The more self-regulated you become, the more you realize that communicating your feelings isn’t an emergency. You can sit with it. Sleep on it. Let the wave pass. You don’t have to rush into expression just because the emotion feels loud.1/2
The mistake is that you are looking for a woman to settle down with and that’s even a wrong motive to enter this dating world with
I always advise talking to more women especially when you are not ready to marry…
That’s how you find someone that is genuine and makes you want to settle down…
Na the woman suppose make you think of settling down not you deciding to settle down and then looking for a woman…
Reverse the mindset, talk to a lot of women, find a woman that makes you want to marry and settle down
Or else, keep talking to more women and enjoying your life
One of the biggest mistakes that people make in early dating is building attachment faster than they’re building information.
You’re texting all the time, saying good morning and good night, checking in about each other’s days, asking deep questions, sharing stories, sending memes, building a rhythm.
And none of that is bad, but all of it creates attachment. It creates familiarity. It creates bonding, connection, investment.
And the problem is:
Yes, I’ve mentioned this a number of times: the average Nigerian couple aren’t childhood friends who grew together into lovers, nor are they replicas of two people who consistently sought each other’s body and soul to fulfil their deepest desires.
More often, it is a man doing all he can to become “made” (relatively speaking), then trying his luck with women within the social bracket he believes might consider him a potential mate. He must prove that he can provide for her and accommodate her excesses before she commits to him.
Then, when she is eventually “with him,” she discovers, unfortunately, that she may also have to keep up with his excesses—unless she has enough leverage to leave him for someone else. In this sense, she is dutiful by contingency, not by purpose.
If a man has to pay for a simulation of a woman’s affection, and the woman accepts that payment, then they must both play their respective roles in an arrangement where the woman’s pleasure could hardly be the man’s priority. If affection itself can be simulated, let her simulate the orgasm too.
It is only fair, then, to observe sensuality and sexual attraction between people who genuinely experience them—people who are sincere about it and conscious of it. Such people aren’t exactly common in urban Nigeria.
deconstruct the desire to be seen only under the perfect conditions.. your essence is actually more prominent against circumstances that are not ideal.
And I think brilliance is the easy part. Structure, that's the mountain. To do something repeatedly, consistently, and adequately takes a lot more than inherent nature. Brilliance without structure will always be potential, which gradually mestasizes into regret.
What Aaron Rodgers experienced by spending 100 hours in complete darkness wasn’t just a gimmicky way to induce a drug-like experience, it was a direct confrontation with his own subconscious.
Throughout most people’s day to day lives 95%+ of what they experience is a reaction to stimulation. Using senses like sight, smell, touch, and taste the mind generates ideas about the world it is surrounded by. What happens when you remove all of the senses? What does the mind have to anchor ideas upon? Nothing.
Giving space for nothing to occur allows the mind to unwind its own sensory tension. The mind is left with nowhere external to place orientation upon, naturally introspection comes next. When there is nothing to focus upon outside of oneself, the mind focuses upon itself.
This process is painful but it is the only way to see your true inner world. This is what Christ spoke about when he stated that “The kingdom of heaven is within.” This is what Zen Masters speak about when they ask “What was your original face before your parents were born?”
The origin of consciousness is within you, yet almost everyone seeks answers externally. They believe that when they finally “get” something, even something as big as a Super Bowl, that they will somehow finally be complete. Aaron proves that the exact opposite is true. It’s not until you give up what is outside of you that you will be at peace with what is inside of you.
Feeling drained doesn't automatically mean you're doing too much.
Sometimes it's because you're never fully doing anything.
You work while thinking about resting.
You rest while feeling guilty about working.
You're always halfway somewhere else.
And halfway is exhausting.
When it's time to work, work.
Immerse yourself. Give it everything.
When it's time to rest, rest.
Actually recover.
When you go to bed, actually focus on sleeping.
Don't turn rest into a half-conscious state of worry.
Don't half-ass your rest.
If you're not full-assing your rest, then you're not full-assing everything.