Resilience

Pressure is energy, you can allow it to crush you, or you can channel it to propel you.

Time comes for us all

If you see the potential in something and the path to realize it, keep going. A lot of folks just walk away. There is something true to being the change you hope for. Being the reflection you want to see in the world.

It never gets easy. This is good news.

Plans rarely go as planned.

The attack will come when you least expect it, and feel least prepared. Breathe and continue.

If you choose not to find the joy in your struggles. Your life will be filled with much less joy.

There are no rules. Be careful what you choose to believe.

Conflict is real. The way is real.

Sometimes we have to allow ourselves the experiences that are horrifying so that we can more fully show up in the grace, in the gift, in the love, in the light of what is possible.

Grace is not acceptance of the diminishing of a standard; it's an opportunity to continue despite deserving something worse.

if you can't sleep, write.

peace is agnostic to your circumstances.

Now becomes the past, present, and future given time. I will not worry about the past nor future. Now has enough joy filled opportunity for me to invest all of my attention into.

The growth journey never ends. Learn to love the climb. It is the point.

Never underestimate the medicinal benefits of savagery.

Diligence will overcome all difficulties.

Now is the worst time for fear. Instead, get curious. Dive in.

It’s not some point in the future that you change. You change now, based on what you choose to do. Now is the future, and the past, given time.

This feels eternal. It is not.

Use your despair to find freedom.

The desire for change must meet the capacity to metabolize it.

Every time I fight someone new and they win. I want nothing more than to go again, again and again. Until I find my footing and win, or grind us both to dust. It is a great joy to me for which I am immensely grateful. Don’t mistake the loss for more than what it often is. An opportunity.

Willpower evaporates under extreme stress.

everything you want is waiting for you to stop trying to get it

do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. and in so doing, achieve everything.

we possess no more than this moment

you are not made of glass

comfort zones are poison forge forward

day by day brick by brick build stop at nothing

difficulty is unavoidable, suffering is optional

it is wild absolutely wild how large the gap is between what folks say and what they do

stop running from your fear. embrace it, feel it, envision it in great detail. then let it go. on the other side of fear is your true form.

Persist.

Hear me out. The reason folks have terrible follow through is few folks farm any more. You don’t workout, no worries eat a Twinkie. You don’t put the chickens up at night? 1 is taken by an owl, another is eaten by a raccoon, and 13 more are killed by a fox.

it is all a game, play to dominate but don't forget, it is all a game

Chaos will often present itself as the perfect excuse to take your foot off the gas. Yet it is a far better reason to lean in all the more.

It’s incredible to me that joy feels fleeting but suffering feels like it will never end, and yet both change frequently. Stay the course, forge forward.

simply put, persist. adjust your aim and persist. simplify and persist. execute relentlessly and persist. oh and breathe.

It’s incredible how easily discomfort can rob us of joy in this present moment. It is critical to remain vigilant at all times. This too shall pass. And when it does, act now so that future you does not carry regret.