what if happiness did not have anything to do with what you had, where you have been, or who you were, and arose entirely from what you chose to think about, yet nobody knew this?
and that changing your thoughts, so that you could feel happier more often, would entirely change what you had, who you were, and where you are headed, yet nobody knew this either?
yea, i think we should make it sound A LOT harder so that it has more appeal. ;p
KITTY: “The world is too fragile for people to be untrue. There’s too much at stake and life is too short for lies.”
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WARREN: “We don’t love the people we love because they’re perfect. We love the people we love because they are. Even after they’re gone.”
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SCOTTY: “You can’t be faithful to anything until you know why you should.”
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SAUL: “We can’t help who we love.”
HOLLY: “Yeah, but we can help who we are. We can decide to become ourselves.”
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SCOTTY: “[It takes people] a long time to figure out how much they’re worth and how it has nothing to do with money or anything people can point to. [And it can take, let's see, 2 months, 2 weeks. 2 days, 2 hours, 2 minutes] to make them feel wothless.
thinking small is NOT hard. it is just a habit. a habit with consequences.
same for thinking big.
there is no mountain too great, no sea too wide, no party too crowded, no bank account too fat, that you cannot take ‘em in stride.
no matter how intelligent, attractive, or talented you may be — to the degree you doubt your worthiness, you tend to sabotage your efforts and undermine your relationships.
life is FULL of gifts and opportunities; you will open to receive and enjoy them to the degree that you begin to appreciate your inner worth, and to offer to yourself the same compassion and respect that you would give others.
discovering your worth sets your spirit free.
1st principle of prosperity: embrace who you are and stop trying to be someone else.
self-esteem grows, always does, once you stop trying to be who you are not AND embrace who you are.
one of the trippest things about constant self-actualization is the whole “Reticular Activation System” phenomenon.
what is Reticular Activation System? well first, it is a big mouthful of a word like ceLIVErity.
basically, RAS is what filters out information you do not need and focuses in on what you DO, so that you are able to tune into the things that are both most valuable and most threatening to you, and keep yourself alive.
is there something valuable around like a hot person or your favourite food?
RAS tunes into it.
did you hear a gun shot go off?
RAS tunes into that too.
seriously, this stuff is sooooooo weird, but once you recognize it, you will find yourself seeing it constantly.
again, it is RAS that makes you suddenly start constantly noticing it.
the whole RAS thing is also why the rule of focus on what you want, not on what you do not want is so massively, utterly important.
when you are focused on what you want, your RAS eventually leads you to find the solution.
in my case, learning the whole “IRD” journey has been about a five year personal odyssey.
i would constantly have all sorts of crippling sticking points that i could not find my way around. maybe i could get rapport but not an inside. maybe an inside but not a chill time. later it became getting socially savvy but could never make it to the finish line.
and all that, to be honest, was the least of it.
i also had goals like learning to be more chilled out, more real, and natural. that was even more difficult, but it allowed me to become a “ceLIVErity” with people who really *does* very little when i talk to them other than just to *be* who i am.
beyond success with IRD, there was also the personal odyssey of dating my destiny full time. with my destiny, i was/am constantly circling around various concepts, unable to figure out the missing pieces.
it almost drove me to the brink of insanity on some nights.
funny enough, a lot of the answers i came to were ALREADY OUT THERE and fairly well known by lots of people. i would just never previously been aware of them.
i only FOUND absolutely vital resources because i knew what i wanted, and RAS eventually pointed me in the right direction.
personally, i have full faith that you can accomplish whatever you set your mind to accomplish, EVEN IF YOU HAVE NOT THE SLIGHTEST CLUE OF HOW YOU WILL DO SO, just so long as you focus on WHAT YOU WANT and put yourself in a position where have absolutely no choice but to succeed.
in my case, i will travel to different locations and put myself into various situations to keep stimulating my brain with new input until it finds the answers or creative inspirations that it needs.
that is also why i advise people who are supremely dedicated towards accomplishing a personal goal OR committed to dating their destiny to travel and get as much new mental input as humanly possible.
it is often during these experiences that people find their “missing piece”.
i have always got SOMETHING i am journeying on. something edgy. something fun. something real. something out there (way out there).
the process i am talking about here, it is the process that i have TOTAL FAITH IN in order to get this stuff done.
it is something i have had to learn to harness over time, as well as to redirect outwardly so the process is mostly “outside of my head” and done “in the moment” rather than using up all my mental energy. here and now.
shooting it straight, it is not always easy.
but, hey, my soul craves stimulation and experiences … and life is just so darned short.
if you can get sure in your work, your dance with life, whether it is in your home or the far flung reaches of the earth, understanding and appreciating your sacred place in eternity for the moment and the unrecoverable time that has been bequeathed for the task, everything else will take care of itself.
and you can. oh, you so can.
not that a little vacation here or there, slathered up in sun screen, swaying in a hammock to your favorite tunes, and creating a little shade of your own, is not good for the soul as well.
you can have what you want, do what you dream, and brave what you fear, if you first see it done in your mind.
always works.
always.
and truly, your imagination is world class. although just which “world” is still being hotly debated.
do you not think it should be possible to have challenges, yet at the very same time, be in love with the world and excited about your life?
i do. and we have so much in common.
so much in common, besides just our cool future.
funny how when one links job satisfaction to financial compensation, they are never paid “enough”. yet, when they see work as a way to dance with life, meet new people, and unleash the creative tiger within, they become very rich, indeed.
every kind of rich.
every. kind. of. rich.
