#168 Purposeful pursuits

ByLukas March 4, 2023March 29, 2023

I made an account on Instagram to stay in touch with friends abroad. Now I habitually spend hours a day scrolling through Instagram feeds. Is this a purposeful pursuit?

I started journaling to clear my head. Now I habitually write and publish insights every day. Is this a purposeful pursuit?

Good intentions and purposeful actions inevitably turn into a habit, and that can be a good or a bad thing.

Constantly questioning our actions leads to paralysis.

But once in a while, gaining presence and reaffirming your intentions can be enough to put you back on track.

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#480 You don’t have be hard on yourself today
ByLukas January 10, 2024January 9, 2024
Life could be hard on you today.
But you don’t have to be hard on yourself.
You always could.
Sometimes you should.
But most of the time, you don’t have to.
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#337 You’ll always be human
ByLukas August 20, 2023August 19, 2023
You can be a writer with spelling mistakes.
A language learning expert who is afraid of speaking a foreign language.
A psychologist who doesn’t always feel good.
A teacher who doesn’t have all the answers.
You can be anything.
And you’ll always be human.
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#294 The true purpose of goals
ByLukas July 8, 2023
Goals make you write every day and enjoy the process, even if you’ll never publish a book.
Goals make you practice yoga and get to know your body, even if you’ll never be able to be in that ultimate pose.
Goals makes you help someone and learn to give and contribute, even if your help ultimately doesn’t get them to the place they wanted to go.
Goals don’t predict outcomes. Because the purpose of a goal is not to achieve it, but to set the direction of your life.
It gives you the fuel to start taking action, and the guidance to make sure that action is intentional.
I don’t know about you, my friend, but to me, that’s a fulfilling thought.
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#547 Why we all want to be what we aren’t
ByLukas March 17, 2024March 17, 2024
The normal want to be special
The special want to be normal
We all want to be what we aren’t
Because if you already are
How can you ever desire?
Read More #547 Why we all want to be what we aren’t
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#326 What you care most about will show up in what you do
ByLukas August 9, 2023August 8, 2023
No matter if you write or not, run or not, spend time with family or not…
No matter what you say, what you care most about will show up in what you do.
Read More #326 What you care most about will show up in what you do
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#509 There’s no way you won’t grow
ByLukas February 8, 2024
You may win, lose, fly high, fall low
You may have it easy or hard
But come what may
There is no way you won’t grow.
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