Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life (Unfu*k Yourself series)

by Gary John Bishop

The more you tell yourself how hard something is, the harder it will actually seem.

“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.” - Marcus Aurelius

“It’s not that you have to find the answer, you are the answer.”

Your life is waiting on you to finally show up.

If you’re not willing to take the actions to change your situation—in other words, if you’re willing to put up with your situation—then whether you like it or not, that is the life you have chosen. Before you think “but . . .” or start to get your knickers in a twist . . . let me say one more thing: By defending your circumstances as they are right now, you are actually making a case for being where you are. Give it up.

The dictionary describes willingness as “the quality or state of being prepared: Readiness.” In other words, willingness is a state in which we can engage with life and see a situation from a new perspective. It starts with you and ends with you. No one can make you willing, and you cannot move forward until you really are willing to make the next move.

Willingness to change, willingness to let go, willingness to accept. Real, magical, inspired willingness.

“I expect nothing and accept everything.”