Attention
If you aren’t happy with what you’re doing, take the information and act on it.
If your life depended on the next moment, how attentive would you be to it?
Thing is—it does!
How many moments have you let slide through to the keeper because you didn’t want to feel it?
The loss of the life you wanted to live, that you rob yourself of in every moment, because you won’t show up for it.
Some story about it being incomplete, convoluted, dissatisfactory. So you delete the experience and file it under trash.
F..k man, half your life gone… most of your love gone, deleted…
Chasing what? Happiness? Some idea of perfection?
F..k happiness… to hell with perfection. Learn how to be as you are.
There’s not a single experience that you can hang onto. Not one.
The only thing you succeed in is making yourself miserable because you think you’re not happy.
Wanting to be happy all the time is wishful thinking, and thinking is what is making you unhappy.
If the moment doesn’t meet your love, then move. Don’t just sit there lamenting it.
If you aren’t happy with what you’re doing, take the information and act on it.
Stay attentive to every moment, especially the difficult ones—they will transform into the most beautiful ones.
Gilesy 🙌❤️
Grant Giles coaches a small number of athletes one-to-one, writes this newsletter from Brunswick Heads, and hosts The Roaring Heads. If this piece resonated, a letter in the post every couple of weeks is the best way to keep in touch.