Today isn't a dress rehearsal, it's your life.
How often do we say to ourselves, “when.. (fill in the blank) things will be different.” When our kids are grown, when we get a promotion, when we change jobs, when we retire, when some magic time in the future comes we will start living our real life; for now, we will just go through this dress rehearsal until the real show starts.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but, this is your life.
You don’t get a warm up session before the big game. You don’t get a trial run. This is it.
Make a list of the things you will do today. Are you slugging through them or are you performing them like this is the real show? The things on this list make up your life. You won’t be excited about a lot of them and some of them will be things you do simply because they have to be done, but they are worth doing with proper attention and care.
Pay attention to the things in your daily life you approach with dread or contempt. Having contempt for your daily tasks is no different than feeling contempt for your life, as these things are your life. There isn’t going to be a magical time when all of your daily tasks fall to the wayside and you finally arrive at Narnia. There will be plenty of new tasks to replace the ones you loathed because that is what life is.
Perform today like it matters because it does. Each task you encounter, ask yourself if this is a means to an end or the end itself. When we approach each day as a means to an end, we make progress towards what it is we really want to achieve with our lives.
Today is the real show. The curtain is up and the spotlights are on. How will you perform?
Your happiness is not a gift given to you by others.
Create a mantra for your life. If you aren't writing your story, someone else is writing it for you.
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Hello my friends!
I'm finishing up the transition away from Locals onto Substack and wanted to be sure each of you have made the necessary adjustments to your accounts. For those of you who have remaining months left on your paid support here, I have comped you the balance over at Substack.
This will be the final week I post content here.
I will resume the live recordings over there, starting with our first call on Friday, March 3rd at 9am/12pm. Invitations to join the Zoom calls will go out on Substack. Mark your calendars!
Also, be sure to download the Substack App! I love the app and find it so helpful in organizing content I want to read later by keeping it on my dashboard.
See you on the other side!
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One of the biggest challenges in writing my book is not being able to share any of it along the way. Given my narcissistic need for constant approval and attention, not having any feedback is killing me. Even negative attention is better than no attention at all (which explains a lot of my behavior in life), so not only am I missing the praise but I also miss my haters.
I need to break out of this cave. Thanks to Chuck Palahniuk who writes Spoiler Alert on Substack, but you would know as the author of Fight Club, I got the idea to share some excerpts and things that won’t make the final edit. This will give us both what we need. I get some attention and you get some thought provoking words to make you think (and possibly laugh, cry or both.)
Today’s snippet is from the first draft of a chapter titled, Remove Your Kindergarten Name Tag. I am currently on my third revision and we can all be thankful for this. As I walk my readers through the dark hallways of my earliest years, and attempt ...
Wanted to pass this short video along. We think of health in very limited ways. Faith, nature, love, communality, shared human experience…all prove to be just as necessary, if not more so, than going to the gym.
I’ve always viewed and taught health from this perspective. It is my belief the lack of these essential elements is as big an issue in our culture as poor diet and lack of movement.
The takeaway-we can do better🙏🏼
