Your Thoughts…Are Only Thoughts! You don’t have to believe them Photo credit by Keegan Houser on Unsplash “Observe your thoughts, don’t believe them.” — Eckhart Tolle Thoughts…are just fucking thoughts. There’s no reason for you to believe every thought you think. Most of us are so attached to our identities… we never know anything but the voice in our heads. “A fish doesn’t know he’s in water.” — Derek Sivers

Don’t define yourself by your career — Photo credit by Hunters Race on Unsplash “You’re not your job, you’re not how much money you have in bank, you’re not the car you drive, you’re not the contents of your wallet, you’re not your fucking khakis.” — Tyler Durden, Fight Club You are the unconditioned observer behind your…

Your Feelings are temporary — Photo credit by Michael & Diane Weidner on Unsplash “Everything is temporary; Emotions, thoughts, people and scenery. Do not become attached, just flow with it.”  — Anonymous When we have a negative thoughts or feeling, we often fall into the trap of thinking it’s going to last for a long…

Change it, Leave it, or Accept it — Photo credit by Kelli McClintock on Unsplash “When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation, or accept it. All else is madness" -Eckhart Tolle We all face ugly scenarios in the everyday grind. That is part of life. Outside circumstances are mostly out of…

We’d live every moment — Photo credit by Joshua Earle on Unsplash "We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything." - Anthony Hopkins What would our existence be like…if we weren’t thinking so damn much all the time? Well…we’d actually be living all the time. As the old saying goes “too much of anything isn’t good for you.” Thinking is no different. A thing that I’ve…

The More They Stay The Same — “The more things change the more they stay the same." -Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr What the hell does this quote actually mean? To answer this, we might want to look at how this might be present in our own lives. One example: I've noticed people (including myself) who have taken massive action to lose weight. We make surface level changes to our eating habits…

Pause. And just think. — “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently." -Warren Buffett This quote reminds me a lot of the Ted Talk "How One Tweet Can Ruin Your Life," by Jon Ronson. It tells how one regular person made a racist tweet that accidentally went viral. Millions of people saw. And it wrecked her reputation. Years of a good reputation can be…

Ready, Fire…Aim!!! — “Make the decision right.” This saying is for those of us that overthink all the time. Sometimes you have to simply make “a decision" and not worry about making “the decision.”Then, trust that you will be able to adjust and adapt to circumstances that come along. To make a movie reference, in Star Wars…

Take your thinking cap off — Here’s an except from “The World’s Funniest Joke" (with Sherlock Holmes and Watson): Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were going camping. They pitched their tent under the stars and went to sleep. Sometime in the middle of the night Holmes woke Watson up and said: "Watson, look up at the…