Live Your Truth

I think perhaps a better thing to want is fulfillment. A deeper state, one that comes from within, from being your best self. From living life the way you really wish to live it. Then, happiness emanates from within as a byproduct. Naturally.

The thing is, we’re human beings living our lives, doing the best we can. No one dropped us off with instruction manuals.

Love, pain, fears, hopes, dreams, desires. All arise from the mind. We’re stuck in our heads, walking around, reliving old stories and patterns and beliefs. The ever constant human drama. I don’t know why our brains are wired that way, they just are.

knowing that helps me immensely. I know that regardless of the situation or whatever the external experience is, I choose who to be in this moment. I choose what to feel in this moment. Often it feels like we’re on autopilot, but if you examine your thoughts closely, you’ll know that not to be true. It is always a choice.

Each time James mentions his daily practice, whether in a new book or a tweet or a post, it makes me happy. It is the biggest public service one can do — show others exactly how to transform themselves, make their lives better. Because when we are better, those around us are better.

Ask yourself: what is it, that if I believed it down to my core, would change everything? Make the fears irrelevant? Make the person I’d become so unbelievably amazing that I’d blow my own socks off?

I walk around, a man in this society, big strong adult mask on. Seeming to have it all together. Sometimes true. Sometimes far from it. There are times that even my best isn’t enough. I will stumble, I will fall. And those times, the best thing I can do is reach out to someone who truly loves me, ask them for help, to hold out their hand.

Hemingway, whenever he was stuck in his writing, would tell himself to write one true thing. A true sentence. Then, he would write another. And another.

Now I know what success is: living your truth, sharing it. Whether through a book, raising a child, building a company, creating art, or a conversation. Whatever human endeavor we choose, as long as we live our truth, it is success.