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July 27, 2022How do people achieve incredible things in their lives?
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510 EPISODESHow do people achieve incredible things in their lives?
Charlie helps us find out what we can control and what we can’t.
Are you stuck on calls all day and left with no time to ACTUALLY get your work done?
Sometimes the anticipation of an event can be more enjoyable than the event itself.
When we find that emotional fulfillment, we act as the flame — not the wick
Charlie explores how spiritual connections to everyday things may help us live more intentional lives and simply feel better throughout our days.
Human beings try to predict the future based on past patterns.
Are you a physical body with a spiritual experience, or are you a soul with a physical experience?
When we surround ourselves with people who think and speak just like we do, our world can become an echo chamber.
Have you ever been in a work meeting where no one is on the same page?
Charlie reflects on the 4th of July weekend
Good leaders have great followers. Great leaders have great leaders.
Charlie walks us through the process of receiving wisdom.
Do you ever give someone advice and think to yourself, “Can I apply this to my own life?”
Charlie reminds us that when we thrive, we never thrive alone…and when we hurt, we never hurt alone.
Charlie reminds us that we can achieve our dreams ourselves. All we need is confidence.
This episode encourages you to find additional, small ways outside of TV to create meaningful connections every week.
When we commit to a new routine, we can find spirituality and clarity.
Learn how to take a staycation this summer and get reacquainted with your home.
Holidays like Shavuot are a chance to return to our spiritual selves.
Charlie tells us how we can rewire our brains to get what we want.
In taking time to disconnect from everyday duties, you can grow and discover who you want to be.
Do you have a diet of being around people who inspire you?
The news, social media posts, and material things that we view impacts us and set the expectations for our lives.
Charlie discusses how selective memory affects our decisions and self-esteem.
Charlie dives deeper into Mimetic Desire.
. Think about the things you say ‘yes’ to because you THINK you should.
How many things in life are you striving for because you saw it in someone else?
Charlie explains why our desires shift based on other people’s acquisitions.
A lot of stagnation in our lives comes from our lack of sacrifice
A life of sacrificing is so much better than a life of complaining.
Don’t let abstract thinking dictate your decisions.
When you start thinking of what needs to get done, you just do it.
Success means making sacrifices — but what if we don’t want to make them?
Charlie discusses taking time to live in clarity of what we believe and what to achieve.
Charlie discusses the importance of sacrifice in honor of the things we love and the things we want.
They did the unthinkable because they’re unbreakable.
It’s not a human being anymore. It’s a legacy. It’s a narrative. And it’s our duty to get the narrative right.
We double down on our faith in times of trouble
We all have a different narrative we believe about ourselves, and we make decisions based on who we think we are.
When you re-watch your favorite movies, think about what elements of the narrative speak to you the most and what each character represents.
How to bring new life to the STORY of the Exodus.
You can’t be free if you’re not grateful.
Survival is how you’re built. Greatness is how you choose.
Your brain only knows yesterday. Your soul knows tomorrow.
Charlie discusses how freedom is achieved with our minds, not our bodies.
As we tackle responsibilities, remember to find time to remember what is important to us on a spiritual level.
Take time out of your day to open your mind to the world and its people and find new perspectives.
When we’re deep into our work and become exhausted, it’s important to find a passion and create something that is bigger than ourselves.
When you start to spend too much time [going] into yourself, you don’t appreciate what’s in the mind of another
If you don’t realize why you’re doing something, how are you going to stop it?
Recognizing our triggers helps us feel empowered to interact positively with people instead of giving into conflict.
We are responsible for creating positivity in our relationships.
We have to remember that we’re responsible for each other.
Appreciate people for who they are, not who we want them to be.
A great way to find ourselves is to build someone else up.
You don’t lose when you give yourself to someone else.
Relationships are our opportunities to go beyond oneself and learn about others.
Continue to ask questions and remind yourself that there is always more to learn about others.
In your next conversation, lead with empathy and ask questions.
One of the hardest parts about growth is that we don’t give ourselves enough time to reflect
How timestamps and time management can help us better ourselves.
When we take time to reflect every day, we create consistent thresholds and achieve higher-level thinking.
Pausing for 60 seconds can change your whole day for the better.
