- Struggle to meditate.
- Struggle to dance.
- Struggle to love.
At our core… these are truth. These are nature. These are pure.
Everything that causes us to struggle is lies… nurture… tainted.
I help busy people do inner work.
At our core… these are truth. These are nature. These are pure.
Everything that causes us to struggle is lies… nurture… tainted.
Sitting around, knowing you’re entitled to the pursuit of happiness isn’t going to do much for you.
But understand that there is a real happiness that comes from pursuit.
When your eyes and mind are fixed on a goal and you’re problem solving, critically thinking, collaborating, exploring, trial-and-error-ing, iterating, building, growing…
You unlock a type of whole being happiness… one that isn’t in vain like a temporary pleasure… but one that activates almost every part of you—mind, body, spirit—and renews itself again and again and again…
Just don’t get so caught up in pursuit that you never give yourself any time to feel the happiness that’s present at each step along the way.
Do not be scared of vulnerability—of softening to the world.
Look at a flower… look at a baby…
There’s a beauty in fragility. There’s a sacred appreciation for that which lays close to death.
It draws you in… it holds you in presence… it gives you life…
Because anything that hardens you to the world moves you in the opposite direction.
Away from appreciation… away from presence… away from the foundation of life.
Yes, small changes done over an extended period of time add up to big change.
But, more importantly, small promises made and kept to ourself—which is what small changes done over an extended period of time is—adds up to big self-trust change.
Added up enough and suddenly our word isn’t as flimsy as sand… it’s solid as rock.
We do what we say we’re going to do because we’ve made THAT the habit. More powerful than any giant, one-off change we try to make that’s followed by countless promises made and broken.
Routine is good for building habits. For aligning with momentum. For compounding growth.
Change is good for building richness. For exploring new paths. For resiliency training.
Sure, go to work. But have you ever tried to build a side-hustle?
Sure, workout every morning. But have you ever tried a martial arts class?
Sure, have family dinners. But have you ever tried ordering food from a different city (yes, you can do that)?
Sure, have date night. But have you ever made a random night into a date?
Sure, have travel plans. But have you ever just called a friend and taken them on a spontaneous hike?
If your life is feeling too monotonous or boring… it’s because it probably is! Add in some spice and give yourself something to look forward to, ponder over, or get challenged with.
And if your life is feeling too crazy or unhinged… it’s because it probably is! Ground yourself into ritualistic practices that you can look forward to every day, without fail, that can be done even on your busiest days.
Life is best lived in balance. And getting this even just a little more right can make things feel a lotta bit more better.
To understand 10,000 things… understand one really well.
There are 10,000 ways to the summit of a mountain… yet they all converge to one singular point.
Which path you choose to take isn’t as important as having chosen a path.
There will be challenges, adversities, confusion, problem solving, victories, scenic points, and more on each.
Each path will have at least 10,000 things to teach you.
If you always give up too soon, however, and climb back down, change your mind, or double back… You’ll never get past even the first 10 lessons of the mountain.
And you’ll end up repeating the same lessons at the beginning of each different path over and over and over again.
This isn’t to say you should never switch paths. Some paths will certainly be more wise and more aligned to take than others.
It’s simply to say, the path isn’t always “clearer” on the other side. At some point you have to fully commit. Give it a full send. Utilize the resources at your disposal in their entirety.
The view at the top is the view at the top is the view at the top.
There’s an infinitely small sliver that’s smack in between past and future.
And it’s on the edge of that razor that one of life’s great paradoxes is found… eternity.
Because eternity isn’t really about time times infinity… it’s about bringing infinity into the span of a single moment of time—the vastness of it all, balanced on the smallest of lines.
See you never really touch the past—yet it expands infinitely behind us…
And you never really touch the future—yet it expands infinitely in front of us… both as vast as the universe itself.
…But here? Right on this tiniest of slivers that we stand on in-between these two infinitely expanding timelines?
This is where eternity lies. In the constantly renewing string of nows… again and again and again… the only place where infinitely expanding timelines don’t survive.
The trick is to keep balanced on the sliver. Because slipping into the depths of the past and falling forward into a bed of daydreams of the future is impossible to avoid altogether.
But those who can learn to balance on the sliver more often… get more.
More fully received experiences. More fully present moments. More tastes of eternity…