Daily Path - Week 4

W4E1 - 7 cardinal virtues

Inner child is our compass: heal the wounds that he endured and help him direct us toward our life's task. What can I do with my life that would make anything worth enduring? By walking the daily path, we heal our wounds, and we discover our purpose in life, the answer to that question. That answer will pull us through anything. What I really believe is that the daily path promises two gifts: first, if you find your life task, you'll find your real self. Second, if you transcend your trauma, you will unlock the best version of yourself. Walking that daily path, letting our inner child feel heard|understood|appreciated|valued, we get closer and closer to self-actualization, and then to oneness.

W4E1 - Monday at 5-56 AM.m4a

W4E2 - Virtue is enough

The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Be a champ just because it’s worth it, no matter how the other players are behaving. Call them up, instead of calling them out! External events (wins or failures) are just distractions because they are not under our control. It's foolish to spend our energy in chasing or avoiding them. Instead, we need to focus on increase the virtue in us. "Consider the evidence that a virtuous life is worthwhile for its own sake. No one has less serenity than the person who does not know what is right or wrong. No one is more exhausted than the person who, because they lack a moral code, must belabor every decision and consider every temptation. No one feels worse about themselves than the cheater or the liar, even if-often especially if-they are showered with rewards for their cheating and lying. Life is meaningless to the person who decides their choices have no meaning."

W4E2 - Virtue - Tuesday at 5-50 AM.m4a

W4E3 - Heal your early wounds

Freud: We all demand reparations for our early wounds to our narcissism. Point 1: it's All of us. Point 2: who are we demanding reparations to? Us or the world? Crossroad: envy vs gratitude. Deep narcissism vs greatness. Entitlement victimhood vs ownership. The wounds are in us. We cannot control other people so we cannot let them define who we are. We are demanding ourselves to repair our wounds. We are valuable because we seek virtue. And that is giving us meaning in life. Listen to your inner child with compassion and empathy.

W4E3 - Narcissism - Wednesday at 5-57 AM.m4a

W4E4 - Power of framing

Stoic phycological exercise of the "Art gallery". The context within which we frame a psychological event will have a profound effect on our emotional response to that event. It is not how the wrong is done that matters but how it is taken. Seneca

"Another person will not do you harm unless you wish it." Epictetus

We have full control on how we frame events in our life. Life is like an art gallery, and we are the curator. Paintings are events in our daily lives. We have influence but little ability to control over what paintings hang in our gallery, we have extensive control over how these paintings are frame. Pick a frame of victimhood and you'll never grow. Time will pass you by because you are telling you brain and your inner child that you don't have any control over your life. Pick a frame that put you in control, a frame of responsibility, and you'll learn from any events in your life. You'll grow and get better. You'll get closer to the best version of your Self. don't focus on how many seeds the birds got. You cannot control that. Frame the birds as the sublime work of nature. Birds are the natural course of events. They are a caressing hand from above. All you need to focus on is to stay in the field and keep on sawing, the only thing you really control. Frame the birds as sublime and you'll be even more focus on the next set of seeds to scatter in your field. That's the power of framing. Any event, even being tortured in a concentration camp, can be used to get closer to the best version of our selves. Let's stay on that path, let's stay on the daily path!

W4E4 - Power of framing - Thursday at 6-18 AM.m4a

W4E5 - The sound of one hand

Air while car is running. Water while on a boat. Hand exercise as the smallest and portable version of a round.

W4E5 - Sound of one hand - Friday at 5-48 AM.m4a

W4E6 - Recap

W4E6 - Recap - Sunday at 4-12 PM.m4a