From the latest book I’ve been reading, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, by Brianna Wiest:

“When you choose to value other people’s acceptance over your own, you accept a fate of battling your instincts to assimilate to the needs of other people’s egos. In the meantime, a world and lifetime of listening, leaning, allowing, following, perceiving the feeling and experiencing constantly eludes you. Sadness will not kill you. Depression won’t either. But, fighting it will. Ignoring it will. Trying to escape it, rather than confront it will. Denying it will. Suffocating it will. Allowing it no place to go other than your deep subconscious to embed and control you will.”

And, even more poignantly:

“It will rob you of every bit of life you do have — you either let yourself feel everything or numb yourself into feeling nothing. You cannot select emotions. You’re either in accord with their flow or in resistance to their nature. In the end, the choice is yours.”

I’ve been robbing myself of so much of my life thanks to achievement-oriented thinking that after catching COVID, I had to slow down and revamp the way I showed up, especially when I had to miss so many events during the two weeks of recovery.

In the end, it was good for me… and I hope this podcast episode helps you move away from achievements to simply “being,” too.

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