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What Is Right & What Is Easy

There are major shifts in the currents of my life right now.

They are not the currents of the events that are occurring with my life but rather deep fundamental changes in the choices of character that I have made. I guess tonight is a bit of a testimony.

Here, I testify.

For me, this project has always and will always, down to its core, be a manifestation of the moods, attitudes, emotions and feelings that are going on in my life and trying to express them in a way where I can turn darkness into light…or just plainly spread light. As the years have gone on, I have written about all sorts of things and seen many changes in how my actions are out in the world.

What I have come to realize is that life is far more than anything the media could ever portray to you, anything anyone could ever tell you, and almost more than anything you could ever understand. Life is about opening yourself to possibilities instead of closing yourself off by thinking you “know” how things are. The reality is, we don’t really know much at all about how all this works. When we give that up, we give ourselves the chance of truly learning…always being in a place of learning…and most of all experiencing the fullness of life.

With that being said, the changes that are going on inside of me are about becoming something much more pure. I realize that my greatest gift is the gift of encouraging others and helping them see positivity in a world full of negativity. However, I myself haven’t always been the grand beacon of living a positive life. In fact, a great deal of the time I am struck with bouts of backwards thinking.

I feel torn a lot in between what I know is right and what I know is easy. I flip flop and feel myself really leaning towards the what is right and there is this massive battle against what is easy. The path and mechanism of change is there and I just need to grasp it…and yet that seems to be the hardest part.

Imagine that you are standing at the edge of a cliff and you know that your potential can only be reached if you jump…and there is a voice that is telling you that you will build wings to fly only when you are halfway down. Wouldn’t that be terrifying? It’s not like you are in a bad place at that point in time, but you have awoken to see another way of doing this life. You understand that your potential lies just beyond your grasp…but you have to take a massive leap in order to achieve it.

That scares me. Honestly.

It scares me because I have asked every question in the book in regards to whether or not I’m insane, hearing things, making things up in my head, if I am doing the right thing…everything and anything in between. It scares me because I know I can stay in the same place which is safe or take a massive risk and go.

This is the biggest challenge that I have dealt with…maybe ever.

But what the hell right? Like why not? If I crash and burn oh well…but if I do it, I will have changed myself, others, and the world. I have to take that leap. I can feel it in my gut…the need to do it. I have to let go of the past to determine my present.

I. Have. To. Jump.

– Evan Sanders

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Those Moments

“In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?” – Buddha

No one else is going to do it for you. People may try. You may let them. But at the end of the day, it all comes down to you, the life you choose to live, and how you live it.

Today, right in this moment, if you are trying to make a change, you have to be that person you want to be. You have to act like it even if you have to fake it for a while. The faking it part isn’t about convincing other people of who you are but rather priming the pump for you to understand the person you need to be. It’s going to be hard and challenging, but at the end of the day all of it is worth it. It’s worth every growing pain there is. Sometimes it’s not even going to be yourself that helps you grow, but rather another person. Their example sets everything in motion and you see a way you can live your life.

There is a very powerful motivator in tapping into wanting to prove people wrong. I believe in the power of positive energy, thoughts, vibes, whatever you want to call it…but I am also no fool. I know how impossibly hard it is sometimes to achieve a dream and that sometimes, hopefully not often but just sometimes, you have to tap into those feelings. If you can tap into the negative emotions and create a positive result from them then by all means go for it.

I say this with assuming you are doing something for the right reasons at its core.

That has to be the first thing you address in your journey. The core reasons of why you are doing something. IF you are doing them for the right reasons then the world is your oyster. But if you aren’t, and this is coming from deep experience, you will fail over and over again because your reasons are shallow. I’ve been there and suffered the consequences of using the negative energy as the primary motivator for driving my goal.

You have to do things for you. There has to be a substantial deep seeded reason for you to want to undergo the pain and suffering that comes along with trying to stretch yourself into something that you aren’t right now.

The battle is in your mind.

If you can win that battle in your mind then you can do anything else. That is where the enemy is going to fight you. Soreness rarely will keep you out of the gym. Tiredness yes…but what is it when you wake up one morning and you are beat tired and somehow drag yourself out of bed? That wasn’t your body getting you out. That was your mind. I still set three alarms at 4:45am 4:48am and 4:53am because I know that my mind might fail or convince myself the first time that ringer goes off, but I can get my butt out of bed no matter the condition a second or third time.

