“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.” -Epictetus Everything is neutral until you assign a value to it. So that “bad” even that happened to you was only “bad” because that was the value you assigned to it. Remember this the next time you begin to assign a negative value to something that has happened to you. See you tomorrow and keep pursuing, JC

“We must let go of the life that we have planned, to accept the one that is waiting for us.” -Joseph Campbell Sometimes we try to control too much. Twice today, in different conversations, I shared that it’s important to know, directionally, where we are being called or want to go, but that I don’t think we should be too attached to where we think we are supposed to end up. The truth is, I’m not sure we can know exactly where we are supposed to end up, because experiences, people, and...

Maybe you noticed that I didn’t publish a Daily Note a couple of days last week? The lack of publishing wasn’t because I was losing my desire to write or because the Muse stopped visiting me each day; it was because I was on spring break with Roman, four of his friends, and their dads. There were a few mornings where I slept in a little later (8:00 being “later”) to get some additional rest, or instead of keeping to my Self to write, I hung out with the dads, helped make breakfast, or got...