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“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. So that who you’ll be months from today will be vastly better in all the ways that count.
Often it feels like we’re on autopilot, but if you examine your thoughts closely, you’ll know that not to be true. It is always a choice.
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.
Our ability to love and create — that alone makes this entire experiment worthwhile.
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.
Life is a series of choices and all we can do is make them.
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?
Once you decide on it, the requirement is a commitment to live it fully.
The bad news: you must continue to do it. Even when you don’t want to. Especially then.
If you think about it, how much time do we spend in our heads wishing things were another way, beating ourselves up, beating others up, crafting a different past, wishing for a different future? All of that is resistance. All of that is pain.
Peace is letting it be.
I think perhaps a better thing to want is fulfillment. A deeper state, one that comes from within, from being your best self. From living life the way you really wish to live it. Then, happiness emanates from within as a byproduct. Naturally.
Suffering is when we resist the moment.
Success and failure come and go but don’t let them define you.
Life is entropy. A beautiful chaos.
the effects our lives have, they are far greater and deeper than we can imagine. We matter, our lives matter. When we live our best selves, we are better for it, the world is better for it. It is that simple.
Do. The. Work.
Do this for your truth, and you will be so amazing that the world will open doors to you that you never knew existed.
“Life is a river,” a wise friend told me. “It’s flowing. You’re never at the same place twice.”
Just be open, let whatever you feel move through you, live your truth, be your truth, and the light flows in. That’s really all it is.
Life is short. Life is long. Life is. It is whatever we wish to make it be. That is the gift. We may fall, veer wildly off course, make mistakes. You know, being human and all. Makes no difference. Desire and commitment are fundamental human qualities as well, available anytime. A reset is as simple as this moment.
Walking the Earth with a heart that is open, it is powerful. The love you emanate feels like it could wreck the world, it’s so strong. So beautiful. And that creates magic in ways you never could have imagined.
