👽 TREE 265: Southstar

One.

Ollie is determined to get served even though he’s only eight years old.

Two.

Everyone has something to teach you. This is not hyperbole.

Once in a while, someone teaches you something so profound that it sets the direction for your life. Or it becomes a guiding principle for the choices you make. We call that a northstar.

Once in a while, someone does something so profoundly opposite to what you want to do and who you want to be, that it too becomes a guiding principle. As in, I’m not sure what I’m going to do, but I know it’s not [thing that person did]. That’s a southstar.

Everyone has something to teach you. It’s not always a good thing. But there’s always something, if you’re paying attention.

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One of my major southstars is ‘should’. There are a million people telling me what I should do. Most of them are wrong. The ones who are right annoy me so much I struggle to learn anything from them. I decided several years ago that whatever I do, I’m not going to be the guy who tells people what they should do.

How am I supposed to know what you should do?! I will tell you what works for me. I will tell you what I understand the universe to be. What you should do with that is none of my business.

Three.

Everyone should know about Starlight Girls. Almost no one does.

I’ve had a number of new subscribers this week. Hello, new subscribers! Welcome to the FOREST. I hope you’ve downloaded and enjoyed How to TREE from the welcome email. If you want to be fully introduced, you can take 10 minutes to read these six posts:

Consider a tree
Life is a gift
Life is a game
Grow slowly
How you believe is more important than what you believe
You’re not as broken as they say

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Something for the weekend

I got the name southstar from this episode of Rob Bell’s podcast. It’s certainly worth 40 minutes of your life.

Happy weekend
Jeff