When you lie down for bed and realize you have to go to the bathroom, you have 2 choices:
1. Do what’s immediately uncomfortable and get up to go.
2. Do what’s immediately comfortable and hold it in hope it won’t wake you up later.
Option 2 almost always is a bad idea.
And so it is for most other choices in life that are immediately comfortable.
Be generous with your thoughts.
When those who express kind, constructive, supportive thoughts are quiet, then our collective mind is taken over by those who spew overwhelming amounts of the opposite.
We may only be one, but we are connected to ten.
And so are they.
Netflix, Playstation, Night Clubs = Hiding Places
Journals, Retreats, Deep Conversations = Finding Places
If you really want to find yourself, stop spending all of your time in hiding places.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but, this is one of the most powerful questions I’ve ever come across:
What good can come from this?
There’s always something.
When the answers are given to you, the challenge of solving the questions is taken.
When money is given to you, the test of figuring out how to make it for yourself is taken.
When a privileged path to success is given to you, exploring/wandering/getting lost is taken.
Those who get it easy don’t get the depth that comes from overcoming the hard.
Most of us wish everything was just given to us. But, forget what gets taken as a result.
Capturing inspiration when it strikes is like getting free energy checks from National Grid.
Why pay full price when you can cop some for free?
If you don’t have a means to deposit those checks though, it’ll all be for nothing.
How do you capture inspiration when it strikes?
The notes app is where I deposit all of mine.
That way, when it’s convenient (and in line with the schedule of my day) I can unleash the free energy I saved and capitalize on it in full.
Remember: feeling inspired and not depositing it is the same as never getting a check at all.
My aunt on a grumpy hotel employee:
“Maybe he was just having a bad day. Maybe he had to poop and he couldn’t. You just don’t know.”
My new life philosophy for grumpy people.