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Category: Living Well

The Best Comfort

Remember this about comfort:

It’s a lot more enjoyable when it’s closely preceded by discomfort.

E.g. Think about the couch after hard exercise or bed after the demanding day.

Comfort minus discomfort leads to a sort of long-term discomfort that’s far more brutal than anything we push ourselves through in the short-term.

Goals for 2023

I find myself thinking a lot about duality lately.

How things are far more gray than they are black-and-white.

Which is why, as we move into the new year, I’m going to focus more on the balancing forces in all that I do in life—so that I may stay more mindfully in the middle of any which extreme.

Some of my initial thoughts:

  • A strong body… with a soft touch.
  • A serious focus… with a playful heart.
  • Concrete boundaries… outlining a warm host.
  • A “stay hard” mindset… that knows how to relax.
  • An uncanny hustle… that knows when to slow down.
  • An indomitable spirit… that knows when to surrender.

What are some of your goals for 2023?

Slow Hustle

Knowing I’m going to die, I hustle to unleash my full potential while I can.

Knowing I’m still alive, I slow down so I don’t miss the life that’s right in front of me.

Somewhere in between the two is a dance.

Knowing this, I practice my two step and slow hustle my way forward at each chance.


P.s. In case you missed it, you can read the best of what I posted to MoveMe Quotes last week, here.

4k Visualizations

Don’t just visualize.

Do deep visualizations.

They are not the same practice.

Until you can see in 4k clarity who you want to become, you’ll continue acting in standard definition—i.e. in the same standard manner you always have.

But with 4k clarity, you can start acting in ways your most powerful version would… because you can see, feel, and even hear everything that that version of you does—all the way down to how they move their arm from bed to alarm clock first thing in the morning.

It’s just a matter of bringing that version into focus by upgrading the TV of your mind.

Referencing a 1990’s, box and antenna, blurry-at-best definition screen won’t take you to 4k land.

4k land requires 4k vision.

It’s time to upgrade.

A Better Tomorrow Made Easy

Things you can do today for a better tomorrow MINUS the grandiosity and IN SPITE of being busy:

  • Smile
  • Relax
  • Listen
  • Greet first
  • Go second
  • Hold doors
  • Ignore haters
  • Pay compliments
  • Round up for charity
  • Commit kindness acts
  • Clean up after yourself
  • Clean up after others
  • Check in on loved ones
  • Check in on yourself
  • Ask interesting questions
  • Journal the answers to interesting questions

Just because *the* world is presenting the opposite doesn’t mean *your* world has to.

Shield yourself from *the* world by becoming an atmospheric influence in your own right.


P.s. Here’s a list of 101 Acts of Kindness That’ll Help Recalibrate The World.

Becoming A Primary Caregiver

We don’t think to inspect things that aren’t broken.

We’re too busy and distracted for that.

But, inspecting things that aren’t broken (on occasion) is an excellent strategy for ensuring they stay that way.

For example, I have a doctor’s appointment this week and asked to get general blood work done.

Why? Not because I’m sick, feeling ill, or have any noteworthy symptoms—but, to ensure my levels are solid and aren’t trending in the wrong direction considering I’ve never gotten it done before.

This isn’t something my doctor would just think to do out of the blue—he’s way too busy and distracted for that.

This is something I have to think of on my own because I need to be my own primary caregiver—as nobody will (should) care or think as intimately about my ongoing health goals/issues as me.

And the same is true for you.


I asked: “How do you practice vulnerability in your life?” I hope the answers inspire you to practice it more in your life, too.

On Coming Around

People will come around when they will.

It’s not your responsibility to make them come around or to expedite their coming around process (unless, of course, it is).

It’s your responsibility to focus on your own coming around.

Don’t put your life on hold so that others can have somebody else focused on their coming around.

Keep playing your life out as you will (without hesitation or apology) and leave behind a strong model worth coming around for.


P.s. In case you missed it, you can read the best of what I posted to MoveMe Quotes last week here.