Here’s 39 strange things about
this paradoxical thing called
life.
1. Our best solutions, creations,
insights, and moments of
genius rarely come from our
minds. In fact, they don’t
actually come from us at all.
They come through us.
2. We live in the one place our minds seem to have the damndest
time finding—the Here and Now. We spend the majority of our lives
constantly consumed with our perception of the past and
anticipating—in either a positive or negative way—an imaginary
future.
3. More often than not the best things in life happen when our
well-designed plans fall apart. But it’s still good to make plans.
4. The more we try to be liked and admired by others, the less they
tend to like and admire us.
5. We search for anything and everything to make us a happy…be
it money, a house, a car, a person, a job, a business, retirement,
recognition, or a new pair of shoes…yet we rarely look to the one
place it can actually be found—inside.
6. Trying to do something perfectly usually leads to not doing it at
all.
7. While we want the good stuff in our lives to sit still and behave,
it never does. Nothing is permanent. Everything is changing and
fading. Meeting is the beginning of parting. Everything goes at
some point.
8. The things that are the most popular—fads, bands, movies, TV
shows, celebrities, books—usually have the least depth,
authenticity, artistic genius, and heart.
9. We have an inherent need to try to control. Yet when we do we
block the flow of life and end up stressing out like a coked-out
soccer mom.
10. The most painful, hardest, most
gut-wrenching things we go through
in life are usually our best
opportunities to grow and become
happier.

11. The more we resist something and
try to push it away, the more of it we
pull into our lives.
12. We know that worrying never makes anything better…yet many
of us still do it every chance we get.
13. The things we see in others that irritate us the most are the
exact traits in ourselves we’re not willing to look at. And often
times the people we dislike the most are the ones most like us.
14. No one really knows what happens when we die.
15. We spend a great deal of time consumed with what we want
other people to think about us, even though they aren’t thinking
about us at all because they too are consumed with what they
want other people to think about them.
16. One of the big keys to success is to actually fail…a lot.
17. What we do to others—either good or bad—we are actually
doing to ourselves.
18. Struggling is actually better than “making it.” When people
“make it” their work often goes to shit. A great example of this is
countless bands who kicked ass when they were struggling, putting
out some amazing albums. But once they’ve “made it” they seem
to forget the secret handshake that got them into the party in the
first place.
19. One of the best things we can do in life is to actually do
nothing at all. Now I’m not talking about doing nothing like your
alcoholic unemployed cousin who watches talk shows all day on
his mom’s couch. I’m talking about just being.
20. We’re made up of almost entirely nothing.

21. We have no idea when we’re gonna die, only that’s probably
gonna be between now and 40-80 years from now.
22. We try so hard to be unique just like everyone else.
23. We’re always trying to get stuff done so
we can get to the things we actually wanna
do.
24. We watch made-up stories about other
people’s lives on a big screen that the entire
house is usually centered around.
25. Most people spend much more money and
attention on their television set than on their library of books.
26. Most people spend their lives doing work they do not enjoy.
27. It’s common to spend more time planning for a vacation, a
wedding, or a party than planning a life.
28. Putting together the perfect life doesn’t make anyone happy.
Accepting and being grateful for our imperfect life does.
29. The best way to get rid of fear is to actually do that thing we’re
afraid of.
30. We spend a great deal of our lives desperately trying to be
something, anything, other than ourselves.

31. The people who have the most screwed up lives often give the
best advice.
32. We don’t really know how we got here.
33. We carry tiny devices in our pockets that can do more stuff
than massive computers that took up entire rooms just a few
decades ago.
34.. We’ve become less connected to each other than ever, even
though we use Facebook, Twitter, chat, text, email, and Skype
pretty much every day…often through that tiny device we carry
around in our pockets that can do more than those giant
computers that took up the rooms.
35. We have more food options available to us than ever, but less
nutrition. The healthiest people often eat like people ate when we
lived in caves and dressed like Alley Oop.
36. When we resent someone,
despising them and wishing
all kinds of bad stuff would
happen to them, we end up
doing ourselves a great deal
of harm while they go on
living their life as if nothing
ever happened.
37. When we forgive someone, it usually does nothing for the
person we forgive, but the positive impact on ourselves is
profound. At its root, forgiveness is about self-forgiveness.
38. Many people find they are less happy—or at least not any more
happy—when they get everything they want in life, and often live in
fear of losing it all—all the stuff that didn’t make ‘em any happier.
39. The more we die to who think we are, the more happy and free
we become.

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