Tosha Firestone @joyintheprocess

You don’t rise to the level of your discipline, you fall to the level of your environment. It makes things easier or harder.

Every day is a battle for your mind. How that battle goes determines whether you live out of your insecurities and fears, or your purpose. If you want a better day/week/month/year/life, start with your mindset.

Major life hack: Reject worry. No problem has ever been solved with anxiety. Worry is passive procrastination. Problem-solving is active experimentation. Worry paralyzes. Action clarifies. When you start to worry, ask: What’s one thing I can do right now? Then do the damn thing.

Don’t get mad when people don’t support you. Most people can’t even support themselves.

🧠 Education, Control, and False Freedom (A Christian Reflection) From childhood, we are shaped by a system that teaches us how to function within it — not how to question it. Education prioritizes obedience, productivity, and compliance, while discouraging deep discernment. Gert Biesta breaks education into three purposes: •Qualification 📘 — skills to work •Socialization 🤝 — norms to conform •Subjectification 🌱 — becoming a thinking, moral, independent person The system emphasizes the first two. The third — personal conscience and truth-seeking — is often minimized. This is where people point to what’s called the “Secret Covenant.” Not as a historical proof text, but as a description of a pattern: A society kept under control through: •Distraction instead of depth •Dependency instead of responsibility •Information without wisdom •Comfort instead of truth Whether one believes the document itself is real or not, its themes are clearly visible today: 📱 endless distraction 📊 over-measurement and surveillance 📚 selective history 💬 freedom defined as choice — not truth From a Christian perspective, this is not new. “The god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers.” — 2 Corinthians 4:4 The world says we are free — but Scripture says we are temporary residents, not of this world. False freedom keeps people comfortable and quiet. True freedom requires truth — and truth requires discernment. “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” — Romans 12:2 Real education — like real faith — should awaken us, not pacify us. Not to rebel blindly, but to see clearly. Because the world promises freedom but only truth sets us free ✝️✨

The best way to gain control of the most intelligent powerful species on the planet would be to completely divide them from the love within themselves. As soon as they are old enough to begin creating and understanding who they are. Force them into a system that teaches them that it is wrong to be yourself if yourself is different from what is accepted as normal. Confuse them about their own biological makeups so that they think that permanently altering their bodies is the answer to happiness. Require their daily attendance at an institution that makes them focus only on the information that is provided. Make them attend that institution from age 5 until an adult and repeatedly test them on the information so that it becomes their truth. Give them an explanation to everything so that they never have a chance to make their own assumptions of the world. Scold them and humiliate them if they suggest an opinion that opposes that of their authorities he reminding them of how cruel their ancestors were to each other in the past and broadcast how cruel they are to each other in the present. Only show them tragedies on the news so that they live in fear and think the worst of one another. Convince them that their species used to be that of an Incognizant wild animal make them think they're very existence is so incredibly random that they lack purpose and struggle to make sense of a creator. Tell them that their kind is as smart as they've ever been so that they don't question the integrity of the system that they're in. Provide them idols with artificial beauty and use them as examples of what it is to look perfect so that they are never content with their own appearance and can't help but to compare themselves amongst each other. Create addictive digital platforms that rank them by numbers so that base their self-worth off of the amount of followers that they have and are never satisfied.

There are at least 4 types of wealth: 1. Financial wealth (money) 2. Social wealth (status) 3. Time wealth (freedom) 4. Physical wealth (health) Be wary of jobs that lure you in with 1 and 2, but rob you of 3 and 4. —James Clear 5. Spiritual wealth (peaceful mind)

They kicked combat veterans out of the military for refusing the Covid vax. They fired nurses and firefighters, people who they called heroes just months before. Families were ripped apart at the holidays. And for what? A drug that now has an FDA black box warning because it can kill you? People need to go to jail.

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper

11 months ago

BREAKING: FDA intends to put a ‘black box’ warning on Covid-19 vaccines, CNN reports The ‘black box’ is the most serious type of warning, which highlights major risks such as serious side effects and restrictions.

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The person who is having fun is actually the one who is dangerous. You don’t want to compete with them because they’re having a good time when things get difficult. -James Clear

Many situations in life are similar to going on a hike: the view changes once you start walking. You don't need all the answers right now. New paths will reveal themselves if you have the courage to get started.

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The thief in your mind doesn’t always shout; it tells small, destructive stories. “I’ll start tomorrow.” “I’m not ready yet.” “It won’t work for me.” Over time, those whispers erode your progress and steal your future. Don’t let excuses decide your destiny. That power should belong to you alone. #JimRohn #JimRohnQuotes #MotivationalQuotes #InspirationalQuotes

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Your training should enhance your life, not become one more burden. -Dan John

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Got that right. I’ll take a placebo effect any day of the week.

Kimia Nora @kimianora

a year ago

The placebo effect isn’t fake. It’s proof that belief changes biology.

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Word is, lifting weights makes you strong. And getting stronger has massive health benefits. You should probably do that then.

“In a toxic culture, healthy people leave. Not because they're bitter-but because they can't breathe. They don't make a scene. They don't write a long email. They just quietly disappear-because the environment doesn't support who they are or who they're becoming.” - @cnieuwhof

Read a banger this morning. "A true believer is at war with his sin. A false believer is at peace with it." This was me for 38 years.