🤔 Morning thoughts (February 3 - 9)
Every Sunday I share a quote and a reflection on it for each day of the week.
Themes of the week: Selflessness, Detachment, Balance, Perception, Thought-Control, Boundaries, Integrity
Sunday - February 9, 2025
"Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don’t see the self as self, what do we have to fear? See the world as your self."
Tao Te Ching
You and your reality are mirrors of each other. Stop letting your ego take charge and make you think there’s anything to hold on to. The sooner you release your expectations, the better your life will be.
Saturday - February 8, 2025
"It is in the spaces between work that love, friendship, depth and dimension are nurtured."
Jim Loehr, The Power of Full Engagement
Life is constant work punctuated by meaningful people and experiences. It’s up to you to make the most of those by creating space and boundaries. Like you need darkness to have light, you need work to have life.
Friday - February 7, 2025
"In the absence of your judgment, everything would be fine."
Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff and It's All Small Stuff
Stop adding layers of paint to your reactions. The more you cloud how your respond with judgement, the less what you’re seeing and hearing is the actual truth.
Thursday - February 6, 2025
"Your ability to control your thoughts—treat it with respect. It’s all that protects your mind from false perceptions—false to your nature, and that of all rational beings."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
We all have a superpower: our ability to control our thoughts. Yet few are aware of it or know how to use it. If you want master a skill, make this your priority. Everything else will fall into place.
Wednesday - February 5, 2025
"Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity."
Tao Te Ching
Learn to see the layer in between people’s perception of you and reality. Set your boundary so you can start seeing criticism for what it really is. Pure subjective interpretation.
Tuesday - February 4, 2025
"Whenever you violate or compromise your integrity for anything, there seems to be a great power or force of retribution that will not allow you to get away with it."
Brian Tracy, The Power of Self-Confidence
Either establish your own guidelines and guardrails or someone else will dictate them for you. You should be clear on what betraying yourself is or isn’t. So you can prevent it.
Monday - February 3, 2025
"The Master leads by emptying people’s minds and filling their cores, by weakening their ambition and toughening their resolve. He helps people lose everything they know, everything they desire, and creates confusion in those who think that they know."
Tao Te Ching
A real mentor doesn’t teach nor preach. They create space for the right seeds to take root deep down where nothing could have grown before.