Hey Fool.
I finally get that our dreams, hopes, and achievements don’t actually change our lives– not in the way we think they would.
We might hope for a grand reset through moving to a different state, changing careers, building a new friend group and these things might initiate a little momentum.
But it doesn’t last because change doesn’t come from addition, it comes from revision.
I was always focused on my calling, finding my purpose– I was so tunnel vision on these things I didn’t understand that I was the wrong person to create them.
Overly focused on why I was born, I missed every opportunity to fully enjoy all that the human experience had to offer.
And as I did succeed and inch towards all the things I wanted, I was the same discontented individual.
Then I finally came to understand it, I never re-learned how to live. In my youth I found survival mode.
I was ultra-skeptical, discerning, critical, closed-off, I was mentally distant from the world– because it served me to be. A lot of us enter these phases, but it’s a mistake to let them alter your character and perspective- which I did.
I became someone who was numb to pain… and as a result– numb to joy.
I chased highs to feel something, rather than drugs my choice was risk. Danger made me feel closer to my youth.
But it was always temporary and as soon as the adrenaline wore off, I was me again.
It was made obvious no amount of external anything can change you, regardless of what it was. How lazy and pathetic of me to tie my fulfillment to temporary aspirations.
This isn’t some complain-y post where I drone on about the mysteries of unhappiness and how some of us are just built serious. Nay.
This entire post is about the great re-set. A super underrated ability every single human being possess, gifted to us by mother nature.
YOU CAN REINVENT YOURSELF AT ANY MOMENT.
I’ve always wanted purpose but what I failed to understand back then, purpose is not found it’s created.
I wanted my life to be full of awesome experiences, well those come from a shift in approach to the world, and that comes from an entirely new perspective.
So what caused all this misery?
A cynical attitude, perspective, and focus on negativity.
—So THAT is exactly where you need to start.
Rarely did I stop and appreciate what I had, and I had a lot. The whole, “it’s not enough” is just a garbage attitude that is easily changeable.
This is our superpower.
You don’t need to change who you are, you need to change how you are.
AND that’s entirely within your control.
To begin, you’ll want to shift your focus. Each day, start from a winning mindset. Focus on all you have, be thankful for where you are, and move forward positively– embracing what’s currently before you.
This isn’t easy. Your brain will want to revert and to stay the course you have to have some vision that excites you, about what your life could be. Write it down, feel it, look at it multiple times a day.
With this combination of gratitude and moving towards a new way of life, you will re-find what it means to live fully.
#StayFoolish
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