Yourself

The path starts here. With you. You’ll spend your whole life next to this person — there’s nowhere to walk away to. So before anything else, put the oxygen mask on yourself.

Eight billion people on the planet. Find yours. Out of all of them, only a handful are actually for you — your people, the ones you’re on the same path with. You don’t have to be loved by everyone. You just have to find the few. But that comes later. First the work is inward.

You must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first.

And keep the importance inside, not outside. The moment your worth lives in someone else’s opinion, you hand them the controls — and they’ll never agree on the verdict anyway. Hold it inside and there’s nothing to defend.

Outgrow yourself first. Only then can you set things right with everyone else — and the rest of the path opens up. Here’s where it begins.