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.
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?
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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When it comes to habit change… “black-and-white” rules are much better than “gray” rules.
It’s hard to draw a line in a gradient of gray. And drawing clear lines is what habit change is all about.
My advice is commit 100% to whatever you’re trying to change or change the habit you’re trying to change to something you can commit to 100% of the time.
On Thursday, July 28th, I’ll be hosting a LIVE chat on Twitter on the Art of Stillness—and why/how stillness can help us live better lives. Join me if you’re free/ interested. Details here.
“The body is the first student of the soul.”
Henry David Thoreau, via MoveMe Quotes
…And the ego is what intercepts the soul’s communication to the body.
If we don’t learn how to befriend the ego—it will always be our enemy.
What makes the ego our enemy is its relentless desire to choose immediate over delayed gratification. The ego wants comfort now. It wants pleasure now. It cares nothing of later.
And it is in this one main desire—to seek immediate pleasure and avoid immediate pain—that our body suffers. Because what’s generally good for us is what involves delayed over immediate gratification.
If we want our body to succeed—the soul’s first student—we need not underestimate the ego and its deceptive, cunning powers. We need to come prepared. Like a parent ready to confront a moody toddler that’s about to choose violence.
We need to keep our beliefs clear; our boundaries enforced; our strategies at the forefront of our mind; our patience overflowing; and our love (not our tolerance) unconditional.
We have to find easy (easier) ways to do the hard things now, so that we can achieve the later outcome of peak overall health that each of our souls want us so badly to achieve.
For more thoughts on the ego, you can browse my collection of 45+ quotes & resources here.
Many people say they’re serious about their goals…
But, when it comes time to be serious about:
They shrug their shoulders and tell themselves it’s, “No big deal.”
Herein lies the problem…
They’re actually not serious.
Being serious in the easy moments is hardly impressive.
It’s the being serious in the hard moments when seriousness is actually proved.
Thank you to the kind soul who got me a coffee just so I could “savor the moment.” This post is dedicated to you. ☕️