Enlightenment may not be what you think!

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Today, I am exploring the idea of enlightenment as a lightening of mental load through experience, study, and cross-training.

First, let’s dig into what this means for me. I have three major guiding principles that inform my actions from moment to moment.

1. Seek Enlightenment: Evaluate whether this knowledge or effort makes future endeavors easier.
2. Fear is a tool: Recognize fear in myself as a mechanism that guides me away from failure.
3. Don’t sweat the small stuff: Embrace life as it comes and learn how to dance with it.

I try my best to apply these three principles to things that I feel may be keeping me from what I want out of life.

Seeking Enlightenment…

With Guidance

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This journey began with difficulty but, built over time, came to represent the core of my education and how I learned to learn. My mother played a crucial role in my enlightenment. Before ADD and ADHD were widely studied. She taught me at a very early age that I had a “jazz” type of mind and that the music may take me off into solos from time…