10/04/2026
A lesson for myself. My self. THE Self. The Higher Self.
All the selves you can think of.
I’m in another bend of this spiral we call life.
I’ve got less room now for noise, less patience for anything that tries to siphon my energy unless I choose to hand it over freely.
What brought me here today is simple.
I’ve spent a lot of energy studying human patterns, including my own. I’ve used myself as the guinea pig, chasing down the “why” behind so many of my own loops.
One thing I still wrestle with, even after trying every angle I can think of, is how easily humans tell themselves they are something… and then become it.
Let me do my little song and dance for a second.
“I’m so tired.”
“I’m not a morning person.”
“I’m so fat.”
“I need to smoke.”
“I need a drink to cope, coffee, booze, whatever.”
We call this negative behavioral programming.
Flipping it into something useful isn’t rocket science.
Are you actually tired, or are you just feeling tired right now?
Big difference.
And so what if you feel tired? We all feel tired. You’re not special.
Sure, there might be real medical stuff going on. Hell, maybe you’re up at 5 a.m., running a full day until 6 p.m., cooking for the family, holding down the household, raising a kid, staying involved in school, teaching them about life, running two businesses, and managing a zoo of pets.
Then throw in surgeries and recovery on top of it all.
If I described that life to you, you’d probably say, “Yeah… you must be exhausted.”
But here’s the part I keep coming back to:
Feeling tired is not the same as being tired.
Feeling anything is not the same as becoming it.
Humans have gotten terrifyingly good at telling ourselves stories until the story becomes our reality. The mind creates it. Plato wasn’t joking.
So change your mind. It’s your mind.
Have your off day. Feel every bit of the tired, the heavy, the “I can’t.” Let it wash through you.
Then tomorrow, get up and do what needs doing anyway.
It sounds easy. It’s not. You’ll fight the old urge to crawl back into the identity you’ve been feeding yourself, especially when life feels a little traumatic.
Because the easy path is never cheap.
But the mind is yours to rewire.
One honest thought at a time.