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.

1. I am worthy of the work.
2. Complacency is living life in reverse.
3. How I see myself is how others see me.
4. I don’t have to operate from old wounds.
5. The more scary things I do, the safer I become.
6. Things are only as complex as I choose to make them.
7. Vulnerability is an outward expression of self-acceptance.
8. My soul’s deepest desire is one of my ego’s deepest fears.
9. Create a process I love, and I’ll love myself into a life I love.
10. When I operate from my wounds, I make choices that lead to regret.
11. I wasn’t born with limiting beliefs; I learned them, and I can unlearn them.
12. Can I remember who I was before I believed who I was, was “wrong”?
13. I form beliefs in an attempt to make sense of something that happened.
14. Operating from imaginary fear will create genuine fears and regrets in the future.
15. My ego’s deepest fear is the realization and expression of my authentic self.
16. The possessions you desire to acquire are nothing more than beliefs in material form.
17. What was the life I envisioned for myself before the world told me the life I should live?
18. Emotional freedom isn’t static; it’s dynamic; it shrinks or expands based on my choices.
19. The journey of self-discovery is a journey with no end until our shared inevitable end.
20. Forgiveness isn’t about changing the past; it’s about changing my relationship to the past.
21. Inner peace and emotional freedom aren’t given freely because I want them; they must be earned.
22. Stop beating yourself up for who you were in the past, especially if you’re no longer that same person.
23. Approaching a massively complex issue with the simplest question I can think of disarms the complexity.
24. Our potential is infinite, and accessing new levels of it is a function of our relationship with our limiting beliefs.
25. The fastest way I know of to improve my self-worth is to stop allowing others and externals to define it.
26. My beliefs are the meaning I give something; they aren’t indelible truths, so why do I operate as if they are?
27. When someone says I can’t achieve my goals, it’s not a judgment against me; it’s their self-judgment projected at me.
28. I will never fully understand something until I personally experience its direct opposite. (The beauty of love lives within heartbreak).
29. 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.
30. 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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