Sublime

My intention is that by the time you finish, not only will you be committed to loving yourself, you’ll know exactly how to do it. And most importantly, how to make it last.

Here’s a side effect of making and keeping commitments to yourself: your self-confidence skyrockets. You walk through life differently.

Daily micro-wins and infinitesimal optimizations really are the surest way to a life that you’ll be ever so proud of at the end.

I coasted for a long while. Meditating only when it was convenient or when I got around to it. When was the last time before rug flip that I loved myself consistently? Life was going good, I got lazy, and then I had the injury and focused on what was wrong rather than what worked. What did I expect? The mind is plastic, no different than the body.

I once asked a monk how he found peace. “I say yes,” he said. “To all that happens, I say yes.” The last thing my mind wants to do is say yes. It’s stuck in the what-ifs, what I should have done, replaying the past, sometimes playing a stronger version of me, other times showing how pathetic I was.

But I can’t erase the past, only learn from it. It’s okay. Applying what I know makes the present and the future a beautiful place to be.

His drive to produce wasn’t inspired by the ego fuel of popular applause but by a wiser instinct that enticed him to see just how much of his creative power he could unlock, no matter how much hardship he had to endure.