Your ability to master yourself.
To not be a slave to yourself or others.
To be able to, even in the darkest and worst of circumstances, find contentment and love.
To be able, even in the darkest and worst of circumstances, show compassion and love - even to those that believe they are holding you down.
To have the ability to intentionally do life - to control what you can and accept what you can’t.
To control your mind - as Dr. Mike told me, “You are not your mind.” And if your mind might be ill, accept what you can’t control and work with what you can.
To control your mouth - garbage in/garbage out - don’t eat/speak garbage.
To control your thoughts - garbage in/garbage out - consume and use wisdom that will help you master yourself and show more love to others.
As I think more and more about how to help people feel and be seen/perceived for all they can do, the more and more I see that what is needed is not someone to help them up. What I see is that people need a reason to believe in themselves, and a reason to demand responsibility (HT to Seth Godin).
P.S. You can find tons of useful meditations on self-mastery through a few books that I have fallen in love with:
Meditations (the book I recommend more than any other to people I coach)
Mastery (musicians: this is like “Effortless Mastery” but far more in-depth and science-driven)
