My blog hasn’t gone out in the past two weeks.
It wasn’t that I made a decision for it to not go out, I didn’t follow my system to set a reminder for when I needed to write blogs.
It made me realise, we focus so much on motivation to follow habits, but often we should focus on the system to ensure those habits happen.
We can beat ourselves up, or we can get a better system.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.
We often try to outrun the storm, emotionally, physically, spiritually.
We’re entering an age where machines do our thinking before we’ve even had a chance to try.
In church the other day, the pastor gave a sermon that really stuck with me. He talked about two people.