LIFEBLOOD
2 IDEAS FROM ME
Lifeblood is the source of energy, strength, & vitality flowing from an accurate understanding of reality, passionate clarity of who you are, and mindful practice of your signature strengths toward your highest values and vision for living them.
Clarifying your highest values and signature strengths are essential to living your best life. Otherwise, you drift in the pounding surf of habitual thinking of a conditioned mind.
2 QUOTES FROM SAGES
"If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done." - Unknown
“There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning boys, how’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?” The point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about…The really significant education in thinking that we’re supposed to get in a place like this isn’t really about the capacity to think, but rather about the choice of what to think about. If your total freedom of choice regarding what to think about seems too obvious to waste time discussing, I’d ask you to think about fish and water, and to bracket for just a few minutes your skepticism about the value of the totally obvious. Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.”—David Foster Wallace (This is Water: Some Thoughts on a Significant Occasion About Living a Compassionate Life)
1 QUESTION FOR YOU TO EXPLORE
What daily habit would accelerate your ability to live your best life?
Namaste,
Duane Nelson
