Staring into the Sunrise
Good day and I hope you’ve had a great weekend.
I am away so this newsletter is abbreviated as it’s made on my phone in the midst of peak fall colours in Ontario, but it goes on anyways.
Three Ideas from My Notebooks
When you look out out onto a still lake you will see a reflection of the trees around it. But it’s distorted by the water and the ripples in it. Our mind operates like the water, offering only a reflection of reality and the ripples are our past experiences making it even more untrustworthy.
The goal is to see the world less through the reflection which you look down to see, but to look up and see the trees themselves which is the true nature of things.
When you are left watching the sunrise for more than an hour while your friends are asleep with no cell reception, will you think about what you want to look up when you get back to reception or will appreciate that staring into stillness is a gift that the city tries to rob you of?
Most of our days are spent avoiding having to do things - even the things we “love” doing. We avoid them because we fear we won’t be good enough at them. This is the trap of perfectionism which gets amplified when you associate with driven people (driven can be an incredibly negative and destructive trait).
Nature is the opposite of perfection which is what ironically makes it so beautiful. The colours and the smells just come at you all at once. Tap into nature when you work and appreciate the way things are. Pay attention to who you are and what your strengths are. You can’t be everything to everyone. You have a unique role to fill in this world that no one else can do. Go out and find it.
Thank you for reading and I hope you are enjoying the sights and scents of the fall season so far.
Elliott
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* Photo from Maple Lake in the Western Uplands region of Algonquin Park in Ontario, Canada