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The future you see is the future you get
What is in your line of sight? Many are myopic, lacking foresight, imagination, and insight into consequences. Your future becomes what you choose to focus on in your mental vision. Your mind contains powerful attractor powers, so use it thoughtfully, with purposeful intention.
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Time to move on
You’ve changed, but your role hasn’t. You find yourself playing the old version of you with the old crowd. You find yourself delaying replies, dodging invites, or hoping plans get canceled—even if you can’t fully explain why. You just no longer feel the fit. Quit playing who you were. It’s time to move on. It’s…
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Textbook endings
There are no tidy textbook endings, nor neatly scripted solutions to complex problems. Life is filled with unfinished endings, messy conclusions, and words left unsaid. Yet we are wired to close the open loops, to find resolution. When no resolution is coming, when no closure is in sight, we focus on what we can control,…
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I wake up now
I have been living my life like a snooze button.Not because I am tired, because I don’t want to wake up.Because I didn’t believe I had the power to change. Life was happening to me.I was watching. I told myself I had no power.It was easier to believe that than to face the work.Easier to…
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It never gets easier
If you’re doing it right, you keep moving on to more difficult goals. You’re climbing, not coasting. When it gets easier, you’ve fallen prey to what worked in your past. Today is not the past, so reject that flawed enchantment of predictable perfection. Rather than wishing life were easier, why not wish you were better?
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Stuck in Georgia
Bob’s recent post about the cost of holding on hit close to home for me. So much of the article rings true for me — sunk cost fallacy, environments that fit better, moving forward, postponing change, status quo stagnation becoming identity. I’ve lived in many different places, but I’ve been in Georgia for the last…