Thursday, June 4, 2026
No dollar, no opportunity, no lover, no accolade or attention of any real and lasting value will come to those who chase, crave, or toil.
Follow these virtues instead:
1.) Follow Inspiration: Be inspired, but don’t copy. Embody the ease of nature’s success. If others have done it, so can you; but you’ll do it in your own way. Your way is inspiring!
2.) Follow Enthusiasm: Be enthused about your work, what you create, what you do, and foremost about who you are. Be enthused by the promptings to make something, build something, or do something. Anything! Follow no dread. When you’re done, be enthused by what you’ve made, even if it’s wonky. There’s benefit in do-overs.
3.) Follow Joy: Make sure your actions are done with joy and peace, always smiling inwardly in every task. Anything that resembles competition or envy will sink you.
4.) Follow Fun: Always ask yourself “Are we having fun, yet?” Everything comes with its own laughingstock. Laugh at what you create. Keep a smirk, even at a funeral.
5.) Follow Trust: Know deeply within yourself that your way is fine, your ideas are good, and your timeline is perfect. Nothing is on fire or dire. Death is trustworthy too.
We never follow what resembles results. Devote yourself to the indwelling of love, and action will attend to that love. When you’re in that position, you’ve dispositioned yourself. Results walk right into the openness of a person poised to embrace, not one who “braces himself” or clamps down.
Keep your focus on the virtues of love. Let all your creations, actions, recreations, and interactions be laced in this loveliness which doesn’t grab, but does a quick embrace/release in a singular gesture.
Never chase. Never toil. Never clamp. It’s quick-release openness.
Success is girded in love and pavilioned in joyful space.
Chase anything, and it evades.