Dear Friends, Welcome to Day 29 of the #30DayMentalChallenge. As always, join any time with the article/pledge linked in bio. I woke up this morning not knowing what to post—I will never feed you generalities or invent some “insight” or homily suit to the hour... 1/8 
2/8 But it did occur to me: aiming for greatness is no larger or smaller than aiming for ordinariness. Today I want you to aspire within, and by followup without, to utter excellence. Why couldn’t this be the greatest day of your life as measured by reversal of a depleting...
3/8 pattern, overcoming of a chronic self-limitation, usurpation of a weakness, or arrival of that one “yes” that is needed (I always say: it takes only one yes)? There is no ethical or practical reason why not. Just as life visits catastrophes on us—often cultivated...
4/8 by habit—it also visits absurdly good news. This is as much a law of life as seasonal changes. Modernism has instilled us with the under-examined concept that life is intrinsically dark (e.g., Brecht, Beckett). But this is just a point of view. William James and...
5/8 Colin Wilson have suggested that generativity may be more the law of life than depletion. In his 1895 essay, “Is Life Worth Living?”, James addressed a spate of suicides among young men that were sweeping America in the mid-1890s. He posited alternatives to suicide...
6/8 (you can read about this in my article "The Suicide Wave" @medium or more fully in chapter three of The Miracle Habits). One of the things he asked is whether the despairing person could stand it for just 24 hours longer. This is no trite observation. 24 hours can...
7/8 bring revolutions. This is not some grasping fantasy but a fact as much as sorrow is a fact. We live by leaps of assumption. The believer assumes. The agnostic or atheist assumes. As our experiment today, let us believe the absolute highest of ourselves...
8/8 On this, our second-to-last day, see what occurs. Wishing you all good things…-M- #PMA Still from #KybalionFilm directed by @midnightarchive
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