You’re either the person who creates energy. Or you’re the one that destroys it.*
Seth Godin
Rate your individual acts as good or bad, if you like. Seek to perform as many good ones, and as few bad ones, as possible. But leave your self out of it. One final implication of thinking about selfhood in this way – and arguably the most significant one – concerns the idea of selflessness.**
Oliver Burkeman
Tribal Leadership proffers five perspectives on life–
Life sucks!
My life sucks!
I’m great!
We’re great!
Life is great!
The first four include the destructive subtexts–
Life sucks!
Your life is okay but mine will never be!
You’re not great!
They’re not great!
There are too many reasons for destroying energy–
I don’t want to be here!
I don’t want to be with you!
I don’t want to be doing this thing!
I don’t want to look inside!
It’s all unfair!
You hurt me!
There are a few good place to begin changing the narrative–
Humility, truly seeing oneself and others–
Towards selflessness;
Gratitude, thankful for all that fills one’s life–
Towards generosity;
Faithfulness, giving daily form to humility and gratitude–
Towards wisdom.
*Quoted in Ryder Carroll’s The Bullet Journal Method;
**Oliver Burkeman’s The Antidote.
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