devotion > discipline

The new year always brings a fresh slate.

Possibility.

New energy.

Hope.

It also brings pressure.

Pressure to level up. To do things differently, to become our best selves. To make more money, be more successful, healthier, more disciplined. Just - - - more.

These are all good things, of course. But what if what we’ve been told about how to get there is the reason why so many of us can’t sustain the hopeful, determined energy of the start of a new year?

What if a lot of the advice we’ve internalized about how growth and reaching milestones is supposed to happen isn’t actually good for us?

Goals are important, but growth doesn’y always move in straight lines or on a schedule we can define up front. So why are we treating it like something that needs to be engineered, optimized, or forced?

What if we tried to do it differently?

What if, instead of radical change driven by self-pressure, we aimed for steady evolution driven by devotion?

Less forcing, less endurance. More flow, response, and commitment.

What if we stopped trying to optimize ourselves and started trying to guide ourselves instead?

What if what can grow through devotion exceeds what we try to force through straight-line discipline?

And what if that ends up leaving room for more than we think we’re capable of on January 1st?

xT

@teodoranico