there will come a time where what you’ll say or do will be challenged.

Challenged by different opinions, by the harsh truth of reality, by an unfriendly person, or even by yourself.

When that time will come you might feel a new need growing into yourself, the need to allow some uncertainty in life, partly because you might just be right, partly because things aren’t always black and white.

That feeling is a concession only other people can give to you.

Sometimes I wonder what is really needed to sacrifice.
Many people say we have to suffer a bit to gain more, to earn more, etc.

I guess there’s some truth over there, but I also wonder if there’s something else that can be done to reach what we desire.

The first fact is that we can’t have it all.
We can, probably, but in an honest full and rich life, it’s enough if we only reach many of our goals, instead of all of them.

If you think about it, fulfilling some of your goals and dreams is enough satisfying that you don’t feel the need to reach them all together.
Yes, one after another you might want to do them all, but aiming at all of them together? Not a great case.

Instead, what if we could prioritize the goals and focus on what we feel important and what will give us energy and space?
If you think about it every time you don’t have energy or space (I mean freedom of thought, unleashing your creativity or just be calm in your shoes), then you usually can’t accomplish much.

But, on the other hand, what if you are happy and you actually have the time and energy to focus on the next thing?
Yes, right now you probably aren’t, but if you go through the list of your goals, your dreams, and search for the one that will give you energy and time, what would that be?

You might even add a new goal for that matter only.
To have time and energy.
Wouldn’t that be awesome?

Prioritizing that goal might be a great choice, and that’s what I’m trying to do these days.
I realize that I changed my goals many times, and many times I failed at reaching them.

The failure, though, wasn’t really a problem for me.
We fail all the time, why should we care? I learn from my mistakes and go on, and I adapt, I try to adapt and move towards what suits me best in the moment, and now I’ve finally realized that what I really want is time and energy.

To build that, I will need to free time, meaning I will sacrifice money for this goal.

Is money important? Yes.
But can we live with less money? Yes again.
What’s more important? Being full and without energy but with money, or having less (beware: less is different than none) and having time to dedicate to what you care about?

It’s personal, but to me the choice is clear.
Sometimes we have to sacrifice the unnecessary.

There is no rule here, but I can’t stop thinking that the value you put into the world by giving away things will give you way more than if you just kept it for you.

I’ve seen it from time to time, and I continue to think this way: Helping people, enriching them, enlightening them, builds a better world.
There’s more: it helps you.

Deep inside it helps you grow as a human by not being attached to success (it’s ok if you want success, not ok if your life depends on it.).
It helps you leaving a trace, helping people.

And it helps you in ways you can’t predict nor imaging, that’s the most beautiful thing of all.

So, today, help someone, give something for free, surprise someone.
One day, later on, the world will give its gift, but don’t expect them.

There are many things we can’t control.

Life is full of unexpected events, things that will strike in our lives without any notice.
We can’t do a thing against them, we can’t anticipate them, we can just live them

But what we can do is controlling how we handle them.
That is something in our powers.
Changing how we react, change our actions toward a more mature self, toward a constructive feedback, toward creations and not fear.

That is the goal.
The goal is not to be a superhero, the goal is to be a capable human being.

There’s a space between taking a chance and staying still.

That space is long, is dark, and you won’t know what will happen.
That space is all an image of our minds.
A true image, but still the result of some thinking.

It’s the result of all the information we have accumulated about “how things should work”.
That you might fail (and it’s true), that you might just waste time (and it’s true).

But that space is also what differentiates you from the rest of the world.
Not because you took that chance or you stayed still.

No, that space differentiates you because it’s unique.
You, and only you, have that kind of space.
That dimension of fear, worries, and so on, exists in a measure defined by your mind, and no other space will be alike.

Therefore, it’s yours, because it has been constructed like a suit, just for you.

And it’s because of this that it seems so scary.
When we look at someone else’s struggles, we often find them laughable.
Because their fears are not ours.

What it is scary for us, it’s just boring for others.

And what if… it’s just boring for everyone?