30-Day Sun Salutation Challenge Day 27: Do Goals Always Work?

“The trick is to learn the right lesson. Just this moment I came to a conclusion. The most important factor in becoming successful is learning the correct lessons from your failures. Everyone learns lessons. Not all lessons are worth learning.” — S Patric Marino

The end of this challenge looms, and each of you who looked at it will have had a different experience. And if you analyze that experience you will learn things about yourself. Remember: there are two core questions in life:

“Who am I?” and “What is true?”

If you know yourself, you know your hungers, fears, and capacities. If you understand the world, you understand what it costs to accomplish a task, and what benefits you will gain. I doubt anyone with an ego can get either of these things 100%, and those other folks…well, I certainly wouldn’t presume to think these words would be of much benefit to THEM.

But to a younger version of myself? Sure.

So this process also overlaps with the end of Jason’s high school experience. We’ll take a couple of week’s break (during which I’ll pay his allowance just for being alive) and then start his business. He KNOWS he has a safety net. So this will be about finding the internal motivation to build something.

Hey, it’s almost a tiny experiment in UBI, isn’t it? I just thought about that. Anyway, he wants that business, to sell a product (a course) and be a coach. The difference is…