Daily Insight

When you outsource your happiness, you’ll always be under stress.

The outcome is not the book.
The outcome is not the marathon.
The outcome is not the successful business.

The outcome is not even the daily habit you form, even though they’re the stepping stones you need.

The outcome is the embodiment of the changes we’ve internalized, the growth we’ve experienced, and the evolution we’ve undergone, allowing us to say, “This is what I now stand for. This is what I believe is possible.”

The outcome is the identity.

Maybe it’s less about “What do I want to achieve?” and more about “What do I want to believe?”

Opportunities often stare us in the face in our daily interactions, routines, and familiar environments – and that guise of the ordinary makes them invisible.

After all, seeing the value in something that comes so easily to you is hard.

So it takes an outsider to point it out.

What skill are you taking for granted even though it’s really pretty cool?

What comes naturally to you but is hard for others to do?

Which problems can you solve effortlessly? If you solve them for others, how would that set them free?

I don’t care much for indifference.

But dismissal… that’s something else.

The more I dismiss something, the more curious I get.

Does it contradict my values?

Am I afraid?

Or am I pushing away something I secretly want?

I don’t know what it is about dismissal, my friend.

But I do know that the stronger the feelings, the more interesting it gets.

“You already know what I’m going to say,” the mentor I don’t have tells me.

It’s true.

I don’t need anyone to tell me what to do.

Neither do you.

All you need is someone to remind you to do what you already know.

If you had constant presence of mind, you could remind yourself.

But if you’re anything like me, your clarity gets lost in day-to-day desires, worries, and chores.

And that’s fine.

Because that’s what you’re here for, no?

Not to learn what your life should look like but to receive a reminder to live it daily?

Frowns carry questions. Puzzles. Uncertainty on the edge of understanding.

“I don’t understand – yet.”

Sometimes they also carry dismissal.

“I don’t agree – why?”

Most of all, frowns symbolize a struggle, a moment of dissonance between what we know and what we encounter.

Balancing on the edge of comprehension or dismissively pushing away the unfamiliar…

This is where insights are born.

In the pursuit of our ambitions, we often create intricate plans, detailed routines, and exhaustive checklists.

But when these complexities start to feel more like obstacles than aids, it might be time to strip things back.

Where are you overcomplicating? Is it in the planning, the execution, or perhaps the goal itself?

Seeking the simplest way is not always the easiest. But more often than not, it’s the most effective.

What if you could? What if you could already do what you believe you still can’t?

Maybe the key isn’t to become a different person, but to believe in the person you already are.

Whoever or whatever you aspire to be is not as far off as you might think.