Life can be daunting. What keeps us going? I've been asking this question to friends who have been giving me so many great answers. Today, I wanted to ask you this to help me create the topics I will cover in the upcoming essays, and to I spire on my own healing journey.
What keeps you going when life gets tough? What keeps you going when there are too many obstacles in the way of your goal, or when your initial excitement about a project is gone?
Excited to see your answers in the comments or simply reply to this email. Could be a single word or a whole thesis. All appreciated!
The external: relationships pull me outward from myself - family and friends are the key for me. I lost sight of this during covid and am working on getting my social mindset back to healthy levels.
The internal: exercise has helped me find my reset button! I think Murakami's 2 cents on novelists needing to develop physical strength and stamina really resonates with me...it's a long, long road and 'training' helps me cultivate a longview, while also hitting my reset button to make the rest of my day endorphin-filled and bouncy.
I believe for so many Fear is quiet a powerful hidden motivation, that is buried down but creates wonder. Sometimes I feel that this quote always hovering somewhere in the collective minds of corporate life.
“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.”
A sense of duty @work and optimism elsewhere. I feel responsible for the promises I made to the people I work with, and choose to push myself to follow up to them. And somewhere, deep down, I keep a belief in better days alive ;)
The external: relationships pull me outward from myself - family and friends are the key for me. I lost sight of this during covid and am working on getting my social mindset back to healthy levels.
The internal: exercise has helped me find my reset button! I think Murakami's 2 cents on novelists needing to develop physical strength and stamina really resonates with me...it's a long, long road and 'training' helps me cultivate a longview, while also hitting my reset button to make the rest of my day endorphin-filled and bouncy.
I believe for so many Fear is quiet a powerful hidden motivation, that is buried down but creates wonder. Sometimes I feel that this quote always hovering somewhere in the collective minds of corporate life.
“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.”
- Christopher McDougall
A sense of duty @work and optimism elsewhere. I feel responsible for the promises I made to the people I work with, and choose to push myself to follow up to them. And somewhere, deep down, I keep a belief in better days alive ;)