The need to grow, mind

Flight map from USA to Australia
Growth mindset implores you to prioritize your priorities. Our priorities after safety? Service. Service to God, Family, self. Then finally, simplicity.

The need to grow is an important concept. It’s a simple concept too.

Stumbled upon a poster while a college Junior featuring a Bob Dylan quote. It’s timely for this post:

He who is not busy being born is busy dying.

Perhaps my biggest mental growth is honing my focus and discipline to be able to steer my thoughts to stay in the present moment.

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Haves and wants, mind

Sunrise over the Great Plains
We spent three weeks in this room and every morning we had a view like, or similar to, this.

In my opinion, get-to-do vs have-to-do is a concept easily understood.

Wanting more or wanting less is not as easily understood.

Wanting less transcends dogma and tradition.

There are few role models for wanting less, publicly.

Privately, having a family role model is almost a freak accident.

We are left then with what looks like twins. Haves and wants are mushed together like creativity and innovation. For the record and for this example, creativity and innovation always get mushed together.

Context: Anyone can generate creative ideas. Few can go from idea to successful, scalable application.

Back to haves and wants. We are societally conditioned to want more. Which feeds an insidious detachment from ever thinking about seriously wanting less.

i seriously want less.

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Thinking is worship

Thinking is worship.

Thinking is rocket fuel.

Thinking is fun.

Thinking is exploring.

Thinking is growth.

Thinking is rewarding.

To have a mind, a brain, and not push its capabilities seems like receiving a wrapped gift and never unwrapping it.

Grateful for the gift, right?

But no idea what the giver gave you.

Note to self: Always unwrap every gift. Dive in, tear it open, and thank the giver. Profusely if it’s appropriate.

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Life is not a mental desk job

mind blown art image
Happy present ‘mental’ moment.

Doesn’t seem to me that life was designed to be a desk job.

i suppose there’s comfort and security with a desk job.

i just never want my thoughts to be metaphorically contained in a climate controlled box, also known as an air-conditioned office.

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Same as yesterday

Mountains and a lake
Same photo angle as yesterday. Yesterday was portrait mode. This photo is landscape mode.

You may have noticed i’m taking a break from most posts being in the “quote” category.

Why?

Not sure.

In the same way the “quote category” had an almost 2-year run, perhaps it’s time to take a break. Maybe that’s why?

We shall see.

i get energy from doing things for the first time.

Kids thrive on this too.

In layperson’s terms it’s called, learning

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