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birthpangs.
stretching and birthpangs come with every pregnancy. you accept it with every breaking forth, it’s one of the things you charge to the game. it answers to the law of cause and effect.
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sincerely wrong.
assumption can be, scratch that, is a very expensive luxurious item, you pay with pain and time. it’ll cost you significantly less to ascertain that you’re accurate. you can be sincerely wrong. wherever you can, be sure that you’re not.
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awareness.
how you act and react in the world largely contributes to how you’re perceived and received in the world because there’s a subconscious effulgence of your essence which is really an amalgamation of your consciousness, your knowledge bank, the structure of your mental modules and your body language that you transmit and being unaware of…
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on perception.
action and reaction. cause and effect. purpose and intent. a foundational understanding of these 3 principles shapes your perception in every realm of human endeavor.
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the vast abundance of knowledge and wisdom.
with every increase in my knowledge bank, there’s a glaring understanding of the vast abundance of knowledge and wisdom. and it’s great because it breeds humility, discomfits complacency and reveals the utter disadvantage of glorying in what i think i do know.
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process.
one of the most important building blocks in becoming is process. it’s involved in the creation, birth, reiteration and even the decline or destruction of anything that was made. done right, you have something that lasts, when it’s botched, you have an eventual disaster at best. it’s involved in going from bad to good and…
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something ends and something begins.
for every death, there’s a birth. for everything that ends something begins, for every season that ends, a new one is activated. it’s set in stone, defined and wound up into the ethos of the cosmos. it’s a law – the law of seasons.
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reiteration.
there’s immense power in reiteration. it’s a definitive crux if you desire to get better at anything. do it, review, improve, apply and repeat. that’s how you go from good to great.
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the metamorphosis of vision.
i observe certain characters and it’s really no surprise that they are symbols of excellence; perfectly positioned with respect to where they are and what they do. the world is shocked, but they’re not; the pomp doesn’t surprise them, because it was only a matter of time. undoubtedly grateful yet not astonished, because every step…
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lawful not expedient.
all things are lawful for me but not all things are expedient – that’s deliverance in itself. that i can doesn’t mean i should. the critical faculty dimension of wisdom is a prerequisite for exercising liberties, you have to be shrewd enough to say no to good things. refusing to indulge in temptations is cool…
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indefatigability.
everyone has a plan until they’re punched in the face or hit in the gut, this is true. life will give you that punch time and time again. how will you respond?
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three peas in a pod.
wisdom, knowledge and understanding are three peas in a pod and I strongly believe that the greatest of these three is understanding.
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on competence.
the science of competence cannot be bought or hacked. it’s one of those badges that are earned. with discipline, consistency, grit, fervor, repetition, sharpening your rod, building excellence and perfecting your craft. that’s why competence and confidence go together, hand in glove.
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be it.
a lot of bold takes wouldn’t have to be bold takes if you just lived what you’re trying to preach. you won’t have to drum it into people’s heads time and again if you embodied it. who you are speaks louder than your words and folks with perception can hear you before you actually speak.…
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no such thing as a fair fight.
there is no such thing as a fair fight, but your character will determine how you fight, because there’s always a right way to win. character here is a sum total of your values, moral guardrails, belief systems and mental modules. it’ll determine how you respond, react and act. if you think rules make a…
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being well rounded.
you’re going to need a lot of teachers if your goal is to be well rounded, there’s no monopoly of insight anywhere, and there’s no isolated aggregated knowledge, you’d never totally agree with everyone’s individual perspectives so instead of pitting thought leaders against each other, embrace the responsibility of editing your understanding and you’d have…
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watch and learn.
keen observation would do you a lot of good. i learn from the mistakes i see others make and say can never be me sparingly, you might need a quick life lesson to really establish it though. everyone who’s made a mistake you think you can never make was one move off course. like a…
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be willing to walk alone.
to birth new things, or pioneer things bigger than you, you’d need to be stubborn, thick skinned, comfortable with the audience of one. dead to the idea of impressing others, you must be willing to walk alone, be alone if occasions serves it, because a lot of times you alone will see the vision for…
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thoughts, concepts, precepts.
a thought is like a cell, like a layer of an onion bulb. when aligned with a will, that’s a concept, the foundation of a precept. what i’m saying is you birth realities with your thoughts. align with the good ones, aikido the bad ones.
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will is never in inertia.
will is never in inertia. do not be deceived, free will is an illusion of the mind. there’s always an influence, but the paradox is you can choose your influence, so choose or don’t. your will is still being influenced by a choice.
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