Get Lighter

Free yourself.

From all those chains you wrapped yourself up in. From all the stuff you convinced yourself you need:

• the house

• the clothes

• the car

• the money

• the "life"

Those lifting shoes. The elite Olympic bar. The tape on your wrists and the funny way you have to stomp your feet and shake your right hand before you approach the bar to squat.

You don't really need any of it. You just think you do.

"But those shoes help me to lift more" ... and that's probably true. And the belt helps too. And, maybe, psychologically, that foot stomp/hand shake thing helps.

But, f*** it. Get rid of it.

Make life harder and easier at the same time.

Make it harder on yourself without those crutches you've used for so long. And make it easier by freeing yourself of all the things you thought you had to have in order to be successful, in order to be considered a success.

Dump it all.

Psychologically throw it all in one big pile, pour some kerosene and drop that match.

Watch the flames shoot into the night sky.

And while you're doing that? Take all those fears and doubts and worries about yourself and set them aflame, too. Burn them crispy.

Some of them live in those shoes and belts and habits anyhow.

• The fear of failure

• the fear of not measuring up

• the fear of wanting something you'll never get

• the fear of wanting someone who will never want you back.

The fear of losing. And the fear that you'll remember that loss forever.

Torch it all and don't look back.

There's a much better land ahead. Find it, and live there in confidence—with confidence in yourself, not in stuff. Free yourself now.

"Lighten your load while you still can."

The life ahead of you can be even better than the one you're living now. Make it so.