Its in our greatest difficulties that give us an opportunity to grow and become greater.

Sometimes to take it to the next level it really causes us to really take some time to stop and think and question ourselves in a serious way. Make us fragile and edgy
.

Over the past week I have been made aware of some really hard and serious challenges people around me have been facing and will have to face. I had my own challenges of changes to face.
I guess sometimes we don't quite realise how much some shifts can cause.
I think the thing is that we have to stop and tweak our motive. So we can get the motivation we need to have the zest and passion for life.

Yo tweak our perspective and appreciate that we need to acknowledge there as been a change and acclimatize to the
New climate.

Its really easier said than done, as lots of emotions swirl all over the place. Using Logic we say,
well we see fine,
Things are cool
I not worrying.

But you know, emotionally we see in a different state to where we think we are and we have to take the time to slow it down for a few, breathe, digest the new climate and rise up again ready to learn and grow a little bit.....
And live.

Corey Graham 2.0
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Express yourself, its important. Be passionate and bold.
There are sometimes you can't get too caught up with what other think or how they will pass judgement on you.

Sometimes you really must just express yourself, confide in someone, spend time commenting or blogging something.

Recently there was someone I knew who said to me they don't spend time to know who they are. They don't like to talk about themselves or thing about themselves. They could bot give me their strengths and weakness. They strengths they did have they did even consider them strengths. You know what that means about their self worth.
They can't value themselves very highly when you consider that this is the way to converse with themselves.
Don't get me wrong they are trying to get better at the things they are doing and become a world-class talent. However their awareness of themselves and their unique gifts. Their combination of strengths and weaknesses are not perceived in a strategic way to make them improve the level of their game.
That's what separates the good coaches from the boy so good. That awareness of their players strengths and weaknesses and they bring able to make the right combination work.
To use strategy specially tweaked to the particular situation and put the right player in the right place and at the right time.
We don't have to look far for upsets in sports. We see it all the time.

Accurate awareness of myself has been one of my challenges over the life and its something I am coming very close to conquering. Being able to know where I need to be and what I need to be doing and at the right time. I am learning that.

Tell me where do you fit? Are you playing the game in the right position and doing the right things at the right times?

Corey Graham 2.0
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I like to distinguish between a "goal mindset" and a "growth mindset." A person with a "goal mindset" has very tangible, numerical goals to achieve over a specific period of time. Nothing is wrong with clearly defined goals, but there's a better way of thinking that I call a "growth mindset." A growth mindset recognizes goals on the journey, but only as part of a process—not as the end results. John C Maxwell

I read this a few minutes ago and went wow!
This is what i have been doing all along. I have been doing all along! I have always seemed to set these "goals" that were not very specific by described a particular habit i wanted to cultivate or do.

Of late too i have been appreciated how many other things have been changing and how many tangible results i have been getting as a result of a commitment to these seemly not quite finished goals. Its not that your goals should not have targets in them, but growth goals allow you to keep going to keep developing .... they bring greatness. You know the enemy of great is good. If we set good goals and we reach them we tend to think we have arrived and never look at going on to greatness.

The best example of this are the goal oriented new years resolutions when some of them get attained by March ... its like the growth stops. I like goals that speak to a serious personal development. When i know that when I take the time to work the goal so many things around me will change and go to a higher level.
This is mindset that has always been with me, I have always aimed at becoming the person i need to be rather than just finding a wayto get the results. I am glad that I am now able to really grasp what this means!

This is my goal as i ascend to Corey Graham 2.0

Corey Graham 2.0

In the world today be place a lot of emphasis on decision making and who is the decision maker. But it only hit me recently.... Do I really know what a good decision looks like? There is certainly not a lot of readily available literature or experts around we can walk up to and say. Teach me how to make good decisions.

This is something I have certainly wrestled with in the last weeks.

I have realised in the last few months that in general we make a lot of conversational decisions. What's a conversational decision? Something we say to keep the conversation going but we haven't taken the time to really commit to that decision.
'Yeah man I going to have to start hitting the gym, infact I will do it next week!'

Ah now you know what I am talking about! Let me take if futher new years resolutions... I know you with me now.
You know we sometimes don't grasp the magnitude of what we are saying with new years resolutions.
This means in June or list of resolutions is still valid, not forgotten.

