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Category: Living Well

Life’s Perfect Seasons

Published on August 26, 2022

The season you’re in right now—of your life—is perfect.

Just like how winter is the perfect season for bundling up, going sledding, and drinking hot cocoa…

And how summer is the perfect season for swimsuits, beach, and getting your vitamin D on…

Where you are right now… is the perfect place to be. You only have to realize it.

Maybe you’re single, don’t have kids, and work a lot… you could dwell on this or you could see this as the perfect opportunity for spontaneous adventuring and solo tripping.

Maybe you’re in a serious relationship, have kids, and are a stay-at-home parent… you could dwell on this or you could see this as the perfect opportunity for deepening your family’s roots.

Maybe you’re in a “complicated” relationship, the person you’re seeing has a kid, and you have a part-time job… you could dwell on this or you could see this as being the perfect opportunity for introspection and identifying exactly what it is you want (and how you can get it) in life.

Learn to stop seeing the current season you’re in as “wrong/bad/invalid.”

And start asking yourself, “what is this current season I’m in the perfect opportunity for?”

Cursing the current season because you want to be in another is an excellent way to never be happy.

Maybe it’s time we stop trying to control seasons and start embracing the one we’re currently in.

P.s. If this is your first email from me and you joined a while ago… I apologize. There was an email import error I just became aware of. Here’s a backlog of the daily posts you might’ve missed. And welcome to the squad :)

Our World Sucks

Published on August 17, 2022

Wishing the world was a better place is nice—but not useful.

Complaining about how bad of a place the world is—is the opposite of useful.

Talk is cheap. And what our world needs is far from cheap…

What we need is the good stuff… the gold… what we need is more do-something-about-it.

I asked: What’s ONE thing you’ve either added or subtracted from your life that led to more inner peace? Here are the answers. I hope they help.

Trying vs. Not Trying

Published on August 15, 2022

Not trying may appear safe, but it’s actually quite risky.

Trying may appear risky, but it’s actually quite safe.

Appearances can be deceiving. And how your mind (ego) responds to what appears to be risky is… avoid at all costs.

The mind likes to preserve what’s here—what’s guaranteed. It likes to maintain its reputation, stray from embarrassment, and stick to what makes it (you) look good.

But, by not trying you:

  • Never learn
  • Become less competent
  • Miss moments of self-discovery
  • Close opportunistic/ serendipitous doors
  • Leave open-thought loops around “what if…” (regret)

See, it’s by trying that you get the opposite of all of the above mentioned things…

  • Insight
  • Competence
  • Self-Awareness
  • New opportunities / serendipity
  • Understanding of how things would’ve played out (no regret)

…An undoubtedly much safer means to living your best life.

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

Get Ahead By Doing Less

Published on August 14, 2022

When you do less, you can rest more.

When you rest more, you’ll have more energy to do what’s hard.

When you do more of what’s hard, you’ll get ahead.

Don’t let people fool you into thinking you always have to do more—it’s a trap.

When you take your total energy and divide it amongst more tasks it equals less energy for all of the tasks: including (and most importantly) the hard ones.

And less energy for the hard tasks is how you fall behind.

Don’t fall for it.

Do less.

Are You Lazy?

Published on August 13, 2022

Or are you…

  • Doing uninspired work?
  • Not getting enough sleep?
  • Emotionally disconnected?
  • Surrounded by emotional vampires?
  • Letting media suck the life from you?

Lazy is usually a symptom; not a character trait.

The Reality Of 1% Gains

Published on August 5, 2022

1% gains is the philosophy that guides my life.

Each day, I try to:

  • Improve my workout numbers by 1%
  • Eat 1% cleaner
  • Sleep 1% better
  • Etc.

But, I don’t always reach this goal.

Sometimes, what 1% gains ACTUALLY looks like is:

  • -2% on my workout numbers
  • -3% on how clean I ate
  • -5% on the amount of sleep I got

While 1% might feel infinitely achievable… the reality is, we’re imperfect creatures immersed in an imperfect world and we have to account for the ebb and flow of life.

There will be days when you’re feeling it and crush your daily tasks (maybe even with 2-5% gains)… and there will be days when you’re not feeling it and you dip into the negatives.

Don’t let this discourage you—stay the path.

Keep investing in yourself like you would your retirement investment account. Continue to reinvest with the goal of the overall average being a 1% increase rather than the actual increase being 1% every single day.

The real power of the gains come from the long-term compounding of regular reinvestments. Just ask your financial advisor. Trying to get a forever positive return on any stock/fund in the market simply isn’t practical. And neither is a forever positive return on any task you undertake in life.

You don’t get 1% returns each and every single day.

You get 1% returns on average over the course of years and years of regular investing.

THAT is how you get the real 10/15/30% gains and that is how you get the most out of your personal development habits in life.

Stay. The. Path.

Imperfect Help

Published on August 3, 2022

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.