#162 Maintaining the majority

ByLukas
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If you write more consistently than you don’t write, you’re a writer.

If you run more consistently than you don’t run, you’re a runner.

And while every action you take is a vote for who you want to be, you don’t need 100% of the votes to build a habit or adopt an identity.

It’s okay to slip up, it’s okay to take a break, and it’s okay to make a mistake – as long as you cast enough votes in favor of your desired identity.

Don’t be a hardliner nor a totalitarian. Be disciplined without fearing the occasional laps.

Focus on maintaining the majority.

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#255 The method to your madness

ByLukas

Most people don’t see why you’re taking time out of your busy day to sit down and write until the book you were working on every day lies in front of them.

They don’t see why you run every day and eat clean until you set a personal best at the next marathon.

They don’t see the new product you’re working on until it’s developed so far that it helps them achieve their goals.

You’re the only one who sees the method to your madness.

And that’s fine.

Because you probably don’t see the method to their madness either.

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#112 Chipping away at your skepticism

ByLukas

You don’t have to believe you can do, be or achieve something today.

But you must trust there’s always a tiny daily action, fairly easy to take, that goes against your disbelief.

A tiny daily trusty builder, repeated every day, that chips away at your skepticism and plants a seed of self-trust in your brain: “Maybe I CAN change”?

Then one day, you wake up and you believe: I can be whoever I choose to be.

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#23 For all the languages I’ve learned

ByLukas

For all the languages I’ve learned
trying in vain to put the inner and outer world into words
closely but not completely capturing the essence
I now realize the biggest insights reveal themselves
where words are worthless and feelings reign
where they are felt and lived, embodied,
refusing to be rationalized, categorized
or undergo the violent limitations of our words.

Maybe language learning is more about admitting that some languages are lived, not learned.

That some insights are felt, not expressed.

That sometimes words create distance from what we experience deep down, instead of offering the clarity we seek.

Accepting that may well be the biggest challenge of all.

There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.

Rumi

#157 Trust I must

ByLukas

When the going gets tough
When I bite the dust
Trust I must

Trust I must
That the purpose I feel inside
The calling from which I can no longer hide
Is a reliable guide

Trust I must
That the vision I hold dear
Is enough to conquer my fear
and persevere

Trust I must
That the words I say
The actions I take every day
Won’t lead me astray

Trust I must
That I am not alone
And that this calling
Will bring me home

Trust I must
Every day
That this is the path
This is my way

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#172 The pursuit of failure

ByLukas

I can’t just say, “today, I’m going to be excellent at writing.”

Excellence is an outcome: a result of focused daily actions.

And one of the fastest ways to excellence is the pursuit of failure.

Not just making accidental mistakes but actively seeking them out.

Did I write nonsense today? Did I understand why I was writing nonsense? Have I learned something from writing that nonsense that will help me write something less nonsensical tomorrow?

The pursuit of failure is painful, especially for perfectionists like me.

But once ego, perfectionism, and the fear of failure make way for a commitment to the process, there’s much to learn from daily mistakes.

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