Think about the thresholds in your life and how you savor each moment.
We don’t need to achieve some massive objective reward to feel massively successful
Take the time to review. Don’t rush
How we can appreciate the value in life as it happens?
Everything has a purpose even if we don’t know the purpose
Everything has a spark — even a task as mundane as doing the dishes
Spirituality is achieved not by leaving the world but by elevating the world
Spirituality is key to unlocking the realization that every job is valuable.
Everyone has a soul that drives us closer to meaning.
How can we make our goals valuable enough to achieve meaning?
What we’re going through now may not be meaningful for us in the next twenty years.
The Super Bowl teaches us that some days we win and some days we lose
The path to being the best at something is to ensure that “thing” does not take over your identity
Challenges and adversity help you extract your soul and understand who you really are.
We live in a world where who you are is tethered to what you do. We need to think about our identity as a powerful source that is flexible and adaptable.
Identities are ways we dress ourselves up without even realizing it because we’re naturally inclined to feel socially accepted.
We need to form our identity based on who we believe ourselves to be instead of how others perceive us.
As social beings, we often prioritize social acceptance to the detriment of bettering ourselves.
Prioritizing our time and our actions enables us to live a life of greatness.
From sports to business, focusing on the critical details and being selective in where we invest our efforts leads to greatness.
Trying to uncover what we are unable to see will ultimately help us reach our goals
When your end goal stops being relevant or no longer holds value, your means to get there rapidly shift.
Don’t miss the joy of the actions you take
Physical success does not translate into spiritual satisfaction.
Physical success does not translate into spiritual satisfaction.
What drives us comes from an inner source- our soul.
Our souls are not satisfied with material and physical rewards.
We need to embrace the mentality of doing action for the sake of action in order to achieve greatness.
We need to shift our mindset and realize that the new action in itself is what truly matters.
Starting a new ritual brings excitement and anticipation.
Our lack of patience is one of the greatest hurdles that stand in the way of achieving that success.
Focusing on consistent, repetitive incremental moves towards our goals enables us to successfully achieve change.
Focusing on consistent, repetitive incremental moves towards our goals enables us to successfully achieve change.
To achieve our next level growth, we need to dig underneath our resolutions and understand why we are setting out to achieve our goal.
A true resolution is what you want to want. In order to change behavior, we need to tap into a desire that is deeper in order to build a stronger internal system to achieve ultimate success.
In order to truly change behavior, we need to understand the flaws of resolutions and why they do not fix whatever problem or improvement we are trying to implement.
To grow as a person and evolve out of your comfort zone, you need to “act as if” and be free from yourself.
To get something to stick, it needs to make its way into your heart.
Living a disciplined life enables you to adapt- not because you have to but because you want to.
The best time to train your mind to distance yourself from negative thoughts is when you’re living in a time of plenty.
Creating stronger discipline around your mind gives you the ultimate sense of freedom.
Planning for a famine when you’re in a time of plenty helps you live a life of fulfillment, appreciation and gratitude.
Investigating the Biblical story of Joseph’s interpretation of Pharaoh’s dream provides key insight for how we can learn to live a life of happiness.
We can’t control the thoughts that enter our mind. We can only control how we manage and regulate those thoughts.
Anticipated negative feelings stand in the way of blocking our minds to think freely.
Being right doesn’t always mean we “win.”
The context in which we present information to others greatly impacts feelings and related memories and experiences.
Being a victim makes us see our situation as one that can’t be fixed because we have no control.
We need to learn how to extract the greatness in ourselves and continually embrace the challenges that come our way.
If we’re able to push ourselves into exploring unfamiliar territory, we can unlock our fullest potential and achieve personal greatness.
The appropriate amount of pain and discomfort that takes place after a workout is actually a sign of growth.
We need to be ok with being comfortable with the uncomfortable. It’s a new way of life. This is the story of Chanukah.
If we can embrace the unpredictable, we could open a world of infinite possibilities.
The reason why we’re not growing is that we’re cutting that potential off from ourselves because it takes work.
When we go out into the world we lead with our brain, not with our soul.
In order for us to overcome our challenges we have to be different people.
A life of purpose means that we recognize everything we are going through is specifically custom-designed for each one of us.
