The Mountain Is You

LEARN SOMETHING NEW AS OFTEN AS YOU CAN
When you approach life as though you already know all 
there is to know, you are actually closing yourself off to po-
tentially having new and better experiences. If you assume 
that you know what will happen when you try something 
new, or if you think you know what places you haven’t 
been to would be like...you might just want to leave some 
room to surprise yourself.
Think of life as something you can constantly learn from. 
Your pain teaches you what does not feel good and what 
you should not continue to do. Your joy teaches you what 
is in alignment. Everything can be your teacher, and the 
more you allow your life experiences to shift and change 
you, the better you (and they) will become.
SEE CHALLENGING TIMES AS OPPORTUNITIES FOR 
TRANSFORMATION
Happy people aren’t joyful all the time, and this is an 

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important distinction to make. In fact, genuinely happy 
people are more at peace than they are ecstatic about ev-
erything they experience.
This is because happy people are inherently coachable and 
changeable. They are not stuck in their ways. They un-
derstand that life requires growth, and when that growth 
stagnates, discomfort begins to arise.
The true nature of life is constant movement and constant 
evolution. If you do not keep up with that, life will all 
but force you to change as it becomes less and less com-
fortable to stay where you are. You cannot avoid all pain, 
but you can absolutely avoid a lot of suffering by staying 
focused on your internal growth.
BE AWARE OF WHAT YOU GIVE YOUR ENERGY TO
Sure, most people realize that if they work a job they dis-
like or stay in relationships they despise for the majority 
of their lives they aren’t going to feel great about it. What 
many don’t realize, however, is that there are far more sig-
nificant things that we constantly offer our energy to that 
create the quality of our lives.
Those disliked jobs and stale relationships aren’t problems, 
they are symptoms, and at the root of all of it is where you 
allow your mind to run. When you give your energy to 
certain thoughts, they gain life. There’s a saying that the 

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wolf that wins is the one that you feed, and when it comes 
to the quality of your life, you need to be extremely careful 
of what you allow yourself to think. It will soon become 
what you feel, then what you believe, and then how you 
behave, and sure enough, the way you live.