The Good Life - 03/24/2023 - After the last fight
I worked a fifteen-hour day yesterday, and I really feel it. Such days were much easier once, when I was younger, and stamina was a match for resolve. No more. Resolve must stand on its own now—a wobbly affair. Waking up next day, I feel the way an old boxer might who’s been clobbered to the mat and then rises to one elbow with stars before his eyes, wondering why he remains in the ring. Just a few more rounds, just a few more fights. It’s all part of the plan, a step in the scheme, rope-a-dope, where I’m the dope. But I get to leave one day with a great sense of accomplishment, mission complete, goal achieved—and I can go then to my quiet bench under the canopy of the shrine tree beside our little house, with my book and my bottle of tea, and watch children play, and read, and think, and rest, and maybe be at peace from the struggle and the fight of getting by.
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The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://lnkd.in/gFgfGmY6
OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly
PRINCIPLES: 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle
12. Principle of Family 13. Public Speaking 14. Temperance 15. Life Will Not Go Well 16. The Horror Show 17. That Which Must Be Borne 18. The Feast of Offal 19. Distraction 20. Agency and The Great Indifference 21. The Best Seat in the House 22. The Restless Man 23. The Path of Wildness 24. The Great Life Adventure 25. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 26. Sin and Damnation 27. Complete Oblivion 28. The Season of Philosophy
29. Scriptwriting 30. Bullseye Aim 31. The Uphill Climb 32. Arena and Utility 33. Nothing IS enough 34. The Principle of Fun
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My name is Kurt Bell.
You can learn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.
Be safe... But not too safe.