Identity
We are programmed as children to act and feel a certain way toward certain stimuli. Those programs keep running without interruption until what I call our moment of awakening. Before that, we’re all just asleep letting our programming run our lives
Patti Henry • The Emotionally Unavailable Man
I know now that being afraid of things going wrong is not the way to make them go right
Thought Catalog • From Failure to Fresh Start
Someone has to tell these kids, “wherever you go, you’ll find yourself there, and you have to start to do the work of accepting who you are, as much as you may not like yourself.” The stakes are high.
Freddie deBoer • You Are You. We Live Here. This is Now. - Freddie deBoer You Are You. We Live Here. This is Now.
Love, we recognize that the fear of letting people down keeps us trapped and unable to heal and live a life that is our own.
Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote
It begins to feel as though you’re failing at life, in some indistinct way, if you’re not treating your time off as an investment in your future. Sometimes this pressure takes the form of the explicit argument that you ought to think of your leisure hours as an opportunity to become a better worker (“Relax! You’ll Be More Productive,” reads the... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
I need a permission slip to stop being so serious and afraid. I need permission to have fun today