self-discovery

Stuff happens. Your stories about it determine whether it’s manageable or not.

No amount of productivity will quench our inner fears about self-worth and helplessness.

When you're busy enough, "boredom" isn't a thing - it just feels like a break. It's fantastic and rare. A chance to think, to put things together in your head, be intentional with moves forward, and actually really wonderful.

You are the machine that fuels everything else in your life. Paying attention to the mindset that drives that machine, is simply one of the most important things you can do. Every move, every decision, every action will rest on that. Be sure it is as optimal as it can be.

Spontaneity is great but life is just easier and everything goes far better when we have protocols.

What makes your mind stronger, and more able to control your emotions, is internal discipline and toughness. No one can teach you this skill; you cannot learn it by reading about it. Like any discipline, it can come only through practice, experience, even a little suffering.

Our external struggles with life mirror our internal struggles with integrity.

Nobody wakes up feeling great and ready to get after it every day. The work is accepting your feelings and taking them along for the ride. It requires equal parts grace and grit, self-discipline and self-compassion. Keep showing up.

Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving. Life is the train, not the station. Aleph, Paulo Coelho

Addictions are attempts to attain bliss without releasing defensive patterns.