The only person you get to be truly hard on is you.

It will take every ounce of your self-control to enforce that—not because it’s hard to be hard on yourself, but because it’s so hard to let people get away with things you’d never allow in yourself.
To let them do things you know are bad for them, to let them slack off when you see so much more in them.

But you have to. Because their life is not in your control.
Because you’ll burn yourself out if you can’t get to a place where you live and let live.

Credit them for trying. Credit them for context. Forgive. Forget. Help them get better, if they’re open to the help.

Not everyone has trained like you have. Not everyone has the knowledge you have. Not everyone has the willpower or the commitment you have. Not everyone signed up for this kind of life either!

Which is why you need to be tolerant, even generous with people.
Anything else is unfair. It’s also counterproductive.

#Tolerance

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It takes effort to find love.

It takes effort to feel fulfilled.

It takes effort to be fit.

It takes effort to be happy.

Which is why most of us do not have love, fulfilment, happiness or fitness in our life.

#Effort

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Would you be friends with your own self? Would you marry yourself?
Would you be your own boss?
What version of you would you rather not be?
Why do you still continue being that version?
There are some flaws in you that you would never like to see in anyone else.
Yet you keep living with those flaws.
If something is unacceptable to you in others, it must be something that must be unacceptable to you in yourself in the first place.
The change we want in others is the change we need to begin with. We invite what we allow.

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We don’t have to agree with each other as long as we understand each other.

The best relationship doesn’t necessarily agree on everything.

The best relationships have the best acceptance despite their differences.

When we want only our say in relationships, we miss out on the bigger picture.
When we respect our differences, we love people for who they truly are.

#Truth

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By not appreciating someone for their vulnerability and truth, all we do is encourage lying.

Remember the time you did something wrong as a kid?

And instead of lying, you decided to own up and tell your parents about it?

However, you got scolded, instead of being appreciated for speaking the truth.
That becomes your worldview. That is how you figure how the world works.

Are we doing the exact same thing with people around us?

And subconsciously telling them that speaking the truth is not an act of courage?

Truth, as scary and scary as it is, comes with the courage to speak up. And stand by it.

#Truth

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You will get what you seek. Not what you desire.
Not what you dream.
What you seek. Fervently.
Do you seek validation? Or do you seek contentment?
Do you seek money and loneliness? Or do you seek money and happiness?
Do you seek social status? Or do you wish to be not known for what you do?
We may show to the world that we seek something different from what we truly seek.
Yet hand on heart, we always know what we truly seek.
And the universe has a beautiful system of landing what you ask for, on your plate.
The question is, are we seeking things that make us seek even more or seek less?

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Right. Because you are immensely lucky. You have things that wealth and power and fame would not even have dreamed of buying in the ancient world. You have security. You have comfort. You have access and knowledge that the most brilliant doctors of antiquity would have genuinely seen as magic.

It is good to remember this. We are incredibly lucky. And we should be grateful. Today and every day.

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