Josh Terry

Your fear is an incredible informant and a terrible leader. If your fear points out stuff worth noticing, then it’s super helpful. Because you need to know when you’re in danger. But if you obey your fear and believe that you’re in danger every time you’re afraid or work harder every time you get scared…

If you feel alone and like the world is burning down around you then you need to know this. There’s no one coming to save you. This isn’t depressing or nihilistic. This is a mental framework. There’s no parent, sibling, god, or king that’s going to fix your problems. Because they’re your problems. The government…

If you want to progress you have to go where play is found. Play is the place between newness and familiarity where progress can happen. You can’t actually progress very far by working at the edge of your ability. It’s occasionally useful but tears you down and requires too much recovery time to create consistent…

Every idea you come up with will have a downside. Every option comes with a risk. And that scares us. We let ourselves get stuck because we’re afraid that we’ll make a decision that moves us in a dangerous direction. But there are no safe directions. And when we understand this we feel better. Because…

If you changed your life to make it better then you need to remember that what gets you healthy is what keeps you healthy. The steps you take to make yourself a functional person aren’t solutions. They’re lifestyle choices. And if you let go of the lifestyle that keeps you in a good place then…

When you can’t get yourself to do the work think about this. You don’t need to do everything. You need to do something. You don’t need to do it perfectly. You need to do it better tomorrow. When you let go of impossible standards and realize that the most important thing you can do is…

If you feel weak and powerless then start making decisions. Don’t say that you like all music except that one genre none of your friends like either. Decide that you have a favorite band and song and find joy in defending them. Don’t just eat breakfast mindlessly, take a moment to decide what you want…

Did you know that some people get depressed because of a lack of connection and others get depressed because of a lack of capability? And if you try to get someone to connect when they need to solve problems they will get more depressed. And if you try to solve the problems of someone who…

If you want to grow as a person you have to be willing to balance persistence with a willingness to change. There are times when you’ll need to keep doing something even when you don’t want to. There are just as many times when you’ll have to let go of an old habit to do…