Living life as it comes
When you stop looking at things in terms of rules, you become freer. You don’t need to impede your freedom to make good choices. Neither do you need to give yourself a bunch of rules to follow.
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I saw it said online that “the younger generation doesn’t believe that they owe anyone anything, but that’s not true. You owe respect to others, you owe it to others to tell the truth. You owe it to others basically, to be an upright person.”
How I see it is nobody owes each other anything. But there are prerequisites to building something, including even a simple friendship. Heck, you don’t “owe” it to anyone to be a decent person, but there will be consequences if you’re not. You won’t have people supporting you after a while, because that’s simple risk assessment. If you’re a liar, eventually people will stop believing you.
Continue reading “A socially broken generation– My Two Cents”
Hello and welcome back to the Thoughts that Bind. Today, I really wanted to talk about potential. We’re all seemingly obsessed with it, and I’m not convinced it’s for our good.
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Hello and welcome to the Thoughts that Bind! And if you’re returning, welcome back! Thanks for checking back in with me. Today’s post is going to be short and sweet. I just wanted to affirm for you how awesome you are. And yes, this is an urgent matter. Perhaps the most urgent thing you could possibly give your attention to right now. Because sometimes, we forget.
Continue reading “You’re gonna like who you become”
I love self-improvement, reflection and personal development. I read books, write in journals, talk to others and even meditate for guidance. And all these things are great. Really. It’s good to be looking for perspective in life and to value that perspective coming from all different sorts of places. But I bet you don’t need it as much as you think you do.
In life, we have all sorts of things that we’re pursuing at any given time, and they all fight for our attention in our heads. We think we have to keep up, and so we try to keep track of our opinions, thoughts and ideas. We think this brings us great productivity, and you know what? Maybe we’re right. But it doesn’t bring us everything in life.
Continue reading “Learning to respect silence”
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Thoughts that Bind. Today, I want to talk about a concept that’s really simple in theory, but trips a lot of us up from time to time. Or, well, to take ownership, trips me up often. And so, without further ado, let’s get to chatting.
Continue reading “Do the work: my two cents”
Hello, and welcome back to the Thoughts that Bind! Today, we’re revisiting a series that everyone loved, letter-writing! If you’re interested in reading the introduction to the concept of letter writing, you can find it here. But for now, we’re going to dive right into the matter at hand.
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Today I want to write a little different kind of post. I’m going to tell you a little story, about myself. Because I’ve thought this over, and I think the best way to make my point is to tell you where it comes from. So that you can relate to it. And so, here it goes.
Continue reading “What a little cozy can do: my two cents”
I thought I’d give credence to a funny little idea today. Not for any particular reason, but I like what it says, about habits, about life, and about our personal power to control our own destiny.
Continue reading “Make your life harder (in order to make it easier)”
