Insights

Wish I had learned that earlier in life, but I’m glad I’m learning it now.

Love it!!

When I was growing up, I used to clean my room by shoving everything under my bed or in my closet. This was an ingrained habit for a lo-o-o-ng time. Nowadays, I don’t keep anything under my bed. It’s a small change, but at some point in my life, I completely switched my mindset on that one way of doing things. I couldn’t really tell you why, I just do things differently now. So, why was it so easy to make that change in my life, while others, such as dietary changes and exercise are so much harder…

Lasting Change

I’m 6′ 4″, I wear size 17 shoes and I weigh around 380 pounds. I go through my life trying to look as harmless as possible. When I was young I didn’t fit in… I was weird and misunderstood, and because of that I was bullied a lot growing up, and I think I chose to grow big so I wouldn’t be hurt anymore…

What Others Think

…I love that quote. No matter what I hear, or what anyone tells me, I always try and remember that there is no definitive source for the truth of my life and my experience, save one: Myself…

Answers Come From Within

I was watching a TV show recently, and something was said that stuck with me. One of the characters was searching for a word that was so big and complicated, and yet so sad. When they finally found it, the word turned out to be alive. “Alive isn’t sad,” someone else said. “It is when it’s over.” That struck me then, but I didn’t know why until recently, when I came upon the idea that what is sad about living, is not living fully…

Living Fully

Eventually you have to take a stand. You have to make a declaration, and risk being wrong. I had a radio show once. On the radio, you can’t tailor your comments to your audience, there’s no way to judge how something will be received.

This changes the level of commitment you have to your words… I had to speak my truth out into the airwaves and take responsibility for what I believe, letting go of trying to control anyone’s judgments about me based on my words. It was a scary, and liberating experience…

I Believe

This was a very emotional quote for me… when I heard it it really impacted me. I still don’t know if there is an afterlife or not, and sometimes that scares me… but if there’s not, then the only way I truly live on is in how I touch others. Maybe the most impactful thing I can do in this life, is to mean something to someone else.

The key to achieving anything is perseverance.

I think it’s possible to feel however we want about something, and just do it anyway. It’s the difference between a mind-commitment and a body-commitment, because a body-commitment is about action, which trumps all.