Reminders for myself

The antidote to envy is one's own work. Always one's own work. Not the thinking about it. Not the assessing of it. But the doing of it… [T]he work itself. It drives the spooks away.

-Bonnie Friedman

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So what is stopping me from stepping outside my habitual crap?

My mind, my limited mind.

The story of life is the story of the same basic mind readdressing the same problems in the same already discredited ways.

Maria Popova • George Saunders on How to Live an Unregretting Life

I’m sure I’ll continue to cringe at my own writing but I’ll try to follow these three guiding principles: don’t write your feelings, don’t write cliches, and don’t use self-deprecation. Often, vulnerability is just telling the darkest truth, the truth you’re the least inclined to share.

Call Me Charlie

the key distinction about “feeling your feelings” is trying NOT to fall into the old patterns of rumination “thinking about the story of why you’re upset” is very different from “feeling the underlying raw emotion” and it’s so easy to slip from the feeling to the story

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The greatest gift you can give yourself is the gift of being enough.

Jason Liu • Advice to Young People, the Lies I Tell Myself

X. It’s what’s happening

There's a moment when a person starts fearing the shoddy, half-lived life of indulged anxiety more than the cold millstone of courage, and something instantly changes in them. They become spiritually taller and three times as attractive

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“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.” 🤍 - Anaïs Nin

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