If you’re going to master the thinking skills that lead to bigger and better solutions, you need to first take 100% responsibility for your process. To own the fact that it’s on you to set the right conditions. And that may mean breaking some deeply ingrained and limiting habits.

To make space for insights to grow, you need to first let go of some of the unhelpful junk that’s currently taking up a lot of room in your life (and mind).

• To become aware of competing desires like comfort vs creativity, distraction vs intuition, noise vs nuance.
• To recognize the impact that each of these desires is having on your life.
• To consciously decide which direction you want to go moving forward.

If you choose comfort, distraction, and noise, you’re choosing to stay trapped within the day-to-day grasping for whatever hits of pleasure you can get. A life of wasting your energy on mind-numbing activities, instead of making meaningful progress toward goals that truly light you up.

If you decide to choose creativity, intuition, and nuance, you’ll be moving toward a much bolder, more vivid life. Toward living up to your true creative potential. Toward learning to trust your own conscience, even when it means going against the herd. Toward committing to doing the work necessary to grow every single day.

The choice is 100% yours.

But make no mistake, it really is an either-or decision. And you’ll make that choice again and again based on how you show up in each moment.

What will you do today to start making that choice more consistently?

• Will you pay more attention to what’s driving you moment-to-moment (comfort vs creativity, distraction vs intuition, noise vs nuance)?
• Will you honestly assess the impact that defaulting to comfort, distraction, and noise is having on your ability to live life to its fullest?
• Will you start changing the limiting habits that may be keeping you from living up to your creative potential?