I spend time with people like me. I am one of those people who has enough. When I want to help people, whether to pay it forward or for any other reason, I help people who I spend time with, who are like me. People who have enough. I never help those who do not have enough. This pattern is hard to break, but must be broken. If I only hold a light for those who have light, why bother?...
What a great question to ask to inform the direction a life should take. Where are my students? Where are the people, who are on a journey that I can help them through? Where are the people I can teach? How can I take them where they said they wanted to go?
When you make something real, and it comes from somewhere inside you, you put a little piece of yourself on display. Alone and undefended in the world. Open to criticism. It can be terrifying. It always pays back dividends. When you create, you expose yourself. You become vulnerable. When people move to support you in that vulnerability, that’s when you build a tribe. When you create, you project an unmatchable authenticity into the world....
Sometimes life is scary. Overwhelming. Hard to figure out. Uncertain. Sometimes it can be useful to reframe the situation, when faced with hard choices. Imagine being a spectator, watching the story unfold. If you were looking at a character, in your situation, faced with the options you face, what do you think should happen? What would be the most interesting step the character could take? What has been foreshadowed? What is the right thing to do?...
Life is made up of a long series of fragmented experiences. Every day is a chance to write something new into memory. But most of life, for most people, passes and is forgotten in a blur of meaninglessness. I’m working hard to change my path through life, and create more moments worth remembering. It doesn’t have to be hard. For me, two things work well. Noticing. The simple act of taking time to take in the experience of the everyday....