On systems, natural conditions, and elephants

MONDAY, 29 OCTOBER 2018

10:23

A system rather than a one-off goal. The question is, what are the components of a good system?

1. Regular exercise, enough sleep, and a healthy diet.

2. Meditation: At least 5-10 minutes every morning and every evening (clears the obstacles so the subconscious can present ideas and solutions).

3. Regular expressions of gratitude for what you have and for what you’re in the process of creating and receiving.

4. Read, learn and listen: There’s always more to learn, and better ways to do things.

12:43

If it’s not natural for you to get on a stage and address people, you will experience the event as stressful. If it is natural to you, you’ll enjoy it and you will be more relaxed about it.

I find it extremely stressful to worry about money. This is clearly not my natural condition. It can thus be said that it seems to be my natural condition to have money in abundance, and to never worry about it.

It only makes sense to then also conclude that this process of getting an abundance of money is indeed a process in which I will become what I’ve always been but could not be due to misunderstandings about how the world works, and how I was supposed to go about doing things.

16:19

On 12/10/18 I wrote: “I thought I had rebelled against the ideas I grew up with, but I only rebelled against certain aspects. The expectation of failure had been fully internalised.”

One could say I thought I was addressing the problem, but in reality I had missed the elephant in the room.

“What elephant?” I would have asked, pressed against the wall.

“Don’t you smell it?” a smart person would have inquired.

“No,” I would have answered.

“Then why are you pressed against the wall so tightly if there’s no elephant pushing you against the wall?”

“Because I like walls?”

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