🤔 Morning thoughts (November 4 - 10)
Every Sunday I share a quote and a reflection on it for each day of the week.
Themes of the week: Self-acceptance, Presence, Authenticity, Resilience, Confidence, Introspection, Balance
Sunday - November 10, 2024
"It is such a luxurious privilege to be yourself! It is the one privilege everyone can afford but only a few muster up the courage to enjoy."
Vadim Zeland, Reality Transerfing. Steps I-V
True confidence is the courage to align what you want with how you act — now and consistently in the future. Closing the gap requires energy and fearlessness. Knowing that whatever you want to create can be realized here and now, but that you can’t take it for granted either.
Saturday - November 9, 2024
"Nothing that has ever happened has made any difference to the One who you are."
David Deida, The Way of the Superior Man
Look deep down within and you’ll find an immutable source of energy, your anchor in times of adversity and your fuel in times of action. No one can take that away from you and it’s always available to tap into. You just need to look for it.
Friday - November 8, 2024
"Life does not care whether you call yourself rich or poor; strong or weak. It will eternally reward you with that which you claim as true of yourself. The measurements of right and wrong belong to man alone. To life there is nothing right or wrong."
Neville Goddard
There’s so much we think as objectively true that’s completely subjective. Reality is indifferent towards us because everyone creates their own reality. Don’t try to fit in the world’s story, find a place in the world for yours.
Thursday - November 7, 2024
"When you make it easier for the current to flow, the current will respond."
Seth Godin, This Is Strategy
If you want life to carry you where you want to go, you need to create the conditions for it to do it. You won’t get anywhere if you’re a burden to yourself and to others.
Wednesday - November 6, 2024
"Trees fall with spectacular crashes. But planting is silent and growth is invisible."
Richard Powers, The Overstory
Nobody will thank you or congratulate you for the unseen work you do. You have to be proud of it and use that energy to keep you grounded in it. No matter how hard (or easy) it gets.
Tuesday - November 5, 2024
“Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself, just as I can. Few people have that capacity, and yet everyone could have it.”
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
To be yourself, know yourself. It requires effort and determination to find your center especially in the chaos of daily life. But once you find it, it’s there to tap into at any time. That’s where confidence comes from, it’s not something you’re born with but something you work on.
Monday - November 4, 2024
"The amateur is an egotist. He takes the material of his personal pain and uses it to draw attention to himself. He creates a “life,” a “character,” a “personality.” The artist and the professional, on the other hand, have turned a corner in their minds. They have succeeded in stepping back from themselves."
Steven Pressfield, Turning Pro
Once you manage to overcome your own self importance you get to experience your full potential energy. It takes grit, discipline, and patience but what was once blocked will flow back to you.