Feel Better Anyway is a movement - a movement of one. You. From where you are and how you are feeling right now, to one step further. Toward what? Up to you. But it IS up to you, and if you WANT better you have to aim for better. It’s not up to some d-bag who tells you it’s hopeless, it’s not up to your worst failings you might have handed the keys to in the past, it’s not up to some fool trying to piss away your rainbow. It’s up to you. How do I know? I lived it.
Feel Better Anyway is built around “No bull pep talks from one man walking.” What does this mean? It means I’m trying. And I’m getting somewhere. And I want you to feel that, because you can. Whatever’s going on, you can feel better anyway. And you can even bring that back to facing the issue or facing down the dickhead. And you’ll be amazed at how much more effective you will be! Just by feeling a little better about things.
Not being in denial, not NOT doing what you gotta do… just shifting your own head & attitude a little bit about it all, including yourself. Hell, STARTING with yourself! That’s feeding your life by the roots. It begins here, it begins now. That little stick guy with the big feet taking a hard stand? He’s got one hand giving a thumbs up, the other giving a flip off. It’s a balance. We’re not here to be mean, we should avoid being shitty. We’re here to do good things, have a little fun, and leave everything a little better than we found it - INCLUDING ourselves. But if you’re ever going to feel better, you have to put yourself - mentally, physically, spiritually, in a place where that can happen. That means making good decisions and steps toward better on one hand, and facing resistance and hard changes on the other.
There’s no get without a little give, and we’ll get to that. FBA will - however it grows and wherever it goes - be run on a TIP-ONLY basis. Other than the books (which cost to print and a bunch will be given out anyway), the “Pay in” link will ONLY be for if you feel you have gotten something from this and wish to help it happen for more people. That’s it. No bull. Grown ups helping grown ups. I’m nobody special, just a craftsman in the woods. But I have some things to say, and if they can be of help (and somehow they always have been), I feel called to share them. This is MY deliberate act, in the face of a warping world and in the midst of a pandemic. If not now, when? If not me, who? Be the change you want to see, they say. OK. I want you to feel better anyway. I know it’ll help you, and those around you, and you’ll bring it to all you do, and it’ll ripple out into the world! Little ripples of betterdom. Fuck yes. How good will that feel?
Much love, and stay tuned. So much to come. But remember - this is NOT about me. It’s about you. I’m just a tool to help - sometimes more tool than help. But I try. And I mean it. And I’m swinging for the cheap seats. Who doesn’t want to feel better anyway? We all do. It’s the one thing that still connects our fragmented humanity. So I don’t care how you dress or vote or love or light your candles; I just want you to feel better. Feeling better, that all changes or deepens or evolves anyway. This is not about that. This is about the next step. YOUR next step.
That little dude’s mouth? It looks like a check mark, doesn’t it? Yeah, he’s not talking. He’s not telling his feelings and plans and dreams to other people who’ll just shit all over them. “Crap eagles,” we call them. No, Phil - Phil Better (Get it? AHAHAHA) - he’s making a little list. A list of nexts. If he’s somewhere he doesn’t want to stay, he’s starting the list of first steps to fix that. If he’s someone he doesn’t want to be, he’s making the list of what to start stopping and what he’s going to do every morning to get his shit straight with himself and keep going in a better direction. If he needs better tools to build his better life - decent car, bigger hammer, better skill - he’s listing what the first steps toward each will be. And he’s walking toward them and checking them off. Walk - don’t talk. Leave the talking to the others. You’ve got stuff to do.
~Scott
4/29/20