Do you wish you could follow your dreams and live a life of passion, but you’re not sure you can pull it off? Here’s how I learnt to commit to my own success by paying attention to this one thing.
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I’ve made a new friend. We used to be at odds. He would taunt me, annoy me, make me doubt myself. Sometimes to the point of insanity.
I have the power to shift your reality without you even knowing it. Want to know how? Step into my world. This is the story of how I got where I am today. I was born an artist.
"Keep 20% of your stomach empty at all times." Imagine getting this advice at a 10-day silent meditation course, during which you can eat all you want during breakfast and lunch, but there is no dinner. (And no, there is no snacking either.)
I quit my last full-time job 8 years ago, and I’ve never looked back. If you’ve just quit your job, or are thinking about it, then I know you know how hard it is to figure out what you’ll do after, how you’ll make ends meet, and if you’ll regret your decision later.
After I lost my faith, I did everything I could to take care of myself and get back up. But even after I started feeling a little better, I found that I had lost more than just my faith. I had lost my passion for the future I had been creating.
If Faith can make you do anything, what do you do when you’ve lost your faith? Especially in yourself? It happened to me, and here’s what I did next.
It’s the nature of being human: to be able to act upon anything we conjure up in our minds. Be it a desire for the future, or a fear of the past, it only need exist in our mind to be convincing enough to get us to pick up a cookie, a lover, a religion, or a gun.
The more you open yourself up and let people see the dirty, gory stuff, the more they want to come close and keep looking — just as long as they are free to move away the moment that the front row seats start getting splashed with blood.