Marcel

Im realising more and more that over the years I developed an intense first for knowledge and understanding but left something very important on the table. PRACTICE. Consistent Practice to be precise Ive often, in the last year, found myself in situations where I could analyse very well the condition I was in and what needed to be done to fix it, but not actually doing it. For some reason I had turned into a sort of arm chair General that could talk a good talk about the walk, but not walking, or rather inconsistently walking it. It’s as if a bridge in my mind wasn’t fully built, between acquiring and then also applying information or insights. Its like having become a physical library, but not much else. But. The good thing about this is, now that I’ve finally awoken out of the gathering slumber I was in, it’s practice and application season and soon the rewards will be reaped. And having installed this once, updating the operating system, connecting the missing link, it will serve me for a lifetime and I will make damn sure to upkeep it.

Yes. It’s healthy food for thought. You may want to keep them.

Approach Stuck. Im not talking about game. It’s about trying something over and over again yet despite not achieving the desired end still trying the same thing, just harder, instead of rethinking the approach. I experienced the perfect illustration of this a couple of weeks ago. A car I drove needed starting help. I don’t drive it particularly often, since it’s a work car meant to be used for specific purposes, that I need to carry out every once in a while, so I didn’t know a whole lot about this car. Other some technical details of weight and length, which I needed. I was trying to open the hood of the car to get to the battery and for the life of me I couldn’t find the lever to open it, neither could the two people who graciously wanted to give me the starting aid with their car either. So we searched and searched the entire interior of the car, looking in the manual, being flabbergasted and slowly getting frustrated about why it wasn’t there and where it could possibly be. Until another person came across this, for them probably bizarre scene and pointed out to us that there was a keyhole in the middle of the hood of the car and the only thing I needed to actually do, was to put the key in and turn it. And sure enough. It worked. We were so busy looking for a lever that everyone overlooked the simplest solution. I wasn’t looking for a keyhole and so I literally didn’t identify it as one, even though it was right in front of my nose multiple times, while checking the hood, thinking there had to be a lever Inside the car. Fascinating how the most mundane life situations can reveal profound principles.

@Buck EdwardsWell yes. I do, that’s how I get my ideas in the first place and then I follow them while analysing the hell out of them.

Do you mean listening to my intuition?

I am massive over thinker. Which has benefits, like spotting blindspots other people miss, but also disadvantages like being stuck in my thoughts which often doesn’t translate to action. It translates into changes of attitudes, ideas and emotional stability, but not in an increase of productivity. In a way I’m daydreaming too much. Maybe I’m addicted to thinking as a form of escapism, or a past coping mechanism that I haven’t quite got in check yet.

@Buck Edwards I understand. It’s a natural feeling to have at times it’s important to not get stuck in them. I would advise you to recalibrate your focus. Get very clear on what it is you want and follow the arising steps dutifully. Every little continuous step is a little success in itself. Slowly but surely the jealously of others will fade into appreciating your own process and results.

Developing 100% presence throughout the entire day Becoming balanced, less flip flopping between extremes Work on my perfectionism, getting done more instead of overanalysing Work on my physique. 15 muscle ups. 1km run in 3:30 Keeping up a consistent sleep schedule Learning how to work from home and independently Go out in nature more More adventures and socialising. I tend to overdo it with solitude , contemplation and integration Complete financial independence, which I define as never having to work again for monetary purposes Increasing my understanding of every aspect of the world and my place within it

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel - Napoleon Hill The backbone of any undertaking is persistence. It doesn’t matter the starting point, nearly as much as staying on the path and reaching the destination. There may be a lot of stumbling on the path, falling off of it at times, going in circles or serendipitous detours, but as long as the general direction is forward, without or at least little going backward and stand still, as long as adjustments are made on the way the path will make itself known.

Love you my wife ❤️

Merry Christmas 🎄 This was a wonderful year. I’m very grateful for how everything unfolded. May the following years blossem beautifully. May the years to come be even more magical. May the bonds with our loved ones deepen, let us appreciate them to the upmost. Much love

Merry Christmas my wonderful wife ❤️

Interesting recontextualization. Id like to say, sometimes appearances aren’t deceiving and are actually exactly what they appear to be. Yet. Could something like this conceivably happen somewhere. who knows. There’s always the odd chance.

Everything is working out. Every day in every way my life is improving. Miracles all around. Truly remarkably that this year started out awful and will end on an incredible high note. I’m so excited for the years to come. 🤩

Yeah. I guess so. Can’t help but respond. Thanks hun. I love you

Interesting interpretation lol

How do you know? This question keeps mesmerising me. How do you know? Or in other words and more specifically: „What is the thought process / reasoning / which method did you use, that lead you to this specific conclusion and what exactly makes you so certain that your thought process / reasoning / method and conclusion(s) are “correct”? At what point is something correct, meaning something genuinely being an exact way instead of another?At what point can you definitively know x to be true? Or in other words: “How do you know you know and haven’t deluded yourself, in one way or the other, leading to distorted, incomplete or inaccurate results along the way”? Questions are fascinating tools. You can always keep asking. Curiosity, for better or worse, has no end. Or has it?

I sometimes forgot that progress doesn’t just look like a straight line that continually goes upward. There are bumps on this ride. Either fuel for further and higher flight or a downhill snowball of regression, depending on ones attitude.

I love it hun Such a lucky cat, to have so many yarns🧶 to play with, large ones too. Great work ❤️

Yesterday was a very long day and today will be so presumably as well. I keep realising how much I unconsciously avoid to be present. A whole host of uncomfortable feelings knock at the door of my in the moment presence. This may explain why I get lost in my thoughts so often and drift off. It’s a distraction I fall into, almost like a safety valve, because feeling everything at once may be too painful. Well. A lot of positivity and lovely feelings have also entered the picture, still old baggage wants its fair share of attention. I am improving steadily

Whenever I think I understand the depths of manipulation I am taught a masterclass. Its incredible how a person can switch, seemingly within minutes. I greatly need to increase my capacity and understanding of evil, every form of it. I thought I was already set up well, but life taught me im woefully underprepared. The problems is that someone rotten to the core can conceive of plans you can’t. Their imagination goes further. They have a deeper reach into hell. Their senses are wilder, more beastly and you don’t know how much you underestimate this aspect until you are already trapped in the spiders net. Appearances be what they may, life has proven to me again and again that healthy paranoia is absolutely a quality worth having, developing, sharpening and mastering. You don’t know how vulnerable you are, until you actually think it through. We are so easily attackable from every conceivable angle.

It’s incredible how hard beating old patterns is at times. Stuff I have seemingly fixed resurfaces at the worst conceivable moment and time periods. Seems this episode was necessary to finally break this particular self destructive tendency.

So cute 🥰 I love how you made them cheeky hun And the haircut is 10/10 😄

Some people double down on ignorance. Some people actually reflect and transcend it.

A very faithful recreation with an added flavour of flowers, hills, trees, a windmill and a barn. It’s so good 😊