I heard a song for the first time called “Learn to Lose” by Bakermat. (Looking it up on YouTube I see it has 10 million views, so clearly I’m a bit out of the loop.)
These lyrics in particular jumped out at me:
Did you know that a major obstacle keeping people from achieving their goals is that they spend their mental energy on solving problems they don’t even have?
I ended 2013 uncharacteristically grumpy. I felt on the brink of tears or anger for much of the last couple of weeks of the year, without really being able to identify why.
Sometimes I let my vision take a back seat to my day to day life. Gotta get the kids up for school, gotta get to work, ride the subway, make the dinner,
I had a difficult morning with Isabel one morning, and did some thinking about it after the fact. I had the following insights and wanted to share them: