Be careful that you do not lose your humanity while chasing your dreams.
It is okay to be driven.
It is okay to have goals.
It is okay to work hard and to make sacrifices.
But some things, once lost, cannot be earned back.
How you get where you are going matters.
There is more to life than what you accomplish.
What are you avoiding by doing what you are currently doing?
You are being called to something great, but you are choosing not to listen.
By accepting what is good for you, you are missing out on what is best for you.
You have to prioritize your calling.
The world will not prioritize it for you.
Turn away from distraction and get to work.
If you don’t, you will be haunted by shame and regret.
The purpose of practice is not to attain perfection.
The purpose of practice is to uncover your imperfections.
Practice is for making mistakes.
It is for unearthing your shortcomings.
Practice is for amplifying, embracing, and analyzing, your deficiencies.
It is for leaning into failure.
If you can come to accept this and learn to enjoy it, you are well on your way.
Highly sensitive people often do not know how they truly feel.
Because they feel so much, including what others feel, it can be difficult to differentiate what is real from what is not.
This is the downside of empathy.
For highly sensitive people, the line between another person’s feelings and their own is often blurry.
If not managed with firm boundaries and clear expectations, this emotional porousness can become confusing, frustrating, and exhausting.
For this reason, highly sensitive people tend to need time alone to regroup and recharge.
Too much time around others can make highly sensitive people lose sight of who they are, what they feel, and what they value.
Commitment is for when things are inconvenient.
This is especially true of our relationships.
Without commitment, we would simply quit and move on every time things got uncomfortable or frustrating.
Our relationships would have no depth.
We would never really get to know anyone.
Perhaps more importantly, we would never really get to know ourselves.
Commitment is not for when things are going well, but for when they are difficult and uncomfortable, so that we are forced to find our way through hardship and discomfort instead of always running from it.
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