Live Your Truth

Our ability to love and create — that alone makes this entire experiment worthwhile.

The desire was to write down what I know that works — what makes me healthy, what makes me productive, what fulfills me, the basics of what makes my life zing — and then live it.

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?

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. The ever constant human drama. I don’t know why our brains are wired that way, they just are.

That is why I write. To share with the ones I love, to share with myself, to remember and live the lessons, to make fewer mistakes — or at least better ones. A guide for me to return to and apply because I know that when I do, my life flows naturally,

when I change my mind, my world changes. If you think about it, makes sense. 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.

I walk around, a man in this society, big strong adult mask on. Seeming to have it all together. Sometimes true. Sometimes far from it. There are times that even my best isn’t enough. 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.

Each time James mentions his daily practice, whether in a new book or a tweet or a post, it makes me happy. It is the biggest public service one can do — show others exactly how to transform themselves, make their lives better. Because when we are better, those around us are better.

Knowledge is never enough. Even action, if it’s just following a prescribed way, will never fully express your potential. But to dive in, test each theory out, kick the tires, keep what works, discard the rest, add your own — that’s where magic happens.

The thing is, we’re human beings living our lives, doing the best we can. No one dropped us off with instruction manuals.