𝓜𝔂 𝓜𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓞𝓯 𝓖𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓽𝓾𝓭𝓮 - Friday 25 July 2025

Though I did some serious rewiring already, I am starting to see how stuck I have been in that scarcity mindset.

Limiting myself for decades....

Because planning a future feels like a luxury when survival is the focus.

These posts are:

𝒯𝑜 𝓊𝓃𝒹𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝒶𝓂𝒶𝑔𝑒 𝐼 𝒹𝒾𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓂𝓎𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓂𝓎 𝒷𝑒𝓁𝒾𝑒𝒻 𝒾𝓃 𝒶𝒷𝓊𝓃𝒹𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒.
𝒯𝑜 𝒷𝑒 𝑔𝓇𝒶𝓉𝑒𝒻𝓊𝓁 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝐼 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒.
𝒯𝑜 𝓊𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓃𝑔𝓁𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓇𝑒𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝓂𝓎 𝓈𝒸𝒶𝓇𝒸𝒾𝓉𝓎 𝓂𝒾𝓃𝒹𝓈𝑒𝓉.
𝒯𝑜 𝓇𝑒𝑜𝓅𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝑜𝑜𝓇𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓅𝑒𝓇𝒸𝑒𝓅𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓇𝑒𝓂𝑒𝓂𝒷𝑒𝓇 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝐼 𝓀𝓃𝑒𝓌 𝒷𝑒𝒻𝑜𝓇𝑒.

Yesterday I was working toward balancing my mind, and I wondered how that would look.

I guess it would be something like this:

Drama and joy — knowing both are real, but neither defines the whole story.

Truly seeing both for what they are, recognizing both in daily life.
And appreciating both, that will be a task going forward.

Work and rest — honoring the value of effort and the wisdom of stillness.

But how to not get lost in one or the other?

Structure and spontaneity — able to plan a week and also throw it all out for a moment of wonder.Structure check, Spontanity.....loading.....loading. Definitely a work in progress.

Discipline and softness — showing up even when it’s hard, but knowing when to choose kindness over control.

This one, I am starting to manage, but looking at this list, I start to see a common theme.

Ambition and surrender — dreaming big, but trusting what doesn’t go to plan.

And there goes my theme, because I can surrender, but it took me years to dream bigger.

Confidence and humility — proud of what it knows, curious about what it doesn’t.

Finally, one I feel I can just check the box on, all good.

Hope Faith and realism — seeing things as they are, while imagining what they could become.

I don´t hope, you can hope all your life, and it will never come.

I would change it for faith, having faith that this is leading to that bigger dream, while being realistic enough to know that every dream needs lots of work.

Solitude and connection — comfortable alone, but open to others.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I need to open up a bit more, even to those with whom I do not feel the Wonderkind connection (yet).

Logic and emotion — thinking clearly, feeling deeply.

This is the one I have been trying to balance for many years. Not fully there yet, people can still trigger my emotions beyond logic, but the balance in this one is close.

Still, I see a theme, a kind of Spartan theme, I guess.

Too focused on Work, unable to truly let go and enjoy, I struggle with spotanity and have been too humble for years, avoiding me to dream big.

But with logic and emotion becoming more balanced, I feel I am moving forward, and this simple exercise made it clearer.

A little less pressure, a bit more softness, and letting go. The time ahead is needed to balance my head so I can balance my plan.

It will need to be an elevating journey, not a stressful event, and that is held in my hand, and my perception.

Thank you for making it this far....for those who know me...or better, think they know me, this might have been a WTF moment.

There are many sides to all of us, some sides we hide, even from ourselves.
I can be an opinionated little prick, a loving father, or simply a lost soul.

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.”
— William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Jim Morrison named The Doors after this concept. I agree that reality is filtered through our limited perceptions. But we can Break On Through to the other side.

"There are things known and things unknown, and in between are the doors."
— Jim Morrison

Our minds filter & reduce everything to a digestible and categorizable size, but in the process, we lose sight of the infinite abundance that surrounds us.