When we focus on building a life that is aspirational, our life changes.
The mind is the gateway to the soul and our mentality is critical to our state of being.
The more we imagine, the closer we come to being that person until we actually are.
The brain is the computer that the soul has to navigate the world.
The natural trigger of negativity is a body response to the world around us. It is part of our fight or flight response.
The way for us to maintain our energy. is to never deal with a negative.
We can’t live great lives if the emotions of yesterday become the emotions of today.
We have the ability to control our emotions. Happiness is in our hands.
Real leadership and influence is the recognition that our actions are bringing out the best or worst in others.
The influence that we look to in our lives that really matters is the influences that are small, private, and consistent.
When we get up every morning we have a job to do. We are tasked to influence, even if it’s just on ourselves.
Leaders are constantly raising the bar and holding it long enough until it feels normal, which raises the standard of our lives. And, the world is better for it.
A leader is someone that is fully aware at all times that we represent more than ourselves.
The way WE treat somebody teaches the person watching how to treat somebody.
We must begin to understand our individual actions represent the collective.
In the pursuit of physical things, we can miss the depth of our lives.
Spirituality means that we’re not in control. It means there’s more than “ME “in life.
When we’re not open, we start losing opportunities that will never come back.
We have to be ready and enthusiastic for the different directions and detours that God sends us.
Greatness requires daily consistent effort and faith.
Why can’t we travel to the past or future? Because we don’t belong there.
God gives everyone free will to make our own decisions, but once the decision is made, it becomes God’s will.
The more space we make for others, the more Divine energy we will have within.
Faith doesn’t mean we don’t do the work. It means we work really hard, understand what our job is, and let God do the rest.
Every morning we wake up as a new person with a new opportunity to make a difference. But what holds us back from moving forward is who we were yesterday.
When we move from trying to predict what our lives could be and drive toward planning an empowered, happy life, our energy is limitless.
To become the best version of YOU, you have to play the game.
The frustrations we see in this world comes from our own bias and from trying to control that which we can’t control.
“Gam Zu L’Tovah”- this too, is for the good.
If you allow a negative perspective to shift you, your energy becomes blocked and the flow stops. If it is positive, the energy continues to flow and can enable greatness.
Our past experiences and the emotions we choose to focus on informs our future projections.
Once we start to see our energy level as something that we can control, we then start to live an empowered life.
Once we have clarity on our values and talents, our minds and bodies can lead the way.
Create higher dreams and higher standards and higher ideals of what this year can look like.
The world is constantly changing. When we don’t change with it, it holds us back in living to our greatest potential.
The more we become ok with what we can control and what we can’t control, we start to look at life and the boundaries we set as opportunities for freedom and autonomy.
The challenge of autonomy is that we are always predicting the challenges of the move ahead of us.
At our core, we cannot live lives that are fully directed by others.
Our brain can only focus on what it knows.
When physical pleasure consumes our inner circle, there’s no room left for our spiritual desires.
Our values can give us a sense of deep satisfaction that gets us towards mastery and connects us to others.
We’re so overwhelmed with processed experiences that our ability to appreciate the healthy things in our lives is dulled.
What is the object of your mastery? What’s in the center of the game called “your life”?
As humans, we are programmed to desire the feeling of mastery over things.
Life requires us to dream and execute on those dreams.
Change is hard. It happens in little drips, sometimes undetected.
Jim Collins stated, “The enemy of great is not mediocre. The enemy of great is good.”
The process of going from good to great starts with not what you’re bad at, but from what you’re good at, and then pushing yourself through the comfort zone of good enough to get to great.
Negative thinking creates blockages to our energy source – our soul. When we think negatively about ourselves, others, or the situation we are in, we’re the ones that suffer the most.
Don’t look for meaning in your life – infuse meaning in your life. Find ways to make yourself happy in any situation.
No matter what challenges you face, there is meaning and purpose to be found. You cannot always ascribe meaning when in the moment, but a day will come when you can reflect and see how you learned and grew from the situation.
You can’t look at the past from today’s perspective. The only way to move forward is to stop looking back and continuing to grow.
