"I spend/waste a lot of time not doing things because it’s just not quite the perfect conditions.
Responding to work emails. Yard work. Laundry.
Getting sober.
Writing ‘the book’.
It’s our tendency to criticize and compare – people, things, events, music, food, circumstances. It’s rare that we ever accept something simply as is. We are constantly judging and diminishing what actually is and imagining any number of alternate realities – other than this one. We call it waiting, when in fact, it’s avoiding. By waiting until Monday, until you’re more rested until you have less going on, until you get home until you have more money, more time, more patience, less fat, less stress, less to do, or less to worry about – we put off whatever discomforts we hold aversions to and will do anything to avoid. Anything that isn’t just how we like it. Anything that makes us feel uncomfortable. I put off even trying to get sober for decades, with as many excuses as days that passed while I just sat there on the sidelines, avoiding feeling all the feels of what I knew I had to go through. Here’s the thing. The conditions will never be perfect. It’s our job to make it work anyway, and it’s our job to do the work.
"Life in Detox is our FAVOURITE reading right now! Shawn's writing will blow your f*cking mind. it is profound and beautiful." - Susan Christina (Click here to read about Shawn. We are also featuring his book as one of our October book choices this month)
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