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Category: Thinking Clearly

Less Wobbly

In a world that’s ever changing, perfect life balance isn’t possible.

So, don’t beat yourself up when your priorities feel lopsided.

They always will.

Rather, accept it as your ongoing reality and keep using signals of imbalance merely to adjust.

What starts out as massive shifts in weight that take large spans of time to make will eventually iterate into micro adjustments that happen in quicker and quicker snaps of time.

The goal shouldn’t be perfect; the goal should be less wobbly.


P.s. I also published: 19 Quotes from Narrow Road To The Interior on Solitude, Travel, and Poetry today.

The Usefulness Of Short Sprints

What do you do when you reach a ditch in the road that you can’t quite step over?

You back up; get a good running start; and jump it.

So does it work in life.

Staring at a ditch? …Staring doesn’t help.

Take a couple steps back, elevate your thinking, get a running start, and jump it.

Sometimes the way forward is backward. Sometimes we need to temporarily commit to an elevated pace to finally clear the ditch we’ve been staring at in its face. Sometimes what’s needed… is a short sprint.


P.s. “Backwards” doesn’t mean more hustle. “Backwards” has much more to do with the opposite.

Unlearning Time

Just as you might make time for learning…

So, too, should you make time for unlearning.

Adding knowledge is undoubtedly helpful…

But removing limiting beliefs and toxic thought patterns is liberating.

The Anti-To-Do List

Rather than thinking about what you can ADD to your to-do list…

Think about what you can SUBTRACT.

The reality is… we do WAY too much stupid stuff every day.

And by eliminating more of the stupid stuff… VOILA—you’ll have more time for the not-stupid stuff.

Which is ultimately what we’re really after when we make to-do lists isn’t it?

Subtract Your Way To Success

In a world that’s constantly trying to get you to do addition:

  • More money
  • More followers
  • More tasks

Commit to doing more subtraction instead:

  • Less materialism
  • Less vanity
  • Less busywork

Addition, now more than ever, is the modern day toxin—and subtraction is the antidote.

Don’t Answer Yet

Before you answer the question, make sure it’s the best possible version of the question you can ask.

  • “Why me?” or “What good can come from this?”
  • “Why can’t I get this right?” or “What can I do right now to improve?”
  • “Why is this so hard for me?” or “What would this look like if it were easy?”

Certain questions leave no room for good answers.

In fact, many of the questions we ask ourselves beget demeaning/ self-limiting/ hateful answers—and we’re better off not answering them at all.

Want to level up your life? You’ll need better answers for that.

And nothing will lead to better answers faster than asking better questions.


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

The Self-Belief Producing Business

It’s hard to take action of any kind when you don’t believe in yourself.

Just like it’s hard to start a business of any kind when you don’t have the resources yourself.

One strategy that has helped countless people start their businesses, however, is borrowing resources from others (like a bank) and paying them back later.

We can do the same thing with belief.

We can borrow belief from others, like a loan of sorts, that gives us the boost we need to take the action; to get the results (and hopefully successes); to build the confidence; to start the self-belief generating process on our own.

The absolute key to doing this is to surround ourselves with people who believe in the human potential. Growth-minded individuals who know that with alignment, action, effort, guidance, and reflection—great things are possible (no matter how inept a person might seem). People who will be there for us in victory AND defeat—because defeat is inevitable on the journey upward and teaches us lessons that victory never could.

Find your people and use their belief in you (or the human spirit) until you’re able to create your own self-sustaining self-belief producing business.

Then, pay off your loan (with gratitude and belief back into others), continue on the path, and let your belief “profits” give you the inner resources you need to chase whole-heartedly your wildest dreams.


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