What would your life be like if you took nothing personally?

It’s funny.

The moments I most regret are when I took things personally.

I snapped at something someone said and immediately felt stupid.

Or I saw a friend liking someone else’s post online and not mine and stewed about it for hours.

Or that time I barely spoke at a dinner party because someone said I had a weird watch.

This is the thing about being a human.

We are gifted with the power of thought. And those thoughts can be used to build bridges, write moving letters, and paint Sistine Chapels.

But they can also be used to make us believe we have so much to lose.

That’s why we take things personally.

We feel attacked because we hate the idea that we might lose a piece of ourselves.

A ‘self’ we create in our minds.

It hurts, and so we often react.

We react by shouting. Or we react by retreating.

Or we don’t show up at all because we don’t want to invite the sting of rejection.

Either way, we end up causing unnecessary damage.

We limit ourselves.

We don’t get to explore our real potential.

All because we made it about us (in the dim theatre of our minds).

Everything gets better when we loosen our attachment to who we think we are.

When we do, we are overcome by an eery but exciting sense of calm.

People will be drawn to you.

You become drawn to you.

I regained control over my life when I created space between a perceived source of annoyance or fear and how I reacted (and lack thereof).

Everything got better.

And it all started by understanding what thoughts are and what they are not.

(Most people get this mixed up and face lifelong stress).

This requires gaining clear insights into the nature of thought and how, for example, our thoughts, not our circumstances, create our experience.

I show you exactly how to do this, so you take fewer things personally, reduce stress and enjoy more energy, in the Untethered Mind course.

Learn more and join 223 others here.

If you ever get down on yourself or fear the judgements of others, this is for you.

Much love,

Alex