Daily Insight

What you spend your time on.

Who you spend your time with.

Who you listen to.

What you listen to.

Never forget, you get to choose.

You feel excitement. Happiness. Anger. Sadness.

But you are not your excitement or happiness.

Because if you allow yourself to cling to the emotions you desire, you’ll have not choice but to identify with undesirable ones, like anger and sadness, too.

Thus, you feel excitement – until it fades.

You feel happiness – until it fades.

You feel anger – until it fades.

You feel sadness – until it fades.

No matter which emotion rises, feel it until it fades. You’re going to be fine either way.

You don’t need to find the motivation to start doing the work.

It’s more likely you need to start doing the work to find motivation.

And if it truly feels impossible to do the work, maybe you just need some rest.

If you doubt you can come back to a good habit after you miss a day, let me put your mind at ease: you can.

Just like you can come back after a week, a month, a year, or a decade.

All that counts is today.

And you can do this today.

Your anger is real. But you are not your anger.

Your worries are real. But that doesn’t mean it’s rooted in reality.

You aren’t scared. You feel scared.

You are not your emotions. Emotions are not your identity.

Willpower.

Habit.

Discipline.

Connection with your purpose.

Use whatever it takes to do what you know is important to you.

I write every day, because I can. And so can you.

I don’t run every day, even though I could. And so could you.

Whether our mind allows us to see it or not, we always can.

We always have the time.

You don’t know what you can do.

You don’t know what’s possible for you.

But every day, you get to find out.

Isn’t that beautiful

You’ll end up in the season of distraction.

And then you’ll be back again.

You’ll end up in the season of rest.

And then you’ll be back again.

You’ll end up in the season of turmoil.

And then you’ll be back again.

And the more you go “back again” to a path, the stronger that default path becomes.

Choose it wisely.

One more word.

One more practice run.

One more yoga session.

One more moment of doing what’s important to you.

One more moment that brings you closer to who you choose to be.

Just one more.