Wanna know why you feel anxious?
Too many open processes.
You’re doing too much; thinking too much; taking on too much.
What you need is a healthy dose of less.
Less obligation. Less running around. Less distraction.
So that you can focus more on closing what’s already open.
Be so busy showing gratitude, that you forget to complain.
Be so busy producing, that you forget to consume.
Be so busy growing, that you forget to compare.
Be so busy trying, that you forget to criticize.
Be so busy with love, that you forget to hate.
When you get yourself busy with the right things—the rest fades away.
Understand who you are By writing down Everything you are not And never want to be Let each list item Act as a guardrail That turns vast landscape Into paved and pointed roadway
The spirit has no age And yet is shackled To the age we tell it to act From the people who tell it to us From the people who told it to them From the people who made it up The spirit has no age Let it roam free To be as it may— Age-free and un-trapped.
Doubt comes with the territory of doing something new.
Don’t ignore the doubt.
Don’t vilify the doubt.
Don’t run from the doubt.
Welcome it. Lean into it. Inspect it.
What you might find is that doubt is actually a signal that you’re heading in the right direction.
Confidence comes from the pain.
Until eventually, the pain results in a success.
This success shouldn’t mark an end (to pain), but rather a new beginning.
For hiding from pain is the path towards atrophy—the antithesis of success.
Confronting the pain is the path towards hypertrophy—the best friend of success.
And as it is with exercise, working your muscles to hypertrophy once (one success) will have little long-term benefit.
It’s the repeated exposure to the pain (of exercise) that leads to the noteworthy gains in muscular size and ability.
And if you want to increase the “size” and “ability” of your life, you have to treat your confidence “muscles” the same.
…And follow the pain.
We don’t succeed because we have no weaknesses.
We succeed because we fully utilize our few strengths.
Trying to eliminate all weakness is a waste of time when you could be using all of that time to massively improve upon your strengths.