🐎 TREE 285: You are what you do
Throwback Friday – TREE 26
One.
I am what I do. I am not the story I tell myself.
So many people live lives of kindness and generosity. They sacrifice time, energy and money to lift other people up. They make sure that other people are cared for, fed, loved and noticed. Then they tell themselves a story of how insignificant, useless, inadequate and bad they are. That story is a tragic lie.
Are you better than the story you’re telling yourself?
Try being honest. It will probably feel unnatural, possibly even wrong. Stick with it. You deserve to be told about your goodness. So keep telling yourself. There is freedom in your honesty.
Two.
Yasmin never fulfilled her dream of becoming a life model for Salvador Dali, but she didn’t let the disappointment destroy the joy she found as a professional basketball player.
Three.
When everything kicks in at the one minute mark – YES! (Don’t skip the intro though. It’s important.)
As part of my ongoing goal to plant TREE everywhere, here are two new places you can find and share TREE:
The FOREST is officially on Reddit. If you like Reddit and you like TREE, r/GrowSlowly is the perfect place to hang out with other excellent and smart people. I’m looking forward to watching our community grow there.
Some things for the weekend
You know I love a plot twist. Peishan Huang (aka ava) wrote a marvellous and personal essay about not thinking of your life as a story.
Looking at Tuesday’s topic from the other end: your mind can do amazing things for your body. I think you’ll be very impressed when you listen to Dr Michael Mosley’s 14 minute introduction to motor imagery.
Happy weekend
Jeff
I picked the wrong song for today. I should have gone with Television by Idles because of these lyrics:
If someone talked to you
The way you do to you
I'd put their teeth through
Love yourself
https://open.spotify.com/track/1VZEFMJkZuppLl2PUsUkC1?si=17a1e37254d64cab