Life hack. Try it.

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You have to find ways to fight back agains the things that are keeping you from doing what you want to do in your mind. That is the hardest part about daily life. We all have things that we need to do, then we have dreams we want to achieve. It is beyond easy to just continue putting it off because you are tired. You MUST find ways past that. I have found a few that really work for me and hope to continue to find more. Pushups when I am tired. Loud music when I start procrastinating.

But most of all, I think about that end moment. The one where I lay on my bed in my last few seconds.

I think about that moment and how I don’t ever want to be filled with regret – just happiness. For me, that is usually enough to get me going. That moment of happiness keeps me positive. Keeps me whole.

Make those dreams happen

- Evan Sanders

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Metamorphosis | Deep Down Within

 

 

There’s this feeling in my heart that hard to describe. Throughout today I have been trying to put words to it. Metamorphosis. Awakening. Rebirth. Recovery. But none of them feel quite right. None of them fit the feeling completely. Maybe I’ll be able to come to it throughout this writing tonight. Despite lacking the specific word, I can describe the feeling…and the evolution of feelings that I have had throughout today. 

Last summer, right before I left to live in LA, in succession over three months I had some of the most significant months of my life. I woke up that morning crying…tears of happiness…my hands were shaking…and I still have a very vivid recollection of the events that happened – so vivid in fact I could draw them perfectly over and over again. 

And yet as time passed, my nervousness for what these events meant started to climb in my heart. They were so profound I couldn’t possibly wrap my mind around what had happened. In that one night, I knew that nothing would ever be the same. But the body and the mind that I had refused to let it in completely. Everything that was so pure and so great about it leaked out of me because I could not possibly hold something of that magnitude. My body wasn’t willing to stretch, only to act as a strainer.

But the event never died and neither did its meaning. The event continued to play over and over again in my mind and become prominent to the point where I just couldn’t ignore it any more. It drove my thoughts, the events in my life, and everything else surrounding me. In fact, it’s safe to say that this happening determined my future.

For the past week almost, I feel as if I have been dreaming because I have been given something that I know is incredible and wonderful. I know it is what I need. I know that it is a major piece to the puzzle in order to move forward by quantum leaps. Whatever imperfections may arise are perfect. Not because they are fundamentally good over bad…but because those flaws are perfect for me – and only I could appreciate them. 

Just for a second today, doubt crawled into my mind, just like it did days after what happened last year and I recognized that feeling as soon as it came up. It wasn’t doubt about the future, no…it was that doubt in the change that was about to happen in me. I know that I am about to change massively. I know this because I can feel it in my bones – and unlike any other significant events that have ever happened – I know this right now in this moment, and not after the fact. 

Then, in what seemed like just an instant – all fear disappeared from the inside out. 

Fear of the future. Fear of the past. Fear of the path. Fear of the amount of work I need to do. Fear of failure. All gone. They all disappeared as if I was defrosting from the inside out. 

I have spent so much time wondering “why” specific things were happening to me in the past and further wondering if it was ever going to get better or if I was going to continuously going to be playing this game. For a while, I wondered if I was going to be alone wandering this planet continuing to search for the man within. Quickly I realized that reality was far from the plan. Very quickly. 

These past few weeks have been a metamorphosis into something far greater than anything I have ever been. I feel like I have stretched and flexed for the first time without snapping. I feel that beast inside of me expanding with light and I am getting bigger. It’s changed a lot. In fact, I can see it in the way that other people are looking at me. They say hi to me. They smile. They see something. I can see it. This is new. 

 

Jung said that “we meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life.” I’ve never seen this quote, but I am glad I found it. I feel like I am meeting something for the first time today and understand not “the point of it all” but the purpose of it all. I think for a while I was afraid to accept the gift because I wasn’t sure of its outcome. I wasn’t sure where it would take me. I felt safe doing what I was doing even though I knew that I wanted to go somewhere else. The comforts of the material. The games of the present day. 

I knew that I had to delete all of that from my life and create new opportunities, new realities, and new views of how I saw people and things. I didn’t want to. Now I know something inside of me needs and wants to. 

