ptsd

Incredible hack to make life so much more MAGICAL: LOWER YOUR THRESHOLD FOR INSPIRATION. Train your perception to the point that you are CONSTANTLY being energised by the beauty, ingenuity, success, and wonder all around you. A piece of art. Someone’s outfit. The interior of a hotel. The rising popularity of an app. A beautifully designed building. The way somebody carries themselves. Allow yourself to be inspired by the SIMPLEST of things. You don’t need to witness some extraordinary, once-in-a-lifetime spectacle to experience a moment of genuine AWE. There is so much to marvel at in the ordinary, if you would only take a moment to appreciate it. Here’s a funny example: Right now, this very post was inspired by me seeing TWO McDonald’s locations within five minutes of each other. Something most people wouldn’t give half a second’s thought to. But GOOD GOD. Think about what that actually represents. Human beings have managed to build an organisation of such PHENOMENAL scale that it can have two locations operating profitably within five minutes of each other. And replicate that same business model TENS OF THOUSANDS of times, across the entire planet. All from an idea, brought into existence by human imagination, intelligence, ambition, and extraordinary execution. THAT IS FUCKING INCREDIBLE. And to think that something as mundane as driving past a McDonald’s can serve as a reminder of just how much is possible! Now imagine going through life with this same attitude towards EVERYTHING. Instead of mindlessly walking past the accomplishments of others, you become FASCINATED by them. Instead of feeling threatened by somebody else’s success, you become ENERGISED by it. Instead of taking beautiful things for granted, you allow yourself to be genuinely MOVED by them. You begin seeing evidence of human greatness EVERYWHERE. And the more you recognise it in others, the more you begin recognising the potential for it within YOURSELF. Because every extraordinary thing you encounter is a reminder that someone, somewhere, once conceived of something that didn’t yet exist, and then brought it into reality. WHY NOT YOU? Why shouldn’t you create something magnificent? Why shouldn’t you achieve something that leaves somebody ELSE standing there in absolute fucking amazement? I think there is something incredibly powerful about cultivating a mind that is so easily impressed by the RIGHT things. A mind that is constantly collecting new reasons to THINK BIGGER, AIM HIGHER, and EXPECT MORE from life. And there’s a beautiful compounding effect to this. The more you allow yourself to be inspired, the more things you begin noticing that inspire you. Until eventually, the world begins to feel like one gigantic exhibition of POSSIBILITY. The world is FULL of extraordinary things that have become ordinary through familiarity. Learn to see them with fresh eyes. Make a conscious effort to admire something today that you ordinarily wouldn’t give a second thought to. LET YOURSELF BE IMPRESSED. LET YOURSELF BE AMAZED. LET YOURSELF BE INSPIRED. The more easily you can find inspiration in the world around you, the more MAGICAL your experience of being alive becomes. And the more frequently you will be reminded of just how much MORE you, too, are capable of. Namaste.