note-to-self

The dead only knows their world.

Any belief worth embracing will stand up to the litmus test of scrutiny. If we have to qualify, rationalize, make exceptions for, or turn a blind eye to maintain a belief, then it may well be time to release that belief.

The most important progress and success can't be seen. If you can validate yourself internally, then external validation becomes a byproduct.

Doing something for the mere joy of it__or one's self or others__s quite possibly one of the best returns on an investment of time that a person can receive.

Joy is inexplicable peace that comes from within.

When we inhabit our own life__top doing things based on the approval of others__e offload baggage and trade up to joy!

sometimes even the worst dreams are better than this reality

confront your greatest fearsvoice your biggest problemsacknowledge your tiniest issuesthe longer you stay silentthe louder they becomethey won't disappear if you ignore themthey will spread and affect all aspects of your life

If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.

They say the truth will set you free, but what they neglect to mention is what happens when the truth isn't what you want to hear.

today my heart was ripped in twoone half for me, one half for you take a half and keep it neari have mine and will always be here crossing paths before the endonce a lover, forever a friend

One of the benchmarks of great communicators is their ability to listen not just to what's being said, but to what's not being said as well. They listen between the lines.

People who are adept in healthy self-expression exercise front-end consideration before speaking.

Be bigger presence at work. Race up ladder (joyfully, w/smile on face), get raise. Get in best shape of life, start dressing nicer. Learn guitar? Make point of noticing beauty of world? Why not educate self re. birds, flowers, trees, constellations, become true citizen of natural world, walk around neighborhood w/kids, patiently teaching kids names of birds, flowers, etc. etc.? Why not take kids to Europe? Kids have never been. Have never, in Alps, had hot chocolate in mountain café, served by kindly white- haired innkeeper, who finds them so sophisticated/friendly relative to usual snotty/rich American kids (who always ignore his pretty but crippled daughter w/braids) that he shows them secret hiking path to incredible glade, kids frolic in glade, sit with crippled pretty girl on grass, later say it was most beautiful day of their lives, keep in touch with crippled girl via email, we arrange surgery here for her, surgeon so touched he agrees to do surgery for free, she is on front page of our paper, we are on front page of their paper in Alps? Ha ha.