choices
The Counterintuitive Approach to Finding Happiness: Do the Painful Things First
James Clearjamesclear.com
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.
Dr. Julie Gurnertwitter.comChoosing Peace - The Mental Toughness Coach - Chris Dorris
christopherdorris.com
"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."
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... See more
Michael Ashcroft • How to Make Unfixated Choices
