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Keep the promises you make to yourself

We make promises to others we wouldn't think of breaking: our spouses, friends, our business partners our coworkers. Yet, we have no problems breaking the promises we make to ourselves. "I won't waste time on useless sites", "I'll stop procrastinating", "I'll do better", "I won't lose my temper", "I won't drink anymore", the list goes on and on. We let ourselves break those promises, even the same ones over and over. How much longer will we let this go on? We wouldn't tolerate this behavior from others, yet we do it to ourselves.  "Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself. You'll always know." - Naval Ravikant. No one else may not know but you always will. How many more promises are you going to keep breaking to yourself? Is this how you would treat your family and friends? Maybe this is the reason why you have doubts. You've encountered your own example of the many t...

Two Types of People

Two types of people. People who want things to stay the same and fight for it. People who want change and fight for it. The universe is in constant flux and change. Where do are you going to put your energy? Fighting the universe or adapting to it?

Constant Changing

Stress comes from not wanting things we like, to remain the same and things we don’t like, to change Life is constantly changing The present is the only time we have Enjoy it It is the only time when things don’t change. Enjoy the things you don’t want to change Endure the things you want to change, knowing that it will There will be a day when you realize the struggle you went through and look back with a smile

Good days and Bad days

There will be days where you have to use all your strength just to get up. Everything you have to open your eyes. All your will just to put one foot in front of the other. All you have left just to be. Your heart isn’t in it, you have the energy. You just don’t and can’t. When these times happen, just do what you must do to get through it. Do the bare minimum. Fake it if you can, just go through the motions but go through the motions. Sometimes that’s all we have.  There will also be days when you don’t want to sleep and can’t wait to get up. You’re unstoppable and have endless energy. Nothing can stand in your way. No obstacle is too large to overcome. You’ll get more done on those days than the whole week combined. Harness those days. Fulfill those days.  Know that we will have different days and that the next day will be different.  As we learn, we’ll learn how to smooth out the valleys so they dip less and heighten the mountains so they become ev...

Comfort does not equal Happiness

We live in a world that caters to our every craving, whim and desire. That is what sells and lambs buy. Happiness is solving, overcoming and learning from difficult problems. Harder the problem, more difficult the odds, the deeper the lesson, the happier we will be. 

Funerals

I would rather that people visit and see me while I'm alive rather than they come to my funeral. I realize that the funeral is for the other people too but you wouldn't go unless that person passed away. Wouldn't it better to see them while they are still alive? To speak to them, to listen to them and to tell them everything you ever wanted to say while they are still alive - isn't that better than "visiting" them at their funeral? Of course you want to comfort the people that remain behind but is that the best time to visit the person who is no longer alive? Make the most of that person while you still have the chance. You'll only find regret for the person who died at the funeral. They would have much rather you had visited them while they were still alive. 

The Real Goal

The goal is not to win. The goal is face your demons, your fears, your doubt, your past, your expectations. Face them and then do in spite of them. You don't even have to defeat them. All you have to do, is do, and not let it stop you. That is the Real Goal.  It is holy and it is scared. It is the mission of every person.  The endpoint, dream or outcome is the vehicle to achieve the real goal. Win over your self and the outcome won't matter. 

A Parent's Job

As a parent we are here to protect the kids from harms they don't know about. In order to "toughen" them up for the harsh world ahead, g ive them love and give them love and the give some more. You can't punish your way to good behavior We let them fall as needed but we need to be there to help them back up. Most of the world is confusing to them, our job is to help them understand what is happening. They only have a limited number of tools to deal with their difficult emotions. They go to their known tools, crying, arguing, whining. This is what they know.  We have to teach them better ways of dealing with how they feel because most of the time they don't understand what or how to deal with the problems they are confronted with.  

It's Never Done

Life is never done or finished. It's a juggling, managing, in process, fixing, repairing, hurting, healing and all the in between. Things can get done. Then new things come and old things go. Life is so much more than things. Life isn't lived at the finish line. It's lived by putting one foot in front of the other, every single moment of every single day. Take another step. 

Free Will

we all have a meeting with our fate we are all destined to do what we came here to do we all have that moment when we realize this is it we are the choice to act on it or not our free will is to decide to act on our fate or not our fate chooses us, we choose to do or not to do if you free will not to do, your life may be fine but it will not be fulfilled and there always be a longing if you fate, you will become fully realized  

Beyond

It doesn't matter what they look like, how old they are, how big or small. They all have broken hearts that needs mending. Nothing physical on a person really matters. Some of us have disabilities that everyone can see. Those disabilities become the catalyst to hasten the bond, if it breaks, it was weak to begin with, if it becomes stronger, there was nothing that could have kept you two apart.   It's discovering the kind of person they are and what you admire and learn from them.  It’s discovering who you are through their eyes. You have to overcome what you see and feel with your eyes to determine who they are. If their disability is that are very attractive, you have be able to overcome that lens and see deeper, if they are unattractive to your view, you have to uncover what they are beyond that.  The truth lies in determining if they are worth the effort it takes to remove your filter. We think that once i get to know them,  I will decide to l...