by D Grant Smith | Apr 13, 2021 | Blog
Escape seeking validation from anyone else and just focus on yourself. Think about you. Right now. Just you. Is the first thing that you naturally think about something that you don’t like? Is it something about yourself that you want to change? Maybe you...
by D Grant Smith | Mar 30, 2021 | Blog
Photo by Steve Harvey on Unsplash Do you ever just feel stuck? Like you don’t know what you’re supposed to do or how to move forward with your life? When you feel this way it’s hard to find the key to getting unstuck. I completely know...
by D Grant Smith | Mar 18, 2021 | Blog
Photo by Andy T on Unsplash There’s a word you have been telling yourself, almost from birth. It might have been one of the first words you heard as a child other than your name. Other than when your parents repeated “Mommy” and “Daddy” to you to...
by D Grant Smith | Jan 11, 2021 | Be Solid, Blog
The phrase “Nice guys finish last” is 1000% true. This is why it’s such a struggle for sensitive and caring people to operate out of kindness. When you don’t fully understand what Kindness is, you’re likely to get stepped on. Wait, hold...
by D Grant Smith | Jan 4, 2021 | Be Solid, Blog
Fear seems to have a strong root in most of our lives. It produces negative beliefs about who we are and what we’re capable of. That’s why you have to learn how to overcome fear to produce your dream life. Fear can also produce haters or people who seem to...
by D Grant Smith | Dec 28, 2020 | Be First, Be Solid, Blog, Growth Farming
You have to create your own openings to succeed. From relationships to business, you have to be first in initiating growth and change in your life. One thing that used to make people really stand out to me was the degree of initiative they showed. When I ran a public...
by D Grant Smith | Dec 21, 2020 | Be First, Blog
I’ve been growing in a powerful life lesson for the past year. It’s simply this: Learn how to sit inside the question instead of rigorously pursuing the answer. This flies in the face of so much of my cultural, religious, and family upbringing and...
by D Grant Smith | Dec 14, 2020 | Blog, Growth Farming
In relationships, we all deal with issues that sometimes aren’t clearly defined that impact the trust we have in ourselves and in others. There is an intersection of Trust and True Love. They go together. They’re linked and they must be carefully tended...
by D Grant Smith | Dec 7, 2020 | Be First, Be Solid, Blog, Growth Farming
Sensitive and highly emotional people often struggle with people-pleasing. This codependent pattern causes difficulties and problems in all relationships. You break codependency by choosing to be first with yourself. The process of ending people-pleasing patterns and...
by D Grant Smith | Nov 29, 2020 | Blog, Growth Farming
When I started this year, I didn’t fully expect I’d read as much as I have. But my reading list for 2020 has been massive. Subsequently, it’s been a year of superpowered growth, both personally and professionally. Here is my 2020 reading list with book recommendations...