I almost threw up 15 minutes ago.
The last time I threw up was 10 years ago after taking a shot of straight gin in front of a dive bar I owned. Don’t ask.
I never throw up. A few years ago I did three nights of ayahuasca and never threw up. If you know anything about that poison, you understand everybody throws up when they do it. I guess it is because that putrid, foul juice is made from boiling Amazon vines and tree leaves. It tastes like bile, cat piss, and a homeless man’s socks all mixed together and microwaved for 90 seconds.
Anyway, I’m fine. I didn’t. Thank God.
A dude said something interesting to me yesterday. Something that got me thinking. And we know I am an overthinker. However, I really enjoy thinking. My life coach told me that nobody ever overthinks positive outcomes. Interesting.
Anyway, I had a strategy call with one of my clients yesterday. He is an author and prolific speaker. We are creating a new personal brand for him. To start the call, I threw him a curveball.
What is the secret to life?
I like to ask massive, unanswerable, baffling questions to folks. It stumps them most of the time but at a minimum, engages their brain. Do I have the answer to that question? Of course not. I can barely spell. And by barely I mean can’t.
He looked up as he thought about it. He works with the top of the top and has counseled people for years.
I think it is to know what is enough … he finally said.
Then he looked at me. I looked at him. Silence.
What do you mean?
Well, I guess it is to know when is enough. Enough money, enough power, enough ….enough…
I think he might be right. Now, as humans, it is impossible for us not to want more, to want change, to want novelty, to want, want, want. I told him perhaps eureka is the ability to not want. Suffering is created by the disconnect between what we have and what we want. Whoa, I guess I am the next Dalai Lama. I’ll buy a robe on the Amazon Prime sale today.
Enough.
What is enough?
Trey