buy coffee today at your coffee shop, consider buying the persons behind you and call it a random act of kindness
5. I’d really love if you shared this with 5 people on social media or via email, we never know who we can help on a gloomy day.

PS: It turns out that Turtle Doves represent union and positive outlook, so maybe I need to get some after all.

Your second step of Greatness starts now!

I am certain of it.

~Neal