From the time you’re little, everyone offers you advice on how to navigate your mind and heart.
Theyll tell you this in words, and in other messages, too.
And so you grow up thinking that you oughta follow your feelings, no matter what.
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You grow up thinking that you oughta trust yourself, no matter what.
What really happens is that you learn to listen to your fear as much as you do your desire.
You start believing that love is a chemical reaction, not a committed, daily practice.
You start seeing the beauty of routine and stability, and you get confused.
Youll realize that all-or-nothing advice doesnt make sense, and it doesnt work.
Youll realize that youre completely stuck, because you dont know how to choose.
What you dont learn is that you cannot rely only on your heart or your mind.
You must use them in tandem.
You must orchestrate them and dance between them, weave in and out of them.
There is a time to feel, there is a time to think.
There is a time to be logical, there is a time to be spontaneous.
There is a time to ground yourself, there is a time to light up and lift away.
Sometimes, we are stuck because we dont want to accept defeat, or admit futility.
Our feelings show us where we want to go, our minds tell us how to get there.
Our feelings can tell uswhatit is we want, our minds must tell ushowit is we get it.
We have to ask ourselves:is this really the path to success?Burnout certainly is not.
The truth is that there is a time for everything in your life.
There is a time to listen to your heart and your head.
This is why the big picture is so important.
So many of the decisions we make are not right or wrong, they just give us different outcomes.
If we dont know where we want to head, we wont know what to choose.
