PSTM: Trailheads & Acceptance 2/26/26
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The idea: If you don’t record your life, you live it, but you lose large chunks of it. Everyday, I write down at least one thing important that happened to me. It can be more, but never less. That moment would have been lost forever. The night before, the horror of the bartender that broke the top of the baccarat cristal. The deliberation about how I could get the stopper out. I think that a life well lived is not one in which every moment is pleasurable. Instead, I think a life well lived is one that you, in retrospect, are happy you lived. Write down the trivial, banal, tedious parts of your life. It turns out, the things that fill our lives, ARE our lives. The quote: “In what ways have you yet to accept the fact that you are who you are, not the person you think you ought to be?
In which areas of life are you still holding back until you feel like you know what you’re doing?
How would you spend your days differently if you didn’t care so much about seeing your actions reach conclusion”
Four Thousand Weeks Paperback by Oliver Burkeman
The advice: Your fears, hopes, desires, regrets, happiness and sadness all exist in the only place they can: reality. Honor it. Honor what is. Don’t fight the universe, accept what is, it’s the only way to change it. You cannot fix a problem you deny. |