The Practice of Groundedness: A Transformative Path to Success That Feeds--Not Crushes--Your Soul

To choose acceptance over delusion and wishful thinking. To choose presence over distraction. To choose patience over speed. To choose vulnerability over invincibility. To choose community over isolation. To choose movement over sitting still. To choose groundedness over heroic individualism.

why letting go of—or at least holding more lightly—outcomes such as happiness and achievement, and instead focusing on building a durable foundation of groundedness, is the surest path to becoming happier and more successful.

What if you stopped trying so damn hard to be great all the time, stopped focusing on external results, and instead focused on laying down a solid foundation—a kind of groundedness that is not an outcome or a onetime event, but a way of being?

or do precisely what society’s heroic individualism and superficial success culture tell us to do: think positive thoughts, numb and distract ourselves, buy stuff and tweet.