 

For the first time in my life, I see the energy being emitted by everything around me and how much my energy is truly changing the lives of others. I love that. Yet I always keep in my mind what I am doing it for and why I have decided to take this on. There are too many stories of people rising to the top and making it. What we need is someone rising to the top, who believes in the power of people’s dreams, who believes in them…and brings everyone else up with him. 

I will take that on.

- Evan Sanders

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The Key

The way it has always been, and the way that it will probably always be, is that nothing happens at all or everything suddenly happens at once.

This year started off awful. I mean almost as bad as it gets. It was hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. LA was falling apart at the seams and I had absolutely no idea what was going to happen. I gained loads of weight, I started shutting down, and my mentality about people, dreams, and daily life started to dwindle. I don’t think I’ve ever been so stressed out. In fact, I am sure I have never been so stressed in my entire life.

So I came back home.

I came home feeling a bit broken. What had inspired so much happiness as I moved down to LA ended up being so hollow and unproductive. While I did learn a lot, I felt like I didn’t have anything substantive coming out of the “City Of Dreams.” In fact, I felt like I had a dose of reality, which may not be everyone’s reality mind you, but I had seen the worst of something that seemed so promising to start.

You can’t hang your head forever. You also can’t be afraid to start something new because the old was so bad.

 

Writing by hand for me has always been a bit of an emotional experience. I am a very visual person and having fresh clean sheets of perfect paper is liberating. When you are writing down the story of your life, it’s refreshing to see that you can put down anything you want on the next page. You can create…and for me…that’s the key.

I have felt for a long time that there’s been this impending amount of energy that was going to come out of me…I just didn’t know when. I’ve actually written about this feeling before as if it was a beast, a positive one at that, full of light and energy. Almost like it was bigger than my body itself. It might be a bit philosophical, but if the universe is expanding and everything is made up of energy, maybe we are expanding ourselves in a purely non-physical way.

Maybe, if we give ourselves a shot to grow, we actually do.

I think that the start of my new journey 4 months ago actually gave me that opportunity. I wanted to see what I was capable of and how much energy I could put out. I wanted to see if it was possible to focus my mind so intently on something that it would show up in my life even if it didn’t exist yet.

It did. Lightning struck…in about 5 ways.

And here I sit, after three of the most complete, fun, loving, best days of my life just stunned. That feeling of just being complete, which has been gone for years, has come back. For me, it’s beyond coincidence. It’s been something I’ve been dreaming of and I fully believe that someway somehow those dreams have made it into the right place and out of the sky like a sack of potatoes I’ve been drilled with the outcome.

I couldn’t be happier with how stunned I am.

I’m in a surreal place and it feels like I almost have to pinch myself to make sure I am still awake. But the feeling I have, after all of this has happened, is that anything is possible. It’s as if I have the ability to make things actually appear…from nothing. As you could imagine that is an interesting feeling…and I plan to ride this out.

In some ways this isn’t a surprise, but in many it just still feels so unreal that I am trying to process everything. I am sure that in time I will come to understand some of it…but maybe I won’t. Maybe I’m not meant to understand but just to live in it. There is a great possibility of that.

We are given things exactly when we need them the most.

That Angela Morgan poem I posted the other day about “When Nature Wants A Man,” that is my life. That’s how it has been for months on end and it’s how my life has functioned for ages beyond that. But now, it’s starting to make sense. It’s starting to make sense because after losing so much…after being battered down and tested and crunched into the ground so many times…I finally started to listen to what was inside, and just before I thought I couldn’t take any more…I was given not just something, but all 5 things.

So whatever or whoever is watching over me…thank you. It’s not going unappreciated. I know it’s not just dumb luck. It’s been a wild ride, and I can’t wait to see what else you have in store for me.

P.S. The key to it all is believing.

– Evan Sanders

 

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When Things Go Wrong, Don’t Go With Them

When things go wrong, don’t go with them.

Ahh one of the greatest lessons I have ever learned. I love looking back on this one because theres about 5,000 different stories I could tell right now. Here we go.