“I wish I would have” thoughts are an incredible drain of our energy. It drains our mental battery and sucks away the ability to be in a position to learn, grow and change. All you have is this movement. Be mindful and focus, and you will be successful.
Every time you come into the unknown, there will be fear. Opportunity comes packaged in challenges, and we hear that voice in our heads, “Don’t even try,” “I’m too old,” The only thing that we need to change is our mentality.
Sometimes the experiences you’re going through seem unique to you – until you realize what you have learned in another area offers you insight into the other. But you need to be able to see that. You can do it.
Every experience in life, even if the substance was different, doesn’t mean that which you learned is lost. When you take on something new, you’re doing it in a way that you couldn’t have done it yesterday.
Having a growth mindset acknowledges you are capable of growth and change.
Each step, each day we get to choose to take responsibility to make our lives the best they can be. What changes are you willing to step up and take responsibility for?
When we allow ourselves to use the past as our teacher to analyze our mistakes and get uncomfortable, it can open up a world of true freedom.
Every day is an opportunity to learn from our mistakes.
The only time we really lose is when we stop playing. Our job in life is to become the greatest player we can be.
We delve into the power of personal victories. How can we achieve moments of greatness? When we build a world that when we do something that’s hard, we do it just for us, without needing the accolades from others.
We continue to discuss how doing what’s right and putting in the immense effort can often feel like we are losing when we actually are winning. Discover why Moses had his “glow” and how you can, too.
In this episode, we discuss how to be spiritual in a physical world. By bringing out the “real you”, you start to gain perspective on how to create a new way of life.
Is it ok to be down sometimes when life just doesn’t go our way? In this episode, we delve into the concepts of living a happy life. Is happiness based on the effort you put in or the results of those efforts?
Just as an iceberg is 90% underwater, most of what great people do is hidden. Living in the world of effort shields from an outcome-driven life, and we can aspire to that kind of greatness.
By letting go of the external and focusing on the internal, we give our brains the freedom to be satisfied with proper effort instead of results and other forms of outside validation.
We’re steeped in a results culture. If we shift our brains to focus only on pushing ourselves to max effort, our success and growth come from inside instead of being based on external results.
We can focus on battling ourselves or the world, not both The world requires results, and we’ll lose, but if we make high-level efforts in internal battles, we can achieve extraordinary results.
Focusing on outcomes keeps us from real change. Realizing this helps us get excited about challenges, learn to exert ourselves in the uncomfortable, and be satisfied with effort-based wins.
If we live having to be victorious over others and our environment, we win less. When we focus on effort instead of outcome, we win — and gain — far more.
Our Sages say a strong person is one who overcomes their nature. Our real victories are not over others, they’re over ourselves. Take time to identify these wins.
When we face our challenges, even if the result is not what we want, we win. Outcomes don’t matter. Our real accomplishment is making the effort and then tackling the next wall.
Taking time as day’s end to appreciate the strength God gave us and the walls we broke through allows accomplishments to settle in and we gain the true pleasure of overcoming challenges.
Commentaries on our lives come after events. They analyze what they saw, but from outside the action, not inside. When we stop listening, we can be free from “not enough” thinking.
When do we listen to the commentator inside our heads and when do we just play the game and relish the moment? Thinking about that question can make us the MVP of our lives.
Are we players or commentators? Players move. They just look forward and play. Commentators discuss, think, replay, second-guess. We choose which one we want to be.
There is a time to think and a time to act — knowing when the time is right to go over our wall and not turn around. That is having the courage to scale our walls.
We’re truly not enough for our walls, but we can tap into deep wells of strength — our souls — and accomplish things we think are beyond our capacity, moving from “not enough” to “more.”
Feeling “I’m not enough” is accurate and it’s a critical part of growth. If we don’t fall and get up, if we don’t face challenges and go through walls, we won’t grow and be satisfied with life.
Thinking that “I’m not enough” is really what holds us back. Whatever we fear — failure, what others think, etc. — when we think we can’t, we won’t go through the walls in front of us.
Our fears keep us from reaching our potential. When we articulate the things we’re afraid of, we begin the process of breaking through what’s holding us back.
Focusing on what we CAN do rather than on fear allows us to see challenges as opportunities, take them on, and be real with ourselves and the people around us.
