Finding Joe

When you get a chance, watch this 1 hour and 20 minute movie on YouTube.

It’s called Finding Joe.  Joe is Joseph Campbell.  He wrote about the “Hero’s Journey”.  That’s your journey.

The documentary is wonderfully made.

I hope you enjoy it.

Click here to watch it. 

It’s on you.

Growth, change, and success are personal.

The price is paid in private.

You don’t need more help, you need more responsibility.

Don’t wait for the approval or applause from the world.  Believe in yourself before the rest of the world does.

Do it alone.  

The person you need is already here.

It’s the Pursuit

The brain releases dopamine in pursuit, not in possession.

When we are in full pursuit of what we want, we are focused and engaged and feel alive.

Other pains and troubles fade away, eclipsed by absorption into the quest.

This is why when we finally achieve a goal, we aren’t satisfied for long, and we look for a new one.

So be it.  

Let’s go.

What are you in pursuit of now?

Can we please stop eating and drinking sugar?

I do not want to be preachy on Think Daily.  I want to be helpful.  Affirming.  Confirming.

I look around here in America.

Yes, it’s a free country.  

But we have a big problem.

Today, let me be a voice for sanity.

What we are doing is not right, even though everyone is doing it.

Corporate America mostly does not care.  It’s just that eating plants is not addictive, and that is not good for profits.

Pull the alarm.

Control the controllables.

We know what to do.

You can.

Struggle builds strength

We try to shelter our kids from harm.  Makes sense.

The other day, our 11-year-old got out of school early because it was too hot.

We try to eliminate discomfort – physical, emotional, and psychological.  We even pass laws.  Ok.  I’m not saying I’m not for it.

The long-term results for many?

For people who have only known comfort and things going well inside their comfort zones, discomfort is a horror that is hard to take.

So they play it safe, and don’t take chances because it may not work out peachy at first.

I’d prescribe real struggle for many to make their life better in the long-term.  (I’d rather not be around to hear their complaining, though.)

I am quite qualified to give this advice.

It worked for me.