TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR DAY - Best Matthew McConaughey Morning Motivation
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How does Matthew McConaughey define 'dive in' versus 'dip a toe' when starting a new challenge?
If you're going to do it, do it. Say what you can do. Do what you say. If 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. No, 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 want it, uh-uh. That keeps me up at night. I think it keeps a lot of us up at night. When you half-ass something that you just don't know, whether you 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-ass it. I went all the way.
I found out, and that ain't for me. Or I found out, and you're 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 without thinking, I was like, well, who else am I supposed to be full of? That's a good line.
And I stopped after. 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. That'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, 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. 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 out of the door and a harsh word to follow you. Yep. Because I got myself in the pickle. Because things didn't go how I wanted it to go or how I believed it could go. Life's the ironic tragedy. Life is pain. I'm the reason that I stepped in, which is also an asset. Even if someone go, why are you giving yourself so much credit for screwing that up? We're going to make mistakes. You got to own them. Then you got to make amends. And then you got to move on. Guilt and regret kills many a man before their time.
We'll turn the page, get off the ride. You are the author of the book of your life. There are habits that I notice of things I take care of in my life health-wise, faith-wise, father-wise, husband-wise.
Why does McConaughey say we should be 'full of ourselves' and how does that impact self-accountability?
If I'm doing that consistently, there's less valleys. The ironic tragedy is that life has to be lived forward but only makes sense in reverse.
Right.
When you look back, we can all connect every single dot. It's mathematical, scientific how we got to this table right here. It's all connected if we go back and look at it. And there's a whole lot of, I thought that was the end. Well, it was the end, but it was the beginning of this thing. What you're leaning into is that mystery going forward, right? That ironic challenge that you have something to push off the, well, I don't know what I do want, but I do know I don't want that. You have leverage. Yes. You know, it's there. You know, we always say, well, who are you? You know, I want you to figure out who you are. And we ask, I try to ask my kids that now. Well, I want you to know who you are. And a part of that who's helped me is Bob Dylan's line.
He's like, I don't know what all this talks about who we are, man.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How does Matthew McConaughey define 'dive in' versus 'dip a toe' when starting a new challenge?
0:00–3:27
2
Why does McConaughey say we should be 'full of ourselves' and how does that impact self-accountability?
3:27–12:24
3
What habits and routines does he recommend to reduce life’s valleys and increase satisfaction?
12:24–17:17
4
How can identifying what you're not help you discover who you truly are?
17:17–29:23
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