When we’re scared to climb our walls, it’s easy to substitute with the drugs of entertainment and others’ lives, but those leave us unfulfilled. By tackling our walls, we replace fear with real living.
When inspired, we first have overcome “it’s too much” and “why me?” thinking. If we know realize that the wall in front of us is paper-thin, we can break through and act on our inspiration.
Our brains are programmed for survival. Avoiding discomfort is normal, but it keeps us from greatness. When inspired, we have an opportunity to change, and we have a choice to make.
When we work on our reactions to people, we build emotional and empathy muscles. Those efforts are really hard, yet truly holy, training us to react appropriately to negativity from others.
Negativity and pettiness in others are actually opportunities for us to build our selflessness, empathy, and self-control muscles. This strengthens our relationships even with dramatic people.
In relationships that matter, it’s so hard to get past the uncomfortable and openly discuss our feelings. Real conversations drive depth in and strengthen our relationships.
In an environment where honest and transparent speech is welcome, we can be uncomfortable and frank. This brings out the best and most important ideas.
When we use free will and choose the kind of person we want to be, our souls re-wire our minds, generating new code (i.e. patterns of thought) that creates upgrades in our lives.
We have thoughts all day about doing right and wrong, and we have the power to accept or reject each of them. It’s up to us to be traffic cops and control how we process our various thoughts.
Every challenge we face is a gift. When we receive a negative emotions (even from ourselves), we can unpack the Divine energy at the core of that negativity and leverage it for good.
Inspiration and our reactions to negativity are emotional; they dissipate quickly. When we convert them immediately into positive actions, we tap into our energy and grow.
When hurricane winds come, we can transform the punch into a positive by redirecting that energy. It’s up to us to honor the memory of those who died at Meron.
Pushing through the giving-up moment in the face of challenge is the beginning of true greatness. We honor the victims by squeezing the utmost out of the gift that is our day.
Shifting our eyes to look for the uncomfortable opportunities in our challenges leads us to value questions and chase greatness instead of comfort.
By appreciating our challenges, we shift from survival to greatness. When we push ourselves to tap into the energy of uncomfortability, we can change how we measure our days.
As we extend our roots into the ground, we can maintain our integrity when we’re tested. Visualizing our roots going deeper each time the wind blows builds that strength.
When we hit peaks and valleys, we can go the well of our energy to get through. Even better: Build a system to bring our energy from that well into our lives on demand and consistently.
We want to tap into something greater than ourselves, but how? Recovering addicts can inspire us and give us strength to take the energy inside and force it out so we can raise our standards.
Knowing our strengths, weaknesses and includations is helpful and important, but we sell ourselves short when we think we know our limitations and how big our energy reservoir is
Until we push past our limits, we don’t know our abilities. Our souls have an endless supply of energy, but we don’t know it until we spend all that we think we have in the tank.
We can direct the power and strength God gives us each day. That energy is a gift that comes with a mission: We have focus and bring it to the things we need to get done.
Our brains try to protect us by encouraging comfort and relaxation, but when we infuse our time with energy, enhthusiasm and boldness, we can accomplish so much more.
By investing our focus on every moment, we can live each one to the fullest without one bleeding into another. With this crossing over, we treat time with the respect it deserves.
Like a patient who lives despite slim chances of survival, there is no “natural” explanation for the existence of the State of Israel. When we’re asked “Where is God?” Israel answers the question.
On Yom HaZikaron, if we put ourselves in the shoes of those who sacrificed for Israel, we can truly empathize and learn of the greatness that comes from living for cause.
Time is not ours, it’s an investment in us by God. We have a responsibility to use it well. If we start our mornings with gratitude, it sets a tone that can carry us through the day.
When we appreciate productive time and don’t try to be where we’re not, we can take responsibility because we won’t want to waste that time ever.
When we appreciate every moment instead of forcing accomplishment into them all, we can be amazed by time and live overflowing with gratitude for the day.
Holocaust survivors have gifted us with a level of strength we cannot imagine. Our duty to them is to carry and build on their legacy, thrive, and make them proud.
When we are responsible for our spending our time productively and with focus, we can cross the long bridge from our heads to our hearts, gaining awareness that builds ourselves and others.
