Acceptance and Curiousity.
Not a series of habits developed over time or a collection of goals achieved.
Lifestyle design, life hacking, the whole gamut of personal development styles are all about creating habits, setting goals, building personal statements and achieving a certain way of life, set of positive habits, levels of effective productivity and so on. What they fail to address is the mindset of change. That even with the most powerful productivity systems, freedom businesses, or fulfilling lifestyle choices you are not prepared for a life and world of constant transience.
You don’t need to be a vagabond, digital nomad or world traveler to live in a world of transience. That world is around you regardless of working a 9 to 5, owning a home, having a family, or running a startup.
Every moment changes you and the world you exist in.
You have to be prepared for this. The skill needed is acceptance. Acceptance of where you are in our life, what has happened to you in the past, how the world is shaped.
With inevitable transience you have to constantly wonder and rediscover yourself and the world you exist in.
You have to be prepared for this. The skill needed is curiousity. Curiousity for who you are and who you are becoming, for those around you, and for the shifting world.
These two skills are in constant battle for your attention. Acceptance inhabits a world of past and present realities. Curiousity inhabits a world of future possibilities. One seems to exist in permanence and the other in impermanence, uniting them a paradox. Yet they are entwined so deeply that they exist only in conjunction; for the acceptance of the past and present realities recognizes the impermanence of those realities, and the curiousity for future possibilities recognizes the permanence of constant unfolding.
Together, these two skills help create a mindset of change. When employed mindfully, you begin to interact with the world and yourself in a entirely different way. Acceptance releases you from the weight of the past and the present and curiousity beckons you towards the lightness of the open future.
Change is a mindset of acceptance and curiousity.
It creates a way of lightness, unburdened by the past and the present, emboldened towards the possibility of the future.`
