DISCLAIMER- I'm looking to start working towards publishing some articles that are centered around concepts of stoicism, I could use some feedback and see if there is an audience for what I am trying to accomplish with my writing...hopefully this is the right place?
Here’s my promise, I show up the same day every time…with overwhelming tenacity, without excuse, and I will PUSH and pull you past the point of exhaustion. Furthermore, I will demand you to meet me every step of the way. I don’t believe in quitting, because if I quit on you, we’re not getting out of this alive. And if you quit on me…then the truth is we will both die. It's a dark reality friend, but I do it for you.
It isn't complicated, just don't quit...
A brilliant man named Seneca the Young (circa 65 CE) once said that he pitied people who had never experienced misfortune; “You have passed through a life without an opponent,” the downfall of which being that “No one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.” I want you to reflect on that...
Now, be your own opponent.
We move through the world carrying the aching void of learning ourselves, testing our limits. Ideally, we would push our own boundaries and move forward with unrelenting passion, beyond discomfort.
There was a moment in my life when I was lost to myself, and I’ll never forget it. I was disconnected from all normalcy, in a austere, remote environment w/out any support overwhelmed and outgunned. Despite Murphy's law taking full effect of my teams’ mission, the truth was…the systems we rely on that have been built by others, they often fail. In kind, we adapt, if only by burning the roman candle inside us from both ends. So, I dare you to move, I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor...I dare you to shake the routine from your world, to remember that this day has never happened before. I repeat this day has never happened before. I will never envy those who wake without a mission of bravado.
Bravado being; taking a stand in the face of peril, be bold…feel overwhelmed.
Who am I, and what authority do I have to even ask that of you? I am no one, with no authority. This isn’t about me, or my expertise and trials. This is about you and who you are, because it is not who you can be. You need to completely redefine and un-fuck yourself before you can make a difference in your own world, or in the worlds of others. What’s stopping you from living with passion and exhausting every ounce of this life? Drown out the voice of uncertainty with your own heartbeat and stop putting less important trivial matters before your own self-mastery, then you can help others.
SELF > LESS = SELFLESS
Remember what we fight for, and don’t forget that momentum is a cruel mistress, she can turn on a dime, with the smallest mistake…ever searching for the vulnerability, and that smallest uncertainty you didn’t prepare for. So, change the reason and stop being selfish with the mission, master yourself because the quicker you learn that this has never been about you, the better off you will feel as we push through every obstacle together. But wait…
That’s contradicting yet powerful there with your word trickery?! Let me explain with a backstory:
I’ve lived by this mantra for decades. And I do this, “…so others may live.” This creed followed by another, “NSDQ” (Night Stalkers Don’t Quit) was instilled in me through every unwavering pain and ache as my body and mind told me to give up- but I couldn’t bring myself to do it because someone is going to count on me, I just haven’t met them yet. You see I had the glorious pleasure of a being a search and rescue combat medic or SARC-Medic, and when I came to find you…chances are you were having a VERY bad day. After my time in the field, I moved on to an instructor. In that role I found solace teaching people how to learn about themselves, to think abstractly about their own concrete problems, to push past their own “demise,” to realize that it is impossible to quit…this my business.
“Life can seem impossible; what is truly impossible is to quit.”
I’ll meet you in the middle, whatever state you're in. There’s a lot of hell to go through between where you are and where you ought to be. We can crumble those obstacles and draw new boundaries. Don’t get comfortable; don’t be sensible. Stop me if I’m wrong, but I’m guessing you feel burdened… let’s learn to self-regulate...hold your own in moments where grit & empathy are the only qualities you have left to show, and the only person left to give you purpose is the one counting on you. Honestly, you may have not even met them yet...
You need some courage to do that, don’t you?! Then let me say this, and spin things a bit differently for you, I said this in the beginning and may have not made much sense but, who needs you today?
That’s it, right there...that's my reason. In it, I found you. Yes, I‘ll let you burrow it until tomorrow morning when you hit that snooze. But I dare you- write on a post-it-note covering your alarm clock saying:
“Who needs you today?”
-Mr Heart
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