I turned 51 yesterday.
Birthdays are an excellent opportunity to reflect, and I looked into a collection of lines I’ve written that jump out to me.
They’re epiphanies, things I’m coming to understand, things I want to explore deeper, messages directed at myself, and questions I’d like to answer.
I have a ton of them (I’ll eventually create a 365-day book), but here are some that are jumping out to me on my birthday.
- I am worthy of the work.
- Complacency is living life in reverse.
- How I see myself is how others see me.
- I don’t have to operate from old wounds.
- The more scary things I do, the safer I become.
- Things are only as complex as I choose to make them.
- Vulnerability is an outward expression of self-acceptance.
- My soul’s deepest desire is one of my ego’s deepest fears.
- Create a process I love, and I’ll love myself into a life I love.
- When I operate from my wounds, I make choices that lead to regret.
- I wasn’t born with limiting beliefs; I learned them, and I can unlearn them.
- Can I remember who I was before I believed who I was, was “wrong”?
- I form beliefs in an attempt to make sense of something that happened.
- Operating from imaginary fear will create genuine fears and regrets in the future.
- My ego’s deepest fear is the realization and expression of my authentic self.
- The possessions you desire to acquire are nothing more than beliefs in material form.
- What was the life I envisioned for myself before the world told me the life I should live?
- Emotional freedom isn’t static; it’s dynamic; it shrinks or expands based on my choices.
- The journey of self-discovery is a journey with no end until our shared inevitable end.
- Forgiveness isn’t about changing the past; it’s about changing my relationship to the past.
- Inner peace and emotional freedom aren’t given freely because I want them; they must be earned.
- Stop beating yourself up for who you were in the past, especially if you’re no longer that same person.
- Approaching a massively complex issue with the simplest question I can think of disarms the complexity.
- Our potential is infinite, and accessing new levels of it is a function of our relationship with our limiting beliefs.
- The fastest way I know of to improve my self-worth is to stop allowing others and externals to define it.
- My beliefs are the meaning I give something; they aren’t indelible truths, so why do I operate as if they are?
- When someone says I can’t achieve my goals, it’s not a judgment against me; it’s their self-judgment projected at me.
- I will never fully understand something until I personally experience its direct opposite. (The beauty of love lives within heartbreak).
- Something I’m wrapping my head around. The inner peace and emotional freedom I seek are on the razor’s edge of my deepest fears.
- Running away from my true self is like running from my shadow on a sunny afternoon. And as the sun of my life sets, that shadow grows longer.
I could have listed 51, but 30 is an excellent place to stop.
Let me know if any of them jump out to you.
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