Fortunate Life

There was a quiet season in my life when I realized something uncomfortable: I was not stuck because life was hard. I was stuck because my mind was untrained . No one tells you this growing up. We are taught to follow our feelings, trust our thoughts, and protect our comfort. But after years of working with people, teaching, coaching, training, and walking through my own reinventions, I learned a harder lesson: If you don’t understand your mind, it will quietly run — and ruin — your life. Here are the five truths I wish someone had told me earlier. 1. Your mind is not your friend — it is a survival machine Your mind’s job is not to make you fulfilled. Its job is to keep you safe . Neuroscience confirms it. Ancient wisdom warned us. Your brain is wired for threat detection, pleasure-seeking, and energy conservation. That’s why change feels terrifying. That’s why discipline feels painful. That’s why growth feels unnatural. Every time I avoided a hard decision, postponed an imp...

Image courtesy of Stuart Miles] / FreeDigitalPhotos.net During Sunday Mass , Father Joey conveyed these words on his homily and since then, it lingered on my mind. Why? Because his statement is very true... for us to enjoy life, we should have a purpose. Maybe our purpose is to serve our family, to have a better life or anything that can drive us to move and to wake up everyday. So when there comes a time that I do not know what to do or sometimes feel stray, I ask myself. What is my life's purpose. Why am I living in this world? Am I living my life according to what God has planned or am I just like a feather drifting in the wilderness going to a place unknown. No goal, No Purpose, No life.