What insights have I gained that I am grateful for? - Part I

 What insights have I gained that I am

grateful for? - Part I

Freedom: True freedom comes from creating your own standards, your own moral compass. Freedom comes from rejecting the insecurities of our culture that tell us to do things we don't like doing and spend our time building an endless hamster wheel that leads to exhaustion and emptiness:

Choice: We get to choose. The ultimate privilege is that we can choose what to focus on, we can choose the stories we tell ourselves, we can choose how we spend our time, we can choose what we put in our bodies, we can choose what we surround our minds with. These choices shape our experiences. And our experiences make us who we are.

Strategy means saying no: It's not about adding more. It's about taking away what is not needed. It's about focusing on only the essential elements and letting the rest slip away.

Love comes from sacrifice: It's scary to be vulnerable, to say what we feel, to put ourselves out there, to be dead wrong. And yet if we never go there. If we never share ourselves, if we never are generous and give to others then we have no chance to receive in return. We spend too much time protecting what we have and not sharing because we are afraid of being hurt. This results in less connection.

People are good: The majority of people care deeply about others and want to see other people, and themselves do well. There are a few bad apples that ruin this for everyone but the majority of people are good.

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