Via negativa in daily life is the practice of discovering what you truly want by identifying and eliminating what you don’t want.
Whether it’s habits, relationships, environments, or activities, you clarify your path through subtraction rather than addition.
Emotional decisions will derail you.
Stop 🛑
Take a breath.
Ask if the emotions are talking.
Be reasonable.
Get going again.
An anti-fragile family is one that thrives and grows stronger through challenges, adversity, and change.
Hope is trust without the conviction.
Amen. Alcohol is powerful fuel for the strong and poison to the weak minded. It’s a challenge to master it.
If you can’t achieve your goals and keep your core relationships healthy at the same time you need to question why?
#wisdom #life
Agreed. It’s free and available any time we choose.
There is no achievement worth sacrificing the love and respect of your spouse and children for.
#family
When things don’t work out as planned and you choose to trust, life often gives an upgrade.
#trusttheprocess
It’s been 2 months since I started training 6 days a week in the gym. I’m feeling strong, focused and confident.
I’ve visited around 10 different gyms during this time in 3 separate countries. There is one major change since I last worked as Personal Trainer in a gym in 2013 (no it’s not the scrunchie gym shorts 😉).
Everyone is on their phone! Well they workout and in between sets. WTF? How do you focus? Do you expect results with that level of distraction?
Leave the phone in the car/locker/at home. Focus on training. Be present.
You’ll get results.
#trainharder #focus
I have to pinch myself sometimes.
I’m so proud that I was able to eject myself out from a negative feedback loop of 11 years doing the same thing and not getting the results I wanted.
Most people dream and never do. It’s following the fear and doing what you are afraid to do that brings the greatest liberation.
Liberty is a choice and that choice is to act.
#freedom #action #choice #life
A salary is glorified slavery,
Similar vibes 😂
Be your own boss this year.
#freedom
You can put your time and energy into aquiring stuff, or you can put it into positioning yourself to become who you want to be.
Time and energy are limited, choose wisely.
Ever since the forced social distancing people have become much less capable at smiling and talking to people they don’t know.
I recall when we used to talk to people in the gym. Now everyone trains in isolation, headphones in and no smiling.
I’m committed to being that friendly guy who smiles and says hello.
#befriendly #smile
I would rather drive myself crazy trying to get somewhere than drive myself senile going nowhere.
Same for us. Hence we are now in Perth. Go Kiwis!
What is needed for a personal legend goes beyond morals and even values.
A profound sense of your own destiny is what drives you forward with unwavering focus.
That’s impressive Melissa, I admire you for being able to sustain it. I think that perhaps the ages of your children could play a part and of course how many you have. Then there is also your needs and how much instability and movement you can handle individually.
Look Costa Rica from the outside is all beautiful beaches, wildlife and pura vida. It seems to give out this all is perfect and we are so westernised vibes. For sure it’s beautiful and there are very developed parts where all the gringos go to holiday and stay in resorts. As a travelling living around the locals and seeking to experience the wider countryside and culture it’s a country of extreme mismatch between the haves and have nots. Its prices are massively overinflated, the cost of living is ridiculous for a developing country with such average infrastructure and the Ticos are really struggling to get by. The poverty is real there.
I can’t help but wonder where all the money from tourism goes?