Realized something after surfing yesterday

Eyooo friend!

Life at the moment:

6am surf.

Deep work in a café.

Working on something I absolutely love. Have never felt this much energy.

Loving life atm.

While simultaneously, it's crazy stressful trying to figure out the business. Barely surviving cash flow-wise.

Funny times.

Couple of thoughts

I

You probably have some old identities you are holding onto that don’t serve you.

II

Why does the brain move so fast toward negativity?

Worry. Stress. Self-doubt. The story of what happened twisted into something worse than it was.

The real strength is being able to see the good in everything. Not in a “make everything positive” way. Just genuinely asking: what's the lesson here? What did this give me?

Staying open to whatever comes, not resisting it.

Having enough belief in yourself and your vision that the bad days don't rewrite the whole story.

That's the skill: reframing. Taking what happened and finding the version of it that moves you forward instead of keeping you stuck.

Not easy, but a very useful thing to train

III

Had a little lightbulb moment about life after my surf yesterday.

Your fear of failure ultimately leads to failure.

When you're scared on a wave, you don't fully commit to it. You kind of go for it but not really, you're half in half out. And you fall every single time.

I started thinking about how this is just life. If you're trying to build something but you're also operating from this fear trying to avoid the failing. Then that fear is exactly what makes it fail. You're not fully in it and everyone can feel that.

First you have to accept that it can fail and be okay with that.

Then you’ll be able to fully commit and go.

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Some bits of inspo

I

“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars” - Seneca