choices
The lowest level of choice is not making a conscious choice at all, which happens when you don’t notice that you even could make a choice. In this case there is effectively no space between stimulus and response, so you just act out your habitual behavior unconsciously. If you ever find yourself skimming the news or looking in the fridge without ha... See more
Michael Ashcroft • How to Make Unfixated Choices
The Le Guin precepts
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Choosing Peace - The Mental Toughness Coach - Chris Dorris
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"You can choose peace in every moment of your life. We have been taught to believe that when we don’t get what we want, or things aren’t unfolding as we had thought they should, that’s bad and thus we should feel badly. This struggling against what is, this inability or unwillingness to love what is, is the source of all of our suffering and it is entirely our own creation. With practice, we can become as masterful at choosing peace as we have become at choosing anything else."
If you haven’t stepped out of your comfort zone in a while, it might be time to try.
Experiencing the unfamiliar allows us to practice being agile, because we’re not always able to default to our usual cognitive response patterns in new contexts.
The summary of all self-help is to focus on the long-term in everything you do!
Spend less time focusing on "discipline," and more time in things that genuinely pull you forward...
The person who requires internal force, will always get lapped by someone with genuine drive toward that thing.
Obsession beats discipline all day long.
The health of a relationship depends on the amount of uncomfortable conversations people are willing to have.
You don’t get to choose your epiphanies, aha moments, insights, realizations, revelations.
You don’t choose when, where, how, or why they happen.
Let that sink in…
