Hello Reader,

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I won't be long today. I want to encourage you with some of the things that I am doing to perpetuate forward focused activity in this season:

• Framing🪟: I can have a tendency to view things in extremes. Sometimes I wish my lived experience, and the world more objectively speaking was more binary. That said, this kind of thinking can sometimes distort reality and a result if you can relate to functioning this way, sometimes you may make something out of nothing in a debilitating or at least discouraging way. In this season I am working to be more diplomatic in my outlook on life as to not be so quick to catastrophize or disrupt my moral.
• Operating in Grace 🙏: You can't grow if you keep beating yourself down. It can be difficult to forgive yourself and sometimes you forgive one thing but then that thing turns into some different type of guilt or regret that you have to work through. For me grace comes from God, and in the process of consciously living in his grace more I am learning among other things to not be so serious about everything, and to give up my "desire" for control in situations that I can't control.
• Keeping Hope Alive 🕊️: Insert shameless plug of my book here. I am learning that one of the ways hope is fortified is by getting older/living longer. From my experience as you age hope increases. I can foresee certain things in life being difficult for a person over 30-35 years old if they don't cultivate optimism, lean into expectation, discover and resonate with the desires of their heart, suspend unbelief, and the like. At a certain point in life every day you're not dead is a day God is showing you that there is still potential and purpose in your life.
• Certain Things Aren't All That They are Cracked up to Be 🤷🏾‍♂️: I feel like this is one of those lessons that you learn more than once. The feeling of the disappointment that comes with something not living up to your expectations can dissipate over time, and you can find yourself going back to do the same thing that didn't fulfil you before, because the circumstances are somewhat different. My interaction with this aspect of reality has been that if I didn't like it before I probably don't like now and just because I liked it then doesn't mean that I will like it now. It's important to balance your curiosity in a way where you're open to try new things, you can remember and reflect on the things you've tried before, You can be at peace with the results of your curiousness, and you're not inclined to do that particular experiment again. Use your knowledge base to fortify your self-control.

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All the best,

Ken

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