In new situations, our brains work harder, but then things become routine and time seems to fly. When we automate our day for excellence, we can feel each moment and really engage.
When we hold onto grudges and regrets, we can never be free to realize our potential. When we decide to do the work of forgiving and letting go, we can really be free.
When we feel frustrated when we know we didn’t give our best effort, but when we do, we feel free. By pushing the bounds of our comfort zone, we free ourselves to achieve greatness.
In Egypt, God told the Jews to bring a sheep, an Egyptian god, into their houses in preparation for Passover. That was a big risk for an enslaved people, but it started them toward freedom.
Our internal timelines tell us something is wrong if results aren’t immediate. Focusing on what’s right at this moment and on the task at hand frees us from the need for immediacy.
We have a narrative from our ancestors. When we face negativity, whether internal or external, we can choose that bigger, shared narrative of strength to overcome the challenge.
By controlling the narrative, we can help ourselves and others be resilient. In the face of negativity, we can change the narrative to one of positivity to empower ourselves and those around us.
Stories become the narratives that remind us of events in our lives. Memories can block us or empower us. The narratives that are told to us and that we tell ourselves become who we are.
Facts change from one story to another, but the power of the story is in the arc of the narrative, which binds us together and builds a foundation for a relationship.
The feeling of “I’m Not Enough” is hard because it’s the world of “I,” but we need to so we can learn that our true essence is in devoting ourselves to the people and tasks in front of us.
Behind “I’m not enough” is a self-focus that tricks us into thinking we need to fight for more “for me.” If we attack the “I,” we can instead do what’s right simply because it’s right.
Negative interactions throw us off and we tend to think we’re “not enough.” In reality, no one is “enough.” Our “not enough” areas are opportunities to get a little better every day.
Connecting what’s outside with what’s inside us creates desire. We feel completion from bringing the outside and inside together. Channeling our desire this way focuses us on giving.
Underneath thought and speech lies a drive to fulfill a deep-seated desire. We speak negatively when the underlying need comes from a feeling of “not enough.”
Thinking carefully about our words when speaking emotionally keeps unproductive feelings out of the package we deliver. Then we can figure out the issue behind the emotions.
By sharpening the swords that are our mouths every day, we can first think clearly, then infuse our speech with the precise energy we want to communicate our empathy.
When we respect the fact that others see the world differently than we do, we can listen to them with genuine care and empathy, even if we disagree with them.
The body is a garment for the soul like a shirt for the body. So, too, our words, are garments for our thoughts. Others respond to us when we choose words on emotional and spiritual levels.
Through empathy, we can understand what a room needs from us when we enter, allowing us to give over our wisdom. This heart-to-heart connection opens others to our positive influence.
By approaching every situation asking, “What do YOU need from me right now?” we direct our attention to others’ needs and can be givers based on those needs.
When we enter one of the rooms of our mind, if we adjust the dimmer to “what is needed from me in this moment,” we can pay full attention to what’s in front of us and build connection.
Instead of living in an auditorium filled with people and noise, if we build thresholds to smaller rooms in the mansion of our minds, we can connect deeply to people, activities, and tasks.
The deliberate creation of rituals helps us build thresholds. These habits trigger thought and behavior patterns we build to be fully present in all situations.
Thresholds to shallow, stimulus-rich experiences are fast but unfulfilling. For deeper experiences, thresholds start slowly, require patience, and create real pleasure.
When we create meaningful thresholds between important spaces, times, and places in our lives, we train ourselves to reach greater depth in our relationships and our work.
When we use ritual to build a path to depth in relationships and actions, it becomes our normal, and when we reach the threshold to our path, we can click into it easily.
Our souls have all the fuel they need to face challenges like a champion. When we spread our energy around to tasks that distract us, we lose the benefits of gold-medal immersion.
Certain body-level emotions pull us away from the moment G-d put in front of us. Soul-level emotions like joy and gratitude sharpen our focus and help us fully connect to the moment.
All of the depth we want in life is right in front of us if we learn to tap into spiritual frequencies. When we do, every moment becomes an opportunity to grow, connect, and give.
When we try to force spiritual growth, it doesn’t flow. We have to put in the work because it’s right, not because of some outcome we expect. Growth will follow.
