The journal · original insights by theme
Roots, identity & belonging
Where we come from, what steadies us and the values worth carrying.
These are draft editorial groupings for review, not Matt’s original sequence. Each insight keeps its source number and exact wording; entries remain in source order within each theme. Read the complete original list in order.
This personal collection includes opinions, incomplete notes and unverified attributions. Categorisation does not validate a claim or turn it into professional advice.
40 original insights · Draft grouping
- No. 006
Live to add, massive, value. Everywhere and to everyone you meet.
- No. 016
Good intentions matter, but your actions will define you.
- No. 022
Always try to leave things a little better than you found them.
- No. 026
Who did your words, say you are?
- No. 027
What happens to you is because of you. Don’t look outward to find the cause of your problem.
- No. 034
Authenticity comes from - living in alignment with your own values and beliefs.
- No. 051
Don’t have a life built on sand.
- No. 073
Energy never dies it just transforms.
- No. 079
Cultivate self approval. Rather than seeking approval from others, excepting oneself, including flaws and imperfections. - it leads to genuine self-confidence and a healthier self image.
- No. 098
If you think ‘someone’s’ ruined your life, it’s true, and it’s you.
- No. 108
Matter is merely energy condensed into a slow vibration, and were are all of one consciousness experience its self subjectively.
- No. 121
The best thing about speaking the truth is you never have to remember what you said.
- No. 122
Karma - the great law of cause and effect, whatever thoughts or energy you put out, you get back.
- No. 123
Who you are today is the result of your previous actions, who you will be tomorrow will be the result of your actions today.
- No. 133
An apple day keeps the doctor away.
- No. 145
Understand that you have nothing to prove your value is your value. You don’t dilute it by saying too much. You don’t undervalue it by not saying enough.
- No. 148
Values drive your actions.
- No. 175
The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
- No. 176
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
- No. 177
Excuses are tools of the weak.
- No. 198
Stop trying to ‘fit in’ if you want to ‘stand out’.
- No. 203
Don’t waste time being defensive…be accountable instead.
- No. 209
When you loose your money you loose nothing, when you loose your heath you loose something, when you loose your character you loose everything.
- No. 211
Confidence is silent. Insecurities are loud.
- No. 214
There but for the grace of god go I.
- No. 216
4 kinds of intelligence, mental, physical, spiritual & emotional.
- No. 228
Don’t cry like a baby after the mistakes you made like a man.
- No. 239
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
- No. 270
Your past does not define you.
- No. 289
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
- No. 306
Your gift is not found outside of yourself. It is not a skill, or a trade, or a modality. Your art is your life, and your fully expressed self is your gift.
- No. 311
The world isn’t fair, but you can be.
- No. 315
You don’t need to have everyone’s respect, it will only wear you out.
- No. 327
Self respect comes from self control, you’ll never respect yourself if you’re a slave to people pleasing and external validation.
- No. 339
It’s on you to get you where you want to be.
- No. 344
Have a stack of undeniable proof that says you are who you say you are.
- No. 345
Force pushes things away, authenticity attracts.
- No. 391
Self esteem and ego are inversely related. When one goes up the other goes down. (This is why a person with low self esteem is highly sensitive)
- No. 427
5 things you can’t recover in life: • a Stone after it’s thrown, • a word after it said, • an occasion after it’s missed, • time. • trust.
- No. 428
If it’s to be it’s up to me.