Daily Quotes - Week 2

If the stretch factor in what you're taking on doesn't make you intentional, causative, engaged, open for life developing you, and somewhat confident that that will turn out,

then you are in a fantasy, then you are in the wrong stretch, then you're looking to take your life somewhere where your identity wants you to go, to prove something, to show something, to be something, to become something, that is not fitting...

as opposed to honoring the life you've been given, and where it is calling to go that you can go.

Mostly what people are focusing on is their reaction to what bothers them. That is a stupid steering of a life. If there are mosquitoes around, people have a much stronger focus on that than on whatever their life is about. It's probably a bad priority.

Listening for where your strengths and your connection to life meets the circumstances and relationships in your life and focusing there, will start to give you a real call, a real interest, a real developmental front edge, a real exciting engagement with your life, and it will provide benefits that really cut across all the domains of your life.

Contegrity is a discipline of living, an orientation of fulfillment that is not a tool for your identity to use to get what it wants. It's not designed to work there. It is designed to blow that up over time. Why it seems too hard is because people haven't been living it, they've been applying it.

My suggestion is that you stop suffering about whatever you're not working on. And when it comes time that that's what is up next to be fulfilled, that you work on it without suffering as well.

So, you work on it without suffering about it, or don't work on it without suffering about it.

Nobody said your life has to be perfect. Nobody said you have to handle it. You're going to die and a lot of stuff is going to be left undone, and you won't even have to worry about that.

There is a level of power that can be tapped into in a relationship to what gives life that is so far beyond what you started with and to deny that is like cutting off the real power and then trying to do something.

It is a form of cheating that seems to make things simpler because all you have to do is look to your identity in your mind for what to do. But it's costly in that fulfillment isn't available down that channel.