Thoughts about changing, life, and whatever comes to mind.
Life will get in your way. Some days you won’t sleep, some days you will have more things to do and fail at doing them.
Life will always flow, and so will you. You will dive, surf, play in life. Every day, every moment, every second.
The detours shouldn’t stop you, the fatigue shouldn’t stop you. That’s why, whatever happens, you should always continue what you’re doing, keeping your habits and adapting them to the ever-changing flow of life.
But never, never stop.
There are some magical times when life happens, and you’re just there, somewhat ready to enjoy it.
Yesterday I was having lunch with my friends in a house in the mountains. We had fun and enjoyed the lunch.
After everything was over when everyone left, and I was ready to leave, I realized I lost my headphones.
I went back to the house searching for them, nothing, so I took my daughter, and we walked up on the hills, on a path I did in the morning, to see if I lost them there.
The grass was of a bright green, thanks to the rain in the morning, the sun was setting, and the light was slowly turning into a warm orange, signaling that the dusk was about to happen.
I was there, alone, in the silence of the forest, looking at this beautiful sight with her and I realized that the headphones I lost may have been a great opportunity to live that moment, which I would have lost otherwise.
Life happens, that’s the beauty of life. But it’s up to us to be ready to embrace it.
It’s nice to have rules, but rules, and more generally the expectations on our life, can be detrimental.
What if you cannot workout the day you planned? What if there is something more important in your life that will make you skip your diet?
Rules, to me, are a guide across many years of work. They should be respected as much as possible, but shouldn’t be stressed too much because life can get in the way.
And when it gets in the way, we don’t have the power to stop it.
Either we accept it with a smile, bend the rules and move on, or we are forced to do it anyway and have a bad mood for the rest of the day.
Watch out for the things you do every day. Think about them deeply because they have the power to profoundly impact your life.
Even if they are small, they are, in fact, a definition of you, and a trajectory for what you can be.
Are you working out frequently? Cooking frequently? Eating frequently?
Each of those will lead to different outcomes.
Also, “frequently” doesn’t mean that it takes a lot of time. You might do a 5-minute workout every day.
It’s not much, but over 5 years it can become life-changing.
The things we do every day are things that change us little bit little, like the sea forms the cliffs.
Yesterday I was speaking to an old friend and I realized how important our approach is when dealing with difficult situations.
If we let our fear take control, if we feel wounded after an attack (work or personal), then we lose part of the mental clarity required to go forward.
We need to protect our core, to detach, so we can see and think clearly.
That is not easy. Some people, like my friend, have an unshakable core, life can throw anything at them, life can surround them with terrible people, they’d still be able to work at 100% their efficiency.
Other people get distracted, annoyed, they heat up when something goes wrong or if they get a bad reaction from someone.
This limits their ability to pursue what they want and work efficiently, but more importantly, peacefully.
Because it’s not about working better, living better. It’s about being in peace with the world, even if something goes wrong, even if someone is misbehaving.
That is, to me, a strong inner core.
Come on, give me the chills 