So we are think now but hmmm, what about if I don't want to do the resolution anymore.... I think that is fine once you made a conscious decision to stop. And of course living with the consequences
Do we do that or do we just discard the documents relating to our new years resolutions court case as null and void? Something we forget? Well we didn't really think it was possible.
In the last week or so I have really understood what it meant to make a real decision. For me waking up. I always go to bed when I a tired. The exception to this is when I am very tired. Often times its at the moment that I hit the bed that I decide when is a good time to wake up. Its always been well I want to wake up 8 pm but anytime before 10 is good.
Lol, and well you know when I was getting up just about 10.

I realised when I have something where I need to definately get up early. I would almost always be up on time. Ready to go. But on the average day. It was hell to wake up.
So I make a more adequate decision recently to get up at a particular time and now I seem to be a lot more willing to drag myself out of bed than before when I was rolling out of bed sometimes a good 2 hours after I first opened my eyes and looked at my clock and said to myself, ok time to get up Corey.
So the power of making a strong decision in AT THE TIME it needed to be made has definately has paid off for me.

What decision are you putting off to be made after its appointed time?
Corey Graham 2.0
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Now I also had one other realization. I had lost touch with my dream from Drenalin. So my so that when I think of it I can just hear the responsed and the thoughts of other people who have never really experience what had been my dream.
And those comments of other people became my belief and now I see it is my reality with its Anniversary just a few days away.
I now know that I need to be convicted again. As in 2nd February 2003 when my life was forever changed.
Now my greater understanding will allow me to move forward.

One love!

Drenalin is a dream
A perception of a reality that exists in the mind
A source of ENERGY and STRENGTH
Bounded only by the thoughts created in the mind


It is a Dream

Now this developing sense of hope
Sparks the adrenaline flow,
Arousing the senses
Stimulating the mind and
Creating a surge that is
THE ULTIMATE DRENALIN EXPERIENCE
Corey Graham 2.0
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I have heard about this law alot in recent times.
Especially via the DVD 'The Secret' that seemed to strike accord in so many of us some just think its hogwash.
For those of us that it connected with it we either knew about it and used it just thought of it as positive thinking... Or some of us thought it was possible but were always too doubtful to try it and was just glad for some validation that The Secert works.

Its been hitting me over the last few days that I am certianly a larger believer in the law of attraction expecting that all the opportunities that I need will appear and I will recognise them and embrace them with open arms. Even those opportunities I am not conscious of at the point in time, I will be attracted to make the right decision.
I am feeling good in these days and my spiritual journey is certainly well.
My consciousness moves outside of my body and I can feel it and its bringing to me all the experiences that I need and request.
At the basis of it - I just made a decision to feel good. And I continue to make that decision day by day and I am realise its easy to feel good! Its easy to feel good !
Corey Graham 2.0
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It only hit me today that I am looking to create a monster. As I take myself through the daily paces of improving aiming at being better at the thing I do.

Its much like the preparation of a soldier, seeing challenges and not just getting over them but looking to leap over them in a special way.

Its for me to learn the lessons and keep willing to go forward and create a monster that is really the shread all the challenges I can possibly face in life.
It really brings back my perspective on what this Corey Graham 2.0 is all about.

Being to Trinidad I realise how much my influence can build over time.
As I move forward with the passion and will of a monster I wil create something phenomenal.

Corey Graham 2.0 who is integrated and connected to life.

Harmony
Corey Graham 2.0
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I recentlly took a trip to Trinidad and I found that just a simple break in routine changed a few things of my thoughts and actions and allowed me to explore and realise deep things within myself.
I just thought to myself I am going to need to break the routine more often.
I mean so routines we know are good for you like exercising, eating meals and sleep. But stopping to take a step back is very important.

For me it helped me to realise how I have been allowing myself to think that I won't have a lot of money. Its a thought that I guess I have been thinking for so long that now its like I just believe it I don't question it. I just do it.

This is not very cool at all and I am planning to change this thinking in a serious way.

