Inspired to be Human
So much of what I see in the area of “inspiring” podcast and presentations are based on one dominant model—“the “Businessman.” And while I love them, they can feel burdensome after a while. I’ve walked away from some of them saying to myself “What the fuck. This guy is a billionaire meeting with the Dalai Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
A Lesson in Linearity
As a teenager and young man, my reaction to emotional pain was to pull any lesson, any value, that I could from it. “If I can at least learn something,” I’d tell myself, “then this isn’t pointless suffering.” I began at some point to believe that if I learned “the truth” over time, I would be free of pain and suffering, that my life would just be joy and free of any pain or suffering. That’s what I subconsciously believed. And I brought that expectation of myself with me into relationships with girls and women. Which became me judging them and trying to get them to see what I was seeing, to know what I knew. “If only,” I’d tell myself, “they saw this thing another way (the way I see it), they’d be happy.” Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
Two Choices in Every Moment
If we want choices in life, if we want to create the life of our dreams, we must master ourselves. And the foundation of that is realizing two things: (1) we create our own emotional experience in life all the time. Nothing and no one else create what we feel. It’s 100% us doing it; and (2) the mechanics of doing that, how we do it. When we accept #1 and learn #2, we are free. We are not perfect at it, but we now have the one thing that can set us free: choice! So what are the mechanics? Simple: what we focus on and what we tell ourselves about what we focus on. We feel what we feel in every moment because of what we’re focusing on and what we’re telling ourselves about it. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
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