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A Better World Via Better Moments

Published on January 19, 2023

A simple formula guaranteed to make the world a better place:

  • Leave each room you spend time in better than you found it.
  • Leave each person you converse with warmer than you found them.
  • Leave each natural setting you traverse cleaner than you found it.

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.

Skipping The Hard Part

Published on January 18, 2023

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 the “author” who can’t hold a deep conversation on the book topic.
  • It’s the fitness “influencer” who can’t teach a 1-hour fitness class.
  • It’s the business “coach” who has never built their own business.

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?

Stepping Stone Goals

Published on January 17, 2023

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.

Merged Paths

Published on January 16, 2023

There are as many different paths in life as there are people—no two aligned in exactly the same way.

Which means it’s only a matter of time before the people here with us diverge from our path and head out onto their unique own—it’s the nature of life.

Until then, we should cherish the time we have together while our paths have merged and start preparing ourselves to smile with deep gratitude when it’s time for our paths to diverge (because of the cherished time we did have together)—no sense in arguing against nature.

Even soulmates will have to one day say, “goodbye.”

But for today, let’s make the time we do have together worth smiling deeply for.

P.s. I asked: Outside of sleep, eating well, exercise, reading, and writing—what’s ONE thing that helps you perform your best? I hope the answers help. :)

Expert Inner-Workers

Published on January 15, 2023

Normalize people working with expert inner-workers (therapists) so that they can better understand the inner-workings that drive literally 100% of their experience of life.

Placing (and accepting) a stigma on this is to rob people of a chance to live their most fulfilled life.

Believe The Act

Published on January 14, 2023

If somebody says they love you, but acts like they don’t… believe the act.

If somebody says they’re trustworthy, but acts two-faced and shady… believe the shady.

If somebody says they’re hardworking, but whines at sight of hard work… believe the whine.

If somebody says they’re humble, but obsessively tries to steal the spotlight… believe the stealing.

If somebody says family is the most important, but scoffs when you say you’re prioritizing family over work… believe the scoff.

What’s funny is that the people who act in contradiction to what they say might actually believe what they’re saying. But, what YOU should believe is how they act. Always.

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Onto The Endless List

Published on January 13, 2023

Do not think that today will come without challenges.

To think so would be naive and in contradiction to the countless challenging days that have come before.

No.

Instead, think that today’s challenges will be met with the inner strength, resilience, and resolve that has helped you overcome the endless list of the challenges that have come at you before.

And with this… head into your day with your posture straight, mindset ready, and smile on for whichever sorry challenge makes its way onto your path first.

Because onto that endless list it too shall go.

P.s. I’m giving away the first 3 meditations from my new guide away for free to anyone who shares it—on social media or wherever. If this is you and I missed you, reply to this email and I’ll send them to you asap! And if you don’t really do social media, reply and I’ll send them to you anyway :)