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Judging self into misery
When we internalise our struggle to the point of believing it to be so unique that it cannot possibly be grasped by anyone else, we give it a power of magnitude beyond the experience itself. Misery intensifies the more we dwell on it. When we live inside our heads, we convince ourselves that our struggle…
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The courage to own your life
The courage to own your life will pay dividends long after you’re gone. It’s an investment in the generations to come. In the same way that we look back on our predecessors or great grandparents and feel a sense of awe about their achievements, or their way of life, generations from now, someone may be…
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A diet of fear
This is probably one of the most important things you could ever connect with. So much damage is caused by fear driven decisions. It destroys your spirit leaving you to find comfort in the very source of the fear that is destroying you. If you’ve been raised on a diet of fear and compliance, it…
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Fear or hope? Choose wisely
Fear drives us towards protecting ourselves from a difficult past, while convincing us that we’re investing in a better future. If we were truly investing in the future, fear of the past repeating itself would not feature in our efforts towards growth and new beginnings. It is fear that manifests as illness or disease in…
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Don’t let fear win
If you’ve been raised on a diet of fear and compliance, it is inevitable that your choices will reflect your fears, and not your dreams Fear destroys hope and replaces it with futility. In the face of futility, we resort to compliance, because compliance provides us with familiarity. Familiarity tethers us to rituals, traditions, and…
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Yearning for a simple life
Life is simple, but it’s not easy. It becomes complicated when we look for the easy way out. Doing the right thing is often complicated by our concern for the consequences with those around us. The greater our emphasis on those consequences, the more complicated life becomes because we have that much more to consider…
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Hope and faith…two peas in a pod
Sometimes I lose the only thing that I can’t afford to lose. Hope. And then I scramble after it knowing that everything else is worthless without it. Hope is something that cannot be denied, or destroyed. Like faith, it can only be redirected. When we give up hope in our dreams, we invest hope in…
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Hopelessly hopeful
In all the times that hope seemed to escape me, I realised that it was not because the future held no hope. It was because I had given up hope of being able to participate meaningfully in that future. I’ve often believed that it’s not depression that exists, but instead, it is hopelessness. It is…
