But merely thinking about playing guitar does not make you a better guitar player. How many people do we know who continually talk about the movie they want to make, the company they want to start, or the trip they want to take, yet never take even the smallest act towards that goal? Complacency is a disease of affluence: if our lives were worse perhaps we’d be desperate enough to take chances, since we’d be less afraid of what we have to lose.

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Life is to be lived. To try, to reach, to stretch, to dance, and sure, yes, to cry and fail at times, but the avoidance of uncertainty is a denial of life itself.

Source: How to reinvent your life - by Scott Berkun

Do more.

I've caught myself on my phone watching a photography video or scrolling through watching beautiful photos made by others. I say I catch myself because what I am doing is learned habit. I've trained myself to use brainrot behavior to "zone out" during times when my brain cycles were focused on doing things for others.

These days, I am working hard to substitute these moments.

When I catch myself scrolling, I pause and put my phone away. I go to my journal and start writing. Anything.

When I catch myself scrolling through beautiful photos, I pause and put my phone away. I take my camera and start making pictures.

When I catch myself listening to podcasts, I pause and remove my earphones. I walk to my guitar and play a tune.

It's not easy to break your habits and form different ones. But, I am here to do my best.

P.S. "scrolling through beautiful photos" is painful to read. Instead of pausing and thinking about these photos made by another human, to find what makes it beautiful to me, how it is similar / different to the person who made it; think about the craft on how they must have composed and then captured, I scroll through beautiful photos #sigh

Note to self: Do more. It forces you to slow down and think.