I think the mark of a mind that understands its soul is it’s ability to adapt, adjust, change, and morph with a situation that is going south…all directing it towards a positive outcome in the end. Things can get out of control really fast. If there’s anything that reminds me of this the most, it’s probably some of the misunderstandings and arguments I have had with girlfriends in the past. Sometimes you leave those arguments going “How in the world did that all just happen?” Feelings get thrown into the melting pot and you have a fiery tornado mixing with an atomic bomb all at once – feelings and even relationships are bound to get destroyed.

But how do we get there?

Things tend to  tumble out of control when we are not in control of ourselves.

That line is so relevant to me I might just have to write it again. Things tend to tumble out of control when we are not…in control…of ourselves. Life and relationships are essentially actions and reactions to things all creating an output. Like I said, things get very complicated when agendas, even good ones, and feelings don’t match up or build off of one another. One person wants one thing out of something…the other wants something completely different. Or even…you both want the same thing, yet their is a communication breakdown and you never realize it until it’s to late.

Things started to turn around for me when I began to understand what I was about inside.

Might sound a bit silly, but it’s true. Maybe it was all the times that I succumbed to losing myself in situations that I really understood how amazing it feels to have control even though you may be hurting inside. I guess my mind frame changed from trying to win an argument to trying to get a positive result. Through it all, I learned that when you truly believe in the foundational characteristics that create yourself, you can bank on those when the sh*t hits the fan.

I learned this while working in customer service for a couple years.

The best way to predict what is going to happen in your life is to create the best possible present version of yourself that hopefully matches up with that potential person you dream of. What I mean by this is, you have to be that person right now…the individual who competes with their potential, if you want to have any chance of realizing that dream.

You can be anyone you want to.

A lot of kids these days are looking to people that I truly believe they shouldn’t be looking to. Where are the legitimate role models in the spotlight these days? All of mine disintegrated with the baseball steroids scandal…even some of the athletes I revered outside of baseball fell to it. Who did that leave me to look up to? I had to find new people who had some salt behind them. The point is, the characteristics that will get you far in life are not always the sexiest ones to the spotlight. Having integrity isn’t going to get 10,000 instragram likes, but it will allow you to sleep at night. Being on time won’t make you trend on Twitter, but you might just land that dream job because you were punctual.

We are looking at the wrong things as motivation.

Look inside and be your own hero for a change. Learn to save yourself and understand that virtue and wisdom are two of the only things that really matter in this world. If you focus on the dancing shadows of materialism, you will certainly succumb to the miserable lives that many live. Even though you may be shrouded in the finest silks and jewels, you body and soul will be empty thirsting for something it cannot achieve.

Love deeply and passionately, and when it hits the fan, create the outcome and don’t fall subject to the negative.

- Evan Sanders

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Checking Your Ego At The Door | Gym Mentality

The gym for me has never been about stroking my ego, but rather about trying to compete with my potential. There have been plenty of people who have motivated this state of mind (Greg Plitt, Lazar etc) and they have all contributed to helping me become a better person, not just a better weight lifter.

Many people have said to me “Well doing 5 more pushups or pushing 10 more pounds doesn’t prove anything.” And to a certain extent, they are completely right. It doesn’t. However, besides the physical strength you gain from that experience, you have to consider the mental side of the lift. What if that person was ready to give up and then they pushed themselves with more reps or more weight? 

Then…yes…then that really means something. 

Because if they train their mind to push harder when things get tough, that will transfer into every other facet of life. That’s why I go to the gym…to train my mind, the body just follows. 

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The Better Man Project Update

Wanted to give everyone and update about what is going on with The Better Man Project and what I will be up to in the short term. There are lots of exciting things going on!

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Goals And Objectives | Battle Plans

Without battle plans when you are trying to achieve your goal, you are leaving most up to luck and chance. There’s and old saying that talk about luck being what happens when opportunity and preparation meet. I think that’s just right.

The more you can model people who are successful and the more you can nail down a routine to achieve your goal, the greater chance you give yourself of achieving your end result.

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The Better Man Project | How It All Started

If you want to know how it started, here you go!

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The Waking Dreamer

4:35 am. Time to wakeup and get ready to go to the gym. I look at my phone and see a text from a good friend who read some of my work only hours before. “What if you don’t have a dream? You don’t know which way you even want to go?” In that moment, right there, is where the magic starts to happen for me. I don’t know what it is. I can’t really explain it fully. I guess the best way to put it is that even from a dead sleep, in the early hours of the morning, my mind can pop off like a firework and worlds are created.

