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Learning, focus, and aliveness built through practice 馃珌 Journey The Breath 馃摎 Bestselling Author 馃嚠馃嚜 Irish in Bali 馃 BJJ Brown Belt

Bali, Indonesia
Joined October 2011
The version of success that actually feels good rarely looks like the one you were sold.
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You can't think your way out of a body that's still bracing for something that already happened years ago.
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What you call being easygoing might just be a very old fear of taking up space.
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You're allowed to outgrow a version of your life that used to make sense.
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You weren't built to sprint through your whole life. Somewhere along the way rest got rebranded as failure.
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The people who get under your skin the fastest are usually showing you a boundary you never learned to set.
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Some seasons aren't for building. They're for repairing what building already cost you.
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A body in constant fight or flight will burn through motivation faster than any bad habit will.
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You're not too sensitive. You just learned to notice things that other people were trained to ignore.
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You don't have to understand why you feel something before you're allowed to feel it.
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You don't need a better morning routine. You need a nervous system that isn't in survival mode by 9am.
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The thing you overexplain the most is usually the thing a parent once made you feel guilty for.
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Most freedom doesn't feel dramatic. It feels like finally not caring about something that used to run your whole week.
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You can't meditate your way out of a schedule that never lets you stop.
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Perfectionism isn't high standards. It's a nervous system that decided being flawless was safer than being seen.
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Most of what we call self-improvement is just self-avoidance with better branding.
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Rest isn't what you do after burnout. It's what prevents you from needing a recovery in the first place.
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