I recently had an inspiring conversation with a good friend where we were talking about life’s challenges, obstacles and difficulties. Phases or mental patterns we all know and more or less frequently go through. At some point she said:

You just have to be the main character in your own life.

The end credits of the movie The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King roll for over 20 minutes, mentioning anyone being somehow involved or affiliated with the artwork. It is a huge piece of dedication and collaboration of more or less skilled people of the most different backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, age, reputation, social status, health and physical or mental ability.

Imagine your life as a movie and realize that you don’t have to be the director. You don’t have to be the producer. You’re not the studio, screenwriter, location scout, camera operator, set designer, graphic artist, or propmaker. You don’t have to be the lighting technician or the sound mixer. Neither are you responsible for the make up, nor the costume. Not to mention stunts, special effects and editing.

Although you are free to take on all these roles, they are already provided by your natural surroundings, your family, social circle and other circumstances.

So when your life feels overwhelming, imagine the end credits of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first installment of the The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Rolling before your mind’s eye, starting with your own name in large, sweeping letters and Howard Shore’s soundtrack fading into Enya’s May It Be. Your story was just introduced to the world and the bulk and most interesting part of your journey is yet to come. The captivating middle part and the emotional liberating and resolving climax of the last chapter.

The set, lighting and sound are all provided. Yes, you can choose to claim responsibility and change, direct and manage these things. But if you find that all the different roles you’ve taken on in your life are overwhelming, let them go and simply focus on being the main character of the cast. Sometimes that’s enough of a challenge.

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📝 Article: How To Control Your Lust

Learn how to practice controlling your lust in societies and environments that have been designed to limit your freedom and exploit your life energy by conditioning you to give in to your sexual lusting at any time, while constantly presenting you with external artificial stimulus.

How To Control Your Lust

If you believe in the secular lies that underpin Western culture, you probably see yourself as an animal that should not be denied pleasure. You believe that sex is one of the principal features of life, perhaps its only joy, and so we should all succumb to it whenever the mood strikes us. Besides,

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🎬 YouTube Video: The prison of your mind

Let Sean Stephenson educate you about the single limiting factor in your life in one of the greatest TED talks ever given at Ironwood State Prison.

Lesson No. 1: Never believe a prediction that doesn’t empower you.
Lesson No. 2: You are not your condition.
Lesson No. 3: The real prison is the prison of the mind.

🙏🏻 Gratitude Journal

One of the most powerful daily practices to liberate yourself from mental downward spirals is to bring the things to your attention that you are grateful for.

1. I am grateful for the beautiful women all around me who enrich my life
2. I am grateful for the light at day and the darkness at night
3. I am grateful for the human craziness

What are you grateful for?

💡 This Week’s Wisdom

Imagine throwing a pebble into a still pond. How does the water respond? The answer is, totally appropriately to the force and mass of the input; then it returns to calm. It doesn’t overreact or underreact. [...] Most people give either more or less attention to things than they deserve, simply because they don’t operate with a “mind like water.” Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.

From Getting Things Done by DAVID ALLEN.
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