Reminders for myself
We lump discomfort and aversion together. Are they the same thing? No! One thing is discomfort; the other is aversion. And we can be in discomfort without aversion. It’s a little miracle, but it’s possible.
Corrado Pensa • Discomfort without Aversion: A Little Miracle, by Corrado Pensa
Playing is the whole point
If your life is cluttered, your creativity will be too.
If you are unfocused, your creative expression will be too.
If your brain is overstimulated, your ideas won’t have enough oxygen to breathe.
If your self-worth is tied to your last post, painting, or paycheck, then creativity will always feel like a rigged game.
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If your life is cluttered, your creativity will be too.
If you are unfocused, your creative expression will be too.
If your brain is overstimulated, your ideas won’t have enough oxygen to breathe.
If your self-worth is tied to your last post, painting, or paycheck, then creativity will always feel like a rigged game.
But... See more
Anna Seirian • The unbearable weight of trusting your creativity without knowing if it will work
Feel it rather than think about it. The moment you create direction and structure (a plan, even a spontaneous one) from the depth of your feeling awareness, you are now creating from a deeper place in you, rather than your often habitual and outcome-driven thinking. This is how a culture of leadership directed by sensitivity is built. One attentive
... See moreJohn Wineland • From the Core: A New Masculine Paradigm for Leading with Love, Living Your Truth, and Healing the World
An easy way to increase agency is to remove "problem" from your vocabulary and replace it with "puzzle". It sounds absurd but "problem" activates your amygdala and "puzzle" activates your prefrontal cortex. Try it. Self-induced placebo that works.
George Mackx.comAll the platitudes I finally understood this year:
Starting new things is very hard, you should do it anyway. Do not let your mind become a museum of regrets for all the things you never started. You must move yourself to build the life you want.
You must commit, even without full... See more
Mejix.com
björk said that trying to communicate through talking feels like trying to put the ocean through a straw
A great decision isn’t one where you avoid the bad outcomes and get the good outcomes.
It’s one where you are who you want to be, no matter the outcome.
Joe Hudsonx.com