Dear busy person,
Before you check your phone throughout the day, commit to taking a long, deep breath first. Remind yourself that you are more than your notifications. That your phone is there to serve you; not enslave you. That being calm and centered is available to you in each moment—in each breath—just as the internet is (worth acknowledging the weight of that statement). You just have to choose lung access instead of always defaulting immediately to thumb access.
Sincerely,
Your inner work person
When we remove:
What’s left is what was always there—the happiness we once knew that was slowly buried by modern and corrupt influences.
The way to add happiness to our lives isn’t via more… it’s via less.
P.s. I started uploading quotes from Will by Will Smith to MoveMe Quotes. If you’d like to read along, you can get the book here. And you can read the insights I upload for free here.
In all that you do, question deeply the direction each task points you in.
While it may feel obvious that we want to be pointed towards “success,” “fulfillment,” “realized potential”…
The things we do each day often act in opposition to those seemingly obvious goals. When you look closely, what you might realize is that:
Repeat after me: no action without confirmed direction.
P.s. If you want to ensure the actions of your life are pointed in the right direction (and you don’t arrive at a later point in your life with regret), I created a guide that you can get here.
A simple formula guaranteed to make the world a better place:
If we can get into the habit of actively seeking opportunities to improve the world inside our daily moments… how could we not improve the world via our life?
P.s. I also published: 15 Quotes from Stutz (2022) on Therapy, Healing, and Vulnerability.
Arriving at the destination of your dreams MINUS the substantial hard work is a formula that thrusts an unrealized version of you into over-your-head dream situations.
It’s precisely the thing that makes arriving at the destination HARD that allows you to actualize your full inner strength and potential.
Skipping the hard part only makes your weaker, more incompetent, less insightful version show up to the opportunities you’ve always dreamed to have.
…Which will quickly turn into a nightmare after all.
This is all to say… stop trying to skip the hard part.
P.s. These are the 20 books I read in 2022. Which one would you like to read key insights from the most?
The thing about creating MASSIVE goals…
Is that doing the small things required to realize them feels disproportionately beneath them.
Focus less on the MASSIVE and focus more on the stepping-stone goals that make the non-negotiable small actions feel more substantial and worthy.