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Standing up for yourself as a way to cultivate yourself is not very in the news right now.
We are more attracted to standing up for other people rights or standing up to build credibility or have some deserved attention.
The latter things, the one focused on yourself, are more often then not the results of the need to be seen, to show up.

It’s normal, we all have that. But what would happen if we nourished our lives?
Nourishing them as a way to cultivate what’s good and beautiful, to grow our compassion, our empathy, to deepen the relationships we have, to ensure we smile and have no regrets.
I’m not talking about social status, work, etc.
I’m talking about the inner part of yourself, the purest one. The one that doesn’t feel the need to achieve but the need to share and help.

It’s uncommon, but it’s worth it.

I always wonder what it takes to be accountable, to make it till the end, to reach your goals.

I think that one of the best way to ensure this is to expose our will to others.
Expose them to our dreams, the real one, not the faraway dreams you won’t do, but the ones you are committed to.

This way you create an informational gap between you and other people so that they will expect some action from you.

The best way to do it is sharing it online, let it be on a blog post or on a Facebook status and then share it with the people you trust.

It might be frightening but that fear will keep you accountable

What will you do when you fail is something that might mark your life.

Success, failure, are just steps of a process of research, and as such shouldn’t contain sadness.

They are just part of life.
But when we talk about failure, sadness appears because you’re implicitly judging yourself for not being able to reach your goal.

We confuse the failure in the process with a failure with ourselves, when it’s really not.
We just have to find the right way to do it.

I believe failure and the resulting sadness is all a matter of questions.
The wrong questions are something like

1. why am I failing so much?
2. why am I such a failure?
3. why can’t I do it?

They are generic questions, and some of them assume the problem is you as a whole being, not your actions or choices.

The good questions instead are precise, defined, clear

• I failed doing this, was it because A, B or C?
• What could I change to make it?
• Is there anything else I can learn to improve?

Success is just a part of the process too. So don’t be fooled from it.

When you succeed avoid thinking you won’t fail again.

Have you ever wanted to stop doing something?
Or, worse, did you stopped doing something you once loved because you didn’t care about it anymore?

This is a usual setup when we experience a Burnout in a work environment.
When you experience a burnout you suddenly (at least for me) try to save yourself by reducing the things you do.

Not the one you need to do, just the added value you were contributing to your daily work.
And the reason is often because we stop caring about things.

Passion, therefore, is not only a synonym of what we love, but it’s more than ever shows how much deeply we care .

Passion isn’t only driven by how much we like things but it’s mainly driven by how much we care about them or their results.

If you find yourself lacking passion, ask: is there a reason why I don’t care anymore?

A year is a long time.

It passes like a day, I know, but in fact during one entire year lots of good and bad shit happens and we end up forgetting some of them.

That’s why we should keep track of what we are doing.
To remember, to love. to discover what was wonderful, to remember every single step along this journey.

There will always be bad times, and those times will stay attached to your memory way more better than the good ones.
So make space for the ones worth remembering, the good, the wonderful, the beautiful.

Make space for them so they won’t be a number and you’ll end up thinking that yes, it was a long journey, but it was worth the trouble.