This week I’m sharing five rules that govern how I make a TREE post.
3. No syrup
Gagging on syrup is what made me decide to start TREE. When I was looking for a good wake-up email I found treacle instead. You’re sparkly and wonderful! Life is a joyful cloud of marshmallow delight! Let’s all close our eyes and manifest the fairy wings of wealth!
If I wanted to throw my phone across the room first thing every morning, I could stick with social media.
Life is joyful. It’s beautiful. It’s wonderful. It’s also grim and awful. And everything in between. I wanted something to help me thrive while being grounded in reality.
Syrup wasn’t the only thick liquid I found. There’s cod liver oil out there too. If you’re not out of bed at 4:55 AM slaying your meditation squats while downing a pint of kale puree, you’re destined to doom! High-performing people will cut you out of their lives!
Good for you, bro. You seem to be happy about your cod liver oil. Other people love syrup. That’s totally fine. Different people thrive in different ways.
I prefer thinner liquids – is this metaphor still working? – a splash of cold water on the face and nice cuppa as I ease into the day.
I started TREE for me. I’m so pleased that what I want turns out to be what you and a few hundred other folks want too.
Mrs Bunley and Fritzobel never miss their morning constitutional.
Grow slowly
Jeff
P.S. My book is 100% syrup-free until you read while eating pancakes.
I’m grateful you started this, Jeff. It’s been my only community for 3 years. I have shown up and written when I was happiest and saddest. That’s why I use the lotus blossom in many communiques. It’s a beautiful symbol of purity growing out of mud.🪷
Your comments made me think of Sandra Bullock, who said this, and I think speaks the truth in saying so: “When people are like, Life is good, I go, No, life is a series of disastrous moments, painful moments, unexpected moments, and things that will break your heart. And in between those moments, that’s when you savor, savor, savor.”