Today, I spent the entire day thinking about this.

What if you don’t have a dream? Then what?

This question brought me right back to the beginning of it all, which, by the way, wasn’t my dream. None of this was. In fact, this is only the tiniest fraction of what I am going after. But it brought me back nonetheless and it took me to a moment where one dream died and I landed in limbo for years.

In the early months of the new year during my sophomore year of college, I walked into my baseball coaches office with a hole in my heart and tears in my eyes. “O.B, I can’t do this anymore. My elbow is falling apart and I told you after the last surgery that I was going to give it 100%, and if it failed on me again, I would be able to walk out of your office with my head held high, hurting, but full of pride.” He knew it was coming. I knew it was coming. I felt like I just pulled the pin on my dream and watched it explode right in front of me. 16 years I had dedicated to my first love – baseball. When the teachers asked me what I wanted to be when I was little, I told them that I wanted to be a professional baseball player. I collected baseball cards (I still have thousands) read baseball books every night and even in some cases was found in my room sleepwalking yelling at the top of my lungs “slide Devin slide!” (The name of my best friend and teammate)

Never again would I pick up a baseball and throw everything I had into it.

Shattered.

I didn’t understand what was happening to me next. In fact, the disintegrated grenade of baseball did a lot more than give me hours upon hours of free time that I never had before. It took my identity with it and with that…put me into a situation in which I would be pulling the metaphorical shrapnel out of my ass for years. The one thing that kept me mentally together, out of trouble, and physically healthy was gone.

Honestly, the best way to put it would be this. Imagine your dream is a bright light in the sky and suddenly it is covered in black tar and dripping down onto you. That’s pretty graphic, but…that’s what came to mind.

So my world was on fire and it only got worse. Everything burned to the ground one night a few months after and I found myself facing my worst possible nightmare and in, without a doubt, the lowest place I have ever been in.

Rock bottom was reached, and I had cratered that sand foundation.

That story is important because it leads me to the actual answer of “What if you don’t have a dream?” It’s important because I admittedly didn’t have this figured out, in fact, even today it has morphed and changed…which I will get into later. But here’s the nugget I learned.

Your dream isn’t about what you want to do. Your dream is about who you want to be.

You might start way ahead of where I did, but honestly, I didn’t know who I was. I had spent my entire life trying to be everything but myself because that kid who acted like himself was bullied, teased, and spent lunches in high school often eating by himself. In fact, I always had this pitted anxiety in me while searching around for people to hangout with…and there was always that awkward feeling of not fitting in and not being accepted. That only made the anxiety worse. I hated high school. I hated it because I hated myself. I hated myself because I didn’t know anything about myself. And this feeling traveled into college despite how much I tried to fit in with other people and different groups.

So i started at square 1. Who do I want to be?

I read a lot, and from one of the books, I can’t remember the title for the life of me – but the author was Napoleon Hill, he had a list of the top 15 characteristics of successful people (definite chief aim, self-confidence, habit of saving, imagination, initiative and leadership, enthusiasm, self-control, doing more than paid for, pleasing personality, accurate thought, concentration, co-operation, failure, tolerance, and the golden rule). I graded myself on each of these – one check being poor, two being okay, three being good. I received a lot of ones and twos. Let’s be honest, more one’s than twos. I knew that with the characteristics of a successful person, I could work my way backwards and utilize those traits to master something.

Then I started off with this – I knew that I wanted to be great at something. I had built myself into a pretty good baseball player (before my elbow fell apart) and knew that I could do that again with hard work. But what was I good at? That question led me to a much more important question.

What would I be willing to try…because I had this little feeling inside of me telling me I could do it.

Now for a lot of people, they can’t even hear those little whispers because they have so many excuses rolling around in their head or they are completely focused on other people’s opinions. But for me, the high school reject who hated himself and never really had the chance to hangout with anyone…I had been pretty used to hearing the voice in my head – whether that was positive or negative.

Then, I came across a quote from Einstein. He said something to the effect of…the most fundamental question you have to answer for yourself is do you live in a world full of love or a world full of hate? I was so sick and tired of living in a world full of hate, blacker than black, that I knew I had to live a life full of love as best I could. I had been through so many unloving moments and relationships that I longed for meaningful love – for friends, significant others and my family.

So I guess I really started with love.

Then with what could I see myself loving? Photography? Writing…Oh Evan you sucked at writing in high school…there went the negative voices again…But I knew that I loved the process of writing my feelings out because I had done that for years when I was upset – which was pretty much almost 5 times a week. So that started growing on me.

What else…well, I have all these characteristics I am bad at…and I want to get better at those. Then, out of pure dumb luck, I was watching a TED video from a guy who said that I should try anything…anything at all for 30 days and if I didn’t like it no harm no foul…but what if I ended up really loving it? So I decided to try writing. I wasn’t great at it…I had no real direction…but I knew that I wanted to get better at being a good person…a person who could be liked by others…a person I could respect in myself and to try to get to know myself.

That sounds simple…but coming from a person who was an absolute shell…that was going to be a pretty big uphill battle.

Then, a few days later, a friend sent me a video on vulnerability, and that opened up the gates. Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear, but also of love and passion. I knew that this was something I had to do, so I let it all loose for everyone to see. Me at my rawest. Me at my worst and my best. I got vulnerable as hell and within weeks, even after one of the hardest situations I had ever had to go through hit me, I started to see what I was made of.

I wrote, nonstop, everyday, for months…and got addicted to it. I loved it because every day I could find something out of that day that helped me become a better person. Some win or some loss that I could use Einstein’s quote for and apply it to my new life centered around love than hate. Really though, that quote defined it all for me.

But I want to tell you something…writing is not my dream. Writing became a vehicle to uncover me…to uncover everything I was, how much bullshit (excuse my language) was in my mind, soul, and body…and how absolutely fake I was. Sometimes, when going through this process, the worst news is going to be the best news – because then you can change it all.

Writing uncovered lessons. Love. Passion. Never Quit. Integrity. Those things are just hollow mantras. Those things have hundreds and hundreds of pages each backing them up. And mostly, they were lessons I learned about things I had done to myself and how my mind created who I was…not things that had just happened to me. So the writing continued on and on, and I started applying the “why the hell not” mentality to just about everything else. I tried going into the gym, and found that I loved the physical side of getting stronger, but even more the mental side of being able to push myself. That added on a new layer of who I was.

I was literally inventing myself…not reinventing because for heaven’s sake I didn’t even know who I was in the first place…but literally inventing as the days went by. People who knew my old self were confused, perplexed, and unsure of what I was doing with my life in the early days. Many discouraged me or took advantage of how caring I was trying to be…and funnily enough, those people aren’t around anymore.

But still no dream.

But vision…

Yes vision of what I could do started to sharpen. And as the years have gone on…I have learned that luck is what happens when opportunity and preparation meet. How do you prepare? By having the best formed vision you can have. But honestly…that vision might change. It’s not about that…it’s about challenging yourself and moving in a specific direction that you know in your heart will help you become WHO you want to be…not what but who.

And that’s where faith comes in. Faith is being able to know that one day you will see something that you can’t see now. Faith is knowing that you have the fortitude to bring it to life. Faith is understanding that your dream is an ever evolving masterpiece that will never fully be accomplished because it morphs and changes along with you…and as long as you are working on becoming the best human being possible, the stuff in the world that you can do will also morph along with it.

My advice is to see yourself honestly, with total vulnerability, and to see yourself for what you could be. Work towards that person. That, my friend, is called your potential. When you start competing with your potential as a human being and everything you could be in a very positive way, the other stuff will fall into place.

Because when you know who you are down to your core, and you know how to find your heart and soul when you need it, you can apply that to anything that you merely like doing and make it great. And a lot of the times that’s how it works. Macklemore said it best, “The greats weren’t great because at birth they could paint. The greats were great because they painted a lot.”

When you go cave diving into your soul to understand who you are and who you could be, you will come out with a brand new light and vision that you can shine on anything. You will be able to hear those whispers of things pulling you towards doing specific things. That’s the universe egging you on. Go do those things. Do them with everything inside of you and the rest will pan out.

It’s better to half a life fully lived than a full one hardly lived at all.

Don’t let anything stop you. Any excuse will be eaten for breakfast when you know in your heart that you can do something.

- Evan Sanders

 

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