Connecting in a deep way to the people and the things in front of us allows us to reach levels of pleasure far beyond the physical world.
When we plug into the Source of all life, we can harness the Divine energy the pulses through the world. Looking for outlets leads us to connect with that Divine energy in other people.
We crave unity, being deeply connected to others. Our true happiness comes from uniting with others through giving, which unifies our souls with something bigger than ourselves.
Our souls ache for the chance to connect with and sacrifice for others. That’s kingship. The only path to meaning and purpose is that of giving ourselves to something bigger than us.
The first level of our foundation is knowing how we want to be remembered. Focusing on values leads to recognizing what we’re willing to sacrifice for, to choose Team over Self. This is royalty.
The very best WANT to be in the biggest game. The risk is high but worthwhile because worse than failing is not pushing for greatness. The best want and are grateful for challenge.
By embracing our challenges and seeing obstacles as lighting our path to greatness, we bring meaning to our everyday and build our patience and empathy muscles.
The challenges we face daily are battlefields over core values. They are opportunities to strengthen ourselves, to live at a higher level, and to become the people we’re meant to become.
Tools like journaling help us achieve clarity, allowing us to set our best goal: figuring out who we want to be. Then we can see that our struggles are there for us to achieve greatness.
The values and principles by which we live write the story of our lives. By aligning with ourselves our challenges, we can tackle them with zeal.
By focusing on our values and principles, we can complete our individual tasks and not be distracted by the tasks of others and the symbols of society.
By chasing goals and symbols imposed on us by others, we give up control of our core principles. It up to us to cross the river, as Abraham did.
When we are clear about our foundations — our values and what we stand for — we can drive our lives forward and control the aspects of life that we are able to control.
Tu B’Shevat celebrates the unseen foundations that are the start of growth. Once we know what we’re willing to die for, real living begins when we sacrifice for those things.
The things we do throughout the day rest on top of something. That foundation is key. When we begin with striving for greatness, we are able to sacrifice for what is really meaningful.
Pushing ourselves to look at the things we do as our livelihood helps us fully commit to what we’re doing and push past comfort into the mediocrity-killing pain of sacrifice.
When we sacrifice for things that matter, that process distills us and removes the just-be-comfortable mediocrity from our system regardless of the results.
When we give, disconnecting the recipient’s reaction from our giving feelings is very difficult. If we feel we’re sacrificing, we may measure the result of the gift, which increases our pain.
As we give, we eventually have to overcome the challenge of not receiving feedback. That requires sacrifice, which means giving even when we don’t feel like it. This is the realm of real growth.
People can feel it when we invest our speech and our listening with authentic emotion. This builds them while also building our relationships and gives us deep satisfaction.
Listening means having no agenda. When we fully listen in order to understand — not convince — others, we’re practicing empathy and give them something of real value.
When we dig deeper to learn what someone really needs, our sensitivity and thoughtfulness make us better givers and builds the recipients of our giving.
Mother to Mother Israel Unity Mission
May 13-19, 2024 | July 2-7, 2024
Join our leadership, alumnae, and our partner organizations in supporting our sisters and their families with love, strength, and taking action.
Unity Mission for Men
May 13-19, 2024
Momentum leadership, alumni and fathers of lone soldiers are embarking on this critical mission to support our fellow Israeli fathers, brothers, and their families, as we take action and bring them spiritual strength.
Apply to 2024 Fall Trips
For Jewish mothers with children age 18 and under
Participants only pay their acceptance fee and airfare
To participate in the Momentum Yearlong Journey, women must live in close proximity to a Partner Organization. See our partners list here. Please notify your Community Leader with any updates to your application
Apply to 2024 Fall Trips
Mainly for the husbands of Momentum sisters
$900 for Momentum husbands
Each man get a scholarship of $2,100-$2,400
Partner Organization contributes $700 per man
The Israeli Government does not contribute to the Men’s Trips
To participate, men must live in close proximity to a Partner Organization. See our partners list here. Please notify your Community Leader with any updates to your application
November 4-11, 2024
An exclusive, transformational, spiritual, and uplifting journey for women looking to invest in themselves and help us continue to build the Momentum movement.
Please note: This trip is not subsidized.