Meditating, yoga & calisthenics, spending time in nature (and especially sunshine), journalling, good food, good people (if you can find them), good music, turning phones and computers off, etc.
But perhaps most importantly, learning. Precisely because of the craziness and the uncertainty and the Fourth Turning, it is an unbelievably potent time to educate oneself.
I used to have hope. I used to have a lot of hope in my own generation, in bitcoiners, etc. I've given that up. I've exchanged hope for faith and for surrender to the Tao. A short meditation on that: #1201227
What this represents is not defeat, but rather letting go of relying on things outside of oneself to "work out" for inner peace and fulfillment, and turning only inward. My well-being is my responsibility. My posture, the way I carry and articulate myself, the example I set for others - that's my profession, my art, my calling, and that is what I must focus on, with the firm belief that the Universe (or God, if you want to use that word) is providing everything I could ever need on that mission and more.
When times get rough, I also tend to come back again and again to the exemplar of resilience, David Goggins:
Meditating, yoga & calisthenics, spending time in nature (and especially sunshine), journalling, good food, good people (if you can find them), good music, turning phones and computers off, etc.
But perhaps most importantly, learning. Precisely because of the craziness and the uncertainty and the Fourth Turning, it is an unbelievably potent time to educate oneself.
I used to have hope. I used to have a lot of hope in my own generation, in bitcoiners, etc. I've given that up. I've exchanged hope for faith and for surrender to the Tao. A short meditation on that: #1201227
What this represents is not defeat, but rather letting go of relying on things outside of oneself to "work out" for inner peace and fulfillment, and turning only inward. My well-being is my responsibility. My posture, the way I carry and articulate myself, the example I set for others - that's my profession, my art, my calling, and that is what I must focus on, with the firm belief that the Universe (or God, if you want to use that word) is providing everything I could ever need on that mission and more.
When times get rough, I also tend to come back again and again to the exemplar of resilience, David Goggins: