3 — things i’m thinking about this week

• i — delusion is subtle…

  • None of us feels like we’ve been tricked. Instead, we tend to feel like we’re good to go and rocking our way through life…but are we really?

    • How much time do you spend consuming content?

    • How well are you taking care of your body?

    • How much quality time is spent with your family or loved ones?

    • How well-defined is your purpose?

    These are the questions that I turn to when I start to feel anxious or unsettled about myself or my current circumstances.
    
    See, if I’m spending all of my time consuming rather than creating, I’m out of balance and I might not even realize it. My emotions will realize it before me and send me warning signs — depression, moodiness, frustration, etc. If I don’t heed those warning signs, they just get worse and worse until they define my reality.
    
    The same is true with taking care of my body through proper nutrition and exercise. You don’t have to be a fitness influencer in order to appreciate having a strong, fit body…If you’re like me and don’t currently have one, work towards it!
    
    Same with time spent with those you love…it reminds you of your true purpose and helps scour your perceptions clean from delusion.
    
    Delusion is subtle but not invisible. Start paying attention to just how much of your negativity or frustrating situations in life are caused by your trying to live up to the expectations of others.

• ii — take time for treasure…

  • The other day, my wife found an old video of our 10-year-old daughter doing everything she could to avoid bedtime. Fortunately, in this video, we allowed the behavior (impromptu story time) to continue for a while and it made for an incredibly beautiful video.
    
    So many times though, I remember being frustrated in those moments and responding from a place of impatient shortsightedness rather than a place of wisdom.
    
    Just like delusion is subtle, the most important treasures we’ll ever experience are subtle. They come in the form of moments with those you care about, moments in places you love, or quiet mental escapes where you truly tap into yourself and your desires.
    
    Those moments are the ones that make life truly worth living. This weekend, rather than focusing so much on your schedule or agenda, take time to treasure the life you’ve built. No matter your circumstances, there’s beauty around you. Train yourself to see it and, when you do, treasure it!

• iii — implementation must follow knowledge…

  • You can have the entire Major League Baseball rule book memorized in six different languages and still suck at baseball.
    
    You can know how to build that business, escape that cubicle, or pursue that dream but until you actually start putting in the effort, it’s just knowledge collecting dust…like abandoned textbooks on a shelf.

2 — quotes from others

1 — question to make you think

How many treasured moments have been missed because we’re so focused on the next moment rather than the current one?

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