If this is the unfairness that’s been handed to you, honor it with mourning. Then brush off and hit harder than you’ve ever hit before.
No point in finding your ground by looking for stability. Find your ground by relaxing into instability.
Lean into your situation because you were meant for it as much as it was meant for you.
Most people, when sounding an alarm or siren song, are motivated by profit.
When they succeed at earning your talent, money, or attention, how will they use it? Thinking through this helps to pull back the covers of ‘cool’ and inspect what’s underneath.
You’re in complete control of where you hand over the resources that were granted to you. Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything.
If someone gifted you a mansion, would you stay in one room?
We’ve all been gifted this world as our home and a massive family. Let’s go on an adventure!
If not the whole home, we can work to keep our own room clean. Let’s go to work!
There are 2 ways to spread light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
If nothing else, you have the power to remind them of the greatness that they are.
We are the average of the 5 people we spend most time with.
Who are those 5 people for you? Who do you want to invite in?
This is not meant to yield curdling but ultimately tessellation. Exploiting known psychological truths for human development can enable us to penetrate those ceilings.
Be generous with your ideas. Good ideas are powerful, propagating, enduring, and can elevate us.
‘If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.’ -George Bernard Shaw
Experienced people have turned wounds into wisdom.
Seek them out and hear them out. You’ll be glad you did.
Our culture has conditioned us to expect things to reach us. So, when we’re expected to go and find it, we’d rather short-circuit the whole thing by saying it doesn’t exist.
Of course it does. And you were meant to find it. Take the first step and the Universe is ready to hand it over to you.
Active processes of erosion are no match for the skyward uplift of Mount Everest.
At 45 million years old, the already tallest mountain in the world is still young and relentlessly growing at 4mm per year. Collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates are feeding the mountain right from its base.
There’s no shame in wanting to become better. What would you like to get better at? Whom can you spark a conversation with to further yourself?
Keep going, keep growing.
We’re constantly plugged in, but does that mean that we’re connected?
Lack of connection drives us to radicalized niches, living life online, and on our phones.
The good news is connection is always available. Satiety and joy is possible, if we are intentional.
