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sometimes it’s not about what decision

you make just make one and commit to it

i think there’s actually more value to

unpacking that

than even i’m giving it credit for

because we

you res your a versus b what do i do

what do i do what do i do what i do what

and as you know boom that window of

opportunity shuts

or you sit there and what i do i’m not

sure i’m going to do this what do this a

day goes by a week goes by a month goes

by

that girl that guy they’re gone they

moved to another town that job opening

went to someone else that purchased

the now what i do what do i do what i do

a year goes by i got friends

that decades gone by

a lifetime’s going by because they’re

still away in these two things and

i think a lot of times it’s like

just choose one and jump

the repercussions aren’t near as bad as

we think they are even if you choose the

wrong one if we commit to one of the

choices if it’s the wrong one it will

reveal itself to be the wrong one more

quickly and clearly

if we jump and don’t just dangle our toe

in it if we give it justice going i’m

going to try and make this work i’m

going wholehearted

it’ll reveal itself to be the right or

wrong choice if it’s the right one if

it’s a 50 50 chance bam i’m so damn glad

i jumped and took the opportunity when

it came i hit i hit the gap i took it if

it’s the wrong one we’re like oh whoa

this is not this is not right well now

we found out quickly enough to pull the

parachute and abort and back out or we

jump in hard enough something brand new

reveals itself because the options are

compounding with whatever choice we make

make one and find out and

what’s the big deal that’s another

percent what’s the big deal if it’s a

wrong choice

we got more time than we think time is

on our side more than we give it credit

for

what’s the big deal that people go well

i don’t want to do it because i want to

waste that time in my life i don’t know

that’s the wrong thing and you end up

saying that for weeks months years

decades

when you look up you’re like going oh

i’m still measuring which one i should

do and now i’m in my 40s now i’m in my

50s now i’m in my sick

whoa just try it

it’s the worst it can happen it’s the

wrong decision so what reset come on

back i at least i found out

so i think it’s i think that’s a good

one for us all to remember we’re going

through this rodeo of life sometimes

it’s not really

which decision

that’s most important

and

dissecting them into

limbo

just

or dissecting them into immobility

dissecting them into paralysis just pick

one

go

try one try it out what’s the worst

thing you order the wrong thing on the

menu damn it i knew i should order that

other thing well now you know so next

time you come back now you you

eliminated one now you know what to

order

and in my own life and around my own

family we laugh at our warts we bring

them up we shine lights on them

where we don’t get

we’ve been taught don’t get embarrassed

about your screw-ups let’s shine a light

on them

laugh out and move right on and carry on

that’s part of who we are actually

preferably and i don’t think that’s just

for say me and my immediate family who i

was around i think that’s for for most

of us i think that’s a good thing for us

all to learn those things we cover up

society tells us to cover up so much

whatever they are whether they’re warts

or demons or whatever they’re gonna come

out and be revealed

sometime in the future so why not just

uncover it and go

here it is here’s who i am i’m doing the

best i can i screwed up i failed over

here i tried this one but it didn’t work

out uh my bogey sorry um whatever those

things are live a little more

transparently

and again in this if we do that

individually we’re also more

forgiving and resilient and pe with with

ourselves and others we take we start

taking more responsibility because we’re

not

fearful

of the failure maybe we we start to have

more generosity uh which all those

things lead to more freedom i do believe

and that’s not just for me i think that

is for

all of us so the characters though if

you look at the last 12 years of work

who’ve i played

very

men on an island

men who had their own personal

sort of ethos of how they were going

through the word they weren’t

characters that were following the

matters and graces of the of the the

mean of the times they were on the

outskirts they’re a bit outsiders

i love their independence i left their

self-sufficient i love their will to

survive i love their will to uh um

there’s certain inherent sense of

optimism of i’m going to make this work

i’ll die for it well if you can find a

character if i can find a character

that’s like no i’m what i want i’ll i’m

willing to die for whoa that’s power

now boy if we can find that kind of

thing in life

those non-negotiable things we’re like

non-negotiable

now

if we’re on page 62 and i’m fighting the

non-negotiable and i’m gonna i’m gonna

die for it i’m well there we go i’m out

i make it to page 62. that’s as far as

movie goes with me you know what i mean

or

how do i overcome that

i like finding characters that that run

into great resistance for which to have

the opportunity to overcome

um

i look for that

in my own life

sometimes i think we have to i know i do

have to create resistance maybe where

there’s not resistance because i’m

looking around going kind of skating on

easy street right now

well sometimes when things are going

right and the breeze is at your back

enjoy it

because the uphill is coming but other

times you look and go

feeling the breeze behind my back i’m

only catching all green lights in my

life now because i’m really not taking

risks well maybe that’s the time to go i

got to create some resistance i got to

reframe i got i got to make it a little

bit more difficult on myself so i can

dig deeper and figure something out

about what i want to do that’s going to

be the right kind of risk or going to

make me feel more alive or turn me on

what did you uncover in your previous

journals where younger matthew is your

hero today

something you had to relearn again like

i already knew that when i was 14 and

i’m learning it again at 50.

there are things that i pulled off

got away with in my youth

that i still wake up

having nightmares

with today

but i only wake up have a night where’s

with them today because now i know

better

and if i didn’t know

then what i knew now

i’m i’m afraid i would have been able to

pull a lot of those things off the

ignorance is blistering there were

things i pulled off because my my

ignorance that i look back i’m like

going

dude you are so lucky how did you you

almost got killed

how did the percentage of you making out

of that situation alive if you went back

today are so low and we’re so low then

because of your ignorance because of

your singular belief and that you could

pull this off without and and you didn’t

you didn’t get nervous at the situation

where most people would get nervous or

you went with the flow or you pulled the

bruce lee sensei time you know um

at the right moment to get out of the

jam

i try to keep as my friend

mark says

and the hero that i have back then is

keep the beginner’s mind

because it’s great to have knowledge

it’s great to have context

at the same time we see it with kids our

kids all the time

their lack of context their lack of not

just to blatantly go do it because it’s

just i didn’t even think why think about

it don’t need to explain it just do it i

don’t know i ate the cake because i

wanted it but sweet it’s right there

it’s eat it

something beautiful about that

more than something beautiful about

there’s something inherently uh

true about that that that as we grow

older we should not

put away is going to oh that’s just you

oh that’s that’s just back when you’re

you that’s just the thrill of you no we

could still have those things and that’s

going with full intuition and saying

like i’m don’t give a damn about the

consequences let me bring this up

because i do think there is a

i found a consistency in people in the

youth year revolutionary right

30s you start to go some of that stuff

mom and dad taught me what was right

started taking a little responsibility

40 she kind of customized him yeah you

know what maybe i’m becoming a parent

maybe i’m saying yep yep yep i see how i

work in the world i’m responsible for

others and myself

somewhere in the 60s

it seems like a lot of people go back to

being the revolutionary

i don’t know if it’s the fact that you

go oh

subconsciously i’m on the back end of my

life so

what the hell’s it all matter and why do

i give a damn about concert so that

beginner’s mind which my mother has and

i find that a lot of people start to get

it as they get older in age

maybe after their kids are out of the

house or after they’re like what does it

matter

you know what i’m just going to do my

own thing i’m about to die or something

maybe that’s mine i don’t know but

there’s a call back there’s a book and

it seems to me that a lot of life

bookends that people start off as that

revolutionary beginner’s mind

get conscious get aware take

responsibilities

create their life and then all of a

sudden the the end go back to

what’s it all matter let’s rock i don’t

care the consequences

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