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“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself? ” Epictetus  We are all procrastinators. In one form or another we are all delaying, postponing, or holding out on something that we want to achieve in life. Many things we want to achieve in life that never see the light of day. All of us, every single one of us, me included. Procrastinators. It sucks and sucks the time out of the life we have. We know what we need to do but we delay and don’t make it happen.  “I’ll start tomorrow”, “I’ll get that done next month”, “in the new year”, “I need to start.....” but it never happens. Not always never, but more often than not it’s never.  I’ve been caught in this many times over the years, I still do every single day. You do too. Great ideas, ambition, well thought-out plans, and attainable goals that go to waste for one reason or another. Vanished as if they never existed. They don’t always vanish though. The need to be healthier,...

While we wait for life, life passes. - Seneca Untapped potential, the stuff we are all sitting on and not fully engaging. Yes, all of us.  Everyone has greater potential they are yet to or may never open up. Even those achieving great things could do greater things with their lives, nobody is living the perfect life...as perfection doesn’t exist. We all have moments, days, weeks where we completely watch life pass us by and never really push to achieve the greatness that lives inside us. Precious moments often wasted un-achieving and limiting ourselves, letting life lead us rather than leading it ourselves.  I’m just as guilty, we all are. It isn’t that you will spend every waking hour stretching yourself or driving towards dream after dream. It isn’t that your life will be so epic there will not be any room left for achievement. It isn’t that you’ll do more than any other human in the history of time.  It is however that we need to be aware of thi...

Words may inspire but only action creates change. - Simon Sinek This week’s post is entirely dedicated to you and your actions, not my words.  Best piece of advice, help, guidance, and support I can give is to leave this blog post for you to write.  Not so simple question: What’s Your ‘Why’? Why do you do the things you do? Why do you get out of bed in the morning? Why do you exercise or believe you should stay fit? Why do you eat vegetables or healthy food over cookies and chips? This is a thought-provoking question and one that will take some deep, inner soul-searching. Mine is here, in a recent post of mine.  https://www.instagram.com/themattboudreau/p/BrI9I96Bt5-/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=135c9n6rlped2 So what’s yours? What’s your ‘Why’? Write it, share it privately, share it publicly, share it out loud, share it with a friend. Simply put it down and go from there. I’d love to hear it and help support your ‘Why’. We ...

“It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.” Seneca A lot of what I write about here is summed up in that quote above, it’s also focused highly around driving a “growth mindset” in life. Creating harmony in your life so that you can achieve great things that others may deem outside your reach, and finding that drive to move beyond the regularity of life to accomplish something outstanding..... or many outstanding things, choice is yours.  You’ve likely heard about the term “growth mindset”. Growth mindset is constantly being in a state of learning and growing with the notion that your hard work, your persistence, and your grit is the only thing standing in the way of your ability to achieve great things in life. Those that achieve amazing things are not simply born more talented or skilled, they work hard for it. You have to truly love learning and become resilient in the face o...

It doesn’t matter when we start. It doesn’t matter where we start. All that matters is that we start. -Simon Sinek I put things off, I procrastinate, I say “I’ll do it tomorrow”, I think to myself I’ll be better at this or that tomorrow, next week, next year. Everyone does, I know I’m not alone in this, otherwise we’d have a world of overachieving perfectionists.  In certain areas, areas we deem more important or areas we are more comfortable with, we make it happen today, now, this week, this year. In other areas we fear starting, we fear being vulnerable in failing, we put it off, we don’t start, we often avoid it all together although we know it’s important.  So what is IT? Is it exercise, is it money management, is it budgeting, is it telling someone you love them, is it getting healthier, is it a dream of yours, is it learning the guitar, is it quitting a bad habit, is it starting a good habit, is it making a lifelong memory with someone, is it hel...

“You either walk inside your story & own it or you stand outside your story & hustle for your worthiness.”  Brene Brown Sadly, our society is inundated with physical and mental abusers. Those that enact harm and hatred onto others, in a conscious or subconscious attempt to ruin their existence as a human. They exist both physically and mentally with neither being any less harmful than the other, while frequently overlapping.  There is often a worse set of these abusers that get into our heads mentally in the most negative of ways and create the most detrimental of physical abuse to our bodies, ourselves.  A large majority of the time, we abuse ourselves much worse than any external factor. We drive negative self talk, self doubt, resistance to positive thinking, and thoughts of inadequacy around our general life. We abuse our bodies with harmful food and drinks (or even drugs), lack of regular physical activity, ignoring pain our body is displaying...

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” - Marcus Aurelius I’ve been sharing this blog for 4 months now, been writing for years in various forms but I made a commitment to being more open and vulnerable in many forms this year.  Sharing my opinion, not fact. Sharing my perspective, not the truth.  We all have an opinion and we all have varying perspectives, this blog is my story. Life isn’t cookie cutter in the least, it’s entirely different from each and every perspective. Something seemingly one colour can appear another colour to everyone else who views it. A seemingly great experience could be an awful one from another perspective. A seemingly gloomy fall day may appear perfect to another’s opinion.  I write my opinion and perspective here as these lessons work for me, hoping that one individual can takeaway a lesson about living a life of harmony, balance, and positive mental health. Rea...