You can do anything.  That is a true statement.  Limits are not enforcable against the human spirit and heart.  You can take on the world.  You can move others with your passion, dedication and work.  

And then,

You can sell out.

I am not talking about that kind of 'I said I would do this, but now I am not.'  

I am pointing my gaze at the:

"I can do it all, maintain it all and be all" mentality.

It's in all of us today.  That 'wake up, roll out of bed, overcommitted, yeah, I do it all' type living.

I am calling BS. on that.  Yeah, yeah, harsh words.  Get over it.

It's the type of selling out your life that when I walk down the street and see a 'SOLD' sign on your property and you say "It's still for sale, come on in and sit for awhile...heck, why don't you purchase a piece of this land?" And I am thinking "Seriously?  You are trying to sell me an already sold house?"

Thats what we are....

We are walking sold properties to the things we have already committed to and somehow we want to do more.

The worst part is, you can tell someone "I am in over my head, I have to focus on other things right now."  But everyone is so sold out themselves they couldn't see a sold out person even if they were worn out, drained in front of them.  "We are all over our heads."  Comes the response and they wring us out for more.  But we are dry and we suffer.

There is this collection of 'things' that we like to boast of.  

I do this.

I bought this.

I go here.

I go there.

I attended this.

I support that.

We are so many kinds of SOLD OUT, that we have no idea that:

We do this rushed.

We bought this why even?

We go there late.

We go here stressed.

We attend this flippantly.

We support this selfishly.

It's not that we want to be like this, but thats what happens to us when we are sold out.  We can't see that our motives, our energy, our dedication is off.  We can't see that our hearts are slightly bent towards the 'performance' and just a titch away from 'whole hearted'.  It's hard to notice when you have a tendency to walk slightly to the left, but then all of a sudden if someone or yourself doesn't correct it?

You'll be in the ditch.

In the ditch with a sign on your back that says "I am all kinds of Sold Out and I don't know how it happened."

We don't want to be Sold Out for any reason.  We want to buy in, and be there.  We want to know our limits and know how much we can handle giving out before we crash.  For you it may be less, for another more.  

There needs to be a respect level for those who need to stop selling out.  A need to respect the desire to be balanced in this 'phone on twenty-four-hours' world.

It's time for us to set our boundaries for healthy balanced living and stop rushing as if "we" are gods.  Enjoy those quiet nights in.  Permit ourselves to say no to 'another event'.  We can't run on the steam of 'good intentions', because 'good intentions' so often turn into 'look at everything I am doing.'  And that's just toxic.  It's air that will crush growth and stop the flow of anything good.

If we're 'all kinds of sold out' then it's time we take those signs in our front yards seriously.

We arn't gods, so we shouldn't act like we are. 

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A less is more kind of morning....

Let's face it:  We are afraid.  

We are afraid of losing.  It's a humanity thing.  We gather and gather and gather until we have a nice pile of our 'ness' around us and then we sit next to it and twiddle our thumbs and think about what's missing.

Did you just catch that?

Did you just see how endless that is? It is an endless search for whatever it is that we 'don't' have.   Because I guess the pile of crap we're sitting on isn't enough, so we have to go out and gather some more.  

More friends, more retweets, more music, more money, more clothes more, more, more, more.

And then what?

There is no answer to this because you don't, you won't, you can't and you couldn't.

So freaking stop it with the hauls!  The endless amount of hauls we do.  Hauling more friends, more things and more memories.

What about 'who you are is enough'!  Why not haul that for a change?

Haul yourself!

Get your life! 

And that means some hard core purging to get to the haul of you.

Go inside your own protected castle of you and starting clearing out all those boxes that have hidden you.  You gotta haul yourself this time because ain't nobody gonna go and get you out of your mass protected pile of 'whatever-it-is-you-have'.

What this is coming down to, isn't that I am all 'Oh we gotta do some New Years January Ass kicking cleaning' ...cause we can do that.  We can tidy our rooms, our friends, our social life up so it looks like it shines.  Anyone can do that within a day.

It comes down to a real deep solid life purge.

Clear out:

• Your living space
• Your closet
• Your media
• Your social life
• Your relationships
• Your mental state
• Your emotional state
• Your spiritual state
• Your physical state

What are you left with?

Just you.

Thats when you can focus on hauling yourself.

And I mean some badass hauling.  Go and get that food that will make your body happy and strong.  Go and get those clothes that look like you and not just a version of some commercial you just saw.  Go and get that music that makes you shiver and quake.  Go and cultivate those people who bring out the real raw you. 

BUT

NO MORE & NO LESS than what you need.

Because Less is More, and a closet full of clothes is not going to define you.

You define yourself by your own ability to see yourself without it all.

It's legitimately official now.  Less is More.

So go and get it!