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It is not giving up, it is accepting.
So I wrote. Night after night. True sentence after true sentence. I wrote for myself, to myself. A handbook, a guide. Reminders of what I know is real, what I know that works.
If ever in pain, I think the best thing we can do is to create something. A record. Not of pain, but of what is real. Pain doesn’t last. And when it’s gone, we have something to show for it. Growth. And because it is a human experience, it is of value. Something we can share with others.
Live long enough and you start to see patterns in your life.
A new year was coming. Rather than resolutions, I wanted to approach it from an effective place. A place of inner knowing, of lessons learned.
There is one rule, though: once you discover your truth, you have to go all in. Fully. Every single chip.
That is when the shift happens. As if there’s a force in life waiting for us to make the decision, to commit, jump off that cliff. Then life breathes a deep sigh and opens the gates, fills the sails.
The Book of Five Rings
honed the mind to serve in the moment rather than distract,
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This is my most thoughfut wisdom to now
Knowledge is never enough.
Even action, if it’s just following a prescribed way, will never fully e...
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But to dive in, test each theory out, kick the tires, keep what works, discard the rest, add your own...
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But I’ve learned that to reach out, be open and vulnerable to what I need, almost like a child, that is loving myself too.
I will stumble, I will fall. And those times, the best thing I can do is reach out to someone who truly loves me, ask them for help, to hold out their hand.
Sometimes, the only way to evolve is to open ourselves fully. Be raw, honest. Vulnerable.
That’s another thing I’ve learned. There is strength in this vulnerability, in tearing down the walls. People sense it in you. The world is hungry for it. And the greatest healing — for you, for those around you — it comes from opening. Opening yourself wide. To your humanness, to your feelings. And ultimately, to yourself.
“Put this into action,”
“Surpass today what you were yesterday.”
What are the key components of one’s life? Buckets, that if you fill daily, even if just a drop, move you forward and create progress.
James Altucher has his daily practice, four buckets to fill: mental, spiritual, physical, emotional.
health, wealth, relationships, and self-expression.
we don’t stumble accidentally into an amazing life. It takes decision, a commitment to consistently work on ourselves.
they do it daily. A focused practice. They fail, but they pick themselves up, continue forward.
“There is a rhythm to everything,”
Rhythm to being in harmony with others, and a rhythm to not being in harmony with them.”
a rhythm to being in harmony w...
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Love, pain, fears, hopes, dreams, desires. All arise from the mind. We’re stuck in our heads, walking around, reliving old stories and patterns and beliefs.
I know that regardless of the situation or whatever the external experience is, I choose who to be in this moment. I choose what to feel in this moment.
So I work hard on myself to make conscious choices moment by moment, day by day. It is a practice.
When your sense of self and happiness comes from within and isn’t a roller coaster ride dependent on others or circumstances, you approach life differently. You make better choices. You draw to you the people and situations that matter. The others, they fall away.
There was a patience, a knowing that the exact number didn’t matter. What mattered was that I saw the stars, one by one, as I lay on my back and explored the sky.
the human experience is an unbelievably amazing one. Our ability to love and create — that alone makes this entire experiment worthwhile.
My life is a piece of music, and if I look at it that way, knowing that pitch is a crucial component, it naturally calms the mind down. And I can’t help but be grateful for it — for this crazy ride that I somehow signed up for.
I may not be able to change someone. I may not be able to change a circumstance. But I can change myself, how I respond, who I am being. That is where all the power resides. Inside.
If there’s a definition of freedom, I think it’s this: living life on your terms.
Life is long, a chain of intertwining moments, looping round and round. But life is short. Blinks. Memories. Connections. Then you’re gone.
opportunity to be here, to live and love and hurt and play and create and make good and bad decisions. Life.
WHAT IS TRUTH?
It is never what we did or what someone did to us.
Truth doesn’t change. It is the real you, regardless of your life story. Truth is what heals you, what saves you. Truth makes you rise to new heights, no matter where you are.
No one dropped us off with instruction manuals.
Life is a series of choices and all we can do is make them.
Sometimes we’ll choose ones that serve us, sometimes not. And when that happens, it’s our duty ...
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Your truth is the core lesson. The guiding star. Knowing it will naturally help you with your decisions, the paths you choose to take.
And when life seems out of control — you will have a foundation, an anchor to return to. To be still. To know what is real.
The magic is that as we live our truth, life does seem to calm down, as if that’s all it needed from us anyway. To be our real selves.
Ask yourself: what is it, that if I believed it down to my core, would change everything? Make the fears irrelevant? Make the person I’d become so unbelievably amazing that I’d blow my own socks off?
The only rule is that truth must empower you, make you better in every way possible. That’s it.
Your truth must feel right for you.
