Never believe anything your mind tells you when you're in a negative emotional state. This is not the real you. You're just circumstantially exhausted, so as a protection mechanism, your body will only allow you to form conclusions that prioritize a temporary need for survival
No, you didn't just magically realize that being average is suddenly acceptable. That you don't care about money anymore. That you prefer to be alone instead of abundantly loving and loved. That you used to have grand visions, but now the ceiling to your dreams is retiring to do nothing forever
All it takes is one opportunity, one person, one season of patience to remind you who you are again. The real you will always want to give energy, rather than preserve it. Expand, rather than retract. Don't let short term dissatisfaction sabotage your long term potential. Live to embrace another day, then another, and your true spirit will flourish once more
You are the author of your own life, and it’s never too late to replace the stories you tell yourself and the world. It’s never too late to begin a new chapter, add a surprise twist, or change genres entirely.
Sitting in discomfort today, I notice how my mind scrambles for the escape hatch: a scroll through my phone, a snack I'm not hungry for, a problem to solve that doesn't need solving.
"Wait," I whisper to myself, "what if this restlessness isn't an emergency? What if it's just energy moving through?"
My nervous system settles at the question, like it's been waiting all along for this permission to simply be unsettled.
You’re bored because you don’t love anything. You have nothing to suffer for, to pour your heart into and go to bed exhausted from passion. Boredom is the restless ache of a soul wasting its precious energy on chasing diversions instead of devotion, stimulation instead of ecstasy
Nine — NINE — plays in Game 7 swung the World Series by at least 15 percent.
Most 15% cWPA swings
2025 Game 7 — 9
1924 Game 7 — 7
1991 Game 7 — 6
1946 Game 7 — 6
1912 Game 8 — 6
The best baseball game ever.
Maintaining a sense of gratitude is the key to happiness. Being goal oriented and ambitious without losing a sense of gratitude + avoiding an anxious and envious comparison centered mindset is the work. Especially in today’s social media landscape. Almost all of it is fake.