What I Learned From (WILF‪)‬ Axel Smith

We’ll cover building your confidence and self esteem as well as taking full responsibility for your life and actions. Once we can see some growth, we’ll capture that belief in ourselves that we can do something.

We’ll cover how you can overcome your negative emotions through gratitude. If we’re going through the worst of times, we can at least acknowledge that it’s a one in billion chance of even surviving to becoming a human being. We can count our blessings with having a shelter, food, and all of our limbs intact. We can be grateful for the blue sky, or the green earth. Our positive emotions can help alleviate our negative ones.

In this episode we’re going to talk about how I wasn’t able to do everything that I originally scheduled in my plans for. Work was busy, so I wasn’t able to take a lunch break to record this podcast and after work I had to babysit my nephews (which I wasn’t planning for). It’s 10:30pm at night and it would’ve been easy to sleep or not record the podcast, but I think it’s a great mindset to have to know that whatever happens in your life, you’re still going to accomplish what you need to finish.

As Seneca says, “It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.” I’m still to this day wasting a ton of time on social media, watching TV, and doing random mindlessness things that don’t contribute towards the future that I’m looking to build. I think this is a great reminder that you DO have time, you just have to figure out what you WANT to do with it wisely.

We’ll discuss what I learned from giving up on everything even up until this day. What I’m working on to fix it, and how if you get to live another day then there’s another chance for you to keep going.

In this episode we’re going to discuss the second half of the book When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron Part 2