Truth: The Door Between Our Greatest Fears & Our Greatest Selves
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We’ve likely all heard the phrase, The truth shall set you free. Truth is critical in all areas of life, yet we’re often afraid—okay, terrified—of truth. It’s dismally human to eschew truth because truth often hurts.
A lot.
Truth and pain are inseparable, which is why great authors (or great people in general) are probably masochists.
What separates the amateur from the professional is the person’s willingness to face truth and embrace pain. If we think about it, authentic triumph always follows on the heels of pain.
Ask anyone who’s finished a marathon, completed an advanced degree, paid off a mountain of debt, or wriggled into max-control Spanx without losing consciousness….
Ask your mother about pain. Well, maybe not…
Ironically, the more pain involved, the greater the victory on the other side. Yet, how many of us long for victory…just without all that ‘pain’ stuff?
Truth increases self-awareness. It makes us face aspects of our character we’d rather hide in the bathtub with the piles of dirty laundry.
Don’t you judge me O_o ….
Today, I’m going to toss down some truth bombs. I’d love to say that I knew this stuff all along and am some mystic sage imbued with super powers.
But that would totally be a LIE (thus, likely unhelpful).
Truth About Time
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One phrase I recommend banishing from your lexicon: If I could only find the time. Here’s the deal, we don’t find time, we make time. Time isn’t hiding in the couch cushions with the remote control.
Time isn’t wandering around crying until mall security hands it a balloon. It isn’t buried in the woods like some stash from a bank robbery. There is no map, GPS, or time-sniffing dogs to help locate time because time isn’t lost.
It’s right there asking us all, ‘Hey, buddy, what would you like us to do today?’
We choose. If we hope to find any success in life we must realize we are ultimately responsible. Everything else is an excuse. Why so many of us feel guilty that we haven’t done X, Y, and Z is we know we could have.
We simply chose NOT to.
*winces*
I know, but don’t worry. It’s cool…
We’re All Human Here (Mostly)
What fascinates me is how closely great stories mimic great lives. This is why humans have loved great stories from the invention of fire until today.
Here’s the thing, though. No one likes a ‘story’ about a character whisked along passively caught in the riptide of bad stuff happening. Great stories involve choices, forks in the road, decisions…tough decisions.
Decisions we KNOW we could never make…so we read about/admire OTHER people who do 
