We all have different personas; the child, the warrior, the sage etc.
These are personas that have unconsciously developed, and also that we have consciously developed, in ourselves.
The question is, who is running your show?
When you’re under pressure, when you’re under stress, when the shit hits the fan, who takes control?
Too often I see the child taking control. The child is scared, the child is defensive, the child is petulant. The child is rarely the best persona to be in charge, when you’re an adult.
So another question, who would you like to take control?
And an even better question, what needs to happen for that persona to take control?
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.