Sabin asked the boy in disbelief, “Why not?”Silence—then finally he sheepishly replied, “Well, I thought if I didn’t unrollmy sleeping bag, I wouldn’t have to roll it up again.”This young boy painfully froze for hours because he didn’t want to endure thetorturous five minutes of rolling up his sleeping bag

exert

The mainstream belief, which stops so many people fromdeveloping meditative habits, is that meditation is about stopping your mindfrom thinking. This isn’t what meditation is for. Meditation is for getting clearon what you want, and ultimately, about living a better life.

strive

Establish

If you’renot currently pursuing something you’ve never done before, you probably don’tneed to have regular peak experiences. But if you’re in a state of growth, you’llneed to position your life to have peak moments more frequently. Even more—you need to set your trajectory from a peak state. Because how you startsomething is generally how you finish it.