trying to be me!
@earnestly
trying to be me!
My life's purpose is to 'make stuff I can be proud of'. That's what gets me going in the morning and pushes me through the day into night.
r/CasualConversation
Run your own race, as in: you set certain standards for yourself, and you focus on meeting them. When you meet them, you’re proud of yourself. When you don’t, you urge yourself to try harder. You don’t question your standards based on what anyone else is doing.
Carrie Moyer • Run Your Own Race - By Ava - Bookbear Express
Ritual prevents the ordinary from dissolving into invisibility. If you light a candle at dinner, the meal becomes an event. If you walk at the same time each day, it becomes more than exercise. Anthropologists will tell you that rituals function as technologies of attention: certain ordinary acts aren’t trivial, they’re the architecture of meaning.
my mind felt electric. Alive. Like there was something sharp and sparkling underneath my skin that made me me.
“You don't need discipline as an artist. You need devotion.
Because creativity rewards those with the highest self-respect, not with the most talent. Starting each part of your day as important, as a ritual, you will start to understand what self-respect is. Self-respect actually means what you eat, when you shower, cook, especially clean. When you
... See more“…devotion is the highest form of self-reverence. devotion is what transforms discipline from a rigid obligation into a deeply personal commitment—one rooted in care, intention, and an attentive understanding of your own needs. while self-love is the foundation, self-reverence is the elevation—the act of honoring yourself so fully that your choices
... See more"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”
—Charles Bukowski
