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There are no perfect people helping imperfect people.
Only imperfect people helping other imperfect people.
Don’t let perfectionism hold you back from helping—it’s a lie.
You’ll always be imperfect and now is always a good time to help—no matter how imperfect you may feel.
Today’s post was inspired by this tweet from Jeremy Ginn. Thank you.
The ‘inner weather’ of our mind directly impacts how we get to travel in life.
A sunny/ seventy kind of mentality = full speed ahead.
An overcast/ foggy kind of mentality = which way is even forward?
In life, mental clarity is the sunny day that allows us to unleash our full energy and potential into the journey that lies ahead.
Mental cloudiness is what throttles all of our efforts to that creeping, hazard lights pace that makes the prospect of the journey seem so daunting, confusing, and un-accomplishable.
The good news with our “inner weather” vs the “outer weather” is that we can actually influence our inner weather.
Which is excellent news for the person who is driving 25mph forward on a road that they’re not even sure is correct.
How do we influence/ change our inner weather? By incorporating more of the tasks that lead to mental clarity and removing more of the tasks the lead to mental cloudiness.
Some tasks that lead to mental clarity:
Some tasks that lead to mental cloudiness:
Mental cloudiness is typically the byproduct of passive, modern day living. Click bait bombards you at every turn, superficial gossip is the comfortable/easy form of communication, and busy is essentially society’s status update.
Mental clarity is typically the byproduct of active, rebellious type living. Writing when click bait is buzzing… Therapy when superficial is literally calling your name… Meditation when busy is ingrained into your state of being…
If you want to unleash all of what’s inside, you need to rebel; you need to make space for clarity; you need to clear the fog that’s inside.
When things are easy… less of you is required.
And if you only do what’s required… you’ll end up becoming less.
Less than what your god-given potential is capable of becoming.
Want to become more?
Well… Remember this when things get hard.
We’ll see how badly you really want it.
P.s. In case you missed it, you can read the best of what I posted to MoveMe Quotes last week, here.
I sit for 20 minutes Look at the clock And realize it’s only been 3 What’s wrong with me? 20 minutes goes by in 3 When I look at a screen? Why does sitting alone Without the company of a screen Screech things to an unbearable halt? Why can’t I just be? Here with myself Without nervously checking The pixels that seem to control me?
Sometimes, what your negative/ demeaning/ hateful thoughts need is a freaking way out.
Moving the thought from the head, through the body, to the hand or mouth, and out into paper/ keyboard/ conversation are all excellent strategies.
Nothing fancy required.
No special journals, questions, or prompts… Just plainly writing/ expressing/ sharing what’s on your mind so as to give your mind space from the thing it’s holding.
It’s not always obvious to people that this works.
They think more thinking is what needs to be done. But, what ends up happening is that the brain becomes overwhelmed with remembering—which throttles its thinking ability and essentially handicaps it from coming up with new thoughts (solutions).
By relieving the brain of some of that info, new space is freed up for fresh thinking that’ll eventually lead to either solutions or releasing (which is sometimes all we really need).
Don’t underestimate the power of writing, typing, and discussing what’s on your mind. It’s one of the most powerful means for moving forward in thought.
P.s. I asked: “How do YOU stop negative thinking” on Twitter. Here are the answers. I hope they help. 🌱
It is not your job to:
Your job is to do you and handle yours…
So that you can do some of the above things with pleasure—not resentment.
Sounds like a contradiction, eh?
Well, with this one ingredient, you can change everything about your day while simultaneously changing nothing about your day.
What’s that ingredient you ask?
Intentionality.
With intention, everything we do changes:
Sprinkle a little intention into every task of your day and watch how everything changes without even one task being added or subtracted or moved.
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