I am going to just accept that I can have a lot of money and enjoy a financially free life having time on my hands to explore new and interesting things and expressing myself.
Corey Graham 2.0
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Well to start at the beginning nearing the end of 2007 I looked at my goals, and I realised the only goal I would have failed in was getting exercise.
Then next thing I know a friend of mine is inviting me to practice for with his basketball team.
I was so worried about being unfit, it not working it into my schedule etc etc. Fear was taking me, after all I didn't play in 2 years!!
But I went... I just decided to commit to it.
I was sooo unfit, löl it was terrible. I was dead after the warm up jog around the court!
Lol yeah it was terrible. But somehow I managed through. The players though, were telling me that I still look good for a guy who didn't play basketball in 2 years!!

I should state that I never met someone who was more disciplined that me and focused that I was about basketball.
I put in the hours. You can ask my friends too, every analogy I could come up with was ALWAYS basketball. Lol.
Actually I think I pushed myself so much that I lost my love basketball. And I guess I allowed the forces around me to tell me it was not a priority in my life.

But tonite after going to practice let me tell you really enjoyed the heavy breathing the fatigue, even more.
I also found the coach to be very knowledgeable about the game and also the players passionate to play.
One guy asked the coach if he is seeing an improvement in his game! Did I play better today coach?
Man and I thought wow, guys coming out to just play basketball because they love it. The coach coaching because they love it.
For all the complex things in life and my days of worrying and wondering about the future.
It was really a sweet relief to be in this environment we all laughed and had fun playing ball.
There was a clear line of command too with the coach and captain.
It was just wonderful, to I guess be a part of a team, practicing and training to a simple and common goal.
You were told how to improve. I guess maybe it means I need to seek mentors in a serious way for the other parts of my life.
But once again being on a basketball court is really a feeling of relief, and freedom from the complexities of life.
I get really convicted about being on a team and I want to be able to build good strong teams in my life. I want to play my position whatever that is and do what is good for a team.
That's me.
I know that I want to build teams to make things happen.

Hmmm that I what I loved about 300, there was a lot of things in 300 but that core team spirit of Spartans was

Now I know that.

Corey Graham 2.0
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In a specially held press conference by Drenalin Productions it was announced that the Design of CG for 2008 aka CG 2.0 is very close to completion.
'The road to this point has been rough at times the road seemed to vanish completely. I think I was out ability to manage things from a birds eye view and a worms eye view which will allow us to be able reach completion of this project' said Director of Drenalin Productions Corey Graham.

'We will keep you updated through out the year as we progressively roll out CG 2.0.
Thanks for your time' Corey Graham 2.0
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I have been excited for 2008 to start I wanted it to signal the launch of CG 2.0 - Corey Graham in a new more ingested version. Living within my environment in harmony.
One of my key aims with this new level was to make sure I take the time to plan more and to be proactive.
And I was getting all excited about the feeling of having life all planned out and going thru the days like a breeze because all the work is on time etc.
And you know I woke up the first day in 2008 with a cold, annoying the hell out of me, I could barely get the planning I wanted done to get the first week in 2008 going well.

I just rested in hope that it will go away, but it lingered into the next day....

But as I woke on the first morning of 2008 I felt this overpowering need to be disciplined. To stop dreaming of things as harder than they actually are. To stop playing up this cold as it would overpower me. To not throw my hands in the air saying I am doomed for the rest of 2008.
Instead I got up, and slowly too time to get myself up to speed on what was going on and how I was feeling.

A few things crossed my mind
My mentor (I call him this because his words have had a profound affect on who I am today)-
John C Maxwell in essence said the road is not going to be nice and tidy, its going to be a bit messy, things are not going to be perfect, but it is going to be sticking to the path that is important.
Nose running-

300 - The movie
I could not get this movie out my head. The whole concept of what it take to be called a Spartan. Here is the part that grabbed me.
"manufactured by 400 years of Spartan warrior society"

Look what it said "MANUFACTURED by 400 years of Spartan warrior society"

This is no training camp this shit is live and its happened, its happening now and it can happen.

Yeah I certainly heard that call.

And then how the movie ends drawing the parallel between and 8 year old boy standing up to a wolf and killing it.
To a Spartan King standing up to a tyrant and dying in battle.

Then I stopped and I became thankful for a same cold to prepare me for a bigger situation.
A confidence I feel now. Fear too, yes.
But ask a Spartan fear is always present but you do not have to accept it.

Corey Graham 2.0
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