Fearful Compliance Wastes Lives
Intentions create thoughts, thoughts create experiences, and experiences build our reality. We choose our thoughts based on what we intend. They direct our attention and create our lives.
Intentions create thoughts, thoughts create experiences, and experiences build our reality. We choose our thoughts based on what we intend. They direct our attention and create our lives.
If we want to be happy, we have to lower our expectations. Life will not be a never-ending winning streak. It wasn’t designed to be.
Today, it’s not our jobs but our personal lives that keep us from renewing our minds. The burden is daily life in the kind of places built around ever-multiplying HOAs, athleisure, and strip malls. I was living in one of them.
Two quiet women living side by side each believed the other was shaking the wall at night. A building noise became a story about danger, disrespect, and certainty. Then the police knocked on the door.
Three million people passed away last year. They were nine, and thirty-three, and your age. They died of cancer and in car accidents on their way home. They died of hopeless desperation and from nervous exhaustion after trying too hard, for too long, to please everyone. They died in a Turkish hotel fire on vacation