Let Go of Doing: 09-06-2025

1. Let go of your thinking trying to do.
2. Let go of thinking that you will do better with thinking.
3. Let go of forcing anything with thinking because thinking cannot force anything.
4. Let go of demanding anything be something with thinking because thinking cannot command anything.
5. Stop making thinking your enemy by falsely believing it has abilities and powers it does not have.
6. Stop pushing and pulling with thinking as self-doing because all you are creating is negative stress by making no progress, whereas positive stress makes progress.

Thinking Doing Is Thinking Failing: 09-05-2025

1. Quit trying to act with thinking.
2. Inner doing is never thinking doing.
3. Thinking cannot, but silent energy can.
4. Forcing thinking to do is forcing failure to arrive.
5. Quit trying with thinking as the actor or doer, or fail.
6. End all your fake and failing doing with thinking, and return to relying on silent energy for doing.
7. Wait on the internal silent energy to both know what to to and to do it, and keep your trying to do with thinking from interfering and causing failure.

Non-Doing Isn’t Non-Doing: 09-04-2025

1. It is not letting go that does the work, but rather a hosting action that allows space for silent energy to do the work.
2. It is not non-action that does the work, but rather a hosting action that allows space for silent energy to do the work.
3. It is not doing nothing that does the work, but rather a hosting action that allows space for silent energy to do the work.
4. It is not an effortless action that does the work, but rather a hosting action that allows space for silent energy to do the work.
5. It is not going with the flow that does the work, but rather a hosting action that allows space for silent energy to do the work.
6. It is not aligning our actions with nature that does the work, but rather a hosting action that allows space for silent energy to do the work.
7. It is not letting things happen on their own that does the work, but rather a hosting action that allows space for silent energy to do the work.

The Failure of the Aesthetic Life: 09-03-2025

1. There is a call to lead an aesthetic or Epicureanism lifestyle; however, it is inevitably insufficient to meet the complexity and depth of life.
2. The aesthetic life is oriented toward physical, social, and mental pleasures, including beauty, friendships, and intellectual pursuits such as analysis and reasoning. It requires variation to keep from becoming boring and vapid due to the friction of repetition.
3. The aesthetic life views existence as a spectacle or theater of the absurd, choosing to be a detached observer, and eschewing attachments or commitments that might limit freedom. It has no hope in finding an ultimate meaning or purpose.
4. The aesthetic life inevitably leads to despair because pleasures don’t last, don’t sustain the self, and are mainly external. Once novelties fade and become harder to create or find, the aesthete is left with emptiness, self-alienation, and a disconnected identity separated into expectations, pleasures, and disappointments.
5. The aesthetic life fails life’s demands by prioritizing the finite and immediate over the infinite and eternal, and any deep, unifying commitment to an identity in relation to the highest and absolute, which are ultimately unavoidable encounters of conscious living.

For more information, read Soren Kierkegaard’s Either/Or and later works.

Winner Versus Loser: 09-02-2025

1. The winner sets achievable goals and plans procedures to achieve them. The winner is focused on longer-term results over short-term gains.
2. The loser lacks clear goals, fails to act consistently, and is often scattered in their approach to work and goals. The loser often ignores work to chase instant gratification.
3. The winner is committed and uses discipline to work positively, even when their motivation wanes. They build work habits that carry them through the rough times and make the easy times enjoyable.
4. The loser is not committed, often cuts corners, and gives up quickly when things become difficult. They might start projects, but they rarely complete them or follow them through until the end.
5. The winner surrounds themselves with like-minded people who are driven, inspired, and supportive. They create and join networks for collaboration with like-minded people.
6. The loser often hangs out with other losers who are also addicted to whining, blaming, and damning. They avoid relationships or cling to toxic relationships. They resent, sabotage, and downplay the success of others.
7. The winner views challenges as opportunities for success and remains resilient in the face of setbacks and increasing obstacles. They have a focus on solutions, not problems, so they are persistent and endure until the end.
8. The loser views challenges as opportunities for failure and stays focused on whining, blaming, and damning as setbacks and challenges increase. They have a focus on problems, not solutions, so they often quit and avoid risks.
9. The winner owns their decisions and outcomes so they can learn from mistakes to improve their decision-making skills. They seek productive feedback and adjust policies and procedures to match current and future systems.
10. The loser blames others, circumstances, and life for their shortcoming to avoid accountability and guilt. They avoid constructive advice and continue to engage in self-defeating habits.
11. The winner continually learns in their chosen area of expertise while exploring and adding relevant new skills. They utilize their skills to adapt to change and enhance their existing processes.
12. The loser resists change and clings to outdated methods, refusing to adopt new procedures and technology when they become available.
13. The winner defines success personally. They define success against their own goals.
14. The loser compares themselves to others and winds up feeling envious and inadequate. They will chase the assumed societal definition of success despite it not being personally fulfilling.
15. Some people learn to become winners, demonstrating that you do not have to be born a winner. For example, it is not uncommon for someone to fail at many businesses or careers before they learn how to be successful.

Whining, Blaming, & Damning: 09-01-2025

1. Whining is annoying by design and is typically a self-absorbed or self-centered activity.
2. Whining’s main goal and, often, main accomplishment is to gain attention without providing solutions.
3. Whining eventually becomes a force for demoralizing, demotivating, and quitting.
4. Blaming shifts responsibility onto others and often unfairly.
5. Blaming is often used to avoid accountability and shift the focus elsewhere.
6. Chronic blaming has the power to destroy relationships over time.
7. Damning is typically unfairly judgmental and dehumanizing.
8. Damning seeks to harm others, but usually hurts the soul of the one damning.
9. Damning is not constructive and offers no options for recovery, reconciliation, redemption, rehabilitation, or restoration.

Sinning Is Claiming Or Trying to Do: 08-31-2025

1. Sin is claiming to do or trying to do what you cannot do.
2. Sin is claiming to do knowing or trying to do knowing.
3. Sin is claiming to do yourself as something or trying to do yourself as something.
4. When you seek God to do for you, you are not sinning.
5. When you wait on God to do for you, you are not sinning.
6. When you are praising God for what He does for you, you are not sinning.