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1. The day you are born.
2. The day you figure out why.

“Don’t feel qualified? Nobody does. You can only be qualified to do that which you have already accomplished or trained for. Anything new is accomplished by unqualified people.”

– James Clear

If something is free, you’re the product.

Friendly reminder that you have zero control how other people perceive you so you might as well be the person you want to be anyway.

“Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.” — Mitch Albom

“You’ve given your entire life to become the person you are today. Was it worth it?” — Richard Bach

…is on the other side of fear.

In the Himba tribe of Africa, your age is not measured from the time of your birth, but instead from the moment that your mother first decided that she wanted to have a child. When she does, she will go out into the woods, sometimes alone or with close friends, and they pray and meditate until they “hear the song” of the child that she will bring into the world. This is known as one’s “Heart Song”.

Once she has learned the song, she teaches it to her husband, and while the child is being conceived, they sing the song. As the child grows in her womb, she sings the song to the child. The mother teaches the song to the midwives who will help with the birth, and when the child is born, they sing the song.

In the village, it is custom to learn everyone’s song. If the child falls and scrapes his knee, the women of the village sing his song to comfort him. When the child goes through puberty they have a ceremony, and they sing her song. When they marry, both husband and wife’s songs are sang at the wedding. For every special moment in their lives – their song is sang. Finally, as they are about to make their transition to the next life, the villagers gather around and sing their song for the last time.

What would your Heart Song sound like?

I read the Miracle Morning recently, and have been doing my SAVERS. V = Visualization. I was reading the Eagle this morning and in an article about Texas A&M track star and summer Olympian Bryce Deadmon, saw this:

Nikita Flowers, Deadmon’s mother, had made a tradition of New Year’s dinner with her children. As a part of that family gathering, she instituted an annual ritual that every family member documents their yearly goals and visualizes what it would be like to achieve those goals.

“I believe that once you write it down and you say it, then you focus on your vision,” Flowers said, citing Bible verse Habakkuk 2:2. “Once you visualize something and write it down, I feel like it can come into fruition or it can be manifested.”

So, even the Bible talks about visualization. Neat.

That is all.