DAILY FIRE & FUEL EP 104
“WALKING THE GIRLS TO SALT CREEK“
Today’s Principle: In order for someone to learn, they must live.
“Part of my job as a father is to create conditions for my daughter to live through learning. The question becomes, how do I let her live so that she learns, knowing that if I let her live, she’s going to get hurt and shit’s going to go sideways? The answer? Clean agreements. Without them, I’m fucked.”
–Garrett J White
POINT #1: YOU’RE SO LOCKED INTO ANGER THAT YOU HAVE MISSED OUT ON JOY
Most of the happiness that you experience is happiness that is not real. It’s a plastic happiness that you’ve put on where you’ve operated from a place of pretending to be happy – at church, at home, at the office. Underneath the surface of “make pretend happy,” is anger, rage, intensity.
POINT #2 YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO BE HAPPY
Every day, you experience the game of hustling, grinding, hiding and sedating, and are not surrounded by very many people who are happy. The moments of happiness you experience are marred by the anger that you experience.
POINT #3 YOU’VE PROGRAMMED YOURSELF FOR WAR AND REJECT HAPPINESS
If a man smiles and is happy, society thinks somehow you’re broken or there’s something wrong with you. Or, they think you must be on some kind of drug. Many men have programmed themselves to be at war so much and reject happiness that the only time they can feel a little happy is when they drink, are stoned, pop some pills, or eat too many fucking doughnuts.
POINT #4 PLASTIC HAPPINESS
If you have not learned how to deal with your anger and rage – and the darkness & diabolical nature that exists inside of who you are – then every form of happiness that you pretend to display is nothing but a plastic portrayal of happiness that is NOT true. Like a stick of butter that melts in a microwave, it puddles under the pressure of actual life.
FINAL THOUGHTS
We have made the bold declaration and created the reality that we are the masters of our own domains; the captains of our own souls. And in this, we’re going to master the game of our feelings.
-Garrett J. White
Founder of Wake Up Warrior
Creator of the #WarriorsWay
Creator of WarriorWeek
Author of the WarriorBook
Author of BE THE MAN
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